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Mr. Shao was in his 80s and did not have such great energy. In order to take care of him, the banquet was held simple but grand, and it ended after more than an hour.
On the way home, Liang Xi asked curiously: "What are you doing when you take Shao Yifu to the vocational and technical school?"
Fu Song looked as if he was rightfully so: "Of course I'm asking him to donate a Shaw Building!"
"What?" Liang Xi seemed to hear a huge joke, and her smile was trembling, "Don't make fun of it! Shao Yifu donated the buildings to universities, so why are you a vocational and technical school involved in the fun!"
Fu Song said: "Next time I meet, I will tell Lao Shao that you should not wear tinted glasses in education, nor do you prefer one or the other. Whether it is university education or vocational education, they are all part of Chinese education. You must treat everyone equally and be fair. Since he does not donate a building at Mucheng University this time, he must donate one at a vocational and technical school."
"What?" Liang Xi's smile froze, "No, what did you say just now?"
Fu Song asked with a smile: "Don't you think he came to Mucheng this time to donate money, right?"
"Isn't it?" Liang Xi frowned and asked, "Then what is he doing?"
Fu Song said with a funny look: "Has Lao Shao personally said he wanted to donate? No? They just brought their friends to Mucheng to visit and investigate investment. You people, just listen to the wind and rain, and give some sunshine and want to be brilliant. I advise you not to have too much expectations."
Liang Xi was skeptical and said, "What do you mean is that we are self-indulgent?"
"You guys, not include me!" Fu Song quickly left himself cleared up, "Besides, Shao Yifu's routine of donating money is part of him, and the government supports most of the government. The city has so much education budget every year. If the money is spent on Jianyifu's building, it is equivalent to squeezing the budget of other places."
In fact, this is exactly where Mr. Shao is the most thief.
Many people think that Mr. Shao spent millions of dollars to buy three gold-plated characters on the building, but the truth is far from that.
Taking buildings in the mainland as an example, Mr. Shao himself has fewer sole proprietorships, and generally uses government supporting investment to cooperate in construction.
The foundation requires donations to the buildings of universities, and the project unit ensures that it can provide supporting funds of no less than 1:3; for the basic education field, the supporting funds of no less than 1:1.
In other words, if a university wants to apply for the construction of Yifu Building and Mr. Shao’s foundation invests 5 million, then the school (including the school’s location) needs to provide at least 15 million matching funds. If the applicant is a primary and secondary school, the school must provide no less than 5 million matching funds.
Finally, Mr. Shao used one dollar of funds to leverage the local government to invest at least three dollars in education, and at the same time ensured that the donations would benefit more.
On the surface, everyone is happy to do this, but as Fu Song said just now, government supporting investment is all expenditure within the government budget. If more money is used on the building Yifu Building, then less is used in other places, so it is inevitable that it is suspected of borrowing chickens to lay eggs.
However, no matter what, Mr. Shao’s behavior is worthy of praise and respect.
Since 1985, Mr. Shao has donated nearly HK$5 billion in the mainland and built more than 6,000 projects of various types, including but not limited to teaching buildings and hospitals. It is not just donating money. Many buildings require "government supporting investment" as a condition and "forced" the finance to invest additionally in education and medical services on their own.
This leverage effect has a profound impact on China's education and has benefited generations.
It can be said that Mr. Shao is one of the few people who understand and is a representative figure who practices "if you are poor, you will be safe, and if you are successful, you will be able to help the world."
When he was young, he first made himself happy, and then when he had the conditions, he made others live happily.
This kind of life is perfect and happy.
So, Fu Song said before that he was the "half-person" he admired in Xiangjiang. As for why he was half a person, it was mainly because when he was young, Lao Shao lived so well that he was so happy that Fu Song was jealous!
Fu Song did not dare to compete with Mr. Shao. His requirements and goals were very low. He did not expect to live long like Mr. Shao and be content to live until he was 70 or 80 years old.
When I was young, I felt comfortable first, and at the same time, I did what I wanted and should do. When I got old, I grew up and grew flowers and planted grass. Ignore the rest and I will be bothered by my children and grandchildren.
After Fu Song woke up, Liang Xi also felt that he seemed to be too optimistic. After all, before and after Shao Yifu came to Mucheng, he never clearly stated that he would donate money.
"So, are we really self-indulgent?" Liang Xi shook his head and smiled with self-deprecatingly, then looked at Fu Song suspiciously, "No, why did you insist on pulling Mr. Shao to donate the building? Are you missing the money?"
"Not nor is it!" Fu Song shook his head. Seeing Liang Xi's eyes, he looked like he was looking for a fight. When he saw Liang Xi lit up his small fist, he hurriedly said: "I mainly want to use Mr. Shao Yifu's name."
Liang Xi said in confusion: "Although I know that Shao Yifu is very famous, does he have such great influence? Do you need to borrow his name?"
"Yes, and as his investment scale increases, this influence will only increase."
Others may not know it, but Fu Song is very clear that Mr. Shao will have too much influence in the mainland education industry in the future, and it has even become a phenomenon.
Everyone else had already heard the calluses and only said one thing.
When many scholars are studying a series of issues such as China's education investment, fiscal distribution, and public goods supply, they are even considering using Yifu Building and Yifu School as "intervention variables" in statistics, which shows how great Mr. Shao's influence is.
Liang Xi asked with a smile: "Yifu Building is just a building. Is there any difference between it and there is no such thing as a big difference? Didn't you say that the ironwork is still strong by yourself?"
Fu Song said helplessly: "I now find that being strong in China is not enough, and I have to be able to package myself. You see, I have given such good conditions, but this year's enrollment situation is still half-dead. There is no other way, so I can only use external forces.
Think about it, if Mucheng Vocational and Technical School can get sponsorship from Mr. Shao, it can become the first vocational school in the mainland that owns Yifu Building. This can be considered as giving some money to your face.
For the sake of school, I have a shameless face, even if I ask Mr. Shao, I must ask for it."
After hearing Fu Song's words, Liang Xi held his hand with heartache and comforted him: "The school has only been established for two years, so don't worry, take it slowly."
After a pause, she said again: "If you are not at ease, I can resign and concentrate on helping you with school affairs."
"No need for this." Fu Song had a black thread. Although he had expressed his true feelings just now, there were also many elements of pretending to be pitiful. Unexpectedly, she took it seriously. "Dad can work for at least ten years. When he is too old to do it, it's not too late for you to take it."
"Go to you!" Liang Xi cursed with a smile, "You are really good at making a plan, just to take our Liang family to squeeze us!"
Fu Song hurriedly put his shoulder on her shoulder and smiled and said, "What are you, Liang family and our Fu family, all of you are a family. If the family doesn't speak two words, do you think? After Liang Yin graduates, I will also dig her over."
Liang Xi laughed in silence and said, "Liang Yin? What can she do when she comes?"
Fu Song said in surprise: "My sister-in-law is also from a famous domestic university. She has gone abroad to drink foreign ink. She can't do anything else, but she can still pretend to be a mother and return home to scare people."
Liang Xi was amused by him and giggled: "It's not like you who can't help but let Liang Yin know that you evaluate her like this. She must fight you to the death! Alas, time flies so fast. In the blink of an eye, Liang Yin graduated from a master's degree next year. By the way, will Wei Han graduate next year?"
"It seems to be right." Wei Han went three months earlier than Liang Yin, and had been in preparatory courses for one year. In fact, she would graduate next year.
Liang Xi sighed: "When Liang Yin was at home, I annoyed her, so we bothered her all day long, but she has been away for three years, and she missed her a lot."
Fu Song thought that he hadn't been to the United States for a long time, so he said, "Do you think this is OK? I'll take you to the United States next summer."
Liang Xi looked at him with a playful look and asked, "What are you doing? Are you not afraid that I will go to find him?"
Fu Song rolled his eyes and said, "I'm serious about you, can you not make things difficult for me?"
Liang Xi hurriedly hugged his arm. He wanted to act coquettishly to him, but he couldn't do it in front of the driver, so he had to lie in his ear and whisper: "I'm wrong, tonight..., I'm all listening to you tonight, okay?"
"Not good!" Fu Song refused without hesitation. My waist was still sore, but he couldn't help but give his wife face, so he said, "Let's go in two days."
Liang Xi curled his lips and muttered: "I'll cook old hen soup for you when I go back."
Fu Song pretended not to hear it, and said affectionately: "I have been married for so many years, let alone honeymooning, I have never taken you out for a good time. This trip was just a honeymoon and went to attend the graduation ceremony of Liang Yin and Wei Han. What do you think?"
Liang Xi felt as if he had eaten honey, so sweet that his eyes narrowed, "Well, listen to you."
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"Mr. Shao, welcome!" At the gate of Mucheng Vocational and Technical School, Fu Song quickly walked up to meet him.
Liang Minzhang led a team to the island in the north for closed military training, so Fu Song could only take the lead in Shao Yifu's reception work.
"Mr. Fu, be polite."
After the greetings between the two sides, Fu Song invited Mr. Shao to visit the school.
Shao Yifu walked with a cane while watching around. When he was interested, he stopped to ask a few questions.
In the teaching building, seeing a few classrooms equipped with large-screen color TVs, Mr. Shao asked: "Have your school fully popularized TV education?"
Fu Song smiled bitterly and said, "This is also impossible. Our school lacks teaching staff and can only use teaching videos from other schools for television education.
However, because of the lack of the important link of teacher-student interaction, although television education can make up for some shortcomings, it is difficult to ensure the quality of teaching."
Chapter completed!