"How do you plan to raise money for me?" Yang Rui smiled and said, "Even if the human genome project is one percent participation, it will have to be over 100 million yuan."

Standing at the current time, speaking less than 100 million yuan is actually a matter of saying less.

As for planning, one percent of the planned expenditure of US$3 billion is US$30 million, which has exceeded RMB100 million.

Moreover, this 3 billion yuan is actually an experimental expense, not a project expense.

Among them, the expenses of various technical authorizations, existing instruments and equipment expenses, and the maximum personnel expenses.

This is the trick played by Americans, or Dalbeco and others.

Needless to say, the three major scientific projects in history, the Manhattan Plan was a secret project during World War II. It cost tens of thousands of people to build atomic bombs in the desert. The difficulty was no worse than that of the Chinese. Although the money was spent at that time, there was nothing we could do for the sake of war. Everyone could only pinch their noses and recognize them, and everything was for victory.

The Apollo moon landing project was a project during the Cold War. The so-called Cold War is just a war with less smoke. In the end, the United States was able to win the Cold War thanks to the project. The entire semiconductor industry can be said to be born from the Apollo moon landing project, which also widened the gap in national strength between the United States and the Soviet Union. Even back then, the Apollo moon landing project was recognized by the people of the United States and was still very confident even though the money spent was over.

The birth of the Human Genome Project was not so smooth.

In fact, what Americans support more is the cancer conquering plan launched in the late 1970s. In order to overcome cancer, Americans are really willing to spend as much money as possible, and it feels like everyone has saved their lives.

Even when it comes to money, spending money on scientific research is more cost-effective than spending money on super expensive medical insurance bills.

However, cancer is very difficult to overcome. The cancer conquering plan that spent 1 billion US dollars in ten years finally failed. By the way, if there is any old Chinese doctor in China who can really overcome cancer, he must be brain-diseased and selfish. He would rather prescribe medicine from nine to five than make money while lying down. He not only does not have profit, but also does not want fame, and he is even more willing to make rewarding contributions to society.

Any country's social security agency or pharmaceutical company is willing to spend billions of funds to purchase formulas for cancer, even if it is only one type for one person, see Gleevec. His contribution will also change human history, as famous as Yuan Druid, and even chant for children in the rebellious period: Think about if Jobs was still alive, Apple phones could take at least tens of billions of minutes for humans.

Compared with the cancer conquer plan, the human genome plan is more basic and indirect, but it costs much more.

It is difficult to get Americans to support a project that cannot achieve immediate results, and it is even more difficult to not achieve immediate results and consume a lot of money.

Therefore, no one, including Watson, Dalbeco and others, dared to announce the real budget of the Human Genome Project. Even so, they gave up only fooling the richest American father in the universe and looked around the world.

What are its benefits as the largest international project in human history?

The main thing is money.

First of all, it has evenly distributed the expenses. Any country will have to pay for it when it participates. Even for a country, it is a bit painful to spend hundreds of millions of dollars. This is pure expenses and it will be difficult to see the profits in the future.

Another important aspect is that internationalization saves initial investment and saves daily expenses.

For example, the salary of personnel is paid by each participating laboratory.

Of course, after the human genome project is launched, some subsidies will be given, but that is a drop in the bucket.

In the entire plan, any team will be drawn out, and it will be a scale of hundreds or thousands of people. How much does a research ape cost for a research ape of 1,000 people? Although the salary of research apes is low, if various social security and public expenses are included, the average annual US$50,000 per person is indispensable. In other words, US$50 million cannot cover the annual expenditure of a team. The entire plan took 10 years. The expenses of a team alone will cost more than 500 million, and US$3 billion is only enough for the salary expenses of 6 teams!

However, the money was hidden from the beginning.

The instruments and equipment used by these teams were also configured by countries before, and cannot be counted as expenses of the human genome program.

This is the main reason why the Human Genome Project can cover the entire project with US$3 billion. Of course, technically speaking, it saves more directly the funds than expected technological progress.

But no matter what, if you want to participate in such a project, you need to prepare a lot of funds.

The top level is at least a world-class laboratory, top scholars and world-class researchers, and abundant funds are indispensable.

Yang Rui said that the funding of over 100 million yuan could barely reach the threshold.

This is why he dares to say that he does not use the treasury money.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was the most difficult time in China's economy. The central government really couldn't afford to pay, let alone hundreds of millions of yuan, 10 million was a big deal.

Not to mention anything else, even various military institutes cannot get funding now. How can a project as basic as the Human Genome Project receive a large amount of central funding?

Yang Rui and Professor Cai are both teachers and friends, and they are even less willing to make things difficult for him. They smiled and said, "The reporters' words are rough and not rough. Our country is still in trouble. It is very important to me and for many people, but not everyone. There is no reason to use the money from the treasury. I want to find part of state-owned enterprises, part of the local government, and then find multinational corporations to beg for alms. If that is not enough, I can talk to Dalbeko and the others, and then see if there are any foundations in the international community that can pay some money."

Yang Rui had other plans, but just looking for money, there were really just a few parts.

State-owned enterprises spend money casually. Especially for state-owned enterprises that have to pay most of their profits, many of them have the idea of ​​paying for nothing without spending money. When they are prosperous, they try their best to spend money. Being able to collect some of the money from state-owned enterprises will definitely not affect the national economy and people's livelihood. At most, it will affect several luxury goods suppliers, so that they cannot save money quickly to immigrate overseas.

Local governments have the same morality. Later generations saw that a certain ministries and commissions spent money at the end of the year, in order not to reduce their budgets next year. That was because the central government had more money after the tax reform. Before the tax reform, the local governments spent money at the sudden price, especially the coastal provinces with the most wealth. Many of them were ruled by bad people who had not learned how to spend money. The wasted funds were wasted everywhere.

Not to mention multinational corporations and foundations, they make money in China and contribute to China's scientific research, which is justifiable.

Professor Cai frowned and said, "I know you want money from state-owned enterprises, and local governments, do you want money from?"

Yang Rui hesitated for a moment and shook his head.

"Have you participated in the wine party that costs ten thousand yuan per glass of wine?" Professor Cai calmed down, and the question was also quite sharp.

Yang Rui smiled bitterly: "I rarely participate in the wine party."

"Yes, because you don't have to ask them for money." Professor Cai sighed and said, "With your current reputation, it is easy to apply for funds from the ministries and commissions directly. The money from local governments is not so easy to get."

Yang Rui was stunned for a while and had to admit that Professor Cai's words made sense.

The halo of the Nobel Prize is not invincible. At the level of the central government, his halo is very powerful, but if you don’t have money from the treasury and ask for money from a local government, it is not certain whether you can use the halo of the Nobel Prize.

"Are you impulsive?" Professor Cai laughed.

Yang Rui thought for a while and said, "Although it was a decision made on the spot, this decision has actually been considered by me. The country is not rich, and it has to develop an economy, and it also needs to support these many people to maintain the domestic and international situation... It is not necessary to take money from the treasury to make a human genome plan."

Although mosquito legs are also fleshy, you can’t cut the legs of pet mosquitoes, right?

What Yang Rui didn't say was that if he took a lot of money from the treasury to make funds, the funds for other domestic biology projects would definitely be reduced.

Otherwise, scholars from other disciplines such as physics and chemistry must make trouble.

Professor Cai also knew this and said slowly: "It is better to leave it to us for raising money from the local government."

"Hey, is that OK?" Yang Rui couldn't help but say, "This is a hard work."

"Everyone has familiar things. Things that are more troublesome to you are, and it is simple for some people." Professor Cai said with a smile, and then said in a serious tone: "Everyone is counting on you to introduce the human genome project."

For scholars, participating in international projects is naturally the best thing to do.

Yang Rui said without hesitation: "It's no problem to introduce the human genome project, but who can have a large proportion cannot be determined by the relationship."

Professor Cai said with understanding: "It depends on how much money you can find."

"Yeah, it's quite fair." Yang Rui said and laughed with Professor Cai.

After seeing off Professor Cai, Yang Rui packed up again, called a car and went to Huarui Laboratory.

As its own independent private laboratory, Huarui's capital is considered strong throughout Southeast Asia, and its various instruments and equipment personnel are steadily surpassing the biological laboratories of most international universities.

However, what private labs fear the most is bottomless pit projects.

In essence, private laboratories are the same as companies. In a world where there is no cash flow, bottomless pit projects are something that everyone has to hide from.

Yang Rui happened to know where the entrance of the cave was.

"Let's start a pre-research project first." Yang Rui clapped his hands and gathered the people in the laboratory. Without saying a word of mobilization, he said: "The way to do gene sequencing is too old-fashioned now. I want a new model."

"Gene sequencing? Is this suitable for us?" Tu Xian and others were happy to participate in the human genome project, but it was still a bit unreasonable to participate in this private part.

"It's appropriate." Yang Rui said without saying a word: "I have announced that I won't use the treasury money. Since that's the case, there is no reason for other laboratories to pre-research genetic sequencing methods before the special funds arrive. It's very legitimate for me to use my own money."

"Okay." Tu Xian and others nodded.

Huang Maoze took out the record book and said, "Then let's start a new project, what is the name of the project?"

"Birdgun." Yang Rui was thinking about the famous "Birdgun technique".
Chapter completed!