Hearing Chén Zhāoyáng's words, the approval in President Wang's eyes deepened. He walked slowly over to the display wall on one side of the office, where a chart depicting the developmental history of Qinghua University was hung. From the modest schoolhouses of the early founding days to the modern campus of today, every photograph bore the weight of profound history.
"Zhāoyáng, do you know how many national key laboratories we have here in the Qinghua campus?" President Wang asked, pointing to a map marked with the distribution of the laboratories. Without waiting for Chén Zhāoyáng to reply, he went on himself, "A full 38 of them. Among these laboratories, we have aerospace labs capable of simulating space environments, and quantum mechanics labs studying the microscopic world, each representing the pinnacle of domestic scientific research."
Chén Zhāoyáng followed President Wang's finger, looking at the dense red dots on the map like stars in the night sky. He could imagine countless researchers fighting day and night in those laboratories, contributing their strength to the nation's technological progress. This made him even more determined to run the joint laboratory well.
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