Only after being reborn did I realize how fascinating the world of the rich is.

While Dingdian Media and Meiyi Media were embroiled in a bitter feud, Cao Jinpeng, with his background in Puyu Real Estate, attended various gatherings to build his network of contacts and would occasionally bring Li Xiaofeng along to enhance his image.

In fact, Li Xiaofeng appears to be quite outgoing, but he actually prefers quiet to activity and is not very willing to participate in these gatherings.

On the one hand, it was to save face for his old classmate Cao Jinpeng, and also because of Jiang Chengye's influence; on the other hand, it was to meet more people and expand his network of contacts.

"Third brother, I need to tell you something!"

"what's up?"

"The Shen family is completely finished. Shen Jiaqi's father is in jail, and the Shen sisters have taken all the money they've earned over the years and fled abroad."

Li Xiaofeng smiled and said with a sigh, "If you walk by the river often, you're bound to get your shoes wet. If you want to make money, you have to go out and do business yourself. It's easy to make money through power, but the money you make is unlikely to be yours."

The Shen sisters went abroad, but the money they have may not actually be theirs. Illegal income is not recognized overseas, and once they're targeted, they'll be thoroughly investigated.

"Oh, is it that serious? Don't people abroad believe that private property is sacred and inviolable?"

"You believe what foreigners say? Every year, the great country of America spends a lot of money to buy off domestic public intellectuals, letting them smear us and glorify them. In addition, they are indeed more developed and advanced than us, making many people think that the moon is rounder abroad."

Actually, China is catching up rapidly right now, and I believe we will catch up with them in the near future. Let me tell you, don't believe those foreigners' nonsense. No matter what, our own country is always the best.

If we Chinese go abroad and want to integrate into their high society, it's impossible. Foreign countries value skin color and bloodline, unlike in China, where "are kings and generals born with a special destiny?"

Cao Jinpeng smiled and said, "What you said makes sense. I have also experienced this in the past two years. However, we Chinese lack innovation capabilities. For the past one or two hundred years, those advanced technologies were all created by Westerners."

Furthermore, our education system has many problems, mainly focusing on exam-oriented education. The so-called "talented people" are mostly those who excel at exams. Therefore, the gap between our science and technology and that of the West is widening.

Li Xiaofeng shook his head and said seriously, "You've been fooled by those half-baked public intellectuals in China. We have no shortage of innovative talents in China."

If you pay a little attention, you'll find that at least one-third of the world's most outstanding talents are of Chinese descent, and this proportion will only increase in the future.

"This also fully demonstrates that the great United States values ​​talent more than we do, which is why they are more advanced than us."

"If that's what you think, then you've really been fooled by those public intellectuals. The so-called 'valuing talent' isn't just about valuing; you also need an environment that can retain talent."

"That's right! Our domestic research environment is far inferior to that abroad. Bureaucracy is rampant, which is why we can't retain talent!"

"You're wrong. That's not the reason at all. It's because our domestic high-tech industries are underdeveloped. For example, in the chip industry, the gap between us and foreign countries wasn't that big before."

However, some domestic traitors and compradors, in order to please foreigners and for their own selfish interests, have turned their country's technology companies into assembly plants for foreign technology.

If you only assemble equipment and don't do research and development, how do you retain those R&D personnel? Are you just going to let them take the money and not do any work? In fact, even if they were just taking the money and not doing any work, they wouldn't be willing to do it.

Technology is developing very fast these days. In less than two years, what you learn will be outdated. Even if you just take the money and don't do any work, people will become useless after two years here. Do you think people would want to stay idle here?

People go to work in Silicon Valley in the beautiful country, and if they do well, they can start their own businesses. Their development opportunities far exceed the salary you offer, and they can also exchange ideas with peers and keep up with the latest trends.

Therefore, if China wants to catch up with the United States in high technology, it must develop its own high-tech industries. Only with industries can we retain our talent; this is the truth.

Cao Jinpeng said somewhat dismissively, "I think the problem lies with our domestic education system. Otherwise, why is it that other countries are responsible for innovation while we just follow behind and copy them?"

If we can't innovate and just follow in others' footsteps, it's relatively easy to get close to them, but it's impossible to surpass them!

"Do you know why our domestic technology lacks innovation? It's not that we lack innovative talent, but that our technology is lagging behind. We must first make up for our shortcomings and catch up with others before we can consider the issue of innovation."

"What about the education problem?"

"As for the education system, these are just assumptions made by public intellectuals. In fact, private schools abroad also follow the same system as us."

In other words, ordinary people in China can enjoy expensive private education abroad for very little money, which is the foundation of China's rapid economic development in the past two years.

The role of the education system, besides education itself, is most importantly to select and choose the more talented individuals to receive higher education.

The lack of sustained talent in our society is not a problem with the education system or even the selection system, but rather a problem of social stratification.

Many wealthy people use numerous training courses to force their children to achieve higher grades, thus overshadowing those with real talent.

These children lack talent, so they certainly won't achieve much in scientific research. In fact, this problem can be solved by the higher authorities directly introducing policies to crack down on extracurricular education and reduce students' homework.

Innovation is never really a problem. As long as there is enough fertile ground and enough talented people, innovation is bound to happen sooner or later. Once you reach the top, you will naturally start to innovate.

"What's the point of innovation if you're still halfway up the mountain? The most realistic thing to do is climb to the top and catch up with others, don't you think?"

Cao Jinpeng smiled and nodded, saying in an ambiguous tone, "I've noticed that your thinking has been somewhat different since we were in school."

Li Xiaofeng took a deep breath and said with a touch of emotion, "The more things you experience, the more you think, and sometimes your thoughts are different from most people's."

Then, he smiled and said to Cao Jinpeng, "If my thoughts were the same as those of ordinary people, then I would be an ordinary poor loser now, wouldn't you say?"