Chapter 223: Million-dollar Space Merit Award

Guo Dongxiao stood up and noticed everyone's looks. He cleared his throat with two coughs, and then began to announce this year's Space Merit Award without leaving anyone in suspense.

"This year, we have achieved many outstanding results in the development of space, the most important of which is the completion of the autonomous rendezvous and docking test."

"Our success has made us the world's third largest space power and laid a good foundation for building a domestic space station."

"Therefore, the Group Company Committee unanimously decided to award this Space Merit Award to Xu Yuan, a researcher at the Space Technology Research Institute, and to award him a cash reward of one million yuan."

"Now please invite Xu Yuan to come up to the stage to receive the award."

After the list of Meritorious Award winners was officially announced, Guo Dongxiao put down his speech and led the applause.

Instantly, the entire venue was filled with thunderous applause.

I am sincerely happy for Xu Yuan.

at the same time.

All of Xu Yuan’s contributions to the aerospace field also appeared on the big screen at the scene.

Among those attending the annual meeting here today, it can be said that any one of the researchers and academicians has much more qualifications than Xu Yuan.

Even winning a meritorious award is not a big deal.

However, as a newcomer who had just joined the Space Technology Research Institute, Xu Yuan won the highest honor in aerospace at the age of more than 20 years old. Logically, there would be voices of doubt.

But in reality, not only does doubt not exist, even jealousy cannot be found.

Everyone has heartfelt congratulations.

no way.

Xu Yuan’s aerospace research achievements are all written on the screen. If you want to question them, you must at least achieve these results.

In addition, for those who work in the aerospace industry, they certainly hope that the country's aerospace industry will develop better and better.

We can have our own space station sooner, and even realize the dream of flying to the moon that has been pursued for thousands of years like Chang'e.

Therefore, we are extremely happy to have a genius like Xu Yuan join us, as it can shorten the time to achieve these space goals.

"Hurry up and get up there. You've finally brought honor to our Fifth Academy this time."

"Don't be nervous, this is the honor you deserve." At this time, Chen Jianfang took over Gao Duo's words and encouraged him.

Among the several research institutes under the group, only their Space Technology Research Institute won the Meritorious Award this time, so they were naturally very excited.

And with this honor in the hospital, the group will also provide a lot of resource support this year.

It will be more helpful for the progress of the project.

When Xu Yuan heard that the Meritorious Award was really given to him, he couldn't help but feel a little happy.

After Chen Jianfang and Gao Duo gave him some impatient instructions, he stood up and walked towards the stage.

In fact, even if Chen Jianfang hadn't comforted him, he wouldn't have been nervous.

From winning the gold medal in the initial Mathematical Olympiad, to winning the Gauss Prize and the Fields Medal in Mathematics, to winning consecutive awards for Science and Technology Progress at the National Awards Conference, his entire mentality has long been trained, and he can quickly remain calm as long as he wants.

What’s more, it is a unique award in the aerospace field.

The one million dollar prize money made him look askance.

He walked to the stage with steady steps and shook hands with the leaders and Guo Dongxiao respectively.

Guo Dongxiao then took the trophy and certificate from the etiquette staff and solemnly presented them to Xu Yuan.

"Congratulations Xu Yuan."

"You are the youngest winner of the Merit Award since its establishment."

Xu Yuan reached out to take his trophy certificate and responded warmly to the chairman's encouragement.

"Thank you for the group's recognition of me. I will continue to work hard to achieve greater success."

"well."

"I feel relieved when you say that." Guo Dongxiao was obviously very satisfied with Xu Yuan's words. He immediately smiled and said "good" twice.

In the following time, Xu Yuan stayed on the stage for a while to take photos. During the period, there was a red card with the word "one million" written on it, which was the cash reward that would be awarded to Xu Yuan later.

Then when he went downstairs and returned to his seat, Guo Dongxiao announced several other awards.

Among them, project members from the Space Technology Research Institute and the Shanghai Aerospace Technology Research Institute who participated in the rendezvous and docking test were awarded collective honorary awards and commended within the group.

After almost two hours, the award ceremony came to a successful conclusion.

Following the procedure, there were just some speeches and it didn’t take too long to announce the end of today’s conference.

However, as the crowd dispersed, the official media reporters who had been waiting for a long time also began to look for their targets.

Soon Chen Jianfang, He Luping, Guo Dongxiao and others were stopped by reporters.

Xu Yuan is naturally no exception.

But when he saw the figure that suddenly appeared in front of him, he was surprised.

Subconsciously asked: "Are you alone today?"

Because the female reporter in front of him holding the microphone with the CCTV logo was his wife Chen Yuran.

However, in the past, when Chen Yuran went out to shoot interviews, she was always accompanied by Zhou Tao, a senior reporter in the station. Unexpectedly, this time it was Chen Yuran alone, and of course she was equipped with a special cameraman.

Chen Yuran was very happy today, not only because she learned that Xu Yuan won the one million yuan Space Merit Award, but also because she finally had the opportunity to interview Xu Yuan completely independently. So when asked, she immediately explained: "I can now conduct outdoor interviews on my own, you have to cooperate with me today."

Hearing this, Xu Yuan smiled and said cooperatively the next second.

"no problem."

"We can pick it however you say."

"I will cooperate."

But as soon as he finished speaking, he immediately added: "But we have to change the location before the interview."

Having said that, without waiting for Chen Yuran to speak, he pulled her in another direction.

Fortunately, the cameraman obviously knew their relationship, otherwise there might have been a misunderstanding.

The main reason was that Xu Yuan knew that there were quite a lot of reporters today, and if he continued to stand here he would probably be surrounded by other reporters soon, so of course he had to find a quiet place for Chen Yuran to have an exclusive interview.

that's it.

About ten minutes later, Chen Yuran came out from the corner with a happy face.

He immediately returned to the station's car with the cameraman and began to organize the content of the interview.

And at the end of the article, the interviewer Chen Yuran signed his name.

Xu Yuan's answers to Chen Yuran's questions could be considered quite standard. After all, they were all about this year's Meritorious Service Award and future aerospace development, and the answers had already been imprinted in his mind.

As the news of Xu Yuan winning the Space Merit Award was announced that day, it quickly sparked heated discussions online.

After all, with the current salary level, a bonus of one million is already a considerable sum for ordinary people.

If someone else received a million-dollar bonus at this age, I believe there would be a lot of criticism from all walks of life.

Not only will the award winners be questioned, but even the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation will probably not be able to escape the blame.

But the winner happened to be Xu Yuan.

There is no doubt about it at all.

In addition to the fact that Xu Yuan is a true genius and has real ability, he also has a fan base online that is no less than that of celebrities, and the number of active fans following his Weibo account has reached several million.

If there are some individuals who dare to stir up trouble online, I believe their fans will teach them a lesson in minutes.

In addition, this time, while reporting that Xu Yuan won the Meritorious Award, the official media also announced research results in the aerospace field.

Some of them were previously unknown to everyone.

In other words, it was not until this time that netizens realized that Xu Yuan had done so much behind the scenes.

Therefore, receiving the Space Merit Award is even more well-deserved.

In a very short period of time, it was on several Weibo hot searches, and even platforms such as Tieba Penguin Group were discussing it heatedly.

"What did I see? Professor Xu actually helped improve the thermal control system of the lunar exploration satellite?"

"No wonder the Shenzhou and Tiangong-1 docked so smoothly. It turned out to be because of the two models established by Professor Xu."

"I can only say that Xu Shen deserves the Space Merit Award."

"This is a one million dollar bonus. I'm so envious."

"Don't be envious. It's basically impossible for a second genius like Professor Xu to appear."

"Without Professor Xu, we might not even have mastered the technology of autonomous rendezvous and docking in space, which would have delayed the development of domestic aerospace so much. I don't think anyone would be so shameless as to question Professor Xu, let alone a million-dollar bonus, even if it's ten million, it wouldn't be much."

"Anyway, I am now full of confidence in the development of our space industry. Maybe we will land on the moon someday."

……

Xu Yuan has no specific plan on how to spend the million-dollar bonus he received this time.

After all, with his current status, most of his material needs can be solved directly by the state, and he can hardly find any place to spend money.

Moreover, he and Chen Yuran are not interested in luxury goods and at most support domestic corporate products.

However, gifts for both families must be given during the Spring Festival. In addition, he also bought a lot of gifts for his third uncle and the people in Xuzhai Village, and planned to return to his hometown during the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival holiday was in early February this year, so Xu Yuan naturally took Chen Yuran home early.

In addition to accompanying his parents, his elder sister Xu Ying was also getting engaged. They both taught at Luyang No. 1 Middle School and had been together for quite some time. In addition, both sets of parents had no objections, so it went very smoothly.

It is estimated that they will not last more than a year, and will choose an auspicious day to get married.

As a younger brother, he was quite happy to see that his sister finally had someone to take care of her.

When the people of Xuzhai Village saw this young professor returning, they were very happy and enthusiastic, and felt very proud that such a pillar of society could emerge from the village.

After the Chinese New Year, Xu Yuan did not stay for long, and hurried back to Yanjing with Chen Yuran.

Anyway, my parents’ tobacco shop in Luyang can be closed, and they can come to Yanjing to live and travel anytime.

Although the Space Technology Research Institute has become idle and there has been no progress in the derivation of Hodge's conjecture, it does not mean that there is nothing to do. The Jincheng Aircraft Design Institute still needs him to visit frequently.

As the high-performance carbon fiber composite materials were completely solved and the turboprop engines manufactured by Xijing Aero-Engine Group were in place, the assembly of this drone finally began.

Progress is about to reach the point of first flight, showing the world for the first time what a state-of-the-art drone is.

(End of this chapter)