"How are you going to pool money for me?" Yang Rui smiled and said, "The Human Genome Project, even if it is one percent of the participation, will cost more than 100 million yuan."

In today's season, talking about hundreds of millions of dollars is actually less.

As far as planning is concerned, one percent of the planned expenditure of US$3 billion is US$30 million, which is more than 100 million yuan.

Moreover, this 3 billion yuan is actually experimental expenses, not project expenses.

What is missing includes the expenses for various technical authorizations, the expenses for existing equipment and equipment, and the largest personnel expenses.

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

Needless to say, the three major scientific projects in history, the Manhattan Project. It was a secret project during World War II. It cost tens of thousands of people to build an atomic bomb in the desert. The level of difficulty is really not worse than that of the Chinese. Many, but for the sake of war, there is no other way. Everyone can only pinch their noses and recognize it. Everything is for victory.

The Apollo Moon Landing Project was a project during the Cold War. The so-called Cold War is only a war with less gunpowder. 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 plan, which has also expanded the United States. The national power gap between the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union. Even back then, the Apollo moon landing plan was also recognized by the American people. Although the money spent was gone, it was still very confident.

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

In fact, what the Americans are more supportive of is actually the cancer conquering plan launched in the late 1970s. In order to conquer cancer, Americans are willing to spend as much money, and it feels like everyone has lost their lives.

In terms of 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 conquer. The cancer conquering plan that took ten years and cost 1 billion US dollars finally failed. By the way, if there is any old Chinese medicine doctor in China that can really conquer cancer, he must have a brain disease. He is selfish and selfish, preferring to prescribe medicine from 9 to 5 working hours instead of lying down to make money, not only for profit, but also for fame, and even less willing to make rewarding contributions to society.

Any country’s social security agency, or pharmaceutical company, is willing to spend billions of dollars in the purchase of a formula for combating cancer, even if it is only for one type of person, see Gleevec. And his contribution will also change the history of mankind. It is as famous as Yuan Drui, and even sung by children in the rebellious period: Think about the fact that if Jobs is still alive, Apple phones can take up at least hundreds of billions of minutes of human time.

Compared with the Cancer Conquer Project, the Human Genome Project is more basic and more indirect, but it costs more.

It is difficult to get Americans to support a project that cannot be seen immediately, and it is even more difficult for a project that cannot be seen immediately and costly.

Therefore, including Watson, Dalbecco, and others, no one dared to announce the real budget of the Human Genome Project. Even so, they gave up on fooling only the richest American father in the universe, and set their sights on the whole world.

What are the benefits of the biggest international project in human history?

The main thing is money.

First of all, it splits the expenses evenly. Any country participating in it will have to pay for it. Even for a country, it is a bit painful to spend hundreds of millions of dollars. This is pure expense, and it is difficult to see the benefits in the future. of.

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

For example, the salaries of personnel are paid by the participating laboratories themselves.

Of course, after the Human Genome Project is launched, there will be some subsidies, but that will be a drop in the bucket.

In the whole plan, a team can be brought out randomly, with a scale of hundreds of thousands of people. What is the daily expenditure of a 1,000-person scientific research ape? Although the salary of scientific research apes is low, but if you include various social security and office expenses, an average of US$50,000 per person per year is indispensable. It is equivalent to saying that US$50 million cannot cover the expenditure of a team for one year. The entire plan takes 10 years. The cost of a team alone is more than 500 million. US$3 billion is only enough for the salary expenditure of 6 teams!

However, the money was hidden from the beginning.

The equipment used by these teams is also configured by various countries before, and cannot be counted in the expenditure of the Human Genome Project.

This is the main reason why the Human Genome Project can spend 3 billion US dollars to cover the entire project. Of course, from a technical point of view, technical advances beyond the forecast have resulted in more direct savings.

But anyway, in order to participate in such a project, you need to prepare a lot of funds.

The top 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 hundreds of millions of yuan would barely reach the threshold.

He dared to say that he didn't use money from the treasury, and that was the reason.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, when China’s economy was at its most difficult time, the central government really couldn’t afford to spend, let alone hundreds of millions of yuan, and 10 million was quite enough.

Apart from other things, even the various military institutes can’t get funding right now. How can such a basic project as the Human Genome Project get a large amount of central funding?

Yang Rui and Professor Cai are also teachers and friends, and they don’t want him to be embarrassed. They laughed off and said: "The reporters’ words are not rough, our country is still very difficult. It is very important for me to do the human genome project, and it is for many people. They are all important, but not important to everyone. There is no reason to use the money from the national treasury. I want to find some from the state-owned enterprises, some from the local government, and then to find multinational companies for alms. If it is not enough, I can and Dahl Becco and the others have a talk, and then see if there are any international foundations that can contribute some money."

Yang Rui has other plans, but in terms of finding money, there are really just these few parts.

State-owned enterprises spend money sloppily. Especially for state enterprises that must turn in most of their profits, many of them adhere to the idea of ​​paying for nothing. When they are booming, they are desperately throwing 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 a few luxury goods suppliers so that they can't save money and emigrate overseas quickly.

Local governments have the same virtue. Later generations will see that certain ministries and commissions rush to spend money at the end of the year in order not to reduce their budget next year. That is because the central government has more money after the tax reform. Before the tax reform, the local governments were the ones that rushed to spend money, especially in the coastal provinces with the most financial resources. Many of them were ruling officials who hadn't learned how to spend money. The wasted funds were wasted everywhere.

Not to mention multinational companies and foundations. They make money in China and contribute to China's scientific research. It can't be more legitimate.

Professor Cai frowned and said, "I know you have to ask for money from state-owned enterprises, and for local government money, do you ask for it?"

Yang Rui hesitated and shook his head.

"Have you ever participated in a wine bureau with a glass of 10,000 yuan?" Professor Cai calmed down, and the topic of the question was quite sharp.

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

"Yes, because you don't have to ask them for money." Professor Cai sighed: "With your current reputation, it is easy to apply for funds directly from the ministries and commissions. Local government money 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 aura of the Nobel Prize is not invincible. At the level of the central government, his halo is very powerful, but if you don’t want money from the national treasury and ask for money from a local government, you can use the halo of the Nobel Prize, it’s really not certain.

"Is it impulsive?" Professor Cai laughed.

Yang Rui thought for a while, and said: "Although it was a decision made on the spot, I actually considered this decision a long time ago. The country is not rich yet, and it has to develop an economy, and it has to feed the many people and maintain the domestic and international situation. ...It is not necessary to take money from the treasury for the human genome project."

Although the legs of mosquitoes are meat, you can't chop the legs of pet mosquitoes, right?

What Yang Rui didn't say was that if he took a large sum of money from the national treasury to fund it, the funding for other domestic biological projects would definitely be reduced.

Otherwise, scholars in other disciplines such as physical chemistry will have to make trouble.

Professor Cai also knew this, and said slowly: "It's better to leave it to us to collect money from the local government."

"Huh, okay?" Yang Rui couldn't help but said, "This is hard work."

"Everyone is familiar with things that are more troublesome for you, but it is simple for some people." Professor Cai said with a smile, and then solemnly said: "Everyone is counting on you to introduce the Human Genome Project. "

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

Yang Rui said without hesitation: "It's okay to introduce the Human Genome Project~lightnovelpub.net~ However, who can have a large proportion cannot be determined by the relationship."

Professor Cai understood: "It depends on how much money everyone can find."

"Well, this is quite fair." Yang Rui said and laughed with Professor Cai.

After sending Professor Cai away, Yang Rui packed up again, called a car, and went to Hua Rui laboratory.

As its own independent private laboratory, Huarui's capital can be regarded as strong in the entire Southeast Asia region, and its various instruments and equipment personnel steadily exceed most biological laboratories in international universities.

However, private laboratories are most afraid of projects with bottomless pits.

In essence, a private laboratory is the same as a company. In a world where there is no cash flow and death, the bottomless pit project is something everyone has to do in hiding.

Yang Rui happened to know where the hole 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 of doing gene sequencing now is too old-fashioned. I want a new model. ."

"Gene sequencing? Is it appropriate for us to do this?" Tu Xian and others are willing to participate in the Human Genome Project, but the private participation of this thing is still quite talkative.

"Appropriate." Yang Rui said without a pause: "I have already announced that I don't need money from the national treasury. In that case, other laboratories have no reason to pre-research gene sequencing methods before the special funds are received. I use my own Money is very legitimate."

"Okay." Tu Xian and others nodded.

Huang Mao took out his notebook and said, "Then start a new project. What is the name of the project?"

"Shotgun." Yang Rui was thinking of the famous "shotgun method."

If the human genome project is compared to the Apollo moon landing project, the shotgun method is a manned spacecraft!