Why did Lei Jun donate 1.3 billion to Wuhan University?Behind this is to be thanked by a dismissed p

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On November 29, at the time of the 130th anniversary of Wuhan University, Lei Jun, as an outstanding graduate of the Computer Science Department of Wuhan University in 1987 and a bigwig in the domestic science and technology circle, donated 1.3 billion yuan to his alma mater in his personal name.

This donation not only refreshes the largest single donation received by Wuhan University since its establishment. It also refreshed the largest alumni individual donation received by colleges and universities in the country.

Soon, the news was on the hot search.

Lei Jun also said that the donation will be used in three main aspects: supporting the basic research of mathematics, physics, chemistry, literature, history and philosophy, supporting scientific and technological innovation in the field of computer, and supporting the training of college students.

Lei Jun also said in his speech that the wish repayment journey that began with the first donation to his alma mater 26 years ago has finally been fulfilled today.

Lei Jun is rich Everyone knows, from Jinshan to Xiaomi, the enterprises founded by Lei Jun have brought great contributions to society, and it is understandable that he has personally obtained huge wealth, especially successful entrepreneurs like him who have been relying on scientific and technological innovation, should be respected and Xi, I believe that no one will hate the rich, and no one will doubt the purpose of his donation.

But for such a large personal donation, Lei Jun also explained that more than 30 years ago, as an outstanding student representative, he was awarded the highest scholarship at that time by Wuhan University, which was 2,000 yuan, which was a huge amount of money for a student born in an ordinary county family at that time.

It was also this huge amount of money that allowed him to successfully complete his studies. At that time, he silently vowed in his heart that he would repay ten thousand times in the future.

Before this donation, he had actually donated 9999 a long time ago99.99 million yuan to build a teaching building for his alma mater. The money he donated to his alma mater has long exceeded 10,000 times.

So many people wondered, why did he donate so much money this time?

In fact, Lei Jun also said such a sentence when explaining this donation.

He said: "Wuhan University taught me knowledge, taught me how to learn Xi, guided me to embark on a lifelong path of scientific and technological exploration, and gave me the most important wealth in my life."

In other words, the study Xi at Wuhan University has affected Lei Jun's life, and if there is no Wuhan University, there may be no Lei Jun today.

So drink water and don't forget to dig wells, Lei Jun knows how to be grateful for the newspaper, and knows that his current wealth comes from the cultivation of himself by Wuhan University back then.

But there are at least 10 universities in China that stand on the same level as Wuhan University, so why don't the outstanding graduates of other universities donate so much?Why Wuda, why Lei Jun?

In Lei Jun's words, in his heart, his alma mater is the best university in the world.

And the reason why Wuhan University has become the "best university in the world" in Lei Jun's heart has to mention one person behind this, Liu Daoyu, the president of Lei Jun when he was studying at Wuhan University.

If the best president in China in the ** era is Cai Yuanpei of Peking University, then the best president in China after liberation is Liu Daoyu.

He was a thunderous name in China's education circles in the 80s of the last century.

He was a key figure in promoting the resumption of the college entrance examination, and he was also on the front page of "People's **" on the second day of his tenure as president of Wuhan University on August 21, 1981.

On the front page *** of his appointment, it is written:

Liu Daoyu was the first college student he trained after China's liberation to serve as the president of a university, and he was also the youngest president of a key university in the country.

In 1982, Liu Daoyu won the first vote in the poll for the change of minister of education, and the Central Organization Department wanted him to hold this position, but he hoped that he would not be considered in the organization anyway.

In 1983, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee wanted to appoint him as the mayor of Wuhan, which was a good opportunity for promotion.

He just wanted to stay at Wuhan University, because at that time, Wuhan University had a lot of problems, and he wanted to change the status quo of his alma mater, and he didn't want his alma mater to drag down the country's colleges and universities.

So from 1981 to 1988, he began a series of earth-shaking reforms at Wuhan University.

During the reform period, he truly adhered to the people-oriented, free-thought, and democratic style of study, and believed that real education was never about artificially setting thresholds and forbidden areas for students, and grinding out students' impulse to seek knowledge. Instead, we will do everything we can to reduce the restrictions on students and ignite their awe and thirst for all kinds of new knowledge.

Therefore, as soon as he came, he abolished the political tutor system and implemented the mentor responsibility system. He also overcame many difficulties, entered Beijing many times, and took the lead in exploring a series of advanced systems such as the credit system, double degree, and transfer system, realizing the "student-oriented".

At that time, Wuhan University students recalled that no matter who you are, as long as you meet the principal on the road, you can easily stop him and discuss problems with him, and Principal Liu always looks amiable and elegant.

Whenever a new student comes to Wuhan University on the first day, Liu Daoyu has to personally warn them:

If the teacher's lecture is not good, you can not listen.

This was "deviant" in the Chinese education circles at that time, and even in Chinese universities at that time, which were all "deviant", ahead of their time, and "irresponsible" to students.

But Liu Daoyu is not afraid, he wants to become a pioneer and pathfinder of rigid education.

In the summer of 1983, the first batch of 28 students graduated early.

But most of them were only half a year to a year ahead of schedule, and only one student named Zhang Hantao was a full year and a half ahead of schedule and became "the first beneficiary of China's contemporary credit system".

This also led to many Wuhan students beginning to learn from Zhang Hantao Xi strive to graduate as soon as possible, including Lei Jun.

When Lei Jun was a freshman, he accidentally read a book called "The Fire of Silicon Valley", which suddenly ignited the fire of his dream.

He began to have a bold dream in his heart, which was to create a great company in the future.

Many years later, Lei Jun finally did it, so he had an incomparably deep affection for his alma mater and large donations again and again.

But at that time, Lei Jun had to take the first step, and he set himself a short-term goal: to complete all the credits for four years of college in two years.

It seems like an unachievable goal, but in Lei Jun's hellish academic Xi, he finally completed four years of credits in only two years, and then from his junior year, he had time to start his own business.

All this is also the beginning of a great company.

But behind all this is Liu Daoyu's reform and innovation of the teaching system of Wuhan University.

In order to give young people in the society more opportunities to study, he created the transfer student system, as long as you pass the exam, you can directly come to Wuhan University to study in the third year, and enjoy the same treatment as fresh graduates after graduation.

The famous writer Nofu, who was a beneficiary of this reform, was a transfer student in the second writers' class.

Years later he sighed:It was the principal who gave us the opportunity to get out of the mountains and reshuffle in life.

Not only that, at that time, at Wuhan University, students could skip classes, graduate early, change departments or even change schools.

If you have financial difficulties, you can take out a loan, and if you have great achievements within 5 years after graduation, or if you voluntarily go to a remote area, you can repay the loan by the school.

At this point, Dou Wentao, a famous host who also graduated from Wuhan University, once said in an interview:

I think we would like to thank the principal, Liu Daoyu, for being open-minded and credit-based, students can skip classes, and teachers don't take names in class, which is very lenient. If you don't like to study, you can go to the Xi and come back when you take the exam.

At that time, it belonged to the "** era" of the Wuhan University generation.

That's why Lei Jun said in his donation speech:

The most attractive thing about Wuhan University is that it pays special attention to the free development of people, the style of study is diverse and inclusive, never let students study to death, but let students fully develop independently, the teachers are also very friendly, and the relationship between teachers and students is particularly harmonious.

Not only that, Liu Daoyu also attaches great importance to talents.

41 years ago, Liu Daoyu only glanced at Yi Zhongtian, and knew that talents were rare, and tried his best to leave Yi Zhongtian at Wuhan University.

Until many years later, Yi Zhongtian was still puzzled: "How can you conclude that talents are rare just by looking at them?"

Also, in 1978, Deng Xiaomang applied for graduate school for the first time, but was not admitted because of family problems.

The next year, he decided to apply for the graduate school of the Department of Philosophy of Wuhan University, so he wrote a letter to Professor Chen Xiuzhai, enclosing his thoughts and understanding of philosophy, which was greatly praised by Chen Xiuzhai, but hoped that he could learn a foreign language on his own.

At that time, Deng Xiaomang, who only had a beginner's Chinese background, took only one year to get his German score 10 points above the admission line.

After graduating from graduate school, Deng Xiaomang was left to teach by Liu Daoyu and became a generation of famous philosophers.

He also has a sister named Deng Xiaohua, who has a well-known pen name called Rean Xue.

Liu Daoyu also has one of the most proud students named Yang Xiaokai, but it is also because of family reasons, plus when he was 18 years old, he wrote an article and was imprisoned for 10 years.

But in prison, Yang Xiaokai did not give up studying Xi, after being released from prison, he not only had three views of integrity, but also learned to be rich and rich, but for various reasons, his career was bumpy, but fortunately, Liu Daoyu did his best to help, so that he went to Princeton University to complete his studies, and became the closest Chinese economist to the Nobel Prize, but unfortunately died young.

In addition, among Liu Daoyu's students, there are Zhao Lin, Chen Dongsheng, Mao Zhenhua, Lei Jun, etc., all of whom are now the top of China's business and academic circles.

Professor Zou Hengfu, a famous economist, once said:

Our generation only knows a famous Chinese university president, Liu Daoyu.

Even on the campus of Wuhan University today, there is no inscription of him, and for a long time, his name was not in the roster of the president of Wuhan University.

Later, in his book, he analyzed the reasons for his dismissal:

The first is that the relationship with the Ministry of Education has not been properly handled.

When he implemented many reform measures, he took a tough attitude and did not know how to be flexible, which offended the higher authorities.

The second is that the relationship with the province has not been properly handled.

In particular, Wuhan University and Wuhan Institute of Water Conservancy and Electric Power competed for 80 acres of paddy fields in Yangjiawan to build a house, and the two sides had a physical conflict, and the provincial party committee convened the two schools to communicate, resulting in a dispute between him and the secretary of the provincial party committee.

The third is that it has not dealt with the internal relations of the University.

There are some opposition voices within Wuhan University, and some people will write letters of complaint to their superiors, hoping to get him out of class.

At that time, Liu Daoyu, together with Professor Liang Baixian, a well-known Chinese space physics scientist, and others, took a train to Beijing to report on their work.

Considering that Professor Liang Baixian was 75 years old, Liu Daoyu bought a sleeper ticket with him and followed the normal procedure to get on the bus and find a place.

But after placing the luggage, he was driven to another carriage by the entourage of a certain provincial leader in Hubei.

At that time, I don't know how, this matter was known by Hong Kong**, and wrote a report called "Officials, Nobles and People", which made the ** leaders very angry and ordered the Hubei Provincial Party Committee to investigate the incident and report it truthfully.

As a result, the Hubei Provincial Party Committee hoped that Liu Daoyu could come forward to "clarify" the matter, but according to Liu Daoyu's character, how could he do this, so the two sides had a stalemate.

After being dismissed, Liu Daoyu's life was not easy at all, he had to name him at the small meeting of the conference, and he would be pulled out for review when he was sick and hospitalized, but he never wrote a word.

But after being dismissed, Xiamen University, Jinan, Huaqiao and other universities all threw olive branches like him, and even the mayor of a certain city and the secretary of the Youth League, but he refused them one by one.

Liu Daoyu once wrote such a couplet for himself:If you don't live as a marquis of ten thousand households, you won't fight for half an inch of grave when you die.

He said that he is not an official, but can only be a scholar. "But since it's the mother-in-law who comes and goes, what can I do?“

Bacon famously said:

No matter how good something is new, people will oppose it because they don't fit in with it;The old thing, despite its many problems, is willing to protect it because people are used to it.

Just five days before Lei Jun donated 1.3 billion to Wuhan University, it happened to be Liu Daoyu's 91st birthday. It is gratifying that the students of Wuhan University have never forgotten him.

Even the freshmen of Wuhan University who have just entered the school will say when Liu Daoyu mentions:"He is our eternal principal".

This is also the truth hidden behind Lei Jun's huge donation.

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