Chapter 420 - 256: Making It Big: Meeting the Parents and Buying a Villa for His Parents
Chapter 420: Chapter 256: Making It Big: Meeting the Parents and Buying a Villa for His Parents
"This time, led by Colonel Li Ai, a research team from the Xiao City Military District has overcome immense challenges to achieve the independent development of our nation’s laser weapons."
"Despite starting much later than Binan Country, Colonel Li Ai’s team, through their tireless efforts, has developed a new generation of laser weapons far more powerful than those of Binan Country! This is a completely new weapon, classified as strategic!"
"The Southern Country’s tactical laser weapons can only strike enemy targets within the atmosphere, such as stealth bombers and cruise missiles. However, the strategic laser weapon developed by Colonel Li Ai’s team can be used by aerospace forces. Should a war ever break out beyond the atmosphere, it can adapt to the battlefields of outer space!"
"This strategic laser weapon can directly destroy enemy space-based assets, such as reconnaissance satellites and spacecraft!"
"This strategic weapon can also conduct military strikes against targets on Earth by firing lasers from space, which is why experts say its power is comparable to that of a nuclear weapon. In fact, the concept of a strategic laser weapon was first proposed by the Southern Country; they just never succeeded in developing it."
"Under Colonel Li Ai’s leadership, our country’s breakthrough in strategic laser weapons has captured the world’s attention!"
At the end of the news segment, Headquarter TV Station turned the camera to Colonel Li Ai.
Colonel Li Ai, looking radiant and full of energy, introduced her team’s achievements and future plans:
"The strategic laser weapon developed by our nation has a range beyond imagination. In the future, our laser weapon platforms will be universally equipped with these strategic weapons. This will represent a quantum leap in our country’s military power!"
"However, even with such formidable military power, it will be used solely to enhance our nation’s defensive capabilities and will not be used to harm any other country!"
Colonel Li Ai’s determined gaze, elegant demeanor, and calm, confident tone left a deep impression on the public.
At the conclusion of the report, the journalist offered words of gratitude and good wishes:
"Jin Country’s tremendous progress would not be possible without every single researcher who has toiled day and night. To them, we say:"
"Thank you for your hard work, you great researchers of Jin Country! Finally, let’s celebrate this achievement. Go, Jin Country! Go, our beloved motherland!"
The story immediately shot to the top of the trending lists on all platforms.
Colonel Li Ai instantly became a national idol.
The public also learned that throughout the entire research process, Colonel Li Ai had been battling liver cancer while working on the front lines. For the sake of the nation’s scientific endeavors, Li Ai had long worked in obscurity within her unit.
Now, with this one success, her name was known to all.
Li Ai’s story inspired and motivated every citizen of Jin Country.
The people of Jin Province, Li Ai’s home province, were especially proud to have produced such a hero.
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「Jin Province Personnel Bureau.」
Li Qing was in the middle of a work meeting.
The topic of the meeting was the "2024 Jin Province Outstanding Young and Middle-Aged Expert Selection Process Review."
The selection for Jin Province’s Outstanding Young and Middle-Aged Experts is held biennially, with a maximum of 50 individuals chosen each time.
The Personnel Bureau is responsible for carrying out the entire selection process.
The core principle of the selection is to grant the honorary title of "Jin Province’s Outstanding Young and Middle-Aged Expert" to young and middle-aged professionals who have made outstanding contributions to science, technology, and modernization, achieving significant economic and social benefits.
For the selection process, candidates are first recommended by municipal personnel departments and their respective units. Then, a peer review is organized. After gaining approval from the relevant municipal authorities, the nominations are submitted to the Provincial Personnel Bureau.
The Provincial Personnel Bureau then forms an expert review committee to evaluate the recommended candidates, ultimately proposing a preliminary list. Once the public comment period is complete, the final list is approved and announced.
This time, after outlining the relevant procedures, Li Qing made a special recommendation: Wu Ting from Fan City First Hospital for the Outstanding Young and Middle-Aged Expert award. Wu Ting’s nominated achievements were his Negative Immune Modulation Therapy combined with the Perfect Triple-Adjuvant Technique, as well as the nation’s first liver tumor database, which he created.
To support Wu Ting’s nomination, Li Qing had specifically consulted with and gathered information from relevant experts in Jin Province.
From a broader perspective, Li Qing recognized the immense impact of Wu Ting’s scientific breakthrough.
He planned to give Wu Ting an official push.
To endorse Wu Ting, Li Qing persuaded his sister—the recent national idol and heroine, Li Ai—to publicly support him.
This was precisely why Li Qing and Li Ai had made a special trip to attend Wu Ting’s housewarming banquet.
In fact, it was Wu Ting’s therapy that had completely cured Li Ai’s liver cancer, allowing her to devote all her energy to her work.
Under Wu Ting’s care, Li Ai’s health improved by leaps and bounds, and she truly recovered to her condition from before her illness. With her health restored, Li Ai was able to focus single-mindedly and efficiently on completing the development of the strategic laser weapon.
Now that the project was complete and Li Ai had fulfilled her lifelong ambition, she began to appear in public. For all of this, she was genuinely grateful to Wu Ting.
Li Ai believed from the bottom of her heart that a doctor like Wu Ting should receive the honor he deserved and bring hope and health to more patients.
This nomination for the Outstanding Young and Middle-Aged Expert award was the Li siblings’ gift and token of their gratitude to Wu Ting.
A talent like Wu Ting was more than deserving of such an honor.