This year's list of newly elected academicians had been finalized, and the next step was to head to Shangjing for meetings.
Although Xiao Yi did not particularly care about such things, since it had been handed to him, there was no reason not to take it.
Most importantly, it would add another academician slot to Science Island Laboratory.
Otherwise, for one of the country's most renowned laboratories to have not a single academician would be somewhat beneath its standing.
Of course, most people did not truly see it that way. With Xiao Yi there, any laboratory could be called a top-tier laboratory.
After that, Xiao Yi went straight to Shangjing for two meetings.
One was held by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the other by the Chinese Academy of Engineering. As an academician of both academies, he had to attend meetings on both sides.
During those two meetings, Xiao Yi met all manner of academicians.
Basically, the academicians of both academies were there. It was perhaps the occasion where he could meet the most academicians at once.
And these academicians, to varying degrees, all offered Xiao Yi their congratulations.
Some were sincere, some merely polite, and naturally, some were fake.
Still, at a time like this, they all offered their most heartfelt congratulations to Xiao Yi, the youngest academician and an academician of both academies.
There might still be people in China's Scientific Community who harbored hostility toward Xiao Yi. After all, when interests came into conflict, hostility naturally arose.
But basically, no one refused to acknowledge his abilities. In a sense, Xiao Yi had changed the global standing of China's academic community through his efforts alone.
In the past, foreigners had never held a particularly favorable impression of Chinese scientists. With foreign media controlling the public narrative, almost