This year's R&D output was quite good, but that didn't mean R&D could let its guard down. Credit was credit and blame was blame, and the direction of R&D had also fallen into managerial chaos!
Some teams took on clinical trial projects for outside health supplements during gaps in their R&D work, muddled through them and submitted fake results, only for the clients to say when selling their products, "It has passed Chenghuang Laboratory's evaluation." The nerve!
The laboratory procurement department found people to make fake packaging, repackaging experimental supplies from another brand and switching them out. As a result, halfway through a major experiment, they discovered that the reagents weren't working properly. For the sake of earning a few thousand yuan, they caused the company losses of over a million!
As for scientific research equipment, the money allocated was enough to buy brand-new equipment, but the laboratories bought piles of secondhand and thirdhand equipment instead. They could still be used, and thrift was a good thing—but I'm asking you, where did the rest of the money go? Where did it end up?
The naturalized scientist teams wanted to establish their own little kingdoms and wouldn't let you investigate anything closely. You made a fuss, and then you really stopped investigating? Their teams were hiding a bunch of outsiders who didn't understand a thing, holding master's and doctoral degrees bought from overseas diploma mills, and gorging themselves on salaries and subsidies every day. Put mildly, they were drawing pay without working. Put more seriously, could they be spies? You let this happen right under your noses. Are you blind? What the hell were you doing?
Even a place like the Hibernation Center was lining its pockets, making people undergo medical checkups every month. Was there something wrong with them? And