Doing Good and Building Up Merit

How could he contribute to Sun Yat-sen University's mathematics department?

Shen Qi's approach was straightforward: give them money.

Any faculty member or student at Sun Yat-sen University who achieved an A-level accomplishment in mathematics would receive a reward of ten million yuan.

B-level achievements would earn five million, and C-level achievements one million.

Shen Qi had established the A, B, and C tiers himself. A-level achievements in mathematics were slightly less difficult than solving a Millennium Prize Problem, with B and C levels following accordingly.

Before long, the reward scheme had spread to another Double First-Class university in Nangang City: Southern Institute of Technology.

Soon after, it had spread throughout the entire South China region.

And before long, it had spread across the country.

At Shen Qi's suggestion, his father, Shen Zhishan, established the Shen Zhishan Mathematics Foundation. The foundation planned to distribute 200 million yuan each year to support young Chinese mathematicians determined to make great contributions to the field.

At the same time, Shen Zhishan donated 100 million yuan in his personal capacity to organizations including the Nangang Red Cross Society, the Nangang Charity Association, and the Nangang Disabled Persons' Association, in support of charitable causes.

Shen Zhishan announced that supporting science and charity would become a regular practice for the Shen Family, earning widespread public approval.

Shen Zhishan's generosity was largely due to Shen Qi's influence.

"Giving away several hundred million every year to support research and charity? At this rate, our family's fortune will be gone in a few years." Shen Zhishan was a businessman, after all. A businessman's principle when doing good was to do as much as he could, provided there were profits to spare.

Shen Qi, however, took it in stride. "You can't take money with you when you're born, and you can't