Zhao Wenyuan personally welcomed Jiang Songran when he arrived in Beijing.
The Source Intelligence Beijing Research Institute had officially been renamed the Origin Beijing Research Institute. With a larger budget, recruitment had picked up speed. It had aggressively recruited doctoral students in several research fields from a few universities in Beijing and quickly assembled an engineering implementation team.
A development team was necessary because, despite being called a research institute, it was their only physical operation in Beijing, so a great deal of business-related work inevitably fell to it.
Their partnership with the Northern China Grid, for example.
Or the medical collaboration they were working on with Jiang Jiusi.
Researchers alone could not handle these projects, so Zhao Wenyuan had decisively poached several key technical staff locally.
Beijing had plenty of internet companies, after all, and a deep talent pool.
Just as most of Source Code and Source Intelligence's early core employees had come from Dingsheng, there was nothing embarrassing about a new company poaching talent from the big players. Plenty of skilled people who lacked room to spread their wings at large companies were willing to move somewhere that offered more freedom.
They were expanding so quickly that their original floor could no longer accommodate everyone, so Zhao Wenyuan rented two more.
Since Han Luyi would "borrow" his director's office whenever he came on a business trip, Zhao Wenyuan had specially fitted out a temporary executive office for executives visiting Beijing.
Jiang Songran became the first Origin executive to use it.
Once they were seated in the office, Jiang Songran began asking Zhao Wenyuan for advice. "So how exactly do you think this meeting is going to work?" he asked.
Zhao Wenyuan had spent some time in Beijing by then and had indeed gained some understanding of how things