The last Friday of February.
With his luggage on his back, Lu Zhou set off on another journey.
This time, he was headed to Shanghai.
According to Director Li, the relevant departments had begun bidding for the IMCRC headquarters building project as early as the beginning of last year. Even the name IMCRC had already been decided at the time.
Construction officially began around the middle of last year, and now the main structures, including the primary office building, had been completed and handed over to the IMCRC organization.
In fact, the central government had made two sets of plans at the time. If the IMCRC international cooperation proposal could not be negotiated, they would remove the I, which stood for "international," and use the building as the headquarters of the MCRC.
Fortunately, with the successful Controlled Nuclear Fusion negotiations and the safe return of the Mars Rescue team, Hua Nation's international standing and image as a spacefaring power had both risen tremendously. The entire project was secured with almost no major resistance.
Now that the IMCRC organization had been established and the first phase of the headquarters project had been delivered, the various departments were already moving in. Everyone was happy with the outcome.
As Hua Nation's officially appointed chairman, Lu Zhou's trip to Shanghai was partly to attend the headquarters' unveiling ceremony and partly to arrange the organizational work at the headquarters.
After all, physics societies and research institutions from various countries had sent people over. He could not exactly leave them sitting around with nothing to do.
Although the collider was still under construction, the work of each department still needed to be arranged, and a set of regulations needed to be drafted as well.
Having overseen quite a few major scientific research projects, Lu Zhou was