After retiring in the second half of last year, in a chat, a director said something from his heart to me with a little summary attitude, "Mr. Liu, although you and Mr. L are kind-hearted, you speak too straight and easy to hurt people". What he said is mainly aimed at the speeches we have participated in various meetings of the school for many years. He said that Mr. L is an old professor several years older than me. We have been friends for many years.

Before retirement, I served as a member of several academic institutions in the University (mainly representing our geophysical discipline). The main work is to participate in the evaluation of various projects in the school, such as school youth fund project, talent selection and assessment, 211 project, etc. Previously, he participated in the annual "retreat" of the school as the chairman of the Jiusan Society of the school, listened to the work reports of the college and relevant functional departments, and occasionally served as the judge of cadre competition. In these symposiums and review meetings, I usually have to express some personal opinions (otherwise I'm sitting there). I inherited my father's forthright and sincere character. I always spoke directly and never beat around the Bush, but I never had any burning and threatening words (I still understand this basic etiquette, especially pay attention to being kind to young people, who are the future of the school after all). Professor L and I have talked about the same view: we spend our good time in school and only "live or die" with the school. The implication is that if we are dissatisfied with the school, we can consider transferring when we are young, "there is no master here, there is a master's place". Therefore, we sincerely hope that the school will become better and better. For example, at a school retreat, the dean of the school of management spoke about the hope that the school would provide funds to support discipline development. I pointed out in my speech that I hope the leaders of the school of management will change their thinking, make up their mind to live on the hardships and taste the gall, and start with a person like Professor WXC (during the start-up period of scientific research, the professor developed the leading GIS in China without any support from the school. Now it is famous in the industry and the project support of the State Ministry Committee is endless), and then the school will give strong support, Moreover, the humanities and social sciences do not require much. After the meeting, the headmaster said to me, you are right. I can only support it when I see some signs. At another "retreat", the dean of the leading discipline of our school spoke and talked about the brilliant achievements made by the college. I interrupted that you'd better compare the achievements with the domestic leading level and international level, so that we can more accurately evaluate your achievement level. The teacher L is also straight and doesn't turn around to express his opinions. If someone, when reporting the results, counts one paper published in Chinese and English as two (that is, one in Chinese and one in English), he frankly says that this can only count as one, and his opinion is certainly right. Sometimes, when reviewing the project summary, I honestly explain my views to young people, hoping that young teachers can not only do productive projects in scientific research (although it costs money quickly) and must pay attention to academic research. This is the main characteristic that university teachers distinguish enterprise R & D personnel. Even if university teachers do productive projects (we call it "facing the main battlefield of the national economy" project), they also need to tap the academic materials in the project and publish high-quality academic papers.

I always feel that if we speak in a roundabout way, do things right and left, act according to the circumstances, say good things in front of others, say bad things after others, do things carefully, lack sincerity between colleagues and students, and bow and bow in front of leaders and authority (Xueba), we will live too tired and oppressed. The evaluation of our school's academic committee is equivalent to a signed vote. Because each member has a number, the staff will remind everyone to fill in their number on each vote before voting. Therefore, after each review, the staff will clearly know the voting results of members during statistics. I remember, once the director of the discipline office said to me: Mr. Liu, your vote was fair. I'm very glad to hear it. I have also publicly stated my views in my own college. I will consider voting for you only when your things are equivalent to (or slightly inferior to) those of other departments. There is no possibility of a wide difference. I will not take care of the "interests" of the members of my unit without principle. This is my bottom line.