[The opening ceremony of the International Lunar Hadron Collider Conference came to a successful conclusion. Academician Lu delivered an important speech on behalf of the Chinese academic community.]
The newspaper headline was extra long.
The content behind this headline shocked everyone.
The Lunar Hadron Collider construction is going to begin in a month!
With a budget of US$20 billion!
More than 200 particle physics institutes around the world are participating!
This included the well-known physics center CERN, as well as the Princeton Physics Department. Even people outside of academia heard about these research institutes.
Of course, this wasn't why people were surprised.
What really shocked people was that while the project had a budget of US$20 billion, China, as the project initiator, only had to fork up 10 billion.
The United States was going to cover 5 billion!
