Letter to my tutors in China Netcom

Dear Mis Jiang and Mis Huang,

I have been in France for more than a year by now. And during one year I have engaged myself to the endless classes at school, to be a good student.

Forgive me for this late hello that I now bring you. Being a student in France who is suffering from extremely advanced mathematics and automatics studies, I feel almost separated from the telecom industry. This is the reason why I hesitate to write a letter to you to discuss with you, as well as any other experts in our industry.

However, my strong feeling of identity as a telecom person has never diminished. That’s why I always think of you, my dear teachers, and the wonderful time we spent together in China Netcom.

To tell the truth, it was in China Netcom that I began to focus my real career interest to the industry. It is the telecom industry. And working in a telecom operator gave me the broadest vision to look at this industry, even to manipulate it!

The meetings and conferences that I participated in were, in particular, a fruitful experience. This is the best part of my internship in China Netcom because I am a conference person and I did speak a lot for China Netcom during the conferences in “Friendship Hotel” (especially with Doctor ZHANG Zhen). :-)

To tell more truth, I did not completely focus myself in the work in China Netcom because I was busy preparing for my application for France. That is why you could notice I had so many days if absence for doing many affaires out of work. For this, I now sincerely apologize to you, hoping you can understand me.

I always ask ZHANG Xi about the current situation of you two teachers and I heard that he is becoming such a busy expert. I am so proud of him. I think you are also willing to be informed about my studies and life a little bit. What’s more, I promised you, Mis. Huang, to tell you more about France to prepare a better future for your son!

I am now studying in a top engineering school. There are two types of engineering school in France. The one that is specialized in a certain industry, and the one that is training very well-rounded people, which means you have to learn everything in the engineering world. The second type is better than the first type in France and students are trained to be the future directors and managers. My school is the second type. So I have to learn automatics, information system, telecom, energy…

Because my school is one of the best engineering schools, every subject here is much more difficult than other schools and every subject is more deeply studied even than the schools which are specialized in one domain.

Every student in my school is very well-educated and they study very hard (much more hard-working than BUPT students).

Life here is busy and peaceful. I have no time to travel around but I can always enjoy the beautiful sunshine at the place where I live. We can learn a lot in such a quiet environment.

Now I am working in the second largest mobile operator in France called “SFR”, which is the member of “Vodafone” in France. It owns the largest 3G network and the biggest number of subscribers in France. This is an internship during one year (from this month to August 2008). And after this internship I still have half a year’s study at school.

Everyday I discuss with all the manufacturers of mobile phones (Nokia, Huawei, Alcatel, Samsung, ZTE, Sony-Ericsson, LG…) in the conferences to decide the technical characteristics of new mobile phones coming to the market and I develop information solutions for marketing and strategy.

Working in the best CBD in Europe, I can enjoy the beautiful city of Paris by looking out of my window. I feel content of life.

Sometimes I take a walk by the river Seine, while my heart is totally peaceful. This feels great. But I am not a person who can stop fighting and enjoy the tranquil life. I still need some passion to prove that I can change a grand network; I can change billions of people’s life, like in China Netcom.

I really miss you, my dear teachers. My passion for telecom has started again in my new internship in Paris, and never ends.

I wish you all the best. May happiness always accompany with you, your family, and every friend of yours.


Your student ever,

Yan ZHANG



DSP - Marketing/Stratégie Terminaux
SFR

1 Place Carpeaux - Tour Séquoia

92915 Paris La Défense Cedex

http://www.sfr.fr/

收拾电脑深处的文件夹时总会被déjà-vu搞得心动， 因为这些久违的文件实在太经典了。 这些温馨的， 深邃的， 动人的， 杀气冲天的déjà-vu总是贯穿于我暗伏杀机的平淡生活中，起到了张晓龙的问候般的效果。 我很满意。

忽略其导致癫痫病的副作用之后，这就是现在和未来的力量之源。 用鲁迅的口吻来讲，这就是现在和未来的力量之源罢 ！

然而在天天叫喊”No more déjà-vu, please!”的Stanley同学那里，情况就大相径庭了。最近他开始质疑自己的一句有些年岁的口头禅：”When we jump out of the circle, we can see the bigger picture. ” 并不留情面地对这句话作出鉴定： 纯属SB。

然而正是一句对今天没有指导意义的废话，惊现在我多年前稚嫩的演讲稿里，并作为déjà-vu的主要来源正在激励着我背上的汗毛。Stanley其实早就在2003年慈祥地提醒过我，这只是一种手段，在危难时刻创造一种机会，可以让别人陶醉于文化的déjà-vu中而自己能够挤入智者群中暂时躲避两秒钟，皆大欢喜。

附上新鲜出土的21世纪初的21世纪杯稿子及音频以纪念刚刚另一种灵感的诞生。

Download: Well-rounded Education
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, April 2004
Zhang Yan

Ladies and gentlemen,
I’m truly honored by the opportunity to stand before you on this special day, a day when I as an engineering student can express my special thoughts to all of you audience from a diversity of backgrounds.
Last October I participated in the Model United Nations Conference hosted by Chinese Foreign Ministry. I still remember vividly the scene when the reporter of Phoenix TV interviewed me after the conference. She asked: “As a student of telecommunications, why do you spend so much time and energy preparing for this political event?” I said: “To give myself an all-round education!” And the next morning, that reply became the headline of Beijing Daily, if not China Daily. It was entitled: “Science and engineering students seeking to be well-rounded.”
Yes, we want to be well-rounded because we are challenged. We engineering students take it for granted that technology is changing incredibly fast. We are thinking nervously and seriously whether our colleges are failing to provide a foundation in the skills currently needed in industry. Take my major telecommunications for example. Scientists say that 21st century is a biomedical time, not an electrical time. So the interdisciplinary exploitation serves as the critical part for our electric and electronics world to find new way of being.
Therefore, throughout the history of our university, researchers, educators, and students have been increasing connections among disciplines. We are proud of our REU program—Research Experiences for Undergraduates, which was established by the student union of our telecommunications school. We members are now doing a Cochlear Implants Project. In order to provide deaf people a hearing, we are trying to produce a bionic ear for these disabled. This artificial device incorporates electrical and electronics engineering, biomedical engineering, psychoacoustics and cognition science together. Through this project, we came to understand each other, we started to appreciate what we did not know, we managed to overcome differences, and we were motivated to travel in unexplored territory seeking new understandings of our world. In a word, we had witnessed the great power of knowledge collaboration. Students from different fields had regained their future opportunities because they know for sure that the interdisciplinary education is always there providing us with a broad stage to reach our full potential.
But the power of knowledge collaboration is not restricted to science and engineering. It is in the full community of learning. Walking around campus I absorbed a reality that there is a seamless web between students from different professional backgrounds. The engineering students are discussing animatedly in a philosophy lecture, speaking passionately in the public speaking club, and looking for sparkling ideas from learning history and arts. How wonderful that is! That, ladies and gentleman, is just a significant step forward to be well-rounded because once we jump out of the circle we can see the bigger picture.
Still in the Model United Nations, on the issue of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the agenda passed a motion to urge the UNESCO to spread a new kind of education called Science and Engineering Ethics to universities around the world, which is a 1-year’s course first developed by our REU program last year. From the birth of atomic bomb to the cloning of humans, from the increasingly popular campus suicide to the immergence of new and more harmful computer viruses that are made by our university students. By illustrating and analyzing these cases, the course will strike every scientist and engineer’s heart that we can never be well-rounded talents unless we are engaged in healthy psychology and high moral principle.
Still, after participating in various political and humanitarian activities, it is still my greatest pleasure to find inspiration in the lives of scientists and engineers, as they have insight that can be generalized to any area of life. Let me end my speech with the Nobel Prize winner Li Zhengdao’s words: “The realization of the perfect combination of science and engineering, science and arts, technology and humanity, is the greatest symbol of a university’s success.”

纯粹

如果贝多芬让Jack Johnson去吃屎，你会抓狂吗？一种情况是你不给屎，也不给damn, 另一种情况是你愤怒。最后一种情况：如果你够纯，你一定会因此而兴奋。
----- 题记
(一)
在法国里昂上火车前，一个残疾人非常严肃地指着火车用法国南方口音跟我说：“你要上的火车是要用电的，所以这是电火车！每年都有很多人坐电火车！”
然后，他转向一个个踏上月台的人们，重复着同样的话。
别人都用鄙夷的微笑来回避他的眼睛，陆续上了车。
他回过头来盯着我：“他们以为我喝醉了，其实是他们不懂好的幽默！“
我严肃地说：“ 完全同意。” 登上了火车。
他坐在电动轮椅里向我用力挥手，渐逝在视线模糊的地方……我开始感动。

(二)
确定自己仍然纯粹或者搬着自己的脑袋向某一方面纯粹的最佳办法，就是一个人出去遛弯儿。这时候最应该让牛脑小爷们在家歇歇菜，否则一段天津相声，把浪漫气氛全毁了不说，还不时勾引来一箩筐自以为有修养的傻妞们，幻想着能流着口水就着星光坐在草地上听爷们儿几个吃饱了撑的用吉他伴奏唱英文歌。
北京的冬天，灰暗又阴冷的天，盖着堆满脏雪的地。黄昏时推开窗子，当嗅到一股淡淡的烧焦树叶味道时，那种令人心潮澎湃的力量吸引着我，这是一种大气，不是说不清，而是说清了要好几百年。哈哈，爷这就出去。
去雍和宫旁边的幽深的胡同里找到了那家新疆馆子，漂亮的维族女老板还是一个人在那里织毛衣。吃点串，喝两瓶酒，借啤酒的气打个饱嗝，直奔东直门去看电影。东方银座，老地方。东环影院，前天刚来过，还没出新片，那就再看一遍<<青红>>。这个放映厅只有我和一白种中年男人，丫坐在最前面, 回头望了我N多次。我在想你丫是不是找抽呢，看不懂就别来干瞪眼。
出来后，天已经完全黑下来了。然后去旁边的小商店搞一小瓶二锅头灌两口，搓着手，顺着鬼街走，这一段路颇长，几乎快到二环的时候吃个煎饼果子。说实话这家做的很难吃。为什么屡屡要吃？ 强迫症。
然后就一定要在这个路口打车，而且一定要去颐和园东路。下了车进了北大，往未名湖里扔片枯叶，对淹死在里面的所有除了名人的亡灵匆匆默哀两分半钟。
你们丫也有今天，怎么都隔儿逼着凉了？当时跟爷牛逼哄哄的……
然而我没有骂出来，只是叹着气，祝福着。这个角落黑得可怕。前方那片空旷的草地中央似乎有人在翩翩起舞，那姿态非常撩人，像两年前的夜里那样。我承认我仍有魅力，然而此时此刻正在做的事情不是凭借杀伤力去滥杀无辜，我在蜕去这层外衣，以便在毕业来临之际，作一回纯粹的北邮人。所以还是不去靠近。为了证明我的清白，我从包里掏出了眼镜戴上，绝然与圣罗兰早期设计风格不谋而合。让幻觉停滞在那里，被瑟瑟冷风冻结。
早点回到温暖的家里吧，跳舞的姑娘。别了。
夜很冷，晃到北大正门的天桥上，全是积雪，踩几脚，软得很！天桥那头，是一个瘦弱的影子，能想象她在漠然地俯视着下面来往的车辆。
我突然有冲动，就想冲她喊一句：“你丫不是说要跳下去么？”
呵呵。那不是你，那里谁都没有。这时的我很邪恶，很想回到那个时候把你推倒在地，再抓起一堆雪塞进你的脖子让你清醒过来！然后扬长而去。
可是当时我把你丫抱那么紧，却一点感情都没有动。纯粹是人的本能，一种对生命的保护，就像有时候把垂死的苍蝇用蝇拍轻轻捧起，扔向窗外。我把你最终成功塞进出租车里。
已是半夜了，人就像冰一样。在你被我塞进车的那一刻，我想对这些可爱可憎可怜的人说：“还我体温！”
我回去了，去一个能找到爱尔兰啤酒Guinness的地方----印象中总能把温暖的灯光，光头设计师，黑啤酒和活蹦乱跳，戴着钢牙的小姑娘联系起来。这倒不错。虽然幼稚了点，倒也不失为早期比较纯粹的一种状态。

(三)
又是一个夜晚，在地中海旁的度假村里，我独自踱步在小桥上，像所有童话故事的作者一样，狂妄地幻想把所有纯粹的爱都砸到一个浪漫的二人世界，然后生活就臻于圆满，世界就永远美丽。
每每与前辈们交流起成功的人生到底应该达到什么样的境界，都感到不管是之前还是现在，我太年轻，太天真，太浮躁。有一点是确定的，我依然要在精神世界不断追求纯粹，我要用生命写一本美丽的童话，谁都超越不了这种纯粹，给你。

Memories flashback in Changping

A campus in the village in rural Beijing.

Freshman year, the most precious year in college, a place where purity is exposed by untwisted original human nature.

People say(Not just within the IT industry): Men are made in BUPT. True, because garbage of various kinds is being chucked out. Noticed, after this long long 1st year, that all sophomores in BUPT(Downtown Beijing Campus) are all almighty? O allons donc, DOWNtown boys, UPtown girls, see those silly people around? Nique leurs Grandparents de tout le monde Univeritaires! Yes, they suck. Our faith is absolutely powerful. Because:

We know only science & technology can promote all.

The fragile poor world is within our grasp.

But the world is big and colorful.

Slow down and enjoy.

Proud Bupters.

Peace.

Out.

邮苑拾残

玳瑁应难比，斑犀点更嘉。天怜未端正，满面与妆花。

   ---------题记

 

余尝以耻扶荣，越四载，居邮苑，掩耻终于荣。夫大兴不足以养心，弃之泣泣，挥之不尽，退之笔力，无施不可，而尝以诗为文章末事，故“多情怀酒伴，馀事作诗人”也。然余资谈笑，助谐谑，叙人情，状物态，一寓于诗，而曲尽其妙。此在雄文大手，固不足论，而余独爱工于用韵，吟唱自如也：

 

苑有干红，其实之肴。心之忧矣，我歌且谣。不知我者，谓我士也骄。彼人是哉，子曰何其？心之忧矣，其谁知之？其谁知之，盖亦勿思!

 

苑有芝士，其实之食。心之忧矣，光电鸿通。不知我者，谓我士也罔极。彼人是哉，子曰何其？心之忧矣，其谁知之？其谁知之，盖亦勿思!

 

枫丹白露烟漠漠，春归邮苑水潺潺。

BUPT Touch

Many people ask me: what on earth do you think you have gained in BUPT during these 4 years? The information technologies? The qualities of telecom engineering?
 
Interestingly, they are not the most important.
 
There's one significant thing that no Bupters can shrug off easily, be it seen as negative or positive, be it considered a pride or a shame, as is embedded in our nervous system:
 
The BUPT Touch.
 
With this touch, we are either sensitive to the buttons on the digital portables and electronic devices, or capable to smell or see through the magnetic waves. Well, some of us get sick, some get high.
 
But we have been already stamped on, be it a nightmare as "Made in BUPT" or a selling point as "BUPT Inside".
 
Je me promène dans les rues de Pékin pour réaliser que les grandes métropoles chinoise vivent au rythme des télécommunications modernes: partout s'étalent et rivalisent, sur toutes sortes de supports publicitaires, les annonces des équipementiers et opérateurs téléphoniques. S'agissant des opérateurs de Pékin, ils sont exclusivement les paradis avec la caractéristique de «BUPT Inside»: China Mobile, Netcom et Unicom se taillent la part du lion. Côté équipementiers, l'offre est plus diverse: les grands fournisseurs internationaux de combines portables--Nokia, Motorola et Ericsson--de même que les grands équipementiers internationaux--AT&T, Lucent et autre Alcatel--sont tous présents et voisinent avec des BUPTeurs dont la notoriété dépasse aujourd’hui le seul marché chinois—Huawei Technologies et Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipement, pour ne citer que les deux plus grands équipementiers chinois, ou Konka et Kejian pour la fabrication de téléphone portable.
 
S’agissant de l’économie chinoise en général, et des services de télécommunication en particulier, les BUPTeurs ont provoqué un regain d’enthousiasme pour le plus grand marché de la planète.  Plus encore, suivant un cycle bien connu, les errements de la veille se sont brusquement effaces pour laisser place à ce que d’aucuns ont appelé péjorativement le « rêve chinois », pour ne pas dire le fantasme chinois, pour qualifier l’engouement excessif des grandes sociétés étrangères pour ce marché. A la lecture des récents développements, nous sommes de l’avis que ce rêve est déjà une réalité dans le secteur des télécommunications, le domaine des BUPTeurs.   
 
Vive BUPT, Vive les TELECOMS.
 
           This article is dedicated to serving all the spirits of IT insanity.

热烈祝贺赵厚麟担任国际电信联盟(ITU)副秘书长

热烈祝贺赵厚麟担任国际电信联盟(ITU)副秘书长

2006年11月10日，在土耳其召开的国际电信联盟(ITU)全权代表大会上，北京邮电大学兼职教授赵厚麟以绝对优势，当选为下一届国际电信联盟副秘书长。这是国际电信联盟成立一百四十多年以来，迄今为止中国人在国际电信组织担任的最高职务。

赵厚麟之前在国际电信联盟标准化局局长任上，为国际电信标准化和中国电信标准做出大量卓有成效的工作，此番当选国际电信联盟副秘书长，无疑为中国更好地融入世界电信通信领域创造了契机。

与赵局长的接触并非在北邮校园的学习中，而是在电信产业里。在中国网通做毕设(2006年1月到6月)的日子里，我曾负责中国通信标准化协会(CCSA)中的工作，那时就开始了解到赵局长曾多次协商全球各大运营商和设备制造商，协同信息产业部电信研究院，为通信标准的一次又一次更新做出了很多贡献。然而赵局长对我最重要的一次影响是2006上半年在中国电信总部参加国际电信联盟标准化(ITU-T)(SG2和SG11)的中国内部预备会议前。当时他在日内瓦，我们与他交流过关于中国电信已经参与的SG11 8项文稿中，SG11 Q2 Q.user-data与SG11 Q3 Q.Sup-req还未成型的问题(主要是Enum和国际号码资源问题，跟我以前在Brest和Tina做的exposé: ESPACE D’IDENTIFIANT是一个范畴)。赵局长在具体问题上支持中国全局(并非某个或某几个集团)的立场，让我有所感触。如果我把在CCSA中IP与多媒体(TC1)与网络安全组（TC8）的标准化工作看作和通信专家们的纯技术研讨，那么ITU-T的工作就像我在2004年10月参加的模拟联合国(Model United Nations)一样更加带有思辨性和政治趣味性，同时是在一种在对通信的整体深入把握上进行的高效的技术活动，无疑对我的职业规划画上了极有意义的一笔。

翻了一下我硬盘里以前的文件夹，有幸找到了我当时的一些会议记录，还有在研究过中国电信同事制定的稿子基础上，给赵局长和通信行业各位代表介绍情况时用的会议发言。于今天来看，我觉得离开了中国，就像退出了产业，成了局外人。不管是什么原因，不论是不再用行业的语气来说话，还是不再有继续关注SG11 Q2 Q.user-data与SG11 Q3 Q.Sup-req的心态，这都是一种损失。愚钝也罢，冷漠也罢，于情于理是应该跟各位好同事写一封信了。这产业无疑是一个充满信仰的搏击俱乐部，每次和张震博士一起认真嗜食三文鱼都是在励志，浓烈的技术气息和绿色的芥末酱掺杂在一起，让一桌北邮校友亢奋，在接下来下午的会议中继续大胆创新迅速地改变中国通信格局。