Tong Yuan'an was a bit stunned: "Funding one's own research like this, isn't that a huge loss?"
Zhou Yuhui said, "This is something you can have reimbursed by the provincial or municipal financial departments after the project is completed."
"You may not be aware of this now, but in our time, it was quite common."
"And it's very understandable."
"Research departments pay you in advance for research outputs; now, since others have the results, they are usually more than willing to offer some money."
"But that's not the focus of our discussion today."
Zhou Yuhui continued, "Actually, these individual suturing techniques are not the core; what's crucial is whether these techniques can be applied to other surgical methods."
"They could actually improve the treatment effectiveness of some conventional and new surgical techniques."
"For example, in tendon transplantation surgery, would using the tendon suturing technique increase the success rate?"
