Science-technology circles were powerfully shaken three years ago by the granting of annual subsidies of one hundred thousand yuan to specially invited professors when the "Changjiang Scholars" Program set up by Li Ka-Shing and the Ministry of Education started up. Today, another big uproar has been triggered by Qinghua University's inviting twenty-eight overseas Chinese scholars to act as lecturing professors at salaries of one million yuan per year. This article presents the author's views about the engagement of twenty-eight ethnic Chinese scholars at annual salaries of one million yuan to serve as lecturing professors, working only three or four months every year at the Qinghua's Institute of Economic Management. Qinghua purposely chose to announce the news about the engagement of these lecturing professors at the school's ninety-first anniversary in order to show its ambition of enlisting persons of ability from all over the world. Here, the author describes how Qinghua devised this system of engaging first-rate world scholars as lecturing professors. (Contains 1 footnote.)