If the party wanted to tap into (or monopolize) the top emerging computationalists from the world, beyond the limit of Chinese nationals, and you were one of them approaching graduation, would you be willing to or allowed to be recruited directly into party service with a paycheck coming directly from the party?
Or more likely to merely work remotely as an employee of a captive company?
Looks like a minimum of 7 staggered projects where each one may already have a defined objective which needs to remain obscure to the actual participants under this program.
>Our goal is to create breakthroughs in natural science with new methodology
Directly straightforward, everybody wants this. It's completely true and challenging enough that the recruits will need to be immersed in this to the max, given anything they want in pursuit of this objective, with no stone unturned.
>and help the world.
Help the world do what?
None of these recruits will have any influence as to "what" turns out to be, and will be expected to never concern themseleves with this other side of the equation. Those that conform can be rewarded over the long term better than any non-monopoly can compare to, increasing the likelihood of having their challenging scientific objectives being eventually met.
Naievete looks so important that upcoming graduates appear to have precedece over established professionals. Rather than the proven performance that businesses can count on, there could instead be emphasis on freshly proven potential, willing to be indoctrinated into a "company" culture that is "humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative" on the party's own (carefully crafted) terms so any alternative cultural features can be nipped in the bud.
This is intended to be someone's first job [0] and they definitely want to see if they can find the kind of people who would have ordinarily worked for Bell Labs if it was still a monopoly.
As always you've got to carefully choose what kind of monopolies and their labs you want to promote, or even support at all.
If the monopolistic salvos are large enough, it might even be possible to fully brain-drain the competition while exponentially increasing their own chances of complete domination.
[0] Well actually almost every one of them's first job.