Being named in a national project is an honor, although its actual significance isn't that great.
Zhao Yi is still deeply grateful to Professor Liu.
From a practical standpoint, he did provide the crucial 'Selection Method,' - a publicly available process - but his patient explanations to Professor Liu only served to shorten the latter's research time.
As for the algorithm package …
There's nothing more to talk about it.
There's no doubt that Professor Liu appreciated and cared for Zhao Yi, which led him to include Zhao's name in the project.
This was akin to authoring a paper.
The order of the authors...first author, second author, and so forth, might not seem important, but having your name listed would lead people to acknowledge your significant contribution to the research.
"It looks like I should help Professor Liu as much as possible in the future."
Zhao Yi reflected.