Material Empire

Hearing what Qin Hai said, Chen Heqian's face darkened, and he stretched out his hand and said, "Let me see."

Qin Hai handed Jingshiji's report to Chen Heqian, Chen Heqian read it carefully, and couldn't help saying angrily: "What is Zhou Yicheng up to this time? This is a blatant act of obedience and injustice!"

Chen Heqian has carefully studied the notice issued by the State Planning Commission to various enterprises this time, and he agrees with the principle that the core of the breakthrough in materials and technology is put forward in it. However, Zhou Yicheng emphasized a lot of difficulties in the plan reported, claiming that the material development cycle is too long and the process development lacks demonstration, and then avoids these key links, and proposes to use imported materials for the development of ethylene compressors.

If they don’t know enough about the situation of Jingshiji, Qin Hai and Chen Heqian may be confused by Zhou Yicheng’s rhetoric, and then accept his proposal, and look forward to Jingshiji’s ability to make up for the debts of materials and craftsmanship in the future. The current situation is that Qin Hai has already learned from Fan Zhiyuan and Ji Zhenrong that when Jingshiji participated in the development of a 300,000-ton ethylene compressor last time, it had already stated the same reason and promised to do so. After the complete machine project is completed, continue to develop low-temperature materials and casting processes. As a result, the whole machine passed the appraisal and the project ended, and Jingshiji threw these promises aside.

Two years later, when the development task of an 800,000-ton ethylene compressor appeared in front of Jingshi Machinery, they still could not produce qualified low-temperature steel, and they planned to continue to solve the material problem by importing steel. What's the point of these so-called major breakthroughs if we keep avoiding the truth time and time again?

The most exasperating thing is that if the most difficult material and process issues are put aside, only the design and manufacture of the complete machine is carried out. With the basis of the previous 300,000-ton complete machine, it does not need to spend too much money. Zhou Yicheng kept silent on this point, but brazenly proposed a research and development cost of 40 million. Chen Heqian didn't need to torture Zhou Yicheng, but he could imagine that this was a fake project to defraud the country of a major project subsidy. As for what purpose the money would be used for after receiving it, there was no need to elaborate.

Seeing such a report handed in by his students, Chen Heqian's anger can be imagined.

"Old Chen, didn't you praise Zhou Yicheng as your most proud disciple last time? What, you are ashamed now?" Li Linguang teased heartlessly from the side.

Because of Qin Hai, Li Linguang and Chen Heqian have known each other for a long time. Li Linguang is a willful person, while Chen Heqian is a modest gentleman. The two have different personalities, but they have a very good personal relationship. That's why Li Linguang met at this time. He was even joking with Chen Heqian.

Chen Heqian sighed, and said: "In fact, we can't blame Zhou Yicheng for this matter. Our companies have always followed such rules, and Zhou Yicheng can be regarded as close to Zhu Zhechi. Alas, I feel more and more now that Xiao The principles proposed by Qin are really wise. If we don’t insist on focusing on materials and craftsmanship, then this time, the research on major complete sets of equipment will eventually become a mere formality.”

Li Linguang smiled and said: "Old Chen, you only know Xiao Qin's skills now? I have convinced this young man. Tell me, he is only a few years older than my son. Why do you think the problem is so sophisticated? Even we These two old guys are not as good as him, what do you think is the reason?"

Qin Hai heard the two masters talking about him, and quickly said modestly: "Mr. Chen, Mr. Li, don't flatter me. The reason why I think that materials and craftsmanship are the core is because of the domestic production in Pusang. The work experience of the Office of Chemical Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture. According to the research I have done in the enterprise, our technology level in many fields lags behind foreign countries, mainly because the materials and processes cannot keep up. As for the overall machine design, it is not a bottleneck. To put it bluntly, in terms of the whole machine, even if we can’t innovate, can’t we still test and imitate it?”

The so-called survey imitation, the full name is surveying and mapping imitation, later generations have a more euphemistic term, called Shanzhai. In the early years, China's equipment manufacturing level lagged behind that of foreign countries, and many equipment could not be produced by itself. In order to get rid of the dependence on foreign countries, the method we adopt is to find a way to "get" a piece of foreign equipment, and then disassemble it into eight pieces, survey and map each part, and then imitate them as they are, so as to realize the localization of similar equipment .

In the era of low awareness of intellectual property rights, this method of testing and imitation has solved many problems of equipment shortage in China. In the process of testing and imitating, the technicians mastered the design principles of these devices, learned from one instance, and developed their own products. It should be said that there are still some results.

However, the whole machine can be tested and imitated, but the materials and craftsmanship cannot be imitated. For a piece of steel, we only know that its performance is very superior, but how to smelt such a steel cannot find the answer from the steel itself. Due to the backwardness in materials and technology, although many industrial products in our country are similar in principle and even in shape to similar foreign products, their performance is not satisfactory.

Chen Heqian and Li Linguang are also people with practical experience, how can they not understand the mystery of this. Hearing what Qin Hai said, they all laughed wryly. Chen Heqian shook his head and said: "Xiao Qin, what you said hurt a lot of people. Don't look down on the test imitation. Back then, foreign countries blocked our technology and didn't sell us any machines. Our country can rely on Only by testing and imitating this family heirloom can we provide sufficient equipment for all sectors of the national economy."

Qin Hai hurriedly said: "Mr. Chen misunderstood. I never said that I look down on testing and imitating. What I mean is that we are such a big country, we can't always rely on testing and imitating other people's machines to develop? What's more, There is no way to test and imitate materials, so will we always rely on imported materials for industry?"

"Xiao Qin is right." Li Linguang said, facing Chen Heqian, and said: "Old Chen, what I am most satisfied with Xiao Qin is that he has always adhered to the principle of independent innovation, especially in the field of materials. In order to produce our own materials, he invested a lot of money."

Chen Heqian nodded and said, "How could I not know this? Not to mention your School of Materials, even I myself have received a lot of funding from Xiao Qin, and I have never had the opportunity to thank Xiao Qin."

"You must not say such things." Qin Haidao, "I am a person who is so poor that I only have money left. It is what I should do to support the research of your two great professors. Mr. Chen, I thought about it just now, this situation in Jingshiji is actually very common, I want to use Jingshiji as a breakthrough to rectify this kind of atmosphere, do you think it is appropriate?"

"This..." Chen Heqian was speechless. From the point of view of his original intention, he fully supports Qin Hai, and he also thinks that the ideas of various companies should be reversed, so that they can change their impetuous style of emphasizing appearance and ignoring substance. However, he didn't know how Qin Hai planned to rectify Jingshi Ji, and whether it would have an adverse impact on Zhou Yicheng. He is a very soft-hearted person. When things happen, he always does not want others to be hurt.

Qin Hai saw what Chen Heqian was thinking, he laughed and said, "Teacher Chen, don't worry, Zhou Yicheng is your student, and I should respectfully call him senior brother. Although I want to use Jingshi Ji as a target, I don't want to It will embarrass Zhou Yicheng too much. To be honest, Jintang Ethylene’s equipment has to be manufactured by Jingshi Machinery, so how can I turn my face against them?”

"That's not what I meant." Chen Heqian quickly denied it. After thinking for a while, he said, "Xiao Qin, I am very much in favor of you using Jingshi Ji as a target. Although Zhou Yicheng is my student, he did a good job. If something is wrong, I will never defend my shortcomings. Just do as you want, and if you encounter any resistance, I will come out to support you. "

"I will support you too, just go and poke a hole in the sky." Li Linguang also laughed and added.

"This...you don't have to do it so extreme." Chen Heqian said, "If possible, try to be courteous first and then soldier. Li Qing, the factory director of Jingshiji, is also an old comrade in the industry. Xiao Qin, you still have to give him some Save face. As for Zhou Yicheng, you can say what you have to say, you can beat him if you want to beat him, and if he dares to refuse, you can tell me."

Qin Hai pursed his lips and said with a smile: "I remember, I will definitely clean up the door for you."

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Jingshiji is located in the northern suburbs of the capital, a small industrial city surrounded by a piece of farmland. This morning, Qin Hai drove his blue bird car and brought Huang Haiyue, a staff member in the office, to the gate of Jingshiji, ready to visit Li Qing and Zhou Yicheng.

As a large state-owned enterprise with a decent life, Jingshiji's management system is quite strict. Seeing Qin Hai's car approaching, the guard in overalls hurried forward, stretched out his hand to stop him, and asked in a business-like manner, "You guys, what unit are you here for?"

"We belong to the State Planning Commission." Huang Haiyue put down the window glass, and coldly handed over a red leather work card, and replied. Although she is very respectful in front of Qin Hai, in the enterprises below, her official authority is very sufficient.

"National Planning Commission?" The guard took the work card and looked at the cover, but finally dared not open it. As a doorman, he still understands basic interpersonal relationships, and knows how arrogant the State Planning Commission is. People from this kind of department usually need to be greeted by the factory leader in person, how dare he bark his teeth as a small guard.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the two leaders." The guard apologized with a smile on his face, "We have not received a notice that the two leaders are coming to inspect. May I ask which factory leader the leader is in contact with? I will report to the leader Report, please come out to meet the two leaders."

"..." The guard's words were inconsequential, and Qin Hai was immediately stunned by the series of "leaders". He was stunned for a while, and then said: "Well, please inform Director Zhou Yicheng of the technical department , let’s say that Qin Hai from the Heavy Equipment Office is visiting.”