Material Empire

A trip to the Middle East finally fulfilled Kaan's long-cherished wish. For Qin Hai, this trip was even more fruitful. First, they determined a crude oil supply agreement with Flanding for the next ten years to ensure that even in the event of changes in the international situation, the Daqin Group will be able to obtain crude oil from Gaizal first. Secondly, it clarified the cooperation between the two parties in seawater desalination plants, desert water-retaining particles, and lightning collection systems. These cooperations can bring more than one billion US dollars in revenue to Daqin Group, and have a strong demonstration effect. Contribute to the new Business development.

After completing these tasks, Qin Hai bid farewell to Flanding and returned to the capital together with Tranquility. Some technicians such as Yu Lihong and Ka'an still need to stay in the local area to do some evaluation and design work, so Qin Hai doesn't need to worry about such things.

In the capital, there is another good thing waiting for Qin Hai, that is, after years of persistent appeals, the central government has finally approved the establishment of a coordinating organization at the national level to promote the development of national materials research and materials industry, called the National The Material Industry Promotion Center is affiliated with the Ministry of Information Industry. Qin Hai returned to the capital just in time for the center's listing ceremony. Or to put it more bluntly, this celebration has been postponed all the time, and it was held only after Qin Hai came back from abroad.

The celebration ceremony was quite large-scale, and there was no need to elaborate on the various red tapes that were disturbing. The center has just been established, and there is no formed team yet. Most of the organization and reception work is assisted by the Beijing Office of Daqin Group. After the ceremony was over, the guests sent by various ministries and commissions to watch the ceremony left one after another. Qin Hai accompanied Yang Xinyu, the director of the center, and Li Linguang, the chief scientist of the center, back to the meeting room. Those who stayed there were some acquaintances, including the veteran general Ji Mingchu and the old deputy director of the Planning Commission Wang Hongsheng. The establishment of this center is not unrelated to their helping hands.

Yang Xinyu left his leadership position in the Machinery Committee a few years ago and only served as the president of an industry association. This time the Material Industry Promotion Center was established, and he volunteered to serve as the director of the center, and he also had the idea of ​​making use of some waste heat. As for Li Linguang, he has been quite influential in the field of materials science and industry in recent years, and he is expected to be the chief scientist of the center this time.

"Xiao Qin, you are amazing. So many ministries, enterprises, and universities have sent people to the celebration today. I think most of them are because of your face, right?"

As soon as Qin Hai and his party walked into the room and sat down, Ji Mingchu spoke with a smile. He is an old general, and he doesn't need to take care of other people's emotions when he speaks. If he is replaced by someone else, at least Yang Xinyu and Li Linguang, the two righteous masters, will feel unhappy when he speaks like this.

"Mr. Ji is trying to bring hatred to me. The director of the center is Director Yang, and the chief scientist is Professor Li. How can everyone come here for my sake?" Qin Hai made a gesture of reaching out to wipe his sweat, pretending said embarrassingly.

Having said that, Qin Hai knew in his heart that Ji Mingchu's judgment was correct. After all, this center is only a public institution under the Ministry of Information Industry. There are thousands of units of this level in the capital, and there is no such unit. In the final analysis, it was because Qin Hai's appeal was strong enough that so many people came to support the celebration.

Qin Hai only holds the title of a director in the Material Promotion Center, but everyone knows that he has the greatest voice in the center. It can even be said that the center was established for him, and Yang Xinyu and Li Linguang are just guarding for him. It's just people at the stall.

Since the development of Daqin Group, its asset scale has reached hundreds of billions, and it has been involved in almost all material fields, especially in the two largest fields of steel and chemical industry, which can be said to be pivotal. Just having money is not enough to command the world. The most important thing is the unrivaled dominance of the Daqin Group in material research.

Someone has made a rough statistic, one quarter of the most influential materials experts in the country are in the Ann River School of Materials, one quarter have worked in the Ann River School of Materials, and one quarter have more or less obtained Over the funding of the Daqin Group. Those who really have nothing to do with the Daqin Group may not even be able to find a quarter, and they are often biased towards certain unpopular fields.

Materials are the foundation of industry, and they are also the most accumulative part of the entire industrial system. Over the years, Qin Hai has led Daqin Group to focus on the field of materials and achieve brilliant results. But he knows that it is impossible to support the material industry of the whole country by relying on only one enterprise, and the development of the industry requires countless enterprises to work together. In years of practice, he has also personally felt the negative effects of various disorderly competitions, so he urged the establishment of such a coordinating body.

Qin Hai's idea has been endorsed by many insightful people from the central ministries and commissions to grassroots enterprises, especially some influential old leaders, famous experts and professors, etc., who have continuously responded in various meetings, and finally Only then has the establishment of the material industry promotion center. It is a well-known fact that Ji Mingchu said that everyone was focusing on Qin Hai's face.

Yang Xinyu also agreed with this, he smiled and echoed Ji Mingchu's words: "Ji Lao is right, our center can be established mainly because of Xiao Qin's credit, and Professor Li and I are also aimed at you. Take this burden."

"Director Yang put me on the fire by saying that. Xiao Qin, I am really ashamed. You are all my seniors, and I am just a junior. What virtue and ability do I have to let you help me like this? .” Qin Hai smiled and thanked everyone one by one.

After joking, Wang Hongsheng coughed lightly and said, "Xiao Qin, the center has been established now, and you are the initiator of the center. Take this time to tell us about your next plan."

"That's exactly what I mean." Qin Hai said seriously.

"Well, let's listen together and help you check it out." Ji Mingchu said bluntly, and then changed a more comfortable position on the sofa, as if he was going to listen to Qin Hai's long speech.

Qin Hai said:

"The purpose of establishing the Material Industry Promotion Center has also been elaborated in various previous reports. Director Yang and Professor Li participated in the drafting of these reports. Mr. Ji and Director Wang have helped us point out the problems. I I won't repeat it here.

The development of my country's material industry has entered a fast lane. The material scientific research system is relatively complete, the talent accumulation is sufficient, and the scientific research results have been multiplied. After decades of development, the material industry has formed a huge system with relatively complete categories. The research and development and production of material equipment also have a good foundation, which can support the needs of faster development of the material industry in the future.

At present, the main problem we are facing is that there are still some gaps in the field of high-end materials, and there is still a gap with the advanced level of foreign countries; the structure of mid-end materials is not reasonable enough, and the production capacity of some materials is insufficient, which requires a large amount of imports; while the production capacity of low-end materials is excessive, and many lag behind. The equipment needs to be eliminated urgently. To sum it up in one sentence, the material industry needs to be upgraded. "

"That's right." Yang Xinyu nodded in praise, "In the 1980s and 1990s, the main problem we faced was insufficient supply, so all walks of life focused their energy on increasing supply, forming a large amount of backward production capacity. There is a lack of mid-to-high-end scientific research and accumulation. Now that the supply problem has been alleviated, it is time to adjust the structure and realize industrial upgrading.”

Qin Haidao: "The situation that Director Yang said, I was particularly impressed when I participated in the action to control the small steel two years ago. Those small steel that were strictly ordered to be banned by the Economic and Trade Commission were exactly the ones that were vigorously banned by us more than ten years ago. Supported projects. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, this kind of small steel was a treasure everywhere."

"That's right, there was a boy who went to the engineering college, took a pot of white wine with three non-products, and tricked me into being a technical guide for his small steel factory..." Li Linguang answered with a smile.

"Uh..." Qin Hai scratched his scalp, speechless. Isn't the boy Li Linguang was talking about just Qin Hai? They have established a cooperative relationship since then, and it has been almost 20 years.

Ji Mingchu said: "At this time and at that time, there are reasons for doing this at that time. We cannot deny the expedient measures of those years just because our economic conditions have improved today and our technological level has improved. Just like we talk about the mechanization of the army today, Informatization does not mean denying the millet plus rifles back then, it’s all limited by the conditions.”

"Elder Ji is right. It was necessary to do that back then. But now the situation has changed, and it's time for an upgrade. You must not be lenient. Xiao Qin, go ahead and talk about your thoughts." Wang Hongsheng said.

"Okay." Qin Hai nodded and continued: "As we said just now, the material industry structure we formed in the past was an expedient measure under the conditions of material shortage and low production capacity. Now we have With a fairly strong industrial foundation, we should have more foresight in future development, plan ahead, aim at the industrial development trend of the next 20 or even 50 years, and choose a sustainable development path. Don’t let Our descendants will pay the price for our biases today."

"That's a good idea." Wang Hongsheng said, "We were poor in the past, and we could only make up and make do. Now that we have a little money, we should plan carefully and stop engaging in such short-term behaviors."

"Therefore, I think the most important task of our material industry promotion center at present is to formulate a material industry development outline for 2050, which serves as a blueprint for national material research and material industry development. , industry norms and other aspects should be based on this." Qin Hai said impassionedly.