Material Empire

Bernice's prophecy came true.

In the second year after the Yiping incident, Daqin Group’s two million-ton RX units located in Yiping and Chiyuan were successfully tested at the same time, reaching the designed capacity requirements that year. Two years later, the four million-ton RX units under the command of two large state-owned enterprises, CNPC and Sinopec, were put into production successively. Coupled with the completion of some smaller-scale RX projects, China has basically achieved self-sufficiency in RX products. Germany's Warren Group and Japan's Shinzuka Chemicals, which almost occupy a monopoly position in the Chinese market, had to leave the market sadly.

While regaining the RX product market, Chinese material companies have not ignored competition in other markets. In the spring of 2005, the National Materials Industry Promotion Center proposed a grand development plan called "China Materials 2025", which proposed to complete the localization of all the main materials required by the national economy within 20 years, and to obtain international leading position.

Qin Hai and Song Hongxuan led Daqin Group to put all their efforts into this battle for the peak of the international material industry. Profits, countless new material achievements have sprung up like mushrooms, making international counterparts feel dizzy. The integrated system of production, education and research has greatly increased the speed of new technology transfer from the laboratory to the factory. Often, just after a high-level academic paper is published, the industrial production of the corresponding product has already started.

After realizing the breakthrough of superconducting materials in the dry ice temperature region, Ning Jing's team made persistent efforts and raised the critical temperature of superconducting to above zero degrees Celsius, basically removing the obstacles to the application of superconducting. The national transmission network built with superconducting materials can send cheap hydropower and wind power from the west to the east with almost no loss; the maglev railway based on superconducting technology has formed a pattern of several vertical and horizontal lines, which is changing China's transportation As for the superconducting electromagnetic catapult technology, it has long been a reality and is being equipped on China's large nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

Qin Shan has become a well-known chemical process expert in the country. She presided over the design of a series of major chemical equipment such as a 10-million-ton oil refining unit, a million-ton large-scale ethylene complete set, a million-ton PTA plant, and a large-scale coal chemical plant. Industrial development provides a solid guarantee.

The teams of Xia Yangjie and Yu Lihong started carbon fiber research as early as the mid-1990s. After years of hard work, Jintang Chemical’s carbon fiber technology has finally rushed to the forefront of the world. The carbon fiber products produced are both tensile strength and tensile strength. The tensile modulus is no less than the level of foreign counterparts, and the price has a special advantage. A large number of carbon fiber products are used in national defense, industry and all aspects of daily life. The shadow of carbon fiber can be seen everywhere in large aircraft, automobiles, sports equipment and so on.

Zhang Yating's laboratory has broken a new path in the application of sensitive materials. A wide range of heat-sensitive materials, photosensitive materials, and gas-sensitive materials have been widely used in various sensors, making various industrial equipment with tactile, visual, sense of smell. The anti-leakage alarm made of combustible gas gas-sensitive ceramics can issue an alarm at the moment of gas leakage to avoid losses; the oxygen-sensitive sensor made of zirconia as the main component can identify the concentration of oxygen in the car engine, thereby To achieve the optimal adjustment of air supply.

Following the supercapacitor, the School of Materials has launched another new energy material-complex hydrogen storage material. This material can absorb a large amount of hydrogen, and has met the requirements of commercialization in terms of hydrogen storage density, charge-discharge reversibility, charge-discharge rate, and cycle life. The automobile department of Daqin Group quickly applied this technology to the development of new energy vehicles. The exhaust gas emitted by the produced hydrogen fuel vehicles is only water vapor when driving. The automobile exhaust pollution problem that plagued major cities has since become history.

These are just a few examples. Daqin Group has launched a full-line attack in the material industry, and its product line covers various fields such as metals, polymers, inorganic materials and functional materials. In terms of glass materials, there are new products such as glass ceramics, optical functional glass, electromagnetic functional glass, and glass fiber; in terms of ceramic materials, there are capacitor ceramics, piezoelectric ceramics, magnetic ceramics, optical ceramics, conductive ceramics, semiconductor ceramics, etc.; In terms of steel materials, there are thick plates for ships, thin plates for vehicles, low-temperature steels, heat-resistant steels, ultra-high-strength steels, etc.; as for functional materials, there are countless, such as electrical functional materials, sensitive materials, superconducting materials, magnetic function materials, etc. Materials, new energy materials, smart materials, chemical functional materials, biomedical functional materials, optical functional materials, etc., almost each of which can independently support a super-large enterprise.

The rise of Daqin Group is like a myth from the East, which shocked the global material industry. All international materials giants know that China's Daqin Group is a company with strong strength and firm will, but no one can stop it from entering any field it wants to enter. Once it starts to exert its strength, the best choice for competitors is to stay away, otherwise they will inevitably fall into disastrous defeat and cannot extricate themselves.

The business scale of the group has become larger and larger, and has gradually been separated into several business modules. Each module has at least hundreds of billions of yuan in assets and an output value of the same scale. Song Hongxuan, Ning Mo, Tian Ruzhi, Wang Xiaochen and others respectively acted as the heads of each business module and became the hottest and well-known entrepreneurs in China. Overseas, Chen Hongcheng and Wang Zheyi are in charge of the development of the two major markets of Europe and America, advancing and retreating freely in various invisible swords and swords. In addition, there are several other teams cultivating emerging markets in Asia, Africa and other places, expanding the hinterland of the Group's business.

Qin Hai is still in front of his hands-off shopkeeper. As the group's business matures, he spends less time on management. Most of the time he either spends time doing scientific research with experts and scholars in the School of Materials, or just travels in the clouds. In all directions, drink tea and chat with old and new friends from all walks of life. The doors of various core functional departments of the country and key top-secret scientific research institutes of the military are all open to Qin Hai, and Qin Hai is welcome to visit and guide him at any time.

Time flies, and it is another ten years in a flash.

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In 2015, a summer afternoon.

Qin Hai and Tranquility held hands and walked slowly on the streets of Pingyuan County. The streets are spacious and tidy, and the green trees on both sides are covered with pavilions, blocking the scorching sun. Most of the passers-by walked in a hurry, and in the loudspeaker of some store, Brother Chopsticks was shouting hoarsely:

"You are my little apple,

I can't love you too much,

The red face warms my heart,

Light up the fire of my life, fire fire fire..."

Maybe it was because the singing was so magical, Qin Hai and Tranquility stopped at the same time, looked around, their eyes were full of joy.

"Qin Hai, do you still remember what Pingyuan County looked like back then? Why can't I seem to remember?" Tranquility said softly.

Qin Hai pointed with his finger and said, "Let me think about it... Well, there is the old post office over there, and there is a farmer's market a little further there, by the way, there is also a Xinxin store over there, which specializes in Hong Kong products ,do you remember?"

"Of course I remember." Tranquility recalled with a bit of yearning, "That time you brought me and Shan'er together, and sister Xiaochen, you bought us each a scarf."

"Is there such a thing?" Qin Hai forgot about it. He scratched his head and said with a smile, "Could it be that I had the talent to pick up girls at that time."

Although they are already old couples, Tranquility was still a bit shy when talking about the events of Girls' Generation. She punched Qin Hai reproachfully, and said, "What are you talking about, you didn't think about it at all, okay? All I can think about is making money with my brother."

Qin Hai quickly echoed with a smile: "Hey, yes, my only idea at that time was to become a household of ten thousand yuan as soon as possible, then a household of one hundred thousand yuan, and then a household of one million yuan. How did you decide..."

"You're already a trillion yuan household, aren't you satisfied?" Tranquility teased, then she thought of herself again, and said, "At that time, I was really innocent, just thinking about being able to go to college It's not bad, who would have thought..."

Qin Hai took her words and said: "Who would have thought that our Professor Ning has been nominated for the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, and according to people familiar with the situation, no one has the strength to challenge your position, so This honor is basically in the pocket of Professor Ning."

"It's like a dream." Tranquility said with emotion, "I remember when I was just a graduate student, you told me about the direction of iron-based superconductivity and that you could win a Nobel Prize for it. I didn't believe it at the time. Yes. Now that the dream is about to become a reality, I suddenly feel normal again, as if there is no special excitement."

Qin Haidao: "It's not surprising. Back then our country was poor and our technology was backward. The Nobel Prize was out of reach for us. At that time, everyone imagined that if the Chinese could win a Nobel Prize , what an honor, we need to use this honor to inspire the confidence of the people of our country. Today, our economy and technology have already ranked among the top in the world. It is only a matter of time for us to win the Nobel Prize. There are no special obstacles. By this time, everyone will be indifferent to the Nobel Prize."

Tranquility nodded and said, "Yes, it's true when you think about it. Qin Hai, how do you say all these changes happened? We are in it, and we seem to have come to where we are today without knowing it."

Qin Hai smiled, raised his eyes to look ahead, and said slowly:

"Do you really want to know the reason for all this? Well, at least in my memory, this incident started 30 years ago, and the story started with an unquenched shovel..."

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