Spark

The next day, Chen Nian attended the regular work meeting of the Spark team on time.

At the meeting, representatives of each project reported the latest progress of the projects, most of which were in stable operation, and made it clear that no new technical support was needed for the time being.

Of course, it's not because they don't want it, but because they really can't afford it.

The progress of the project has its upper limit. Most of the projects currently in progress have reached the upper limit. Blindly feeding technology will only bring about the opposite effect. This point, the front-line personnel in the project know no matter how but.

Therefore, even if Chen Nian really hopes that a major project like Deep Blue 16 can make a breakthrough quickly, he must still respect the opinions of the frontline personnel and give them more time.

". On the whole, the problems we are currently facing are still mainly the problems of insufficient resources and insufficient foundation."

"After the high-speed rail project brought us a lot of budget and resources, due to the recent acceleration of project progress and the expansion of the project scale, the available resources of our Xinghuo team have once again reached the warning line."

"Following up, we asked each project team to re-report resource usage and next year's budget so that we can make more detailed planning."

"In addition, part of the budget for the island building project will also come from us—don't look at me with that kind of look, this is not a job I took the initiative to do, because there is really no money up there."

"We are the fattest sheep now, and we can squeeze a little bit."

"Of course, we have also won our due interests."

"In the follow-up, after the start of the island resource development process, the Xinghuo team will give priority to enjoying the benefits brought about by it, such as oil and gas, wind power, tourism, and invisible benefits brought about by military advantages."

"These things will be converted into budget and allocated to us. But the time may be a bit long."

Hearing Chen Guo's speech, everyone in the conference room rolled their eyes.

There is no other reason, this pie is too far away!

Now that the island building has just started, you come to talk to me about the development of oil and gas resources?

Can't wait twenty years?

Sure enough, even at the national level, you can't get rid of the law of eating big households.

However, joking aside, when the entire Spark project team was in the most difficult time, it was true that the superiors did not hesitate to suspend many other key projects to provide funds for the Spark team.

Now, the team has ample budget, and it is understandable to take some back and use it in the most urgent places.

If you are really short of money, just think of a way to get money.

In the conference room, someone asked:

"So what is our current overall plan? Do we keep the project in hand unchanged for the time being? Or do we seek breakthroughs like the last high-speed rail project?"

"The current high-speed rail project is progressing very well, and the first test run is about to start. This is a successful practice. Can we apply it?"

Hearing this question, Chen Guo shifted her gaze to the representative of the high-speed rail project, Zhang Shuguang.

Zhang Shuguang coughed and answered:

"In my personal opinion, the idea of ​​the high-speed rail project can be replicated."

"Let me sum it up. From the entire high-speed rail project, we not only saved a lot of originally planned procurement costs, technology research and development and application costs, but more importantly, according to our current plan, we will soon be able to focus on customers in this field. gone."

"After the first high-speed railway line is completed and opened to traffic, we will quickly carry out technical precipitation and summary, and promote it to the whole country."

"And at the same time, we will also start to consider technology export."

"Currently, we are already in contact with countries such as India and South Africa, and have reached preliminary intentions."

"If all goes well, we are likely to be able to replace several traditional large factories and become the supplier of the other side's high-speed rail project."

"This will bring us a lot of benefits and feed back domestic development."

Hearing his words, everyone present nodded.

This is indeed an excellent path.

With the technical assistance of the Xinghuo Group, first break the monopoly of foreign capital and form its own technology, and then export the technology to the outside world, and feed back the process of technology application through the export revenue.

It can be said that this path is mature and stable, no matter which field it is applied in, it can achieve good results.

So, everyone expressed their opinions one after another.

"This idea is okay, I think we can replicate it in other fields."

"I agree, the route of the Sky Whale is basically similar to the route of the high-speed rail, and we have also begun to contact some European countries."

"The idea is good, but the question is, what field do we choose?"

"It must be for civilian use, and the export of military industry is too difficult and too sensitive"

Listening to everyone's discussion, Chen Nian took a deep breath and said:

"How about the shield machine?"

His words sounded, and everyone subconsciously fell silent.

He looked around for a week and continued:

"At present, our disadvantage in the field of shield machines is obvious."

"Our demand for shield machines is increasing year by year, but the localization rate has always stagnated."

"According to the latest data, among the 603 recorded shield machines in use in my country, domestic brands account for only 12%, which is far lower than the localization rate of other industries."

"The interests are divided by foreign capital, and we have to invest a lot of foreign exchange resources every year to meet our own needs."

"If we can achieve localization in a short period of time, then this sum of money can also be saved."

"According to the preliminary estimates of relevant experts, this figure is about 40 billion yuan per year."

"So, I suggest that at this stage, we should first engage in shield machines."

After speaking, Chen Nian sat back in his seat and waited for everyone's answer.

And the discussion sounded again.

"The shield machine is a good idea. The prospect of this kind of large and heavy machinery is very clear, and we are indeed facing a rather embarrassing situation."

"Yes, but is it enough to engage in shield machines?"

"Not enough. In terms of construction machinery, we are weak as a whole."

"In addition to the shield machine, there are problems with bridge erecting machines, heavy excavators, large road cranes, high-power bulldozers, road rollers, and various flat cars and trucks."

"Everything is wrong? Why?"

"There is no reason. At present, the self-production rate of our construction machinery is not even 5%. The market is basically monopolized by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Komatsu, Volvo, and Caterpillar."

"We also tried to break the monopoly before, but only XCMG has made progress. Other domestic companies are still stagnant."

"That means doing all of them? Will the stalls be too big?"

"There is not much difference in the core technology, mainly in the three parts of diesel engine, electric motor and hydraulic pressure. If these problems are solved, most of the problems will be solved."

"Not only that, how to solve the thyristor problem in the integrated power system? Laomei will give it to us?"

"Then add one more."

Listening to everyone's discussion, Chen Nian frowned gradually.

The stall is a bit big.

It never occurred to him before that the equipment gap in domestic infrastructure is not only reflected in the big killer such as the shield machine, but even the excavator, which he thinks is the most basic, has such a big problem!

In the past, I heard advertisements every day saying "Which excavator technology is better?" Over time, I really formed a misunderstanding, thinking that Lanxiang really has the strongest excavator technology.

But if you think about it carefully, even if someone is strong, the one who is strong is excavator operation, not excavator manufacturing!

Obviously, the country is still in an early stage of being able to use it or not making it

Really have to fix this problem.

Thinking of this, he said:

"If we decide to start with construction machinery, we must delineate several key equipment, and drive the development of the entire industry through the development of key equipment. Do you have any suggestions for this?"

The meeting room was quiet for a while, and then someone raised his hand and said:

"The shield machine must be built, there is no doubt about it."

"Secondly, I think that excavators and large-scale road cranes should also be made. These two pieces of equipment are the most urgent problems that need to be solved at present."

Chen Nian nodded and asked:

"Is there any more?"

"Bridge erecting machine, gantry crane!"

"Okay, is there any more?"

"Others, if technology compatibility and sharing are considered, there will be no one for the time being, right? Anyone else have anything to add?"

Everyone shook their heads. Chen Nian recorded the nouns of these equipment in his notebook, and at the same time secretly designed the entries in the system, and began to check the source points needed to analyze all the equipment.

Roughly estimated, these equipments will consume at least 19 of his source points, even the source points he has now are not enough!

——

However, this is a prediction made on the premise of analyzing it in the most stupid and arbitrary way.

In fact, if key technologies can be sorted out and duplicate technologies removed, source consumption should be greatly reduced.

16 source points are definitely enough.

After it's done, there's not much left.

Chen Nian breathed a sigh of relief, and then said:

"Then let's set our direction like this for the time being."

"Follow-up, I will call relevant staff to start the project."

"Technical issues, you don't have to worry too much."

"There is only one question we need to consider: how to implement this project into practice"

After the meeting, Chen Nian came to Chen Guo's office as usual to discuss the details of the project with him.

As soon as she entered the office, Chen Guo immediately found out the report, and said with ease:

"Here's a list of all the resources we can call upon right now."

"Among them, it includes alternative project participating units, technical basis, main staffing, and previous equipment research and development experience reports."

"So it's sorted out soon?"

Chen Nian asked in surprise.

"It's nothing. The Xinghuo team has very high authority now, and many things are prepared. They were also used by the expert team in the early research."

"When we were discussing just now, I asked someone to sort it out, knowing that you want to use it."

Hearing this, Chen Nian nodded slightly, calmed down, and began to read the report Chen Guo gave him.

In fact, the content of the report has been greatly simplified, and there are not many things he really needs to read.

In just half an hour, he already had a preliminary understanding of the current situation.

"So, at present, the most powerful construction machinery manufacturing company in China is Xugong Group?"

Chen Guo nodded and replied:

"Yes. Sany is also very strong, but Sany mainly focuses on super-large equipment."

"In the case of Tiejian, it is mainly up to them to build the shield machine, but there is no way to provoke the overall situation."

"My suggestion is that if this project is going to be done, it should be based on XCMG, assisted by Sany, and China Railway Construction will be responsible for the subdivision of special projects."

"I think so too."

Chen Nian said in agreement.

But at this moment, he suddenly noticed that Chen Guo's expression seemed to be a little hesitant.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

Chen Guo frowned and thought for a moment, then answered:

"There is a problem."

"It suddenly occurred to me that if we want to do this project, we may not only face technical problems."

"Not just technology? Resources? Funding? Talent? What else?"

Chen Nian asked suspiciously.

"Neither, it's inertia."

"inertia?"

"The inertia of dependence on imported products."

Chen Guo said seriously.

"You know, civilian products are not the same as military products."

"The fighter jets, missiles, and large ships we have developed before can be used as long as they are built, and they will definitely generate corresponding benefits. Therefore, this also determines that we have no worries during the entire R\u0026D and production process."

"But civilian products are different. For civilian products, we must consider its market economic effects."

"In a word, this thing must be able to sell."

"But now, the problem we are facing is that various sectors of our economy are overly dependent on imports."

"This dependence has even formed an inherent mindset."

"Many of our departments are now not used by non-imports, because for them, the use of imported products has the least risk and the lowest training cost."

"I have inspected many large factories before, and there is a typical phenomenon: they will complete the procurement tasks that are forced by the superiors."

"However, they will not really use the domestically produced equipment they purchased, but will just throw it aside and let it eat ashes and be scrapped."

"This situation is helpless and sad."

"But if we want to engage in civilian use, this problem is something we have to face and solve."

Hearing this, Chen Nian finally understood what was the "inertia" that Chen Guo mentioned.

In the final analysis, this is still a kind of lack of confidence in domestic brands.

Of course, this can't be blamed on the user's head. In the past few years, domestic brands were too disappointing.

Not to mention the far ones, not to mention the small ones, how many years has the domestic semiconductor chip industry been stagnant for just one Hanxin incident?

Distrust is right, after all, no one will really pay for feelings.

However, compared to Chen Guo, Chen Nian was not too worried about this issue.

After thinking for a moment, he opened his mouth and replied:

"This problem, I will find a way to solve it."

"You come to think of a way? Is there any good way?"

Chen Nian shook his head.

"There is no good way, only stupid way."

"Using strength to break cleverness, isn't it all right?"

"They are unwilling to use products of the same performance and at the same time, so what if our products are more advanced than imported products?"

"Let's see... leading a generation may not be enough."

"Let's set a small goal first, so that domestic products will be ahead of similar imported products. Well, maybe 10 years."