Technological Hegemony

When the time came to December, Professor Ouyang, who represented the power of the country, and Ning Zeping, the chief engineer who represented the power system, visited together and were warmly received by Luo Jia.

They stood in Luo Jia's office, looking into the distance, and couldn't help but feel emotional.

The original Xingchen Technology headquarters only had four office and laboratory buildings, two dormitory buildings, and a strong electricity experiment center converted from a warehouse.

But since then, after three years of continuous expansion and construction, Star Technology's headquarters has become comparable to a small city, with about 40,000 employees working and living here.

The hardware department has thirty-two experimental buildings and an open large-area experimental center. The software department only has two buildings, A and B, because it does not require a huge experimental area.

In addition, the company's data center, located underground in the software department, is a data processing array consisting of 12,500 high-performance computers.

In the distance, there are Star Warship Community and Star University. The sky bridge and escalator connect the three areas. There are also shopping malls, schools, such living facilities, employees, employees’ families, and surrounding residents and service practitioners. personnel, a total of 150,000 people.

"There is not much land left for us in Baoshan District." Luo Jia said with a smile, "So the next step, we will go to Chongming for development, and the next step, we will cross the Yangtze River and set up a third base in Nantong."

"The third base will be different from here. R\u0026D and production are directly in the same area. At present, our subsidiary in Nantong is mainly Xingchen Chemical, but with the third Shanghai Airport and the new subway line in Nantong, We'll put more pieces in there."

Luo Jia talked about his future plans for the company. He has always had clear goals and outlined a huge development blueprint for the company.

Professor Ouyang and Chief Engineer Ning Zeping nodded again and again. In the overall planning of the Yangtze River Delta region, Shanghai has the big city of Hangzhou to the south, and it is even more powerful to the west. There are Suzhou, Wuxi, Nanjing, and Hefei, but the north is still Blank.

Nantong's current traffic situation is not very convenient, but its total GDP still ranks 16th in the country, which shows that its potential cannot be underestimated.

It is undoubtedly extremely smart and far-sighted for Xingchen Technology to choose to expand northward across the Yangtze River.

Professor Ouyang said with emotion: "You are the kind of person who never knows how to be satisfied. We are here to send you an invitation. At the beginning of the new year, there will be big moves."

"Dalian, Tianjin, Yantai, Qingdao, Nantong, Ningbo, Taizhou,

Xiamen, Shantou, Zhuhai, Beihai, Sanya, the first batch of 12 Karman vortex street power generation arrays, and the experimental array in Shanghai have also been transformed and will be officially connected to the grid for power generation. At that time, an unprecedented event will be held The unveiling ceremony, as the largest supplier and the inventor of the power generation array, you must send a representative to attend, preferably you can go in person. "

This is really good news, but Luo Jia did not show too much surprise, because the new energy infrastructure cannot be hidden from others.

Such a huge power generation array stands by the sea, and the media is tracking and reporting it every day. There have been rumors on the Internet that the time for new energy to be officially put into production is not far away. Luo Jia is mentally prepared for this.

"No problem." Luo Jia scratched his head and readily agreed, "It's not far anyway, and I'll take the whole company to watch the ceremony."

Professor Ning Zeping said excitedly, "History has finally come to this day. I really didn't expect that I could live to see the day when the energy security problem was completely solved."

"This year there will be thirteen seats, next year there will be one hundred and twenty-eight seats"

Speaking of this, Luo Jia grabbed Chief Engineer Ning and asked, "Wait, how many power generation arrays will you say will be put into production next year?"

"One hundred and twenty-eight seats!"

"How come there are so many?"

Professor Ouyang and Chief Engineer Ning laughed at the same time: "This is what you don't know. After the launch of the 12 installation ships this year, the national team ordered another 24, and then with the 2 trillion yuan fundraising in place, The third batch of orders has also been placed, and there are as many as forty-eight orders!"

"So by next year, the national team will have 84 installation ships working at the same time, which will be the most powerful marine engineering team in the world, and the construction period of the Karman vortex street power generation array is six months. Eighteen sets of power generation arrays are connected to the grid, and there is no problem at all."

Chief Engineer Ning said, "Yes, many foreign customers have approached us to build power generation arrays, but this kind of good thing is not available to them. First, we will fill up the coastal areas of our country, and then we will consider going to the sea. other nation-building issues."

"Not only electric power construction, engineering ships are also good at building bridges. The Bohai Bridge and the Qiongzhou Strait Bridge are being demonstrated. At that time, Dalian and Yantai, Zhanjiang and Hainan will all be connected by giant cross-sea bridges."

The national team deserves to be the true nature of an infrastructure madman, fast enough and ruthless enough.

But after Luo Jia finished listening, she showed a worried look.

"The national team's rapid construction of new energy facilities is worthy of celebration, but in this way, our pressure will be greater." Luo Jia muttered.

Professor Ouyang and chief engineer Ning Zeping were puzzled and asked Luo Jia why.

Luo Jia said, "The connection of so many power generation arrays to the grid means that the wave of layoffs will break out early, but our automobile war has just begun, and there is no way to provide enough jobs immediately."

Professor Ouyang said, "In fact, the national team has already considered this point. The problem now is not layoffs, but a comprehensive reduction of energy prices."

"At present, our industrial electricity price is too high, generally around one yuan, if it can be reduced to fifty cents, it will have a huge boost to the industrial sector, and our industrial products will have absolute dominance in the international market .”

"Increasing profits in the industrial sector will lead to expansion, and expansion requires recruitment, which will slowly digest the problem of laid-off workers."

Luo Jia nodded slightly. Of course he understands the principles of economics. Only with cheap electricity can there be a great development of the industrial sector, and the great development of the industrial sector can solve the problem of laid-off workers related to electricity. This is a series of chain reactions. I think To activate this chain reaction, the price of electricity must first be reduced.

Chief Engineer Ning said with concern: "We have to eat food one bite at a time. Recently, it has been widely rumored on the Internet that you are going to develop solid tires. Is it a bit too radical?"

He took out his mobile phone, opened each web page, and showed Luo Jia articles from foreign media.

The power of global auto giants cannot be underestimated. Overseas media are now praising Stellar Technology’s brave decision, saying that Stellar Tech’s solid tires will definitely change the world.

But their real purpose is not really for the good of Xingchen Technology, but to lure Luo Jia to board the ship by way of praise.

Assuming that Luo Jia really puts solid tires into mass production, the media will immediately turn around 180 degrees, expose the various shortcomings of solid tires, and severely hit Xingchen Technology.

There is a saying in the art of war, if you want to take it, you must first give it.

This is the tactic used by foreign auto giants to lure Luo Jia into the bait, and when he really starts to make solid tires, he will slander wildly.

The domestic media shouted loudly, hoping that Luo Jia would not be deceived by the enemy, and solid tires should not be used, otherwise he would fall into the enemy's trap.

Luo Jia glanced at it casually, and returned the phone to Chief Engineer Ning. The solid tires in the eyes of the media are not the same as the real products of Xingchen Technology, and there is no need to pay attention to them.

Seeing that Luo Jia had made up his mind, Professor Ouyang and Chief Engineer Ning couldn't say anything more. They left Shanghai and returned to the capital full of worries.

They agreed to see each other again on January 1st.

The experimental power generation array located near the Donghai Bridge is the smallest of the first batch of arrays, but it is the most significant. Therefore, the unveiling ceremony of this new energy action that will surely make the world crazy will be held in Shanghai. All.

After they left, Luo Jia pondered for a long time in the office, and finally he made a few phone calls and invited the bosses of the three major automobile groups to meet in Shanghai.

"Luo Jia seems a little bloated now, and he doesn't listen to our persuasion at all." Chief Engineer Ning said on the return train.

"Yes, maybe it's because they have developed so smoothly in the past few years." Professor Ouyang said looking out the window.