The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

"Director, I have something I want to discuss with you."

At the end of the party, when Liu Tao was about to leave, Zhao Guoping's voice reached Liu Tao's ears.

Liu Tao was a little confused, "Comrade Zhao Guoping, what's the matter?"

"The province is organizing fund-raising to help with disaster relief in the north, and is calling on all units across the province to show their love. I want to organize labor unions, party committees, etc. to raise funds in various factories," Zhao Guoping said.

Liu Tao nodded slightly, "No problem, it's up to you to organize this matter. All donations raised will be used for disaster relief in the north."

In the past, Yun Province would have been unable to do anything, because Yun Province was originally a poor and remote place, and it had to take money from the state every year to maintain it, but it is different now. Now Yun Province is one of the few provinces in the country that is in good condition, and its development rate is Very fast.

Yun Province will naturally contribute to the disaster relief in the north.

Beginning in 1978, severe drought began in Northern China.

In 1978, a large-scale drought occurred across the country, with 603 million acres affected and 269 million acres damaged. The drought in the autumn and winter of 1979 was even more extensive.

In the summer of 1980, severe drought occurred in North China, most of Northeast China and parts of Northwest China. 392 million acres were affected nationwide and 187 million acres were damaged.

In the spring of 1981, rainfall in the northern winter wheat region was 50-70% less, and the number of people suffering from water shortages reached 22.97 million. In autumn, rainfall was 40-90% less. 385 million acres were affected by drought nationwide, and 182 million acres were affected by disasters.

Just this year, 311 million acres of the country were affected by drought, and 150 million acres were affected by disasters!

It can be said that the continuous severe droughts in recent years have left the country in a state of flux.

Since 1980, Panshan Machinery Factory has imported grain from Nanyang, except for part of it for its own use, and has been transferred to the north for disaster relief by the country. In recent years, the country's food imports from Southeast Asia have been increasing year by year because of continuous drought.

This year, a considerable part of the transactions with Brazil and Peru were paid in corn and rice.

In terms of drought, the four southwest provinces appear to be immune, especially Yun Province. The establishment of reservoirs and hydropower stations has greatly improved its ability to withstand droughts.

Liu Tao had no objection to Zhao Guoping's proposal to conduct a factory-wide fundraiser.

What China has always emphasized is that ‘when one party is in trouble, all parties will support it’!

It is precisely because of this unity that China has weathered disaster after disaster and its civilization has been continued.

On National Day, Liu Tao postponed his return to Beijing.

Early in the morning, Liu Tao came to the broadcast room and delivered a speech to all employees through the radio, calling on everyone to donate money and materials.

Liu Tao took the lead in donating 100,000 yuan.

Afterwards, the matter was handed over to Zhao Guoping, and Liu Tao took Liu Honglei and his family on their way back to Beijing.

The National Day atmosphere in Beijing is even stronger, and I could already feel it as soon as I got off the plane.

The closer you get to the city, the more intense the National Day atmosphere becomes.

Liu Tao's return home filled the whole family with a sense of joy.

After taking a short rest, Liu Tao held his daughter and walked with Zhu Lin.

After five months of pregnancy, Zhu Lin's belly was already very obvious, but obviously the third child made Zhu Lin look very relaxed.

"Fortunately, I decided to have this child before, otherwise I wouldn't have a chance to have another child in the future." Zhu Lin said happily.

She also heard about family planning.

Because publicity in this area is being intensified, and this is the capital, any policies are often the fastest to spread.

Liu Tao smiled and said: "I am satisfied with three children. I won't want any more in the future."

"I don't want it anymore. With three children in four years, I will become a sow." Zhu Lin also said.

Liu Tao laughed, "If you become a sow, you will also be the most beautiful sow in the world."

"Fuck you, you are a pig." Zhu Lin rolled his eyes at Liu Tao.

Wandered around the garden and then went out.

Shichahai, today happens to be the National Day holiday. There are three days of National Day holiday, so there are a lot of people in Shichahai.

Naturally, it is impossible for college students to go home during the three-day holiday, because they may just take a train and three days will pass before they get home.

Therefore, college students in this era only go home during summer vacation and winter vacation, and stay at school elsewhere.

There are many college students here in Shichahai, which makes it very lively.

These college students organized activities spontaneously and formed circles. For example, there were some who sang songs, some who sang red songs, and of course some who recited poems.

Even if they are lovers, college students in this era are reserved, and their love affairs are secretive, for fear of being known, because if the school finds out that it is serious, they will be expelled from the school. Even if it is just a warning, it will also affect the distribution of work.

After all, although college students are assigned assignments, it makes a huge difference whether the assigned work is a good job or a bad job.

Because of this, you can't see boys and girls holding hands, and there is probably one person standing between the two closest to each other.

"After the reform and opening up, social changes have become faster and faster, and there are more and more people, making it more lively." Zhu Lin looked at a person selling clothes and couldn't help but sigh. This kind of thing would never have appeared two or three years ago. Shichahai.

But now there are more and more vendors, and these vendors are doing a variety of businesses.

This kind of subtle change in society may not be felt in a day or two, but in a year, this perception will be very obvious.

Liu Tao took a look, and there were even jeans. He knew without thinking that they must be from Guangdong Province.

Social changes are always reflected in all aspects, such as food, clothing, and transportation!

Liu Tao even saw the motorcycles produced by Huaxia Motorcycle Group.

So far, 40,000 motorcycles produced by them have been sold nationwide, and the factory price of each motorcycle is 2,000 to 8,000 yuan. The domestic market revenue of Huaxia Motorcycle Group exceeds 200 million yuan, and in terms of exports, a total of more than 10,000 motorcycles have been exported.

Liu Tao said: "The changes will be faster and faster in the future, and everyone's life will definitely get better and better. Maybe in less than 40 years, every household in China will have a car."

"What nonsense, how is it possible? Cars are so expensive, how can we afford them? It's good if 10,000 households have one car. In that case, we will be considered a developed country." Zhu Lin rolled his eyes at Liu Tao.

In this era, cars are ridiculously expensive. For example, the 212 jeep produced by Beijing Automobile Factory costs at least 20,000 yuan, and often requires industrial tickets.

In this era, China's automobile industry is very backward. Brazil's annual automobile production has reached 1.21 million vehicles, but China's automobile production is only 196,000 vehicles. You can imagine how backward China's automobile industry is now.

Even the Huaxia Automobile Group established by Liu Tao is now in the stage of building an industrial chain, training workers and cultivating other supporting factories.

Even if he has a full set of technologies, he can't build as many cars as he wants.

Because the supporting factories can't keep up.

Civilian products like cars are not like tanks and armored vehicles. Annual production of thousands of vehicles is considered a super factory. Cars can easily produce tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 vehicles a year, and there are higher requirements for the production and quality of supporting factories.

Even the number of workers required must exceed that of tank manufacturers.