The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

In addition to the resettlement of workers in the third-line factories, Zhao Guoping focused on Shancheng.

Shancheng is an important town in the southwest, and its geographical location is undoubtedly important.

In 1964, the Beibu Gulf incident broke out and the construction of the third line began. Shancheng was identified as the core city of the third-line construction.

From 1964 to April 1968, more than 270,000 third-line workers moved from Shanghai, Jiangsu Province, Northeast China and other places, accounting for more than a quarter of the employees in Shancheng's enterprises at that time.

In 1965 and 1979, the Chongqing-Guizhou Railway and the Xiang-Yu Railway, key railway projects of the third-line construction, were opened to traffic one after another. In 1975, the total number of migrant workers who moved from the third-line construction in the main urban area of ​​Shancheng was 43.5, accounting for nearly half of the total population of Shancheng.

It can be said that most of the entire Shancheng are migrant populations because of the third-line construction.

In 1983, eight counties in Yongchuan were incorporated into Shancheng, and Shancheng became the first planned city in China to enjoy provincial economic management authority.

On New Year's Day, the higher authorities approved Shancheng to administer Wanxian, Fuling, and Qianjiang areas.

Liu Tao knew that Shancheng would not be used and would become the fourth municipality directly under the central government in China.

At present, there are three municipalities directly under the central government in China, namely Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin!

There are many factors for Shancheng to become a municipality directly under the central government.

First, it is to give full play to the locational advantages of Shancheng, radiate to the southwest, and drive the development of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Shancheng's regional location has obvious locational advantages and economic and political advantages, and its economic scale is at the forefront. After being directly under the central government, it can radiate the development of the regional economy.

Secondly, it is conducive to solving the difficulties brought to administrative management and development by the excessive population and administrative divisions in Sichuan and Shu. Sichuan and Shu provinces are too large in area and population, with a population of more than 100 million. To a certain extent, the jurisdiction is not very in place. The reasonable planning and jurisdiction of the city directly affect the development of the city.

In addition, Shancheng is not the capital city of Sichuan and Shu, but the comprehensive strength of the city and population scale and economic scale is at the forefront. Directly administering Shancheng will not affect the responsibilities of Rongcheng as the capital city of the province.

Panshan Group's construction in the southwest is also mainly in Yunnan Province, Shancheng, and Chengdu City!

In contrast, there are much fewer in Guangxi Province and Guizhou Province.

This is especially true for the Southwest Ordnance Industry Group Corporation. It has been decided from the perspective of positioning that the southwest, the hinterland of China and the safest region in the country, will be used as a military production base to ensure national defense security.

Except for the Yangcheng Shipyard, which manufactures warships and ships, all military factories of the Southwest Ordnance Industry Group are located in the southwest.

In the civilian field, Liu Tao is concerned about Jinlong Computer Group, Huaxia Automobile Group, Huaxia Motorcycle Group, Huaxia Semiconductor Group, Huaxia Gree Home Appliances Group, etc., because these are all flagship products, and the market is also very huge, and they are responsible for competing in the international market and making huge profits.

"We plan to invest in Baodao UMC, but we have encountered great resistance. Baodao would rather let UMC go bankrupt than accept our investment." Zhang Rujing frowned when he said this.

Since it was separated from the Formosa Industrial Technology Research Institute in 1980, UMC has become a self-financing business entity and the only semiconductor company in Formosa with a wafer fab.

If Huaxia Semiconductor Group can successfully acquire a stake in UMC, it means that it can almost completely control the entire upstream of the semiconductor industry in Formosa.

The wafer industry is an industry with extremely rapid updates and extremely fierce competition. A wafer fab built with an investment of tens of millions of dollars will lose its technological competitiveness in just four or five years and needs to be updated. The investment in building a new generation of wafer fabs will become even higher. This cycle is like a bottomless pit, constantly devouring the profits of semiconductor companies.

Those companies that cannot keep up will soon be marginalized by the market and even go bankrupt and eliminated.

Huaxia Semiconductor Group has Liu Tao's golden finger and has always been at the forefront of the world in terms of technological updates and iterations.

Saving a lot of technology research and development funds makes Huaxia Semiconductor Group full of competitiveness. In just a few years, many companies have gone bankrupt and eliminated.

In the United States and Japan, a large amount of subsidies can be used to support it even if it loses money.

But it was different in Baodao. UMC's good days didn't last long, and then it became a tragedy. In the competition in the international market, it simply couldn't compete with Huaxia Semiconductor Group.

At this time, Huaxia Semiconductor Group had the opportunity to invest in Baodao UMC. Although UMC has always been engaged in low-end semiconductor business, Liu Tao valued the talents in this area of ​​Baodao and strengthened the connection between the two sides.

At this moment, when he heard Zhang Rujing say that there was great resistance to investing in UMC, even if he was prepared in his heart, Liu Tao still frowned slightly.

He didn't need to think too much, and he knew that there must be pressure from forces.

"I will go back to Beijing for this matter to see if I can find a solution." Liu Tao said: "You can't stop the pace of wafer factory construction, keep it up, and put great pressure on your peers. It's best to let them go bankrupt and eliminate them!"

The world is big, but the world is also small.

There is no need for so many semiconductor manufacturing companies. In Liu Tao's view, the most ideal state is to have Huaxia Semiconductor Group.

Anyway, there are enough Chinese people, and semiconductor manufacturing can fully meet the needs of the world, and the price will be much cheaper.

Liu Tao's strategy is very simple, that is, to continuously invest in wafer fabs, suppress the price of semiconductors at the same level, and then continuously update and iterate the technology on semiconductors, oppressing peers, so that peers need to continuously spend money on developing new technologies and compress profits. If they can't keep up, they will be marginalized and eliminated.

This strategy is very effective.

At least some companies have been eliminated.

In the end, all other companies are eliminated, and there is only Huaxia Semiconductor Group in the world, and the pricing power is in the hands of Huaxia Semiconductor Group.

Although this approach makes people hate it, it is a real conspiracy.

And it is also Liu Tao's promotion that Huaxia's electronics industry has developed extremely rapidly.

Other companies also have their own things to do, such as Huaxia Motorcycle Group and Huaxia Automobile Group, which are shouldering a lot of people, not only to open up the domestic market, but also to open up the international market.

Under the promotion of Panshan Group, cars have been opened to private individuals, and ordinary people can buy cars, but except for a few people who can afford cars, most people can't afford cars.

In the past year, Huaxia Automobile sold a total of 100,000 cars in China, of which high-end cars accounted for less than 1%, mid-range cars accounted for only 5%, and the rest were low-end cars.

Because even those who got rich first were not willing to buy high-end cars.

As for motorcycles, a total of 200,000 were sold in China in the past year, with prices ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 yuan.

And this sales volume is still because Panshan Group has been continuously promoting, continuously building sales channels, and increasing publicity. At the same time, it also promotes the purchase of motorcycles and cars without relying on motorcycle industrial tickets or automobile industrial tickets, just paying money.