20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3814 Yu Yi's Translation

The initial accumulation of capital and technology is a very difficult and lengthy process. Just like why a price scissors gap was initially created between industrial and agricultural products, it was an unavoidable allocation design for the development of industry and technology.

While no economy wants to experience the growing pains of development, sometimes this is the only way to achieve economic, technological, and military advancement and strength.

This is why the slogan "self-reliance and hard work" was put forward in China at that time. Because, as a people who love peace and follow the principle of equality, there is no other shortcut to develop the economy and technology.

Hundreds of years ago, Europe developed by colonizing and plundering economic resources from all over the world. Even now, it still holds a large amount of oil, natural gas, and gold—these precious resources—which it takes from economically underdeveloped countries at rock-bottom prices and then sells at high prices for profit.

“I understand and agree with many of the rules and regulations you have proposed, and I believe you are capable of implementing them. However, I think the lifetime employment provision will not be easy.”

DeWeiner said with a skeptical tone, “This mobile phone factory isn’t like those high-value-added R&D companies where every employee is a professional elite from a world-renowned university, so their value and ability don’t decrease with age. Your company, on the other hand, is a labor-intensive enterprise that needs a large number of workers who don’t require high levels of education or technical skills. After they turn forty, their value will have decreased significantly, and most of them will no longer be suitable for this kind of high-intensity assembly line work. So, at that time, how can your company guarantee that your regulations won’t become just empty words?”

Regarding DeWeiner's question, not only the Ericsson team members who followed him looked at Zhao Chang'an, but also the members of the One Nano North American team, as well as the One Nano Zheng City personnel who accompanied him this time, all waited for Zhao Chang'an's answer with undisguised doubt.

"We had already given this issue a lot of thought before we decided to include frontline labor-intensive workers in mobile phone factories in this lifelong system."

Zhao Chang'an said to DeWeiner, "There are two solutions, and these two solutions need to be implemented simultaneously. The first is to provide employees with appropriate and systematic skills training from the moment they join the company. When they are still a machine worker on the assembly line—not a machine worker, but like Chaplin in Modern Times, who kept repeating the mechanical action of tightening screws on the assembly line.

Accompanying Ericsson's team this time was a female translator specially borrowed by Zhao Chang'an from the Comprehensive Service Center of Optics Valley Development Zone in Jiangcheng.

Zhao Chang'an was quite impressed with the female translator's simultaneous translation skills, but then she made a translation error, forcing Zhao Chang'an to stop and correct her.

"I understand what you mean, Mr. Zhao,"

Although the female translator remained calm, her slightly flushed face indicated that she was a little shy, and she quickly corrected her translation 'mistake'.

"Mr. Zhao, since you need someone to translate your words, shouldn't you pay attention to the proper use of language? When you say 'mechanical workers on an assembly line,' I picture a mechanic repairing a machine. If you said 'Welcome Mr. DeWeiner, a hundred years of cultivation brings us to share a boat ride, a thousand years of cultivation brings us to share a pillow,' wouldn't Yu Yi go crazy?"

Chu Guangying smiled and reminded Zhao Chang'an not only to blame the translator, but also to pay attention to her own word choice, so as not to make things difficult for the translator and cause translation problems. Her use of an idiom made many people unable to help but laugh, and Yu Yi couldn't help but burst out laughing, her pretty face turning red. As she looked around, she didn't dare to look at Zhao Chang'an's expression.

"What's so funny? I was just using an analogy."

Chu Guangying couldn't understand why everyone was laughing, especially Yu Yi, who burst out laughing.

But Zhao Chang'an knew that the reason she was smiling so lewdly was because the female translator must have thought about how difficult it would be for her to translate if he said those words out loud.

“A hundred years of cultivation to share a boat ride; a thousand years of cultivation to sleep side by side.”

This is a fairly straightforward translation. If translated into Chinese, it would roughly mean, "A hundred years of cultivation allows us to share a single boat ride; a thousand years of cultivation is needed to sleep side-by-side."

Zhao Chang'an glanced at Yu Yi's flushed face; the woman was dressed in the standard attire of a female translator.

She wore a dark-colored suit jacket over a light-colored white knit sweater with small black stripes. Her hair was styled in an updo, giving her a more mature and composed look. She wore light makeup. She was actually quite young and very thin, tall and slender, but with a bit of flesh on her hips, which made her look big and particularly flattering in the trousers.

In short, she is a modern, well-educated woman within the system who not only has excellent translation skills but also dresses well, is young and beautiful.

Zhao Chang'an wasn't going to waste time on these irrelevant things and continued, "When they're still assembly line workers, the company will assess each of them for their future careers. We'll also respect their individual ideas, interests, and hobbies, designing a career path that's relatively suitable for each person. This could include learning accounting, welding, driving, plumbing, auto repair, appliance repair, cooking, hairdressing, landscaping, or even how to become an excellent security guard or property manager. Or they could find simple, labor-intensive work suitable for those aged 40 to 60 who are ready to retire. Through a series of training programs, some of these people will have more suitable options, such as changing jobs, opening their own shops, or starting their own businesses. Even if some are transferred from the original assembly line, they can still find more suitable work within the company."

Zhao Chang'an smiled and said, "As for the second option, it requires the joint efforts of all members of our OneNanometer team to continuously make the company stronger and have a richer and broader range of industrial segments. Only in this way can we properly settle these employees who need to change or adjust their job types."

After a day of visits, regardless of what Deweyna thought in his heart, such as the lifetime employment system Zhao Chang'an mentioned, on the surface he praised the YiNan Zhengzhou Mobile Phone Factory highly, believing it to be efficient, clean, and well-organized, and that he believed YiNan Zhengzhou Mobile Phone Factory would definitely have a place in the domestic mobile phone industry in the future.

Zhao Chang'an smiled happily at De Weiner's praise, but in his heart he cursed the head of the Ericsson tour group for being a bit dizzy. From the beginning, he had repeatedly emphasized that all the mobile phones produced in Zhengzhou would be exported.

Clearly, this team leader didn't remember this point. Since the Pro phone isn't even planned for domestic sales, what's the point of saying that "in the future domestic mobile phone market, there will definitely be a place for the 1nm Zhengzhou mobile phone factory"?
That's ridiculous!