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Chapter 839 A sum of money
"Please tell me." Liu Jiyuan said.

Su Chen nodded and said, "That's it. If China wants to have its own navigation system, how difficult is it?"

This is not a whim on his mind. He thinks he is not that noble, and it is impossible to build this up and donate it to the country by himself.

But he had to guard against the tricks of the Americans, because the acquired Swire and Jardine had shipping businesses.

Swire Shipping alone has a diverse fleet of container ships, multipurpose vessels, general cargo ships and bulk carriers operating its global trading operations.

Moreover, it is also a major supplier of marine services specializing in the offshore energy industry. Its equipment can support a wide range of offshore operations, including exploration, drilling and mining, pipeline laying, subsea construction, and drilling platform removal.

If there is no such a huge business, the British will not keep talking about Cathay Pacific.

Moreover, the business scope of Jardine Shipping is not small. If there is no navigation in this vast sea, it is no different from a blind person. If an incident similar to the 'Yinhe' occurs, it will definitely suffer heavy losses.

It will be a matter of time before Shengshi turns against the Americans. For example, lithium batteries, such as Qualcomm, and ASML will all be the source of Shengshi's turning against the Americans.

What's more, Americans don't need any reason to turn their faces.

To fundamentally eliminate the possibility of being stuck by the Americans, Su Chen will not follow Yanagawa Shi to move the company to the United States, so he thinks it is necessary to advocate forging this sword himself.

Even if it's just a start.

Xue Fang looked at Su Chen in a daze, she didn't know why such a profound topic was discussed at the dinner table.

Hearing Su Chen mention this topic again, Liu Jiyuan thought about it seriously, and said, "A conservative estimate is about 150 billion US dollars."

He then explained: "Because in order to ensure performance and reliability, most of our stand-alone machines and electronic components have to be imported from foreign countries.

For example, the satellite’s heart atomic clock has to be imported from Switzerland, SADA and Xingmin have to be imported from Germany, the bus is from France, the electrical connectors and key chips are imported from the United States, and so on.

If the price of a single satellite is about 15 billion, and the cost of a rocket is about 3.5 million, it is impossible for this navigation system to be built with just one or two satellites. "

"Yes."

Wang Deren took over the conversation, first explained the function of the atomic clock, and then said:
"The biggest problem with satellites is how to ensure accurate time, but my country does not have the relevant technology. If they buy satellites from developed countries, not only will Western countries not want to sell them to us, they may even take this opportunity to suppress our projects.

According to the regulations of the ITU, whoever applies for the frequency resources of satellites will use them first. If you do not use them within the specified time, the frequency will be released to others for application. "

They were afraid that this little-knowledgeable person would want to make a navigation system.

But they are not disgusted with such a capitalist.

Wang Yongzhi also explained: "The difficulty of this atomic clock lies in the accuracy. It is scary to think about dividing 1 second into 90 billion oscillations. It is impossible for us to count 1 times in 20 second, let alone 90 billion shocks.

Therefore, the higher the accuracy, the more difficult it is, and the corresponding technical difficulty can be said to increase exponentially. "

"I don't have a lot of research on technology, but I don't think you can rely on others for anything. As the old saying goes, it's better to have it if you have a mother." Su Chen said, "That's why I formed a Tinder project."

"Even if it is an atomic clock, we should own it ourselves. Although the country is in difficulty now, we still can't take it for granted, because we are one country against the whole of Europe and America.

Especially for the heart of the satellite, we Chinese should complete it independently, otherwise it will be an opportunity for foreign countries to bully us. If these people do something wrong one day, we will all be blind. "

Zhang Hongying, who had always been taciturn, said, "Comrade Su Chen, are you sure you want to make a navigation system?"

"Yes, this must be owned by our country. I never like to do things after the fact, and I don't like to leave my fate in the hands of others. I prefer to plan for a rainy day. Maybe you can say that I am worrying."

Su Chen said, "But I think the key things must be mastered by myself, so I will try my best to promote the Fire Seed Project. Even if we start late, as long as we work hard to catch up, even if we can't surpass, at least the gap can be changed. Small."

"Secondly, I was studying the economy of the Soviet Union recently, and found that the economic reforms carried out by Gorbachev caused many military factories to fail to pay wages, and there was a sale of military equipment.

Isn’t it that we are in financial difficulties now? I think we can pick up the leaks. After all, we have learned many technologies from Lao Maozi, and we can use them without any need for research and development. "

He took a sip of tea and said, "Let's talk about navigation again. I can't do this alone. It takes hundreds of thousands of scientific researchers in our country and tens of billions of money to do it." .

And I don't understand technology, that is, I have two bad money in my hand. Tell me the truth, is there any navigation project in our country? "

"This one……"

Several people looked at each other, and after making eye contact, Liu Jiyuan said:

"Comrade Su, let me tell you the truth. In 83, academician Chen Fangyun proposed the development of a dual-satellite fast navigation system, that is, the idea of ​​using two geostationary orbit communication satellites to realize regional fast navigation and positioning."

He took out a pen and drew a picture on paper for Su Chen to demonstrate.

Then he said: "But because we are short of money, these are still under theoretical research, and it also involves the issue of the atomic clock we mentioned just now.

There are still various problems, that is to say, we are now starting from 0 in a serious way, poor and white. "

"I see." Su Chen pondered for a while, "But a satellite navigation and positioning system with independent intellectual property rights is crucial to national security, military support, and the safety of the people."

"The main reason is that we are short of money now." Wang Deren sighed, "Many things need money."

"If I donate a sum of money, can I speed up the research on our navigation system?" Su Chen asked.

"A sum of money?" Everyone was at a loss for a moment.

How much is this sum of money?
Su Chen didn't say how much the amount was, but talked about a seemingly irrelevant topic:

"At the Tokyo New Technology Exchange Conference in 82, Japanese experts said that our country's newly developed Great Wall No. [-] large-scale computer technology was backward and ugly, and they tricked us into communicating with them without reservation and letting them guide us.

When the Great Wall No. [-] came out, the United States came to us and asked to sign an advanced computer technology agreement, hoping that China would not spread supercomputer technology to the Warsaw Pact countries.

But at that time, the Japanese didn't even touch the door of the mainframe, but we helped the Japanese solve all the early technical problems, and they imitated a Showa No. [-] mainframe in the second year.

Over the years, we have continuously imported advanced technologies and production lines from abroad, but to be honest, many of our own technologies rank first in Asia and even at the international level.

But it was abruptly described by Japanese experts as a garbage technology that should be dismounted.

Among them, it is similar to the intensive welding system of large ships, the electronic numerical control system of industrial automation, and the automatic production system of chemical industry.

As well as the welding system of large-scale machine structural parts, etc. are the achievements of national-level major scientific and technological research, but they were stolen by the so-called "China-friendly experts".

Other smaller technical projects are several times higher than this, such as high-grade rice paper manufacturing technology, cloisonne manufacturing technology, silkworm disease resistance technology, pesticide application formula and method, pharmacological pathogenic principle, pharmaceutical technology and so on. "

The few people listened quietly, discussing various esoteric issues before the meal started.

Su Chen continued: "I don't think we should underestimate ourselves, there is no need to bend down and walk into the palace of science.

There is no need to exchange our cutting-edge technology for some technology that the Japanese themselves dislike, let alone walk with low self-esteem in order to gain so-called international recognition. "

"I, Su Chen, am an ordinary person. If you say that I am for fame or profit, after dinner, I will trouble you to respond to your superiors and say that I want to promote the development of this project.

It is named after the "Big Dipper" that our Chinese ancestors used to identify the direction. It is called the Beidou Satellite Navigation System. I personally invested 20 billion US dollars as the start-up capital of this project..."

Everyone present was stunned for a moment.

Good guy, it's 20 billion U.S. dollars at the beginning, which is too...

Su Chen scavenged a large sum of dollars from Wall Street, and 20 billion seemed like a lot, but he did not intend to donate for free.

And he's not a virgin either.

What's more, there are many articles that can be done here.

such as……

(End of this chapter)