Riding the wind of rebirth

"Being able to include our business as a pillar industry is already a huge support from the country. Besides, the information technology industry is different from industries like oil and chemicals. To launch a major campaign, we need to concentrate the country's mid-to-high-end talents in the information industry. These talents are currently playing a key role in various industries. They are the 'efficiency accelerators' that every industry must have. They are not so easy to transfer," Zhou Zhi said with a smile.

"However, we can take another approach." Seeing that Hu Changfeng was getting anxious, Zhou Zhi quickly comforted him: "Isn't the Manhattan Project a kind of large-scale project? But its success was not due to the concentration of talent, but to its scientific and modern project management."

"And this approach perfectly aligns with the development of our industry, and most importantly, it's precisely our industry's strength!"

"what do you mean……"

"What I mean is that a ministry should take the lead in establishing an industrial project planning and management center. From the perspective of industrial development needs, and taking project management as the starting point, the project plan will be transformed into a series of patented products from the agreement layer to the equipment layer. Then, it will be contracted out to institutions, enterprises, laboratories, teams, and even individuals with R&D capabilities across the country to undertake and develop the products. The management center will only be responsible for exercising management authority and supervising and rewarding/punishing product quality."

“This mechanism is actually an upgraded version of our previous quality control system, only with a larger scope, capable of handling more complex tasks within the system,” Zhou Zhi explained. “The old methods are difficult to adapt to the current production management model that prioritizes efficiency and performance, and can easily lead to irreconcilable conflicts with various units during the management process. Therefore, we only need to address the problem from the perspectives of organization and management, and solve the current pain points from these two directions.”

"How can we meet the secrecy requirements?" This was the first question that came to Hu Changfeng's mind, as he came from a military industry background.

"From a management perspective, we need to establish strict access systems for projects with different security levels. Only units that meet the requirements can be qualified for access. This is also a common practice around the world today."

“We can learn from systems around the world, but that’s only one aspect,” Zhou Zhi said. “Another important aspect is to prevent hostile forces from stealing our secrets through technological means.”

"As a research and development unit with a thorough understanding of the underlying operating system, the current situation of our group can only be described as shocking. Chairman Hu, you also have a background in communications. A gain amplifier will not only amplify the part of the signal you need, but it will also amplify the defects and flaws of the signal."

“I understand what you mean, Elbow. Information technology has brought us tremendous benefits, and its contribution to productivity improvement is self-evident.” Hu Changfeng nodded slightly. “However, the risks and hidden dangers brought about by these technologies have also been amplified at the same time.”

"In communications engineering, we need to add noise suppression and other modifications to gain amplifiers. Now, to apply this analogy to the entire industry, we cannot only pursue profit goals, but also risk control goals."

"The simplest, most effective, and most direct method is to make everything ourselves, from the underlying chips to the entire ecosystem, according to the standards set forth by our great leader—self-reliance, hard work, and always keeping our destiny firmly in our own hands!"

"This..." Hu Changfeng was taken aback at first, then shook his head with a wry smile: "Elbow, you really are following the central government's spirit. Our industry really has to be whipped into the fast oxen!"

“It is difficult,” Zhou Zhi said, “but it has changed from ‘completely impossible’ to ‘extremely difficult’, at least the foundation and situation have undergone a welcome change.” “You’re quite optimistic,” Hu Changfeng laughed, “Where does your confidence come from?”

"Our confidence comes from the opportunities that have already emerged." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "It comes from the fact that we have bypassed international intellectual property barriers and created our own independent information product line."

"Currently, the mainstream operating systems internationally include UNIX, Apple, and Windows. Among them, the most complete and rigorous is actually the UNIX system."

"UNIX-based operating systems have many advantages. They are the longest-developed operating systems, and since their inception in the early 1970s, they have played a vital role in the field of computer science."

"As a multi-user, multi-tasking, time-sharing operating system, its design principle is simplicity above all else, providing mechanisms rather than strategies. Its structure is divided into two parts: the kernel program and the peripheral shell program, which are organically combined into a whole. The kernel part undertakes the functions of various modules within the system."

"Its advantages lie in its stability, reliability, and security. Its multi-user and multi-tasking capabilities make it perform well when handling complex tasks. However, it also has many disadvantages, such as its large system size, slow installation, poor real-time functionality, and poor operability and maintainability."

"Compared to Windows and iOS, UNIX does lag behind in terms of personalization and real-time responsiveness, which makes it difficult to match them in terms of ease of use and graphical interface."

"But if we take a longer-term view, we will find that these shortcomings can be overcome, and its advantages are extremely difficult for the other two systems to match."

"We have now bought out and control Linux, which is developed on the UNIX instruction set. Together with our own COS and MINICOS, as well as the extensive TYPE-C interface protocol platform we have cultivated, we have created an operating system that fully covers almost all peripherals. Moreover, we have completed the graphical transformation."

"In other words, the three weaknesses of usability, graphical interface and real-time performance have been perfectly solved by us absorbing Microsoft's graphical interface patent, jointly developing VC tools, and transplanting this graphical approach into our system."

"The remaining drawbacks are only three aspects: large system size, slow installation, and poor maintainability."

"From a developmental perspective, these three aspects are actually not problems at all," Zhou Zhi said. "Current computer systems, even the most basic home-use ones, are developing at a rate of Moore's Law in terms of processing speed, storage capacity, and memory capacity. Previously, gigabyte-level systems were difficult to install and run on personal computers, but now that's basically no problem." (End of Chapter)