1979 My Life in the Era

Chapter 309 Trial Production

1980, May 5th, Youth Day.

Ning Weidong and Zhao Ruyu saw off the last group of guests and sat down on the sofa.

Even with Ning Weidong's physique, he felt tired at this moment.

Although the wedding process has been greatly simplified in this era, given Ning Weidong and Zhao Ruyu's family background and status, it still involves some trouble.

In fact, according to the original plan, they had not gotten married so soon because Zhao Ruyu's belly could not wait any longer.

Before the Spring Festival, after Ning Weidong returned from Handong, he didn’t know which missile hit the target.

By the end of April, Zhao Ruyu had a reaction, and a check-up showed that she was pregnant.

There was no time to delay now, so the two families immediately started planning the wedding.

The only drawback is that Ning Weidong is still a few months away from turning twenty-two.

"Are you tired?" Ning Weidong hugged Zhao Ruyu and asked with concern.

Zhao Ruyi said happily: "It's okay, don't worry, just do what you need to do."

Ning Weidong nodded. The factory in Handong had been built a few days ago, and all kinds of equipment had been installed in place, ready for trial production.

If it weren't for marriage, Ning Weidong would have passed away long ago at this critical moment.

Ning Weidong said: "It won't take more than a few days."

Zhao Ruyi said: "I'm really fine, and I have my sister-in-law to accompany me."

At the beginning of the year, after the Spring Festival, Ning Weiguo went to Heilongjiang Province.

According to Wang Yuzhen, she also wanted to take her children with her, but job transfers are not easy in this day and age.

Before everything was done, Zhao Ruyu became pregnant, which disrupted Wang Yuzhen's plans.

Ning Weidong and Zhao Ruyu's situation is rather special. They have neither a mother-in-law nor a mother-in-law on either side, so Wang Yuzhen, the eldest sister-in-law, is half a mother-in-law.

In addition, Ning Weiguo and the old man of the Wang family didn't want Wang Yuzhen to take the children all the way to Heilongjiang Province.

This is a good opportunity to keep Wang Yuzhen here.

After Zhao Ruyu gives birth, I will help take care of her for a while, which will cost me a year.

By then, Wang Yuzhen's mind might have changed again.

Ning Weidong said: "I know you have a good physique, but don't take it lightly. You're going to be a mother soon."

Zhao Ruyi rolled her eyes and said, "I didn't realize it before. Why are you still nagging me?"

Ning Weidong glared: "You want to be beaten?"

But he couldn't scare Zhao Ruyi, so he challenged her: "Come on if you can~"

Ning Weidong suddenly became timid and begged for mercy: "Alright, I won't say anything anymore~"

……

Another week passed, and after the wedding, Ning Weidong accompanied Zhao Ruyu for a few days and finally boarded the train to Handong again.

Ning Weidong was sitting in the soft sleeper compartment. According to An Ning's report, the situation at the factory was pretty good.

Since Ning Weidong and Zhao Lichun worked together last time to gain a foothold in Handong, the factory construction has progressed rapidly. Subsequent docking with Li Yuanchao, installation of equipment, and training of workers have not encountered any setbacks.

A few days ago, the last piece of the puzzle, which was completed by Xiangjiang Anjia, arrived with the first shipment of components from Japan.

Everything is ready, only assembly is left.

According to Ning Weidong's previous design, the factory will use domestically produced components as much as possible, combined with Toyo's core components to complete the final assembly.

The appearance design is a direct copy of Toyo's original design. The quality of the finished product can reach 60% to 70% of Toyo's, and the price is half of Toyo's products.

These days, although Ning Weidong is in Beijing, he calls Handong every day.

The tape recorder and electric fan were both easy to make, there was no technical difficulty, and the progress was relatively smooth.

The only exception is televisions. Although there are manufacturers in China that can produce televisions, they are far behind Japan in terms of technical level and display effect, especially color TVs.

Televisions happen to be the most profitable product and are what Ning Weidong values ​​most.

The main purpose of going to Handong this time is to solve the problem of trial production of televisions.

……

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, the train slowly stopped at Jingzhou Railway Station.

As soon as Ning Weidong got off the bus, he saw An Ning and his men waiting on the platform.

An Ning also saw Ning Weidong and Wang Yuanping, and immediately walked over to them.

In mid-May, the weather in Handong was already quite warm.

An Ning was wearing a thin suit and trousers, black leather shoes with half high heels, and her long hair was tied in a ponytail behind her, which swayed as she walked quickly over.

He was particularly conspicuous among the crowd of people waiting to pick him up at the station. With three or four people following him, he looked like a leader and attracted a lot of attention.

It was not until Ning Weidong got out of the car that he found An Ning jogging towards him. His originally stern expression suddenly broke into a smile, which immediately attracted more people to look at Ning Weidong.

An Ning came closer, with a hint of resentment in her eyes.

She knew that Ning Weidong had just gotten married.

An Ning was naturally not stupid enough to be jealous. From the day she and Ning Weidong got together, she knew that she could not be seen in public.

Even though I understand it in my heart, I still have to express some of the feelings of loss and resentment, otherwise the crying child gets candy.

Ning Weidong received the signal and grabbed her hand and squeezed it.

But that's enough. Ning Weidong doesn't have that much time for romance here.

After coming out of the train station, several people got into two cars.

As soon as Ning Weidong got in the car, he asked, "How far is the TV?"

When this was mentioned, An Ning showed a happy expression: "I have good news for you. Last night, Chief Engineer Chen led the technical department and finally solved the problem of matching the cathode ray tube and the integrated circuit. As planned, the first small batch assembly will be carried out today."

Ning Weidong was stunned. He didn't expect that the original technical problem had been solved just after he got off the car and before he reached the factory!
This is undoubtedly great news.

Ning Weidong was also a little excited. If everything went well, mass production would be possible by the beginning of next month at the latest.

By then, the electronics factory will be completely stable.

Although the factory is now up and running and the equipment and personnel are in place, a factory that cannot produce products is of no value.

However, simply producing tape recorders and electric fans could not support the scale of an electronics factory with tens of thousands of employees. Televisions had to be launched and could only succeed, not fail.

Ning Weidong's thoughts were distracted, and suddenly the bumpy car became stable.

Ning Weidong was distracted and found that the dirt road outside had turned into a concrete road.

Further away, you can see the electronics factory buildings and walls.

This cement road starts from the entrance of the electronics factory and extends towards the county town, but it has only been built for less than two kilometers.

It will definitely be built to the county town in the future, it is still a long way off now.

The car stopped at the factory gate.

Before Ning Weidong got off the car, people standing on both sides of the factory gate held up plastic flowers and shouted "Welcome, welcome, warm welcome".

Ning Weidong was stunned when he got out of the car. He didn't expect to encounter such a scene.

He stopped and waved to the crowd.

Shen Zhou from the Security Department stood at the front, and all the people at the door were from the Security Department.

Shen Zhou immediately shouted, "Welcome Manager Ning to come and give us your guidance." Ning Weidong smiled, shook hands with Shen Zhou, walked into the factory through the gate, and whispered to An Ning beside him, "Don't be so useless in the future."

An Ning responded.

But Ning Weidong thought about it and added, "I'll forget it. When other leaders come to inspect, we should still do what we should do and not let others pick on us."

As they were talking, the group walked to the door of the office building.

At the beginning of the year, Ning Weidong had just built a one-and-a-half-story building before he left. Now it is five stories high. In order to speed up the progress, it is all made of red bricks and the exterior is not plastered.

The only embellishment is the window frames painted with dark green waterproof paint.

Ning Weidong looked up. How could he describe this red and green color combination...

He simply withdrew his gaze and stepped into the building.

Just now in the car, An Ning has reported the arrangements.

When you get to the factory, listen to the report from the technical department first and discuss other matters later.

Although An Ning said that the technical threshold had been broken through, Ning Weidong still felt uneasy because seeing is believing.

Meeting room on the first floor of the office building.

Ning Weidong and An Ning went in and there were already more than a dozen people sitting in the room.

Ning Weidong raised his hand and greeted everyone. He had seen these people before and there was no need for introduction.

Most of them were brought here by Li Yuanchao last time. The leader, Chief Engineer Chen, was a mechanical and electrical expert from a arsenal in the north.

Now he is on secondment and is responsible for solving technical problems in the factory.

After a brief greeting, Ning Weidong went straight to the point.

A technical problem had just been solved yesterday. Mr. Chen was in high spirits and gave a very enthusiastic introduction.

After listening to the report, Ning Weidong asked, "Engineer Chen, if we follow the current tentative process, what will be the pass rate of the color TVs we produce?"

Although technological breakthroughs are exciting, the pass rate is what really determines success or failure.

If the pass rate is not reached, there is no point in producing a hundred color TVs and only one can be used normally.

Engineer Chen hesitated for a moment, looking embarrassed: "Manager Ning, I can't give you an answer to this question. We can only know after trial production. My estimate now is meaningless."

Ning Weidong nodded, looked at his watch, turned around and asked An Ning: "In this case, let's go to the workshop and take a look~"

An Ning also looked at the watch: "Okay, the first batch of trial production color TVs should be off the production line at five o'clock, there are still twenty minutes."

Coming out of the office building, accompanied by Naning and Engineer Chen, Ning Weidong and his party came to the first assembly workshop.

This is the first factory building built.

Although the workshop adopts the assembly line production model, the first batch of trial production has not formed a standard process and has not yet been put on the assembly line.

Only one hundred capable workers were selected from the factory, divided into ten groups, plus two technicians. An assembly team of twelve people assembled the whole machine directly from spare parts.

As soon as An Ning came out of the building, she called the workshop.

When Ning Weidong arrived, someone was already waiting at the workshop door.

An Ning introduced, "This is Comrade Zhou Limin, the production director of a workshop."

Zhou Limin quickly extended his hand: "Manager, the comrades have been waiting for you to come and check our work results."

Ning Weidong shook hands with a smile. He also knew Zhou Liming, who was from An Ning and came from the capital.

Ning Weidong was not averse to An Ning placing people in the factory.

The main reason is that there are too many people in Li Yuanchao's faction. As the factory director, An Ning must have manpower to maintain a rough balance between the two sides.

When you walk into the workshop, you will see bright windows and clean desks, spotless. The cement floor has been painted with protective paint and is polished to a shine that can reflect people.

Since there are only ten assembly teams at the moment, the huge factory building looks very empty.

On the workbench, assemblers in work clothes are working diligently.

Ning Weidong did not move forward. It was not wise to disturb them at this time.

Just wait until it's done.

In fact, China was able to produce color televisions in the early 70s, but the output was very low and could not be scaled up.

One reason was that people’s living standards were limited at the time and they could not afford color TVs at all. The other reason was the pass rate.

In Ning Weidong's impression, in a few years, after 1985, domestic color TVs will usher in a big boom.

By the early 1990s, its output was second only to that of Japan.

However, beneath this superficial prosperity, a large number of so-called domestic color TVs are made up of a full set of imported parts that are assembled domestically.

The technical content is not even as good as the factory run by Ning Weidong now.

Ning Weidong now has at least five years of leading advantage.

Ning Weidong thought as he looked at the TV parts placed next to the assembly team.

About half of them are Japanese products imported through S, and this is because they use domestic cathode ray tubes.

Although cathode ray tubes are large in size, they are not the most technologically advanced.

The real key technologies are all in integrated circuits.

The quality of a TV, the brightness of its colors, and the obviousness of its flicker all depend on the technology.

The rest, the machine casing, plastic buttons, and simpler electromechanical components are all made in China.

In fact, using these domestic parts does not reduce costs, and may even be more expensive than the same Japanese parts.

But Ning Weidong has never simply considered economic benefits. From the very beginning, his purpose in setting up this electronics factory was to revitalize some domestic production.

At this moment, Director Zhou suddenly whispered, "Manager, Group 3 is done."

Ning Weidong looked carefully and saw that the third team had indeed stopped working and the TV that had just been assembled was being powered on.

The next moment, with a click, the switch was turned on, the screen flashed, and a colorful vertical bar appeared.

"It's on!" someone shouted excitedly.

Several other assembly teams were alarmed, some stopped to watch, while others continued working without distraction.

A few minutes later, the second TV lit up.

With a difference of about ten minutes, all ten color TVs assembled by ten groups were successfully lit up.

At this time, Ning Weidong and his group stepped forward.

A young man walked out from the assembly team and said loudly to Ning Weidong, "Comrade Manager, this is the first trial production in the first workshop. All ten color TVs are lit up. Please inspect them."

"Okay~" Ning Weidong blurted out, walked up to shake hands with the young man, and then came to the workbench.

There were ten lit color TVs in a row.

Ning Weidong glanced around and keenly discovered that two of them were flashing obviously.

He couldn't help feeling a sinking feeling in his heart but he didn't show it. He was still smiling and shaking hands with the workers one by one.

Ning Weidong's face darkened only after the assembly workers left: "Mr. Chen, what's the situation with these two machines?"

Engineer Chen noticed it immediately and said helplessly, "Sure enough, there is a problem!"

Ning Weidong frowned. From his tone it seemed that he had anticipated that something might go wrong.

But before he could finish his words, there was a sudden "click" sound, and the originally stable Unit 6 began to flash rapidly!
(End of this chapter)