Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 139 Software Industry Layout (asking for monthly tickets)

"Mr. Chen, come here. You will sign the cooperation agreement with the school on behalf of Xingyao Group."

On September 9, Wang Jiankun called Chen Xingdong to the school and asked him to sign a cooperation agreement with the school to run a computer training class. After all, he is the president of Xingyao Group.

"Boss Wang, I took a rough look at the agreement, but the effect of our cooperation with the high school is not very good. Why not cooperate with the university?"

"Mr. Chen, you still don't know much about the situation in the mainland! It's different here from Hong Kong and abroad. Domestic college students are all guaranteed jobs, and they are all cadres of all ranks. If we run a training class, no one will come. After all, we are a foreign-funded company. Although there are relatively high salaries for participating in project development after completing the training, those college students are not willing to come."

"Is that so? I was indeed not thoughtful enough. Aren't high school students good enough? After all, they haven't received professional education from a university."

"As for intelligence level, I would first screen them through an exam. Don't think programming is that difficult. Just think of it as a new language, just like learning English. As long as you have normal intelligence and strong logical thinking ability, it will be fine. If you are good at math, that's even better. Learning a computer language is not that difficult."

"Also, I have translated the computer into Chinese. The programming textbooks I publish are mainly in Chinese and Pinyin, with only a small amount in English. The learning threshold for students is greatly lowered, so high school students are enough."

"After your comparison, I don't think it's difficult, but I still feel a little dizzy looking at the lines of code. Maybe I'm not cut out for this."

"Everyone is good at different things. High school students are very efficient at learning knowledge, so it's easy to tell whether someone has a talent for programming."

"Okay, now that you've made up your mind, I'll go sign the agreement later."

After telling Chen Xingdong to sign a cooperation agreement with the school, the two strolled around the campus and continued to talk about cooperation with the county government.

A few days ago, Chen Xingdong arrived in Wuyuan County and signed a cooperation agreement on a motorcycle engine factory with the county government.

The motorcycle engine factory was named Xingyuan Power, with Xingyao Group holding a 49% stake and Wuyuan County Government holding a 51% stake.

The Xingyao Group provided all the production equipment, invested an additional RMB 500 million in cash, and was responsible for personnel training. The county government provided the land and was responsible for the construction of the factory.

The new factory covers an area of ​​600 acres, with 500 acres of land reserved for the second phase. It is located next to the Wumei luggage factory.

At the beginning of August, Chen Xingdong returned from Chongqing and began to communicate with the county government, proposing to invest in the construction of a motorcycle engine production plant.

He brought several motorcycles manufactured by Jialing Factory using engines provided by Wang Jiankun, as well as several engine samples and the supply and sales contract with Jialing Factory.

After seeing these documents and samples, the county government was very positive about cooperating in setting up a motorcycle engine factory.

The first phase of the Wumart luggage factory that was established earlier has officially started production, and the first batch of 1 trolley cases have been successfully exported, setting a precedent for Jiangxi Province's manufacturing industry to earn foreign exchange through exports.

Previously, most of the products exported by Jiangxi Province to earn foreign exchange were raw materials, such as tungsten metal, rare earth ores, copper ores and copper materials. Jingdezhen also exported some handicraft ceramics, but they were not on a large scale.

The trolley cases produced in Wuyuan County now are purely industrial manufactured products, and judging from the situation, they will continue to be exported on a large scale in the future. This can be regarded as a historic achievement.

So when Chen Xingdong came, the county's main leaders accompanied him throughout the trip, and they were very enthusiastic about the construction of the second phase of the luggage factory.

After inspecting the first phase of the factory site, Chen Xingdong felt that the management personnel sent by the county were quite capable and that the workers in the factory were very motivated, without the problems that were common in some state-owned enterprises he had visited before.

So of course he nodded in agreement for the second phase of construction, saying that he would purchase equipment as soon as possible and also asked the county to speed up the construction of the factory.

After the luggage factory was agreed upon, the county's discussion on the motorcycle engine factory was approved. However, the investment this time was too large, so they still needed to report to Raozhou for approval. After all, the departments that needed to cooperate with the factory this time were not just something the county could handle.

However, the county also gave him a clear reply, asking him to make preparations at the same time, and to start construction immediately after approval, and strive to complete it and put it into production this year.

At that time, the county reported to Raozhou while organizing land leveling and road construction work. After all, it was very time-consuming and labor-intensive to level 600 acres of land by manpower.

Although the county's finances were not abundant at that time, after the first month's output value of Wumart Luggage Factory came out, the county was no longer too worried about the subsequent financial situation.

In addition, Xingyao Group also contributed 500 million in cash, which was enough to cover the purchase of materials and employee salaries for the initial factory construction.

Moreover, the Wumei Luggage Factory sold only 5 suitcases in the first month, which brought in 12 yuan in revenue and a gross profit of nearly 5 yuan. This was because the county failed to obtain foreign exchange and the export company settled the money at an exchange rate of 1:2.

If the export volume increases in the future, we can negotiate foreign exchange retention or export tax rebates, and the county’s income will increase greatly.

Regarding Wuyuan County's proposal to cooperate with Hong Kong capital to set up a motorcycle engine manufacturing company, Raozhou's leaders held a meeting to discuss the matter and quickly approved it.

After all, the economic development of the entire Raozhou area is very average now, with only a few companies doing okay. Moreover, the first cooperation project of this county has begun to export and earn foreign exchange, so it should be encouraged more.

After all, the submitted materials mentioned that the company would consider exporting engines in the future. However, there are very few engines for export in the country, as they were all imported before. Not only will it earn a lot of foreign exchange for the country, but it will also be a huge political achievement.

The Raozhou regional leader who took office this year was transferred from the central government. He firmly supports reform and opening up. However, he has just arrived here and it is difficult for him to drive this rusty machine alone. Now that Wuyuan County is ahead, we must protect it well and provide necessary support.

Although the regional finances cannot provide much help economically, we can give as much policy support as possible.

For example, after the approval was completed, the region’s number one leader paid special attention to the county’s request to increase power supply capacity.

At that time, the power department was contacted and asked to study and solve the power demand reported by Wuyuan County. One was to increase the supply, and the other was to ensure the stability of the power supply.

After receiving the request from the region’s No. 1 leader, the power department went back and began preparations.

On the one hand, some electricity indicators from other counties were transferred to Wuyuan. At the same time, the projects to expand the power generation capacity of two reservoirs previously reported by Wuyuan County were quickly approved, and personnel were organized to guide the construction, and some material support was also provided.

Part of this information had been told to Chen Xingdong by county leaders, and Chen Xingdong relayed it to Wang Jiankun.

"Since the county's management capabilities are okay, you should just follow the division of labor of the Wumei Luggage Factory. Take control of the finance and sales rights, and leave the rest to the people sent by the county to manage." Wang Jiankun said to Chen Xingdong after listening to what he said.

"I understand. We just need to focus on finance and sales. There aren't many talents in this area in the county, and we don't have the ability to intervene, so there won't be any objections."

"Probably not now. It may happen when the output value of our motorcycle engine enterprise exceeds 100 million yuan in the future. But we will talk about it then. Now it is more important to think about how to start production quickly."

"Yes, there are not many industrial workers in the county, and even fewer of them know how to use machine tools!" Chen Xingdong sighed.

"Didn't they merge a machinery factory in the county into this? Why are there no available talents there?"

"Don't mention it. The workers in this machinery factory can only do some simple work, most of which is manual, such as ironworking, grinding and polishing. There are only 5 or 6 people who know how to use machine tools, and they are still using old machine tools from the World War II period. We want to produce high-precision motorcycle engine parts. These workers are useless and have some bad work habits. I don't want these workers." "Is that so? Then follow the alternative plan I gave you before and recruit young people to study and train!"

"This is the only way. I have already submitted the recruitment requirements to the county, and they replied that there will be a result in five days."

"We can't just sit there and wait. Don't we require the people selected by the county to have at least a junior high school diploma? A high school diploma is even better. So, when you go to sign the agreement with the principal later, ask him for the transcripts of high school students in recent years. The school should have them on file. Then ask him to help get the transcripts of the high school entrance exams in recent years."

"When the time comes, you can review the people selected by the county again. Only those who can be found on the transcript and whose scores are above average will be sent to Guangshi for training on the operation of CNC machine tools and some processing equipment. For the others, you can organize training in the county and conduct military training to eliminate those who just want to get by."

"Okay, the boss has a solution. I was worried about what to do if the person selected by the county is not qualified. It would be bad to delay the production."

"The county leaders won't do anything bad. They are just afraid that the people in charge will stuff some unqualified people in. But I don't think there will be too many. You can use the method I gave you to screen out some of them. Those who stay will be judged based on their work performance in the future. Our joint venture can still fire them."

"I see. The time is almost up. Let's go."

"Jiankun, Mr. Chen, welcome, welcome. Oh, the broadcasting equipment you donated to the school is great. In this year's college entrance examination, the English scores of the senior students have generally improved. We have to thank you very much." Principal Wang said with a smile after seeing Wang Jiankun and Chen Xingdong enter the venue.

"You're welcome. It's our honor to do something for the school. Only when you train students to be talented can our company recruit the right talents."

Chen Xingdong had previously donated a set of radio equipment to the school on behalf of Wang Jiankun, allowing the school to play English broadcasts for students every night and conduct listening tests, so Principal Wang was very happy to see him come in.

Before signing the agreement, the two chatted for a while, during which Chen Xingdong brought up Wang Jiankun's proposal to Principal Wang. Principal Wang said on the spot that there was no problem, and then asked the Dean of Academic Affairs to find the student transcripts of previous years as soon as possible. He also said that the transcripts for the high school entrance examination would be found as soon as possible and handed over to Chen Xingdong.

The agreement signing process was relatively simple, after all, it was a cooperation agreement of a donation nature. However, some people took photos, and reporters sent by the county propaganda department came to record it.

The establishment of microcomputer training classes is extremely beneficial to both schools and students.

In the past two days, Principal Wang and some school leaders also learned about the situation of microcomputers. They learned that state ministries and some universities have begun to prepare to use microcomputers for office work. Some of his former classmates heard from him that a company wanted to cooperate with his high school to run a microcomputer training class, and asked with envy and flattering tones whether they could introduce this company.

After learning about this situation, the school became more enthusiastic about this cooperation. Previously, it was mainly Wang Jiankun's help in helping students get into prestigious schools that played a role. Now they realized that this computer training class was a good thing done by Wang Jiankun's uncle, and it was not taking advantage of the school.

So a room of more than 40 square meters was quickly prepared, and the floor was also processed expedited according to the requirements put forward by Wang Jiankun at the time. If it weren’t for the fact that the electrical equipment had to wait for the Starry Group to be shipped, they would have wanted to start construction immediately.

After the agreement was signed, Wang Jiankun attended half a day's classes at school and was called away by the principal in the evening.

"Principal, you are looking for me."

"Jiankun, come here, here are the information of 15 students. Please take a look to see if they are suitable." Principal Wang said as he handed over a stack of students' resumes.

"Principal, have you chosen so quickly? If it's decided, it will be hard to change it later. I don't have the energy to guide people from the beginning."

"It's decided. These are the 15 students. You can decide if they are suitable."

Wang Jiankun looked through the resumes one by one and found that the grades of these students were all ranked high, but none of them were in the top three among the senior year students. The five in the second year were ranked between 5th and 6th.

After thinking about it, Wang Jiankun understood. The reason why there were no top three students in the senior year was probably because they were more confident and thought their own learning methods were good and did not want to take the risk of accepting guidance from others. As for the sophomores, Wang Jiankun and several of his disciples had already occupied the top few places, they were more receptive to this college entrance examination sprint training.

After carefully looking at some of these students' previous test scores, Wang Jiankun said they were all OK.

"Principal, I will prepare a set of examination papers based on their performance when I return. Let them take a day off tomorrow to answer the questions. I will grade them tomorrow night. Based on their answers, I will give them a set of follow-up study materials. You can organize them to study on their own in the evening."

"Okay, okay, but could you give them more guidance this month? At the beginning, let them see their progress more."

Wang Jiankun thought about his own arrangements and felt that it would be a good idea to stay in his hometown of Wuyuan for a while this month. His uncle was still carrying out the infrastructure construction of the base and personnel were still being selected and recruited, so he would not be able to play much of a role if he went there.

At the base here, I can study superconductivity while providing guidance to these new students, and also help Lang Junjian set up a microcomputer training class.

Thinking of this, Wang Jiankun replied, "Principal, I will be here more this month. Starting from this week, I will come to the college entrance examination sprint class on the evenings of 1, 3, and 5. Starting from next week, I will come to the microcomputer training class on the evenings of 2, 4.6, and to teach programming. What do you think?"

"That's great. What are you going to do with the students in this computer training class?"

"Well, I'll give you 100 introductory programming books tomorrow. Please distribute them to the class teachers and promote them so that students can learn on their own. Then I'll accept registration this Saturday night. On Sunday afternoon, I'll test the students who voluntarily register, and then I'll select the top 40 to receive training."

"Okay, I'll make arrangements when your books arrive. What if there aren't that many people signing up? After all, many students don't understand the importance of computers. They just want to go to college."

"It doesn't matter. The training course lasts for three months. Those who pass the training will receive a stipend when participating in the project, with a minimum of 3 yuan per month. It doesn't matter if we don't recruit enough people at the beginning. I will also recruit students from previous years or those who didn't continue their junior high school studies for various reasons to participate in the training."

"Well, it's good that you're prepared. But if you pass the training and participate in the project, you will get a monthly allowance of 30 yuan. Isn't that too high? Our teachers' salary is only 4 or 50 yuan a month. Can the faculty and staff of our school participate in your training?" When the principal heard about such a high allowance, he wanted to fight for an opportunity for the faculty and staff of the school.

"If you are young and are quick to accept new things, you can come and try it. You can also read the introductory book on programming. Then you have to take the test and only those who meet the requirements can come. After all, the machine time is very expensive and it uses electricity."

"Okay, okay, I'll tell them the news as well. Can their family members come too?"

"Yes, as long as you pass the test, it's fine. But if the scores are similar, I will still choose the younger ones. After all, the brain can absorb new knowledge relatively quickly. Those who are not selected in the first batch can wait for the next batch."

"Okay, the ones who can learn it should be young people. I will explain it to them clearly. But Jiankun, when you train so many people, will you have so many projects?"

"Yes, I think the current scale is too small. You don't know that there are already tens of thousands of programmers in the United States, and the number is still growing rapidly. Their computer industry is about to usher in a period of explosive growth."

"My uncle thinks that China cannot fall behind. There are hundreds of millions of people in China, some of whom are smart. Now is the time to catch up before the industry explodes, so we can't miss this opportunity."

"This industry is also part of the high-tech industry. Computers will become more powerful in the future and will be able to do tasks that many people cannot do. This will greatly promote the development of productivity."

After listening to Wang Jiankun's words, Principal Wang attached even greater importance to this microcomputer training class, and planned to invite several distant relatives to study there when he returned, so that they could be included in the first batch of training list.

His own children have already got good jobs. Several of his distant relatives have average grades, but they did not get into technical secondary school or university, so they usually do temporary jobs and their salaries are very low.

If we can seize this opportunity, future development will be much better than it is now.

After talking with Principal Wang, Wang Jiankun returned to the underground base to continue his research on superconducting materials and the causes of superconductivity.

(End of this chapter)