Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 164 The end of the first semester of the second year of high school

1983年2月5号下午4点10，王建昆从高二年级的期末考试考场内走出。

After finishing the exam, he walked to the waste recycling station, washed rice and vegetables, and prepared to meet up with a few people from the study society to talk about plans for the Spring Festival.

He stayed at the base in northern Myanmar until January 1, when he flew to Hong Kong on a passenger airship, where he inspected the progress of key projects of several groups.

When he arrived in Hong Kong, he had already seen that the chip manufacturing plant of Xingyao Electronics was operating at a low speed, and 5-micron CPUs and 128KB memory particles were being produced one after another.

Part of it was transported to the Sin Chew Group's factory for assembling the first generation of digital mobile phones, and part of it was stored in the chip factory for subsequent computer production.

The optical fiber factory managed by Sin Chew Group is already manufacturing optical fiber cables in large quantities for the expansion and transformation of text message base stations and the construction of mobile phone base stations.

It is expected that in March, optical fiber connections will be completed between base stations of text message machines, which will greatly increase the communication capacity of a single base station. Zheng Tianming, executive president of Sin Chew Group, plans to launch a wave of promotions at that time to further reduce the price of text message machines.

As more than a dozen domestic parts OEM companies began to increase their production capacity, the cost of text messages has gradually decreased. Therefore, based on market research and his own judgment, Zheng Tianming plans to gradually reduce the price of text message machines to 1 yuan per unit.

At that time, the average monthly salary of an average person in Hong Kong was around 1 yuan. If the price of a text message machine could be reduced to 1 yuan, then most people in Hong Kong would be able to buy one.

Zheng Tianming and Wang Jiankun reported that the expectation was that when the price of SMS machines dropped to 1 yuan, the minimum number of units that could be sold in the Hong Kong market would be 150 million. If optimistic, 300 million units could also be achieved.

At the same time, Zheng Tianming also took advantage of the relationship with the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. The SAR government allowed the Sin Chew Group to form a joint venture with the SAR government’s postal and telecommunications department to establish a text messaging communication system and sell text messaging machines.

At this time, Motorola had been in close communication with the capital's postal and telecommunications departments. According to intelligence, Motorola's communication products were expected to be launched in BJ, Shanghai and Guangzhou by the end of 83. By working backwards on the time for communication system construction, personnel training and trial operation, the two parties should have almost reached a cooperation agreement by this time.

The fact that the SAR government approved Sin Chew Group to set up a communications company in Shenzhen and sell corresponding communications products at this time should also be considered as introducing competition.

In fact, Wang Jiankun is not afraid of competition. Compared with Motorola's pagers, Sin Chew Group's text message machines are far superior to them. It's just that Sin Chew Group is relatively weak because it has been developed for too short a time and started only in Hong Kong.

However, being able to reach cooperation with the Shenzhen Special Administrative Region Government will be a good start. Wang Jiankun believes that as long as the base stations are laid and the first batch of text message machines are sold, the Special Administrative Region Government and surrounding provinces and cities will be able to see the power of Xingzhou Group's products.

Taking into account the future construction of a large-scale fiber-optic communication system in the country, Wang Jiankun asked Zheng Tianming to expand the fiber-optic cable production factory in Hong Kong, while going to the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone to select a site for the construction of a fiber-optic production factory to prepare for the upcoming huge orders.

Because Wang Jiankun did not spend much money on researching optical fiber, and he was not prepared to make huge profits from such a basic product, his pricing principle for domestic optical fiber cables was to be 10% cheaper than copper-core coaxial cables.

Of course, in some overseas countries, the price of fiber optic cables follows the pricing of American companies' products. The prices remain the same, but the performance must be ensured to be higher.

To this end, Wang Jiankun asked Zheng Tianming to recruit some optical fiber sales and research talents at the same time, preparing to promote Xingzhou Group's optical fiber around the world.

At this time, Sihai Group had found a small shipyard in Guangzhou to cooperate in the production of small fishing boats, laying the foundation for entering the shipbuilding industry.

For this reason, Wang Jiankun stayed in Guangzhou for a few more days and did not have the chance to go home with his mother.

During the few days he stayed in Guangzhou, he went to the shipyard to observe carefully and understand the current shipbuilding technology of such small shipyards in the country.

After he went there, he was still quite disappointed. The shipbuilding equipment of this shipyard was very primitive, and the fishing boats manufactured were a mixture of iron and wood. The size of the boats was also very limited. Due to the lack of lifting and welding equipment, the strength of the ship's iron plates was also relatively low. Therefore, these restricted the shipyard to only manufacture some fishing boats or small ferries under 25 meters.

Wang Jiankun learned about the shipbuilding situation from the shipyard's director, and then proposed upgrading the shipyard.

As the technical consultant of Sihai Group, he replanned the production process for the shipyard. He also used his superpowers and combined it with equipment available on the market to provide the shipyard with a variety of welding machines and bending machines.

At the same time, he also asked the Sihai Group to start purchasing ordinary ship steel plates in Hong Kong and provide them to the shipyard, so that they could start by manufacturing all-steel fishing boats and improve the skills of welders and benders. At the same time, they would gradually recruit 60 apprentices to practice welding and bending processes.

Because conventional shipbuilding requires the most and most demanding skilled workers are welders, followed by benders. Others such as hoists and porters do not require any skills and can start work after a little training.

It is very difficult to recruit skilled workers for domestic state-owned shipyards at the moment. Currently, the domestic shipbuilding industry is still very prosperous, so shipbuilding companies are operating relatively well, and the workers' wages and benefits are quite guaranteed. Therefore, Sihai Group can only train its own technical personnel first.

When Wang Jiankun left, he also provided drawings of several small all-steel fishing boats, asking the shipyard to trial-produce them one by one. If the fishing boats pass the sea trials, they will be provided to the subsidiary Sihai Fisheries in succession.

At this time, Sihai Fisheries already has 25 fishing boats of about 16 meters in length and 40 fish-collecting boats of 3 meters in length. In addition to going out to sea to fish and transport fish, these boats are also constantly training reserve captains and crew members.

The captains trained by the Sihai Fishery Team all at least know how to read nautical charts, use sextants, magnetic compasses and other navigation equipment, and are familiar with the ocean currents, monsoons, typhoons and other climates in several important sea areas in the country.

So after more than half a year of training, batches of captains and crew members have been trained, and now people are starting to wait for ships.

It is certainly impossible for Wang Jiankun to continue using his superpowers to manufacture large objects such as ships in the future, so a shipyard is definitely necessary. Moreover, as talents are gradually trained and the group grows and develops, more and more ships, and larger and larger ships, will be needed in the future.

Currently, all fishing boats are built by Wang Jiankun, and small and medium-sized cargo ships are ordered from Japan and South Korea or purchased directly as second-hand ships in Hong Kong. For Wang Jiankun who wants to own a navy, this must change as soon as possible.

In addition to a joint venture with a small shipyard in Guangzhou, Sihai Group is also investigating several coastal provinces in China to see if it can build a wholly-owned shipyard, starting with medium-sized cargo ships. Wang Jiankun will provide most of the corresponding technical equipment, and a small part will be purchased from abroad.

However, the results of the current contacts are not very good. Some provinces hope to retain Sihai Group's investment, but dare not agree to the request for sole investment, so the current project progress is slow.

However, Wang Jiankunkun also asked his uncle to start preparations in Myanmar, and to build a shipyard near Yangon in the capacity of a British company, so as to make preparations for both situations, and to develop in whichever place is landed first.

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"Jiankun, we're here. Did you hand in your paper early? You've even cooked the rice and washed the vegetables." Yu Zirun walked ahead of the group of people into the recycling station. Seeing Wang Jiankun preparing dinner, he spoke first.

"Yeah, you all handed in your papers after the bell rang, right?"

"Yes, didn't you say that we should treat every exam as the college entrance examination? So we didn't hand in the papers in advance, and we checked them carefully after finishing them, trying not to lose points due to carelessness." Zheng Qian replied. She is now in her third year of high school. After Wang Jiankun's continuous teaching, her grades have been very stable. Her shortcomings in English and mathematics have been made up. As long as nothing unexpected happens, she will definitely be able to get into Peking University in this year's college entrance examination.

"Stop standing and talking, let's get started. We can talk while eating later. It's getting dark and the temperature is low now. Let's prepare the meal early and eat it early." Wang Jiankun interrupted Fang Guihua and the others when he saw them comparing answers.

Several people quickly put down their schoolbags, washed their hands, put on aprons and started to work.

Today is the last day of the final exams. Everyone remembered Wang Jiankun's words not to check answers after the exam so as not to affect subsequent exams. So after the last exam, everyone couldn't help but start checking answers.

However, at this time, the grades of Wang Jiankun's several major disciples were very good. Except for writing and some narrative questions, they almost got all the other objective questions right.

Except for Cheng Ming and Hu Chunming who were a little worse and sometimes stumped by the final math questions, the objective questions for others were almost not difficult.

When the meal was ready, everyone had almost got their answers right, and if nothing unexpected happened, their scores would be among the top 10 in the grade.

"Lang Junjian, when will the people in your CAD software development project team have their holiday?"

"We have a holiday tomorrow afternoon. Before the holiday, I will check the code carefully with the team leaders and test it again. After returning from the New Year, we will start the combination test. After the test team led by Fang Guihua and others has tested it, this CAD drawing software will be preliminarily completed. We will make some updates and fix some bugs based on the usage later."

"Oh, that's going pretty well. By the way, tomorrow you can give each team another bonus of 50 to 100 yuan to encourage their efforts during this period."

"They also gave out New Year bonuses. They paid salaries and project progress bonuses in the previous months."

"It's okay to give them some money. Let them go back and promote our computer training class so that more people can understand this new thing called computers. Let them know that in addition to studying hard to go to secondary school or university and become cadres, they can also get a good job by learning computers."

"Okay, Jiankun, I'll check the accounts with you later and then I'll take the money to give them bonuses. By the way, what should we do for the next project?"

"What do you think we should do?"

"Well, I think we should make image processing software and sound processing software. Didn't you say that in the future, computers will not only be used as scientific research and production tools, but also as entertainment products? Since we use computers for entertainment, image and sound processing software is definitely indispensable."

"Yes, your idea is very good. The performance of computers is quite average now. Let's develop image processing software and sound processing software first. When the performance of computers is sufficient, we will develop video processing software."

"Okay, now I have a direction. During the Chinese New Year, I will think carefully about the functions and corresponding frameworks required for these two softwares, and start working on them after the Chinese New Year."

"Then why don't you take a computer back? It's not convenient to write on paper."

"I'd better not take it. It's not good if the computer gets damaged due to bumps and bumps along the way. Besides, the voltage at home is not stable. Our team will definitely have frequent power outages during the New Year, so I'd better not take it back."

Wang Jiankun originally wanted to ask the team's truck to take a computer back with it, but when Lang Junjian said that their team's power supply was unstable, he didn't say anything.

The domestic electricity supply is very tight at this time. During the New Year period, the electricity needs of cities and important facilities are mainly guaranteed, and rural areas are often subject to power outages.

"Yu Min, how is the testing of the LED production equipment going?"

"It's still difficult to mass produce. If we want to change this equipment to an assembly line model, it seems to be very uneconomical. Jiankun, why don't we continue to produce it in the current mode? I calculated that this kind of production, like steelmaking, with intermittent shipments of one furnace after another, should be profitable. On the contrary, if we change it to an assembly line model, the difficulty of equipment manufacturing and production will increase sharply."

"You mean it's better to produce in small batches with multiple devices at the same time?"

"That's right. This way, the equipment is simple and the factory construction is also simple. All we need is a simple factory building, because we can produce LED epitaxial wafers with just one device, and we can add a few other devices for the other processes to complete the production."

"I'll think about it. After the New Year, I'll build a small test line according to your plan. Then you can take some time to show people how to operate the equipment."

"Okay, Jiankun, but the brightness of the LEDs currently produced doesn't seem to be very high. It doesn't seem to be very good for use during the day."

"Don't worry about that. All new technologies cannot be perfect when they first come out. This brightness is many times better than the products from foreign laboratories, and it is more than enough for nighttime and indoor use."

“Okay, so should I continue working on LEDs?”

"Do you have any good ideas?"

"Not yet, but I plan to study physics in college and do research in the nuclear field."

"Nuclear physics? Condensed matter physics? How about doing some physics experiments that have been completed overseas in the second half of the year, such as photoelectric experiments and nuclear experiments?"

"Ah, this kind of experiment requires very advanced equipment, and is there any point in repeating the experiment?"

"Some of the experimental equipment at the beginning are very common. I will provide them to you after the new year. In fact, they are easy to buy abroad. If you want to do physics research, do these basic experiments first to deepen your impression and understanding. Maybe you can make some new discoveries."

"Well, after that year I will do physics research and train in LED production."

After arranging Yu Min's follow-up work, Wang Jiankun asked Fang Guihua and others to continue the material testing. He is currently leading several people to conduct tests on superconducting materials and nano powder metallurgy.

The superconducting materials are mainly a series of combinations calculated by Zhizi that may form new superconducting materials. Wang Jiankun manufactured them according to the material composition provided by Zhizi and handed them over to them for testing, and fed back the corresponding results to Wang Jiankun. Wang Jiankun then selected some low-temperature superconducting materials for the Hong Kong laboratories to release one after another.

At present, more than 10 new superconducting materials with a temperature of around 30 to 50 K have been released, which have attracted the attention of many international research institutes. Judging from the recent publication of some papers, research in this field has been gradually heating up.

Wang Jiankun plans to use the boiling frog method to make the world accept that the critical temperature of superconducting materials is getting higher and higher. When the time is right, he will bring out high-temperature superconducting materials or even room-temperature superconducting materials to promote development around the world.

(End of this chapter)