Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 230: Wang's production team is moving towards a prosperous life, leading the country

After Wang Jiankun got home, he completely relaxed. He hadn't been home for more than half a year since he left home after the Chinese New Year. He had been busy with this and that and hadn't had a good rest.

After my grandparents and parents got home, they started to get busy. My grandfather sat at home for a while and then went to the team office. He had been away for almost half a month and had a lot of official business to deal with.

Grandma and my eldest aunt checked the house inside and out and also prepared lunch.

My father first accompanied my mother to the factory office of the team. After counting the accounts and cash, he rode his motorcycle to Fengshan Commune. His leave this time was long enough, so he had to hurry to report to Secretary Cheng.

After returning home, sister Xiangxiang took her cousin Yueyue into her own room to share the gifts she brought back.

Wang Jiankun used his superpowers to check the house inside and out, focusing on the security measures and safes that had been set up previously.

The security measures were all good and there were no problems. There were hundreds of thousands more RMB in the safe and several hundred kilograms more gold. The gold should have been brought back from the lighters sold in Yangzhou.

Previously, they stopped for a while because they were afraid that the shipping team would find out. Later, after Wang Jiankun created the new humans, after a period of testing, when it was determined that the reliability and practicality met the requirements, they sent many new humans to the shipping team. They will help Wang Jiankun and the Star Group to perform some confidential tasks, such as transporting payment for goods and gold.

After completing the inspection, he went back upstairs to his room to rest and did not come down until almost lunchtime.

The lunch was very sumptuous, with fried river fish, steamed pork with rice flour, stewed tofu, steamed fish with bacon, fried cucumbers, fried beans, etc., filling the table.

"Aunt, has my uncle taken on many projects this year?" At the dinner table, Wang Jiankun asked about his uncle's situation.

"Too many, too many to handle. Many small projects were postponed because of lack of time. Now he has set up an engineering company according to your suggestion and registered it with the county. Currently, he is leading two teams with the best technology to work on the big projects in the county, and the other three small teams are doing some smaller projects in various towns. All the projects for individual house construction have been postponed and given to those small engineering teams."

As mentioned before, because the luggage factories, motorcycle parts factories and assembly plants invested by Xingyao Group in the county have been put into production one after another, almost all the idle labor force in the entire county has been recruited to work. After receiving their wages, the first thing these workers from the rural areas do is to renovate their houses in their hometown or find a new site to build a new house.

So starting from the second half of last year, a wave of house building began in rural areas across the county.

My uncle's engineering team continued to expand its staff and took on many of these self-occupied housing projects. Later, Wang Jiankun gave him some advice, introduced him to Chen Xingdong, the president of the Xingyao Group, and sent several new construction engineers to join his engineering team. From then on, my uncle's engineering team began to become regular, gradually turning down these self-occupied housing projects and focusing on medium and large-scale construction projects such as factories, roads, and bridges.

"That's good. We still have to expand on a larger scale. No matter how many projects we do for personal housing, we can't improve our technology. After we have accumulated experience in the county, we can try to expand to Raozhou or even the provincial capital Hongdu. Xingyao Group is investing in those places. I will tell my uncle to ask his people to take care of my uncle's engineering team."

"Hey! Okay, I'll go back and tell your uncle, thank you, Jiankun. Come on, brother and sister-in-law, I'll toast you a glass. If it weren't for you guys helping us, we wouldn't know where to beg for food."

"Don't say that! We are all family, we should help each other. Come on, let's have a drink together," said the father.

"You should unite and help each other in the future. And Yingzi, you should stop being so busy with your careers and pay more attention to the child. Before, you were in poor conditions and your health was weak, so I didn't say much. Now that your family is well-off, you only have Yueyue as your child. You will be very lonely in the future." Grandpa saw that the eldest aunt was still drinking, so he knew that she was not pregnant yet, so he gave her a few words of advice at the table.

"Dad, my husband has been busy in the county for the past six months. I have to stay at home to take care of Yueyue, so it's not convenient for me to go with him. But don't worry, after this busy period, when the county project is ready, we will definitely hurry up."

"Well, the birth policy is getting tighter and tighter now. In the past few years, it was only required for cadres and formal workers, advocating that a couple only have one child. If the first child is a daughter, they can be allowed to have a second child after 5 or 6 years.

Now the higher-ups are requiring full implementation, and big cities are already advocating for everyone to have only one child. It won’t be long before the policy reaches us, and it will be too late for you to have more children by then. Now that you have good conditions, you can definitely have more.”

"I understand, Dad. I'll tell my wife when I get home to take care of this matter."

After listening to this, Wang Jiankun used his superpowers to check on his aunt and found that there was nothing wrong with her. If she prepared well, she should be able to get pregnant soon.

Yueyue and Xiangxiang were still fighting over the food, completely unaware that she was about to have a younger brother or sister.

After lunch, Wang Jiankun visited several factories to help digest the food.

The production lines of old-style metal lighters have been reduced to 12, and the main production lines are now brass and galvanized iron. Only two gray iron production lines are left, and the others have been transferred to Yangzhou. Hu Yuefei and Ge Tianwei opened a factory to manufacture old-style metal lighters, focusing on the production of painted gray iron lighters.

The springs were purchased from the spring manufacturing plant in Fengshan Commune, the flints containing rare earths were purchased from the flint manufacturing plant set up by Xingyao Group in Dexing, and the gray cast iron for the outer shell was purchased from the Bendi Steel Plant in Yangzhou. There are many private iron and steel plants there. Wang Jiankun indicated that Xingyao Group had provided several sets of iron-making and rolling equipment specializing in the production of lighter parts to the iron and steel plants there.

The Xingyao Group determines the output of the factory in Yangzhou based on the purchase volume of flints, and then charges them a certain patent fee.

However, from the economic intelligence collected, the Japanese are already preparing to spread the production technology of flints and springs to the mainland. They think that since their own production costs are high and they cannot compete with the products of Xingyao Group, they will turn the table over and, through the diffusion of technology, allow more domestic factories to produce such lighters. They will just charge some technical service fees, so that they will not be unable to make any money in the overseas market now.

So the bad thing about low-end products is that they will face competition at any time, and this competition is unavoidable, and the time they can maintain high profits is very short.

Wang Jiankun naturally did not want to be involved in this kind of competition, so he planned the future development path for his hometown early on.

Now the production of plastic lighters has become mature and reliable. The injection molding machine designed by Tomoko and manufactured with his superpowers is very efficient and the quality of the products produced is also very good. It is very difficult for Japanese and European and American companies to reach the same technical level. If nothing unexpected happens, there will be at least 3 to 5 years of technical dividend period.

As for 3 to 5 years later, the production of optical lenses and optical instruments should have completed employee training and technology accumulation, and the products will have undergone multiple iterations, meeting the requirements of cost reduction and quality improvement, and can be launched on the market on a large scale.

At present, the scale of lens production in the team is not large. They mainly produce camera lenses and eyeglass lenses. In addition to supplying the Phoenix Camera Factory in Raozhou, they are also exported to Hong Kong and sold to some unknown brand camera companies in Europe and the United States. Because the quality is similar, the products produced by the production team are much cheaper than those produced by foreign companies.

Wang Jiankun calculated based on the speed of semiconductor development that in one or two years, a new type of camera, digital cameras, would come onto the historical stage and compete with film cameras.

Currently, Japanese companies' digital cameras use CCD chips (charge-coupled devices). The advantages of this chip are delicate imaging and extremely high pixel count. This chip is currently used in photographic reconnaissance satellites in Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union.

However, the disadvantages of this chip are also very obvious, namely, it is large in size, high in power consumption, high in price, and difficult to manufacture. It is only suitable for large and medium-sized imaging devices. It is very difficult to reduce the chip size, power consumption, and manufacturing costs. This is determined by its imaging principle.

Based on Zhizi's simulation and his own trial production using his superpowers, Wang Jiankun decided to go with the CMOS chip (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) technology route.

Currently, if a 0.5-micron (500-nanometer) precision lithography machine is used for production, the pixel of a digital camera assembled with this chip can reach 100 million, which is acceptable to ordinary people in the civilian market.

Wang Jiankun instructed Xingyao Group to set up a digital camera company, began trial-producing CMOS chips using the 0.5-micron production line, and started designing and manufacturing digital cameras.

Of course, the current manufacturing cost of this type of chip is still very high. Even with the assistance of Wang Jiankun's superpowers, when it is officially mass-produced, the electricity and materials consumed are still much higher than chips at the 1-micron level and above.

However, with the continuous improvement of technology and the continuous expansion of production scale, the price of chips produced with this process will drop drastically, and then digital cameras and mobile phones with camera functions can be launched.

And this price reduction trend will continue until it becomes dirt cheap, and then everyone can afford a digital camera or a mobile phone with a camera function.

Of course, at that time, more high-end digital cameras and mobile phones with higher pixels will also be launched, giving consumers more choices.

Mass-produced digital cameras and mobile phones with camera functions both require cameras and optical lenses, so the future prospects and financial prospects of the optical factory in my hometown are very bright, and the good life of my fellow villagers will continue.

After visiting the factory, Wang Jiankun rode his bicycle, which he hadn’t ridden for a long time, and walked around the team to see the living conditions of each household.

While visiting, he found that among the more than 60 households in the team, one-third had installed air conditioners, half had installed washing machines, every household had a refrigerator, and every household had at least one motorcycle.

He used his super powers to look around and saw that each household's kitchen had sufficient rice, flour, grain, oil, chicken, duck, fish and meat. This showed that the team members had reached a well-off standard and were moving towards a prosperous life.

This discovery made him very pleased. At this time, the lives of the members of the Wangjia Production Team were already at the forefront of the people across the country, and as long as they maintained this development momentum, their village might become the number one village in China in the future.

(End of this chapter)