Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 254: Big Construction II

The previous chapter mentioned that rare earth permanent magnet motors have begun to be deployed in China, but it will still take a lot of time to achieve scale and large-scale production.

So Wang Jiankun asked Quanjiezhen to start negotiations with relevant Japanese companies, hoping to purchase and customize some rare earth permanent magnet motors.

As mentioned earlier, the Quanjiezhen has accepted a loan of 300 billion yen from Japan, and these loans have now begun to be transferred to accounts controlled by the Quanjiezhen as planned.

Therefore, after the money arrives, it needs to be spent as soon as possible to obtain greater benefits. Otherwise, if it stays in the account, you will just be paying interest in vain.

So it is only natural to purchase some products from Japanese companies.

Japanese companies were also pleased to accept orders from Quanjiezhen.

At this moment, Japan has the most developed permanent magnet motor technology and related industries.

Compared with traditional motors, rare earth permanent magnet motors have the advantages of high efficiency, light weight and high response.

At this time, this type of motor was widely used in Japanese home appliances and machine tools.

Products that use this type of motor have greatly reduced energy consumption and can be much smaller in size compared to traditional motors.

Therefore, Japanese products are moving towards becoming smaller and more energy-efficient.

These small and exquisite products are very popular among consumers in the international market.

At this time, the machine tools and some automated equipment produced by Xingyao Group still use traditional motors.

Although Wang Jiankun has designed many kinds of line group structures with the super design ability of Zhizi and his own super ability of rapid optimization and iteration, the efficiency of traditional motors has been greatly improved.

However, compared with the permanent magnet motors that Japan is vigorously developing, there is still a gap in energy saving, size, and timely response.

Moreover, Wang Jiankun has already reached the development limit of traditional motors, and it will be difficult to make any breakthroughs in this area in the future.

Therefore, it is time to replace the motors used in the machine tool industry with permanent magnet motors.

Therefore, at the end of November 1984, Wang Jiankun's uncle went to Japan on behalf of the Quanjiezhen and began to negotiate with major Japanese companies to purchase some emergency products.

"Mr. Cen! Where are you going to use so many small motors?" After signing the purchase contract, the president of Hitachi Metals asked my uncle why he needed so many motors.

Currently, there are three major companies in Japan that produce permanent magnet motors, namely TDK Corporation, Hitachi Metals and Sumitomo Special Metals.

However, TDK Corporation mainly produces ferrite permanent magnet motors, which are used in hard disk drive spindle motors and audio equipment.

Sumitomo Special Metals only invented neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) magnets in 1983 and started trial production in 1984, mainly supplying local electronics companies.

The motors they produce are very small, and the full array is not widely used at present.

The samarium cobalt (SmCo) permanent magnets and high-performance motors produced by Hitachi Metals are mainly used in industrial automation, and are very suitable for the medium-sized motors required by Xingyao Machinery at this time.

So this time when we purchased permanent magnet motors, we turned to Hitachi Metals.

In fact, some European and American companies also produce permanent magnet motors.

For example, General Electric (GE) in the United States has developed rare earth permanent magnet synchronous motors, which are mainly used in aerospace and high-end industrial equipment.

Arnold Magnetic Technologies specializes in samarium cobalt magnets and mainly supplies military and medical equipment.

Siemens, a European company, develops permanent magnet motors for use in CNC machine tools and rail transit traction systems.

Philips mainly produces miniature permanent magnet motors for consumer electronics (such as tape recorder motors).

The quality of American motors is very high-end, but the price is not acceptable to the full solution array at this time. In addition, the US government’s attitude towards the new full solution array control is very general, and American companies do not want to do business with what they think is a poor country.

The European company Siemens produces motors that are used in CNC machine tools, but after initial contact, they did not intend to sell those motors alone, but wanted Quanjiezhen to purchase their CNC machine tools.

After Cen Yong and his team had contacted the company several times, there was no progress, so they could only purchase permanent magnet motors from Hitachi Metals.

"Haha, President Sugishita, these motors we purchased are mainly used in the transformation of production lines and some electric equipment of some domestic enterprises. You know, we are vigorously developing the manufacturing industry. The motors used in some old equipment before were traditional motors with very high energy consumption. At the beginning, our power supply could not be built quickly, so it is very appropriate to use this low-energy consumption motor for the transformation of old equipment." Uncle Cen Yong said half-truthfully.

In fact, most of these motors are actually used in the renovation of some factory equipment in northern Myanmar.

Because the order volume was relatively large, Hitachi Metals agreed to produce according to the drawings provided by Cen Yong.

After these motors are delivered, they can quickly replace the previous traditional motors.

In this way, the factory's energy consumption can be greatly reduced, slightly alleviating the current electricity consumption pressure in the northern industrial base.

Although Wang Jiankun had already prepared for the upcoming industrial development last year and built many 300-megawatt helium-cooled nuclear reactors.

Currently, these reactors have been started and operated one after another in the mountainous areas of northern Myanmar, providing a steady supply of electricity for industrial production in the north.

However, after conquering the entire territory of Myanmar, industrial development could no longer be focused solely on the highly confidential northern region. A large number of factories also needed to be built in the central and coastal regions.

However, the Myanmar government’s infrastructure construction was very poor and its electricity development was even more backward.

Only a few medium and large cities have thermal power plants and some small hydropower plants. Most rural areas are completely dark at night with no lights.

So now the Quanjie Front wants to build a large number of factories in the central and southern regions, and the electricity supply is in great shortage.

Since the central and southern regions were newly conquered areas, there must be a large number of dissidents and agents from various countries mixed in there.

Therefore, these areas cannot use small, rapidly deployable helium-cooled nuclear reactors.

Thermal power plants and hydropower plants must be built step by step according to conventional methods.

The construction period of a thermal power plant varies.

If we are building large units (power range 300 MW - 600 MW) like those currently available in a few developed countries in the world, the construction period will be very long, about 5 to 8 years.

For example, the United States and Japan have put into operation supercritical units (pressure 24 MPa, temperature 566°C), with an efficiency of over 40%.

The equipment manufacturing cycle took about 3 years.

Infrastructure projects are also very complex and time-consuming.

The reinforced concrete frame structure of the main factory building has a span of 30-40 meters, and currently only engineering teams from a few countries are able to build it.

The cooling tower adopts a natural ventilation hyperbolic tower (100-150 meters in height), and its construction difficulty is no less than that of the main factory building.

There are also large-scale coal transportation systems (dedicated railway lines or belt conveyors (up to 5 kilometers in length)).

Environmental protection facilities: The chimney height must reach 150-250 meters to disperse smoke and dust; ash field: open-air stacking, simple anti-seepage treatment.

Wang Jiankun had previously built thermal power plants for bases in northern Myanmar and power plants affiliated with several large enterprises.

The power of these units is about 50 megawatts. In addition, his super powers were used in the site selection, initial construction and installation of the generator sets, so the construction period was very short, only two or three months.

Now that the central and southern regions are going to build regional power supply centers, the small power plants he built before will no longer be suitable.

Therefore, taking all factors into consideration, medium-sized power plants (power range 100 MW - 300 MW) are more suitable.

At this time, China introduced a 300MW unit from the United States, the GE 300 MW unit.

Wang Jiankun took some time to visit Jiangsu Province in China. The power plant was almost completed. American engineers had already completed the installation of the units and were about to begin trial operation.

After he got there, he disguised himself, sneaked into the power plant, and projected the entire power plant into his mind.

In addition, relevant architectural drawings and installation and testing engineering specifications were found at the residence of American engineers.

He copied them all.

Then he returned to Mandalay and began to direct the construction of the first medium-sized thermal power plant.

Mid-January 1984.

On the outskirts of Mandalay, on a small hill along the river.

A large number of workers were sweating profusely, digging and transporting away the surface soil at the power plant site by carrying it on their shoulders and hands.

Most of the workers mobilized to the construction site are farmers from southern and eastern Mandalay.

And the majority of them are young and middle-aged people, with relatively few young and middle-aged people.

Most young and middle-aged people go to work at railway construction sites, because the construction period there is very long, workers can work for a long time after joining, and the salary is higher than some odd jobs.

Therefore, the only people who can do the earth-clearing work at this temporary construction site are the farmers with weaker working abilities.

Wang Jiankun would take some time every two days to visit the construction site and give guidance to the engineers there. He would also take a break from the extremely strenuous superpower manufacturing work and relax his brain.

Because large-scale construction has already begun, many things have not been thought of before. Now we need to develop rapidly and vigorously, and some bottleneck equipment requires Wang Jiankun to use his superpowers to temporarily manufacture them.

Logically, it would be faster to construct this power plant site using small and medium-sized excavators, bulldozers and other construction machinery.

However, the power plant's generator sets, boilers, steam turbines, etc. still require Wang Jiankun to use his super powers to manufacture and test them.

Some power plant construction workers and subsequent operation and maintenance personnel require Wang Jiankun to use his super powers to manufacture.

Because there were no suitable skilled workers in Myanmar at that time, most of the natural persons who had brain-computer chips implanted had already found a job, and their knowledge was fixed. The assistance that brain-computer chips could provide was not particularly useful for new jobs.

So in order to save trouble later, he went to the base in northern Myanmar to create some new humans.

After these people are manufactured, they can cooperate with him to test the manufactured equipment while familiarizing themselves with the power plant construction and maintenance technology copied from China.

It is the dry season now, and only a few women can do the work in the fields, so there is still a lot of surplus labor in the countryside.

Therefore, during this period of time, the land leveling work can be handed over to those who are not busy with farming.

The steel tools produced by Gaoya Steel City were loved by the workers from rural areas. After the management found out about this, they asked Wang Jiankun if they could give these steel tools to the farmers for free after the project was completed.

Wang Jiankun certainly agreed.

These tools are actually of very low cost. The iron ore used by Gaoya Steel City is low-grade iron ore, and the efficiency of iron smelting using the flash iron smelting method is super high.

These tools made of primary carbon steel are prepared for these people. Even if they are not told, these workers will be allowed to take them away when the project is completed.

Because the cost of recycling these steel tools is no lower than smelting them directly from iron ore, there is not much point in recycling them.

And after the civil engineering work is completed, some mechanical equipment will be used for construction.

These rural people who came to work cheered when they heard the foreman say that he would let each of them take a few tools away for free.

Then I worked harder, but also took better care of my tools.

In this way, after about two months of hard work by more than 2000 migrant workers, the earth excavation and leveling work of this medium-sized power plant was completed.

On the ground, the soil brought by the Irrawaddy River from upstream has been dug away, revealing the solid rock layer underground.

At this time, the first batch of construction machinery manufactured by the joint venture construction machinery factory in Guang Province was also shipped to Yangon, and then transferred from Yangon to the C-3000 transport ship and transported upstream along the Irrawaddy River to Mandalay.

After more than a month of training, the new engineering construction personnel began to start the construction machinery a little clumsily.

After more than 10 minor collisions and 2 more serious capsizing accidents, these new-generation engineering and construction personnel were finally able to master these engineering equipment proficiently.

On New Year’s Day, January 1985, 1.

Foundation pouring work has begun on Myanmar's first medium-sized power plant.

On the river, cement, sand and gravel brought by C-800 transport ships are transported via conveyor belts to the mixing station built on the riverside.

In the mixing station, in 6 tall cylinders, cement, sand, gravel and water are mixed in certain proportions by the new human engineers.

The motor drives the mixer inside to stir vigorously to mix the several materials evenly.

When the time comes, medium-sized cement tankers reverse to the discharge ports of these mixing stations.

The mixed concrete cubes flowed into the large tanks of the cement trucks.

If the car is full, drive away quickly to leave space for the next one.

In this way, truckloads of concrete were transported to the power plant site by cement tankers.

The three concrete pouring machines that have been prepared here are connected to the discharge port of the cement tanker.

"Prepare for pouring, those in charge of the exit below, please pay attention." On the intercom, the person in charge of the pouring work reminded the workers below that the concrete was about to come out through the pipe.

"Got it. We are ready and can start pouring." The team leader in charge of controlling the discharge position replied via the intercom.

Boom~~, driven by the motor, the concrete rises rapidly in the pipe. After reaching the highest point, it descends along the pipe and sprays out from the discharge port.

The workers in charge of controlling the material discharge below instantly felt that the nozzle had become much heavier. They began to move with difficulty, spreading the concrete evenly into the steel cage below.

In this way, gravel, cement and sand were transported from various places in shiploads, then mixed with water and laid on the power plant site.

The entire pouring process was continuous, with the participation of more than 40 pieces of construction machinery and more than 300 new human engineers. It took more than 10 years to lay the foundation of the entire power plant flat.

The next step is to wait for the concrete to solidify and reach a certain strength, and then the construction of the ground building can begin.

(End of this chapter)