Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 265 Visit and Cooperation

"Hello, Director Song, thank you for your help!" The three aerospace experts sent from China were very surprised to see Song Yumin arrive at the door of the hotel on time.

"Hello! I'm sorry for the delay. I really have something to deal with. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

Based on the shared intelligence, Song Yumin knew that these three people were indeed leading figures in the domestic aerospace field. They were the ones who followed Mr. Qian to build the Great Wall of Space for the motherland, so he was very humble and polite.

"No, no, your matter is more important. We can wait." The three men did not expect Song Yumin to be so humble, but since they had something to ask of him, they were still polite.

"I have already made time for it. You probably have a lot of research tasks to do, so you can't stay here for long. It's better to finish this discussion as soon as possible.

Let's go, get in the car first. Before we talk, I'll take you to visit our space command center. We were all busy before, so no one introduced it to you."

The four of them got into Song Yumin's large SUV. After the driver saw that everyone was seated, he notified the front and rear security vehicles to set off, and then started the car and drove towards the destination.

This car was designed by Zhizi two years ago. Wang Jiankun used his superpowers to help manufacture dozens of prototypes of different sizes and configurations, and then tested them at the Ningdiben base and the base in northern Myanmar for more than a year.

After the design was finalized, the First Automobile Manufacturing Plant in northern Myanmar began to formally build the production line and then put it into production at a rate of about 300 vehicles per month.

The first batch was mainly military models with simple interiors, emphasis on off-road performance, and also using diesel engines.

After the war of unification was completed, the First Manufacturing Plant added two further optimized production lines, mainly producing civilian versions, and the monthly production capacity of each production line reached 1200 vehicles.

The production line capacity is set so low mainly because there is not much external market for this model, and it is mainly purchased by middle and senior executives in the entire team, government agencies, and public institutions.

The external markets include only a few areas such as Iran, the areas controlled by local armed forces in South Africa, Libya, and northern Argentina.

Traditional automobile-consuming countries such as the United States, Japan and Europe simply cannot sell them.

However, at the beginning of 86, the joint venture automobile factory in Hongdu, the capital of Jiangxi Province, finally completed the approval.

The Hongdu Military Region put in a lot of effort and the head of the military region mobilized a lot of resources before they obtained the car manufacturing qualification certificate from their superiors.

Wang Jiankun had previously asked Chen Xingdong to invest in many small factories in Jiangxi Province.

With huge capital investments, these small factories have seen dramatic changes in their production capacity.

The processing accuracy has been gradually improved from hundreds of microns to 10 microns.

A large part of the parts for the cars produced by Myanmar's First Automobile Works are purchased from factories in Jiang Province.

In this way, during the period when the automobile manufacturing plant in Jiangxi Province had not yet obtained approval, a relatively complete automobile industry chain slowly took shape.

So at the beginning of 86, after the automobile manufacturing plant received approval from the higher authorities, the Hongdu Military Region mobilized the engineering corps to participate, and a large automobile manufacturing plant rose from the ground on the riverside in the Qingshan Lake area.

During the period when the factory was working day and night, a large number of retired soldiers came to the First Automobile Works in northern Myanmar.

Under the guidance of newbies, they became familiar with automobile assembly and debugging.

The number of people available for automobile manufacturing is actually very insufficient. In view of this situation, Wang Jiankun asked Zhizi to design a production line with very low intelligence and automation.

There are also very few electronic devices used on the production line in order to adapt to the situation of lower personnel quality.

The demand for cars at this time is not very large. Even with a low level of automation, the production cost is much higher than the most advanced automated factories in Japan and Germany, but this is the production line that best suits Myanmar and domestic conditions.

Although it is a low-automation production line, its production efficiency and quality are much higher than those of several domestic automobile manufacturers.

The production level is similar to that of SAIC Volkswagen, which went into production in September last year.

Leaders from Hongdu have visited the First Automobile Works in northern Myanmar many times before, and they highly praised the production equipment, measuring equipment, and management standards there.

They compared themselves with several other automobile manufacturers and felt that cooperation was very promising.

In addition, after learning that Xingyao Group has invested in dozens of upstream spare parts manufacturing plants in Jiangxi Province, we are even more looking forward to the cooperation.

Therefore, in addition to the Hongdu Military Region providing manpower and resources to the Jiang Province Automobile Manufacturing Plant.

After conducting numerous investigations, the leaders of Jiangxi Province allocated hundreds of millions of RMB from their already tight fiscal budget to invest in the automobile manufacturing plant.

They also hope that the car manufacturing plant can start production as soon as possible.

If the final assembly plant can be completed by the end of 86, then an SUV with 87% of its parts and components produced domestically will be available on the market in early 90.

This is a huge achievement.

You should know that SAIC Volkswagen's production is currently still in the form of CKD (complete knock-down assembly), and the localization rate is only 40%.

Song Yumin and three domestic aerospace experts sitting in the car at this time did not know this.

The three experts simply felt that the interior space of the car was very large, much larger than the 212 jeeps they had ridden in the country.

The comfort level is also much better than that of cars imported from the Soviet Union, Romania and other countries. When driving at high speed, the noise inside the car is also very low. In addition, the view outside when sitting in the car is also very good.

However, they are not the kind of people who seek enjoyment, and they are only concerned about matters in the aerospace field.

"We're here, let's get off."

"Okay, Lao Song, you go first."

The four people got off the car one after another, and Mr. Song walked in the front middle position.

At the entrance of the space center, Mr. Song looked at the iris scanner for a while and pressed his palm on a palm print scanner.

"Hello, Director Song, verification passed."

"Please provide three Level 3 visitor access cards." Song Yumin said while looking at the camera.

"Roger, please wait."

About a minute later, three white visitor cards the size of bank cards popped out from the window.

Song Yumin reached out and took it out, then distributed it to the three people behind him who were staring in amazement.

"Old Song, your access control system is so advanced, how can it understand what you say? Is the person you are talking to the on-duty personnel inside?" said one of the experts after taking the card.

"Hey, it's nothing advanced. Iris and palm print scanning are basic applications of laser dot matrix technology. The one talking to me is a primary artificial intelligence, but sometimes it's mentally retarded. If your answer is a little non-standard, or if you say something it hasn't heard before, it will give a random answer or ask you to repeat it again.

However, this can reduce the number of gatekeepers and make it almost impossible for people without authority to go to places they should not go.

I have applied for a Level 1 visitor badge for you. You must carry it with you at all times. If you don’t have it with you, the door will close immediately and you will be locked out.”

The three of them had originally taken the tags and put them in their coat pockets, but when they heard what Song Yumin said, they immediately took them out solemnly and put them in their underwear pockets.

The three people with authority followed Song Yumin and began their inspection.

"This is our computer cabinet. It is a mainframe specially made for us by Xingyao Group. It has a peak computing speed of 100 billion times per second. It is responsible for processing various incoming signals, as well as many simulation calculations such as orbit fitting, flight attitude fitting, etc." Song Yumin first introduced the dedicated computers in the space center.

"Are you also using Xingyao Group's computers? How come this 100 billion times computer is so small? It's even smaller than the 1 million times computer we have."

"This is the latest model of Xingyao Group. The chip inside is made with a 320-nanometer process, and the motherboard has also been redesigned, so the size can be so small. But I can't tell you what it is like in detail, as I'm not an expert in this area." Song Yumin gave a brief account of the chip and motherboard of this computer.

In fact, if he wanted to give a detailed introduction, he could do so. He had the authority to look up the relevant parameters of a conventional computer through the brain-computer chip and then tell the three people about it. However, he felt it was unnecessary as the three of them were not computer experts.

"320 nanometers, so advanced, no wonder! Old Song, are the chips used in your Canglong rocket also 320 nanometers?"

"This, um, is made with a 120-nanometer process and is manufactured on one of our own experimental lines, with very low production capacity.

The main reason is that our rockets need to process a lot of parameters, and the equipment cannot be very large, so we use the latest chip process. "

"What? 120 nanometer process? According to our reference information, the chip process in the world is still stuck above 240 nanometers. The latest chip process in Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries is still more than 300 nanometers. The nanometer has actually broken through to 120 nanometers." The three were shocked. They didn't expect that Lao Song would casually say a piece of news that made them dare not even think about it.

“Well, maybe they already have more advanced technology in their lab, but they are capitalists, so they won’t release new technology until the previous technology brings enough profit.

Take Intel for example. Before Star Group launched 0.5-micron chips, they had been selling 1-micron chips. After Star Group launched 3-micron chips, they launched 0.5-micron chips three months later. This shows that they already had the manufacturing technology for 0.5-micron chips, but they were not in a hurry to launch them on the market. "Song Yumin said after thinking for a while.

In fact, Lao Song was half right. In terms of the 0.5-micron process, Intel and AMD did work together to hide the technology for a long time.

From 1 micron to 0.5 micron, the technical difficulty to break through is very low, and it can be achieved by slightly updating the equipment accuracy and light source.

But from 0.5 microns to more than 300 nanometers, it becomes much more difficult.

After reaching 300 nanometers, further breakthroughs will require simultaneous breakthroughs in many technologies. Even some physical theories need to be further developed to guide manufacturing technology to further breakthroughs in higher processes.

Thanks to Wang Jiankun's cheating, Xingyao Group's chip manufacturing technology continued to make breakthroughs at a speed that was difficult for ordinary people to understand. Moreover, the new production line was built just after the previous generation of technology was put into production and the products were sold for half a year.

Because the chip manufacturing equipment of Xingyao Group is mainly made by Wang Jiankun using his superpowers to manufacture precision components, the cost is super low.

Wang Jiankun wants to accelerate the development of the electronics industry as quickly as possible through rapid iteration.

At present, the performance of chips with hundreds of nanometers is not enough for the development of automation equipment and artificial intelligence. However, his actions have attracted great attention from Europe, America, Japan and other countries.

Their own chips

After entering 86, dozens of agents from various countries were caught by the Xingyao Group every month.

Some of those who were unwilling to cooperate were humanely destroyed, while some of those who had a certain level of technical skills and were of use were implanted with brain-computer chips and then thrown into the arms of Quanjie.

"Okay, computer technology is not the main point I want to talk about. If you are interested, you can go to our electronics industry department to learn more. Next, I will show you how we manufacture rockets.

Of course, since the manufacturing factories are scattered all over the country, it would take too much time to visit them one by one, so I asked someone to prepare some videos shot from various factories, and then edited them. I will show them to you now." After Song Yumin and the other three digested his words, he took them to the small conference room and prepared to play some videos of rocket manufacturing.

"Watch the video? That's fine, but it would be better if we could go to the engine manufacturer or the rocket shell manufacturer to take a look," said one of the experts.

"Watch it first, and then we'll talk."

At this time, on the 55-inch large-size LED screen, a green dragon flew through the clouds and then turned into a dragon-shaped badge. That was the badge of the Quanjiezhen aerospace department.

After the opening animation, there is a video of the manufacturing of rocket parts one by one.

The three were surprised at first to see such a thin and large screen.

Although they had large-screen color TVs in the institute and could afford them at home, those TVs were CRT TVs with very large butts.

Looking at such a thin TV, they couldn't help but gain a new understanding of the industrial design and manufacturing capabilities of Myanmar, this emerging power.

At the beginning, there is a video of a 10,000-ton hydraulic press forging a metal blank for a rocket, with a voice-over and commentary playing while music is played.

The impeller of the turbine pump is an integrally formed titanium alloy part. The red-hot long cylindrical titanium alloy blank is flattened and rounded like dough under a 10,000-ton hydraulic press, and then the precision forging machine begins to trim the shape. This step can greatly reduce the amount of subsequent turning processing and reduce processing time.

The aluminum plate of the aluminum alloy shell is also pressed by a 10,000-ton hydraulic press. After this process, the aluminum alloy becomes more compact and its strength is greatly improved.

When the three aerospace experts saw this scene, they couldn't help but feel envious. At that time, there was only one 1-ton hydraulic press in the country, and it did not have the precision forging function.

The parts they use in the aerospace field can only be pressed with a 6-ton hydraulic press, which ranks them at the bottom among several major aerospace powers.

In the video, many parts blanks are also pressed through a 10,000-ton hydraulic press.

The next video was shot in a super sci-fi factory.

The lights inside are as bright as day, the floor is a space gray self-leveling floor, and large processing equipment is neatly arranged.

There were very few people inside, all wearing blue work clothes and hats.

Some of them just tap on the panel and the equipment starts working, while others use precision instruments to carefully measure the processed parts.

Each processing equipment has one or more robots to hold the moving parts, so workers hardly expend any physical effort.

At this time, the commentary talked about the equipment inside, but for confidentiality reasons, it was very brief and several sets of equipment that cannot be mass-produced by conventional methods were not introduced.

The three experts were completely stunned when they saw this.

At this time, domestic aerospace manufacturing plants, although they had purchased some high-precision machine tools from Europe, the United States and Japan through various channels, had also purchased several 5-axis CNC machining centers from Xingyao Group.

But compared with the automated manufacturing factories we see now, their equipment and production models seem very low-level.

Not only is the accuracy inferior, but the efficiency is also far behind.

"Old Song, can you sell these machine tools?"

"Um, probably not, at least not at the moment. But if you have any parts that need processing, you can let us do it. We'll charge you the cost, and you can also use other items to offset it."

When they heard Song Yumin say no, their eyes dimmed a little, but when they heard that they could help process the parts, they quickly asked, "Really? Then can our people track the processing process?"

"Hmm? Sure, but you can only look at the equipment and not touch it. You have to agree to that in advance. You can talk to the mechanical department about the details. Let's continue."

At this point, the video was sped up, and there was an animation clip showing rocket parts flying out from various equipment and factories and arriving at the rocket assembly plant in Yangon.

In the assembly plant, assembly engineers organize the rocket segments step by step according to the pulsating production line method.

After being inspected by a series of instruments, the assembled segments are sent to the vertical assembly plant for overall assembly and then tested one by one.

Here, the video ends.

"Old Song, why does your assembly line look like this? I just saw that there seemed to be 5 first stages, 6 second stages, and more than 10 third stages being assembled. Do you make so many?"

It turns out that at this time, in all countries in the world, building rockets would have a bunch of engineers revolving around the rocket, and the rocket would basically not move. Once it was built, it would be towed away, and then the rocket shell would be pulled in, and then the parts would be assembled one by one.

The Yangon Rocket Factory was modeled after the pulsating production lines used by Boeing and Lockheed Martin in the aircraft manufacturing industry.

In each huge factory, multiple rocket segments are manufactured simultaneously.

"Yes, this is based on the pulse production line of an American aircraft manufacturing company. It is more efficient." Song Yumin said with a little pride.

"So it's the Pulse production line. But Old Song, why do you make so many at once? Is there so much demand and so much funding?"

The three experts still don't understand why the efficiency is so high.

After all, both at home and abroad, the manufacturing of rockets is calculated on an annual basis. In the past few years, China has only manufactured more than 10 Long March series rockets in total. Although the United States and the Soviet Union are major space powers, they manufacture no more than 30 large rockets a year.

"We really have so many needs, but due to confidentiality issues, I can't say more. You will know after the rocket launch. After all, it needs to be reported."

"Ok."

When the three heard Song Yumin's reason for keeping the matter confidential, those who originally wanted to continue asking questions had no choice but to shut up.

"Old Song, I've watched the video and I'm shocked. I didn't expect your aerospace industry to have such strong manufacturing capabilities. In my opinion, it's not worse than the United States and the Soviet Union. I hope you can help China more in the future. You are also a talent from China. I owe you some of my previous actions. I hope you can put aside your past grudges."

"I have let it go. The country was indeed in difficulties before, and I had some problems myself. I won't say more. It's all in the past. Let's look forward. I will try my best to help. Quanjiezhen also hopes to strengthen cooperation with the country.

Let me reveal some more information here. For example, the purchase order for the 1.5-ton hydraulic press you just saw has already been placed in China. It is expected that a heavy machinery factory in your country will be equipped with this heavy equipment at the beginning of next year. We are also discussing larger tonnage machines.

Some domestic departments have also come to inspect other production equipment. If everything goes well, domestic manufacturing technology will soon change dramatically.”

"Really?"

"Of course, you can find out after you go back and ask around. Your level should be high enough to know these things, but don't tell anyone, otherwise the United States and Japan may interfere with these cooperations. After all, if we interfere, it will be difficult for them to sell their equipment."

"Okay, thank you very much, but we still want to see the manufacturing of rocket engines and the pulsating production line. Please help and show us."

"Okay, I'll apply to the higher authorities right away, but I still have a lot of applications to submit, so if you want to go on a tour, you can only be taken there by someone else."

"Okay, okay, you go do your thing, and the others can take us there."

In the next few days, the three experts from China visited the rocket engine manufacturing plant in northern Myanmar and the rocket assembly plant in Yangon.

After returning, the three explained to their superiors what they had seen, and some of the content also included photos and videos provided by Quanjiezhen.

Although some domestic experts were a little skeptical about what the few people said, they had to believe it based on the evidence from photos and videos.

So a large negotiation team was formed, led by people from the aerospace field, and they entered Myanmar via Yunnan on several planes.

The top leaders of the Quanjie Front sent U Nu and Song Yumin to receive them.

Afterwards, each department sent its chief engineer to take the people from China to visit the factories and high-tech equipment that were allowed to be open.

Experts from several fields in China were all shocked when they visited.

Although they knew that Quanjiezhen had an unknown technical team and origin, and they had imagined their advanced nature, it was still far superior to the advanced factories and equipment they had seen in Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries.

The people at Quanjiezhen already have a set of rigorous rhetoric about the source of all this. Although there are loopholes, everything is possible. Although the experts from China are skeptical, it does not hinder their subsequent cooperation.

After more than a month of visits, inspections and negotiations.

A cooperation plan of more than 1 pages came into effect after being signed by senior officials from both countries.

All of this was done in a low-key manner and was not reported by the media in either country.

After that, the development of domestic aerospace, steel, aluminum alloy, copper and other non-ferrous metal industrial manufacturing fields seemed to have taken off.

Wang Jiankun successfully provided powerful equipment and technology for domestic development through the two methods of Quanjiezhen and Myanmar.

This also lays a solid foundation for leading all mankind to explore extraterrestrial civilizations in the future.

(End of this chapter)