Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 366 Rapid Development, Foreigners' Fear
"Oh my god, this is a cell phone? Why is it so small?"

"Boss, not only that, they said the communication function is better than a mobile phone, and it's so much cheaper, only 5,000 Hong Kong dollars."

"Fuck, it's so cheap, I'll buy one for each of you. One mobile phone is worth three of these!"

The emergence of Zhongxun mobile phones can be said to be a dimensionality reduction blow to the antique big brother mobile phones.

Not to mention the call quality, most people can’t tell.

Its compact size and stylish appearance alone are far beyond the reach of big mobile phones; it can be put in your pocket and taken out at any time, which is simply the dimensionality reduction attack of MP3 on radio.

Not to mention the price difference was three times. At that time, a mobile phone cost more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, while a Zhongxun phone only cost 5,000.

The price suddenly became three times cheaper, and even some grandpas and grandmas in Hong Kong were tempted. Within a few days, they began to discuss the Zhongxun mobile phone.

On the third day when Zhongxun Mobile opened, the only store in Hong Kong was instantly crowded with people. Some of them were assistants, some were juniors, and some were white-collar workers who wanted to buy for themselves.
In short, all the 1,000 units of goods prepared on the first day were sold out in less than two hours.

There are still many business tycoons who failed to get one. There are many wealthy people in Hong Kong, including officials, lawyers, doctors, etc. who can afford the price of Zhongxun mobile phones.

After that, you just need to sign up for the network and apply for a card, and then you can make and receive calls throughout Hong Kong; even calls to remote areas can be connected.

The communication signal station that Pan Heng asked the Hong Kong Communications Director to build was sufficient to cover the entire Hong Kong.

Manager Zhang, who was in charge of Hong Kong business, called Pan Heng immediately, but Pan Heng had no choice. Although the factory in Guangdong Special Economic Zone had started production, there were few skilled workers and not many equipment production lines.
He has already asked the China Communications Corporation in Sijiu City to ship the goods here, but it will take at least three days for 50,000 mobile phones to be delivered to the Guangdong Special Administrative Region.

During these three days, he could only supply 500 units to Hong Kong every day, and even the supply to the Guangdong Special Administrative Region had to be put on hold for the time being.

Mobile phones are also precision electronic products, and we must be extremely careful during production, otherwise the error rate will be very high.

They would not sell the broken phones, but Pan Heng felt very distressed when he saw the high error rate. Speeding up production would not only do no good, but would cause them to suffer considerable losses. After all, the cost of mobile phones was quite high.

So Pan Heng made repeated adjustments, found the most suitable production efficiency, and then transported the mobile phones to Hong Kong in batches.

According to their estimates of the communications business, their China Telecom mobile phones will be able to dominate the communications business in Hong Kong in less than three months.

Hong Kong is originally a small place, about the size of a city. Although it is developed, the population is concentrated in a few locations, so it is easy to expand.

This place is also a window to the outside world. Once the promotion in Hong Kong is completed, it can be promoted to other Asian countries.

The telecommunications business is still a blank window. There are not many Asian countries that have established telecommunications services. Even the more developed countries have not established a complete telecommunications business. It is a good opportunity for them to come in and help.

This news was soon reported back to the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building in New Taipei City. The good situation in Hong Kong made the leaders of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building overjoyed.

After being happy, he secretly cursed the former director of the wireless communications factory, whose surname was Zhao.

If they had developed and produced the Zhongxun mobile phone earlier according to Zhou Fengnian's assignment, wouldn't they have been able to make money half a year earlier?
Now the balance of more than 1 billion yuan may have been recovered. Mr. Zhao is really picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons.

They already have a technological trump card in the form of "Computer Science", and now they have added a communications business, along with money-making products such as Zhongxun mobile phones.

Next year, these two factories alone may bring in $40 to $50 billion in foreign exchange for the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building.

The number of other factories combined might not be as large as that of Shenzhou Computer, and at that time the entire GDP of China was not very high, and their department alone could account for one-ninth of it.

What is this? This is glory!

Gu Wenjie couldn't stop laughing when he heard the news. He was given such a great honor before retirement. Could he consider staying in some second-tier units for a while?
He didn't feel that he was greedy for power, but he felt uncomfortable having nothing to do after retirement.

Generating revenue on a large scale is always a good thing. After learning about this, the leaders of China Overseas also smiled happily.

Now he has a China Telecom mobile phone, and the phone number is very easy to remember. Although it is usually installed by his assistant, the leader has to come in person to make and receive calls.

In the office, Wang Mingjie was reporting recent events to Zhou Fengnian. Even if Zhou Fengnian didn't care, there were some things he had to know.

As for whether Zhou Fengnian wants to take care of it after knowing it, it’s up to him. If he doesn’t want to take care of it, he can leave it to others and he will focus on technical issues.

Zhou Fengnian wanted to be directly appointed as the vice president of the Academy of Sciences. With his qualifications, he would most likely be appointed as a deputy secretary or something, and then be promoted to a full-time position.

There aren't a lot of administrative things to do, and I can focus on technical issues. My status is much higher than the deputy position here.

The thing is that things haven't been dealt with yet, and if Zhou Fengnian leaves now, it feels like he's putting the brakes on halfway.

"Leader, Director Pan from the Guangdong Special Zone sent a report that it is expected that 100,000 Zhongxun mobile phones will be sold in Hong Kong by the end of the year. They are already stepping up the training of overseas personnel and will contact Xiaorizi and Singapore in April next year."

"The working group sent by the Nuclear Power Energy Committee has returned, the construction plan has been confirmed and issued, and the report was submitted yesterday."

"By the way, Boss, the French nuclear power engineers want to visit our nuclear power project and have submitted their applications."

Wang Mingjie reported a lot of things. After he finished reporting each thing, if Zhou Fengnian did not respond within five seconds, it meant that he was not interested in the matter and it was not very important.

Put it aside if necessary, or respond later.

Although he holds a position in the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building, Wang Mingjie is now involved in other matters every day and is so busy that he hardly goes home, but at least he has grown a lot.

The first secretary of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building is definitely not Gu Wenjie's assistant, but at this stage it is definitely Wang Mingjie.

Zhou Fengnian suddenly stopped what he was doing, looked up and asked, "Nuclear power engineers from France? When did they submit their applications?"

Wang Mingjie took a look and said, "Just five days ago."

"Foreigners are still trying to make fun of us. Let them watch. They can watch whatever they want regarding safety measures, but the nuclear power technology cannot be leaked."

Zhou Fengnian paused for a moment, and then continued after more than ten seconds: "Mingjie, you will issue a safety planning document to the Nuclear Power Energy Committee in my name.

Ask them to strictly follow the construction standards and report immediately if they don’t know how or are uncertain, otherwise the individual or group will be held accountable.”

The foreigners probably want to make a fuss about nuclear safety. If they find any problems, they will magnify them infinitely. If we don't let them come, they will spread rumors, and it will be troublesome to do trade if the country's credibility is low.

Zhou Fengnian wanted to hang all these foreigners to death. He felt that after he came to power, he would press the nuclear weapons launch button sooner or later. These insects would only hinder the progress of human development because of their evil. They were a hindrance to the human race as a whole.

After Wang Mingjie wrote down Zhou Fengnian's request in detail, he replied, "I understand, leader. I'll give it to you for review after I finish writing it."

"Also have them keep an eye on outsiders. The technology must not be leaked. If they find any signs, they must be strangled to death!"

"I understand, Leader."

China's recent development speed is as fast as that of rocket development, and they are indeed developing missiles.

Once the missile project is completed, they will be able to diversify their tactical missiles and greatly enhance their short and long-range strike capabilities.

The battery research and development project led by Zhou Fengnian has also made considerable progress. All of his simulations once a month are used for battery experiments.

The high-density lithium-sulfur battery project is now halfway completed, but due to current technological limitations, the final battery density may be only half of the ideal one.

But it is enough, and even if it is half, it is enough to extend the activity time of the Spider Type 1 robot three times.

This allows the Spider-Type 1 robot to not only formulate more tactics, but also double the power of its self-destruction.

The cost is a little higher, but it's worth it.

After the latest high-density batteries are manufactured, we will also develop battery technology for commercial electronic products. However, Zhou Fengnian will not be in charge at that time.

After Lu Junfeng finished the reform of the energy-storage battery factory in Jinkou, he went to Henan Province and worked there for three months.

Finally, the factory merger was agreed upon and nearly a thousand people were brought in, and not a single technical person was let go. Lu Junfeng knew that Zhou Fengnian valued technical personnel very much, so he used his eloquence to persuade them all to come over.

The acquisition of this battery factory in Henan Province still cost Zhou Xianyang a lot of money. Not only did he use up all the bank loans, but he also lost one month's net profit of Feiyang Electric Factory.

There are benefits as well. After the merger of the two factories, the energy storage battery factory has become the largest battery factory in the country. However, it has no outstanding product yet.

However, Zhou Xianyang believed in his father. When it came to technology, he had no doubts at all. He originally had the opportunity to pursue a technical career. With his father's support, he was considered a typical second-generation academic.

But this way Zhou Xianyang would never be able to surpass his father Zhou Fengnian in his entire life. Seeing no hope of surpassing him, he changed his career path.

Zhou Xianyang quite likes the current situation. He pays the money, and his father Zhou Fengnian researches technology to help him make money. He is a bit like his 'employee'.

It is impossible for foreigners to know about military research, but industrial development is somewhat transparent, especially since the country is still in the process of reform and opening up, the data on the surface are almost transparent.

Especially with the recent development of digital communications services and the invention of such a compact and practical mobile phone, the hardliners among foreigners can no longer sit still.

They are already trying their best to suppress it, but it seems to be ineffective?
But we cannot ban the import of Shenzhou computers and machine tools. They need these things in their country. If the import is banned, it will be the middle and lower class people who will cause trouble.

China's technological development is faster than they imagined, and sanctions and sales bans seem to be of no use.

Logically speaking, when the first generation of communication technology was not yet popular, China came up with a digital communication technology that was better than honeycomb coal communication technology, which really made them hate it.

It's not that the Amei government didn't investigate, but when they finally found out that Zhou Fengnian was the real culprit, they were extremely upset.

Five years ago, Zhou Fengnian visited Amei, but at that time, the honeymoon period between China and Amei reached its peak. In order to deal with the Russians, most people promoted the establishment of diplomatic relations with China.
In addition, Zhou Fengnian had only achieved great success in machine tools and computers at the time, and was considered a threat by the insiders, but they would not take action in front of the other party's leaders. They should also be on guard against Zhou Fengnian getting into trouble and disrupting the establishment of diplomatic relations.

So at that time, Amei specially protected Zhou Fengnian.

However, in just a few years, the changes in China have made me regretful.

Computers, semiconductors, digital communications, robots, automobile energy saving, etc. are all related to Zhou Fengnian. He seems to know everything and can do everything.

It was too late for them to react now. At the beginning of the year, they wanted Qian and Zhou to come together, but they both ignored them.

One of them is missing now and no one knows where he has gone. We can’t search such a big country like China all over again. The other one is in Sijiu City, but the security is too strict.

Not to mention getting close, even if they were looking for a middleman, it would be difficult for them to get close to Zhou Fengnian; the guards around him seemed to be equipped with malicious detectors, and they would accurately pick out anyone who had bad intentions towards the target.

If you want to get close to Zhou Fengnian, you have to use some special means and transfer the guards around him.

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"Chief, the voltage is very stable and the rate of decrease is within expectations."

"It seems that the energy density is at least 900 as we measured."

"It's really amazing. The battery before was not even one eighth of the current one. It has increased so much in an instant."

The test has been going on for a while, and all the data are in line with the experimental expectations, which makes most people overjoyed.

It’s just a pity that they didn’t even participate in the research and development of such advanced battery technology, and only got the credit for testing.

It was equivalent to a big dish, and they used the steamed buns to dip a little bit of the soup.

After the energy storage battery factory completed the merger, half of the management was laid off and replaced, and the workers in the workshop who were cheating were also laid off.

The new management team is basically selected by both the research institute and Zhou Xianyang, and all major decisions must be reported and backed up to prevent anyone from monopolizing power.

Zhou Xianyang has also placed people in the factory, so it is unlikely that they will be able to monopolize power.

All the skilled workers and technical researchers stayed on, and it is the technicians from the new factory who are now testing the No. 1 energy storage battery.

This is the battery technology sent from Sijiu City. After they have thoroughly studied and manufactured the new battery, they have stepped up testing of its performance.

The first batch of customized batteries they made will have to be sent to Sijiu City for further testing after this stage of testing is completed.

A few days later, after the energy storage battery factory completed the test, the new batteries were urgently delivered to Sijiu City and installed on the Spider-Type 1 special robot for further testing.

Zhou Fengnian also came to watch in person. Once they pass the test, they will be deployed to the army and undergo actual combat tests in the military.
(End of this chapter)