In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 127 Who is the real capitalist?

"Did he go from school to Harbin Institute of Technology, and then to China Southern Airlines?"

Seeing Li Rui's smug look, Xie Wei asked.

Zhao Xi, the father of China's UAV, graduated from Beihang University and then entered the Air Force Test Base. In the early stage, he was mainly responsible for improving the Changkong-1 UAV, and thereby accumulated a lot of experience in UAVs.

Finally, he was hailed as the father of drones for his contributions in the field of drones.

Someone from China Southern Airlines is definitely not the father of drones.

"Yes, Comrade Feng Bingyi was a member of the Changkong No. 1 project team and is proficient in radio remote control technology..."

Li Rui proudly introduced to Xie Wei the team leader and several core members who came from China Southern Airlines.

These people were among the 800 brave warriors recruited from all over the country by Harbin Institute of Technology after the founding of the People's Republic of China. When Harbin Institute of Technology was established, they were asked by the leaders to work as teachers at Harbin Institute of Technology School.

When Harbin Institute of Technology moved south, part of it was assigned to China Southern Airlines.

The core team now arranged by the troops to support the improvement work of Changkong-1 were all transferred from China Southern Airlines.

"Can China Southern Airlines agree to release the person?"

Xie Wei was not as happy as Principal Li. He did not have Principal Li's mentality of not caring about anything as long as the school could develop military technology.

It has only been two years since the college entrance examination was resumed, and there is a shortage of people everywhere in the country. The major colleges and universities that train talents are also short of teachers. Many schools have special teacher training classes. Even in various parts of the country, in order to make up for the shortage of teachers in the basic education system, secondary technical school-level normal colleges have been established in many places across the country.

The backbone personnel assigned to NPU from Harbin Institute of Technology are actually willing to be arranged to Harbin Institute of Technology.

Doesn’t China Southern Airlines lack people?

Or do the leaders of NPU think that people who are seconded to HIT can still go back?

There must be a problem!
"Why don't you agree? It's the army's order! Besides, the project to improve the performance of Changkong-1 is a key project... Only a more flexible drone can better discover the deficiencies of air defense during live-fire shooting and improve them..."

Principal Li looked at Xie Wei in confusion.

Normally, Xie Wei is smarter than anyone else, so how could he be so confused about this matter!

Everyone is here.

Looking at Li Rui's expression, Xie Wei shut up instantly and swallowed back the words that were on the tip of his tongue.

"You can meet with them later. They are familiar with the technology of Changkong No. 1, but our school is more familiar with the control system. Both sides should discuss and come up with a plan first. The two million given by the Air Force is not easy to take!"

"Principal, if the project progresses quickly, will the Air Force provide additional funding?"

Xie Wei's words stunned Principal Li for a moment.

Subsequent additional funding?

This was not discussed.

Seeing Li Rui's expression, Xie Wei knew: The principal was probably tricked by the Air Force again!
With 200 million yuan of funding, we will develop a more advanced drone based on the Changkong- drone!

"Well, the progress is fast. As long as there are certain results, the army should provide additional funds..."

Looking at Xie Wei's eyes, Principal Li felt uneasy for no reason.

He didn't dare tell Xie Wei that he had spent a lot of effort to get funds from the already poor Air Force, and even guaranteed that in addition to the 200 million, the school would use the policy of self-raised funds to make up for the shortfall.

The speed at which the school-enterprise office makes money seems to be slower than the speed of learning and carrying out projects?

And Xie Wei is the person behind the scenes of the School-Enterprise Office.

"Well, Xie Wei, we've been out for a few days. The school-enterprise office should be almost done with the Chemical Industry Bureau and department stores. You can go take a look..."

Xie Wei's eyes made Principal Li feel a little nervous.

I was afraid that if I continued talking, I would be exposed.

So he simply asked Xie Wei to go to Wu Tao and others to find out about the progress of the school-enterprise office.

Xie Wei sighed silently, feeling that he had shot himself in the foot by tricking the principal into asking his superiors for the policy of independently establishing projects and raising funds.

Before, he thought he had enough time and energy to slowly lead the school-enterprise office to make a good basic layout and then gradually expand it.

The school has a huge scientific research capability, and many technological achievements can be transformed into products, asking the market for funding.

He was disappointed with the crazy attitude of the school leaders when it came to military technology projects, especially the principal who came from the battlefield...

It’s hard to find people in schools who are familiar with the market economy.

Even because it is a polytechnic school, they are unable to train their own management personnel and have to find other ways to make up for it.

"Ah~"

After Xie Wei came out of the principal's office, he sighed.

"Xie Wei, I was just looking for you!"

I just happened to meet Wu Tao. "I heard you guys are back, so I hurried over."

"how?"

Seeing Wu Tao's anxious face, Xie Wei's heart skipped a beat.

There are more and more places to spend money. Could it be that there is a problem in their connection with the Chemical Bureau?

"The chemical factory has already started to improve its production line and order new production equipment. The department store outside the school is now under the management of the school-enterprise office, and all profits and losses belong to us. Even the sanitary napkin factory..."

After hearing what was said before, Xie Wei felt relieved.

Chemical plants are the key to success.

If any country wants to truly develop its military industry, it cannot do without the chemical industry. No kind of weapon or equipment can be developed to a very high level without the chemical industry.

The same goes for cold weapons.

At least in areas such as coating materials, they also rely on chemicals.

After Germany's defeat in World War I, as the initiator of World War II, it rose in just less than twenty years and even surpassed the entire Western world. This was due to its strong chemical industry.

Without the vast colonies of the British Empire and France, and with natural rubber being monopolized, the Germans directly extracted synthetic rubber from petroleum in the laboratory; without natural painkillers such as opium and morphine, the Germans directly synthesized methamphetamine as a substitute in the laboratory; without much oil and natural gas supply, the Germans directly used their own chemical technology to turn the coal in the Ruhr mining area into coal-to-oil...

Germany's strength in the chemical industry was the fundamental reason why it launched two world wars in succession.

Xie Wei was well aware of the importance of the chemical industry to the entire military industry, so he was naturally concerned about chemical projects.

As a result, I heard that there were problems with the construction of the sanitary napkin factory!

Sanitary napkins, many of the materials are also from the chemical industry...

Since entering Harbin Institute of Technology, almost every project proposed by Xie Wei has been developed around his own goals.

"What's wrong with the sanitary napkin factory? It's easier than setting up a chemical factory or getting a department store from the Commerce Bureau, right?"

This is Xie Wei’s understanding.

Several materials for sanitary napkins need to be synthesized through chemical industry. Taking advantage of market demand will further promote the development of the basic chemical industry.

Even, producing this thing that Xie Wei had never considered, Wu Tao told himself that something went wrong!

How can this be accepted?
As long as there is sufficient supply of raw materials, there will be no problem even if there is no mechanized automatic production.

Aren’t all sanitary napkins produced under manual conditions nowadays?
"Are there problems with several raw material suppliers?" This is what Xie Wei is most worried about.

Once there is a problem with the raw material supplier, the entire industry will be affected.

Seeing Xie Wei's anxious face, Wu Tao also knew that there was no such product on the domestic market. He took the thing back and gave it to his lover to use. As a result, he received the gentle treatment that he had never received since they got married.

Just because sanitary napkins are thrown away directly after use, rather than needing to be washed and dried in a hidden place, reusable sanitary napkins are much, much more convenient.

Naturally, I know how big the market is for this thing.

"The supply of raw materials is not a problem. The biggest problem now is that the higher-ups have shut down the Guangming Match Factory, which was run by the street office next to the school. Originally, everyone just took the materials back to work..."

Wu Tao reported the current predicament to Xie Wei.

It’s not about anything else, but because the production capacity of the sanitary napkin factory will not be too high at the beginning, and the demand for employees will naturally not be high.

The Guangming Match Factory had basically no profit.

Pasteable matchboxes are a guarantee for many families to ensure that the whole family will not go hungry.

After the school-enterprise office took over, it would definitely no longer produce matches and matchboxes, which led to a series of problems: the factory needed to solve the livelihood problem of low-income families in the area who would no longer have a source of income from making matchboxes after it stopped producing matches.

At the same time, they also have to take charge of arranging work for the educated youth who have returned to the city.

“Can we put aside the consideration of returning educated youth for now?”

After listening to this, Xie Wei frowned.

No one knows how many educated youth have returned to Harbin.

Once the hole is opened, in the Northeast...

The salary may not be high, but there cannot be no salary income.

Harbin is one of the earliest industrial cities in the country, with a large number of urban residents who eat commercial grain. In an era when there was no planned business and there was strength in numbers, which family did not have four, five, six, seven or eight children?
Not many people have three children!
"That's impossible. The principal promised to find jobs for some of the educated young people who returned to the city!"

Hey!
Xie Wei immediately burst out with swear words.

"The old man doesn't consider anything and just makes blind promises. He doesn't need to be responsible for anything anyway!"

Xie Wei had no respect for Li Rui at this moment.

He felt very unfortunate to have such a leader.

There was no consideration of the consequences at all.

"The employment issues of the families of school staff and cadres must be resolved first. Even if others accuse us of factionalism, we must give priority to solving the employment issues of the families of school staff and cadres..."

Xie Wei emphasized.

Wu Tao sighed.

"How about we go to the school enterprise office first?"

Xie Wei, feeling angry, could only go to the school-enterprise office with Wu Tao first.

"…That's the situation. We don't have many production plans at the moment. We are uncertain about the sales of sanitary napkins in the market and whether they can be exported. The factory plans to employ 60 people in the early stage. According to statistics from the school, there are 1827 unemployed family members of cadres and staff, and even more if their children are included. Some of these children have already returned to the city… There were 433 people in Guangming Match Factory who originally relied on pasting paper boxes to supplement their family income. There are a total of 582 educated youths in these families who have returned to the city…"

Wang Zheng’s statistics made Xie Wei rub his temples constantly.

The sanitary napkin factory initially planned to employ only 60 people, including management, and the technical personnel were directly drawn from the school.

Based on the average salary of 30 yuan, the monthly cost will not exceed 2000 yuan.

Technical staff?
The cost is almost negligible: personnel from relevant majors are directly transferred from the school, and according to the project subsidy, it is only half a pound of food coupons and 20 cents a day. Such a low price is still paid by the school.

Xie Wei can be said to be a master at playing the capitalist game.

At this moment, Wu Tao and Wang Zheng told him that it wouldn't work.

"There are too many people. We don't need so many people in the early stage... This is why we haven't reached an agreement with the street office on this small factory yet. Xie Wei, according to the purpose, why don't we just set up a new factory ourselves? The cost will be much lower, and there will be no such trouble..."

Wu Tao put forward his own views.

Xie Wei looked at him in surprise and gave him a thumbs up: "Old Wu, you have the potential to be a capitalist!"

Hearing this, Wu Tao was immediately unhappy: "Didn't you say that we are different from state-owned factories and must consider costs? Now you are calling me a capitalist!"

Xie Wei cursed too vulgarly.

Wu Tao's defense was broken in an instant.

MMP!

In a socialist country, it is undoubtedly more difficult to accept that people who are dedicated to serving the public are called capitalists than to dig up someone's ancestral graves.

Even Wang Zheng next to him frowned and looked at Xie Wei.

In his opinion, Xie Wei was more of a capitalist than them, and he understood the capitalist world better than anyone else.

Speaking of enlightenment...

"Brother Wu, I am praising you for your thoughtful consideration!"

Wang Zheng's eyes deeply stimulated Xie Wei, and he realized that he was in the early days of reform and opening up.

Capitalists are bad guys on the same level as Zhou Paopi.

No one likes when others call them capitalists.

"Don't give me that! No one is more of a capitalist than you!"

Wu Tao was very upset that Xie Wei scolded him.

"I didn't deny it. Capitalists have to consider profits first... Of course, we can't just consider profits, we also have to consider social effects..."

Xie Wei sighed silently and explained to the two of them what true capitalism is and what a market economy under socialism is.

The simplest logic is: capitalism only considers profits, but the socialist market economy not only needs to consider how to adapt to market laws, but enterprises must also assume their own responsibilities, not only for profits, but also for providing social jobs.

Even in order to provide social jobs, we have to endure losses.

"What to do now?"

Wang Zheng interrupted Xie Wei. He didn't want to listen to Xie Wei's talk about the "difference between capitalism and socialism."

Put the problem directly forward.

Wu Tao didn't bother to argue with Xie Wei about him calling him a capitalist. He stared at Xie Wei closely and said, "These past few days, people from the street office have been looking for us every day, hoping that the factory can provide more recruitment quotas..."

This is true.

In order to solve the problem of job positions, the people from the street office had to look for two people every day, which made it so that they couldn't even do their own jobs well.

"Expand the recruitment. But how is the training of the business staff going?"

Xie Wei thought about it and decided that this was the best solution at the moment.

This is outside Shanhaiguan.

Investment beyond Shanhaiguan is not just talk...

(End of this chapter)