In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 157: The export of weapons and equipment does not involve patents. Xie Wei, the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering can undertake tank and armored vehicle projects.

"Are you really going to design a 40mm caliber sniper gun with an effective range of 800 to 1000 meters?"

Tang Daoxian didn't expect that Xie Wei would reply to him so quickly.

However, the parameters proposed by the other party were too difficult to design.

Or maybe it's impossible?

"Class monitor, my foundation is not very good... I can't handle it..."

What the squad leader said made Tang Daoxian completely confused. At first he thought Xie Wei was just talking, but now he realized that the other party was serious.

"Don't worry, no one is born knowing how to do something. Besides, the school will arrange a special teacher to guide you. You just need to work hard towards your goal and don't have to worry about other things. In the early stage, you may be the only one doing theoretical research. If the teachers in the school cannot support your project, the school will find a teacher for you from other places, even sending you to a related unit for study."

Xie Wei knew Tang Daoxian's concerns.

If I were in that situation, I would also be panicked.

The technical parameters that I proposed are extremely difficult to achieve in this era.

"Also, don't worry about the funding. During the initial theoretical research phase, the school will prepare 5 yuan for your project..."

"what?"

Tang Daoxian looked at Xie Wei in surprise.

Dedicated tutors and dedicated funding.

This means that the project is led by Tang Daoxian himself.

I am still a student.

"Don't think too much, just do your best. Although Harbin Institute of Technology is not Harbin Institute of Technology, we also need to make achievements in the field of military industry."

Xie Wei naturally would not tell Tang Daoxian that the entire school’s leaders were working hard to make the school the number one military engineering school.

How can military academies be absent for weapons design?
Soon, Xie Wei received a reply from Liu Debao, and took Tang Daoxian to Liu Debao's office, where he met Associate Professor Zhai Xinguo, the professional tutor arranged by Liu Debao for Tang Daoxian.

Zhai Xinguo is not a professional gun designer, but he has extensive experience in gun repair and design. Although he has never independently designed any guns or artillery, he has participated in many projects.

He is the most "professional" gun design teacher in the entire school's teaching staff.

After the greetings, Zhai Xinguo didn't say much and took Tang Daoxian out of Liu Debao's office directly.

"Xie Wei, do you think our school should resume the enrollment of the weapons design department?"

When Xie Wei was about to say goodbye and leave, Liu Debao stopped him.

"what?"

Seeing Liu Debao's serious expression, Xie Wei's mouth twitched.

Did Harbin Institute of Technology once have a gun design major?

Why don't you know?
As far as I know about Harbin Institute of Technology, it seems that it doesn't have a major in gun design?

There are only a few schools in the country that have this, and only Northwestern Polytechnical University has it?
"We are a military academy, and our enrollment majors need to be set up and adjusted according to national defense needs. In the self-defense counterattack in the southwest, our reconnaissance troops fought against the enemy, but because we did not have professional sniper rifles with longer range and higher accuracy, we suffered a great loss..."

Type 79 sniper rifle?
Xie Wei almost blurted out the words, but he swallowed them back.

"There is not much demand for gun design in the country. After all, the army does not need too many types of guns. However, it is different for cannons. There is a great demand for cannons with various functions..."

Seeing that Xie Wei was listening attentively, Liu Debao expressed his thoughts in full.

Xie Wei took the initiative to find him, which made him feel like the boss.

Very cool!

Li Rui is thinking about restoring various high-end professions. If Liu Debao wants to avoid conflicts with Li Rui, he cannot make a fuss about those high-end professions unless Li Rui is transferred.

Conventional weapons are also needed.

"Just the gun major?"

Xie Wei was not sure what Liu Debao was thinking.

"Not just that. For example, tanks and self-propelled artillery, in theory, also belong to the category of artillery, but they involve armor, vehicles and other technologies... Of course, at the beginning, due to the lack of funds, teachers and supporting facilities, we will definitely not be able to get involved in more..."

really!

Principal Liu has big ambitions. On the surface, he only wants to focus on the gun and artillery major.

In fact, they want to develop into armored vehicles through the gun and artillery major.

We are not going to let the Armored Forces Academy survive!
"It's possible, but the superiors may not approve it. For gun design, Northwestern Polytechnical University has it; for armored vehicle design, Capital Polytechnic University, Armored Forces Engineering College, etc. also have it..."

Xie Wei reminded Liu Debao.

"They are all national defense academies. If they can do it, why can't we? We compete based on our strength!"

Principal Liu was unhappy.

At this moment, he is just like Ah Q who is not allowed to touch the nun's head: The monk can touch the nun's head, why can't I?

"Principal, that's not what I meant."

Xie Wei hurriedly explained, "If the higher-ups can approve it, it will definitely be a good thing for the development of our school..."

"Okay, I'll try to get my superiors' approval. However, regarding funding..."

"Uh, Principal, my stomach hurts. I need to go to the bathroom first."

When Xie Wei heard Liu Debao talking about the funding issue, he immediately used the "shit escape" trick.

It turns out that Liu Debao said so much just to get me to agree to provide funding.

With funding, you naturally don’t care whether your superiors give you projects or not.

For the superiors, as long as they don't give money, they would naturally be happy to see the school design its own guns and train professional talents.

"This kid is so cunning."

Looking at Xie Wei who was faster than a rabbit, Liu Debao was stunned for a moment even though he was mentally prepared.

Before he could react, Xie Wei had disappeared.

"What a mess! If you really want to develop the school, you might as well add majors such as management and marketing."

After coming out, Xie Wei said with a pout.

He understood the school leaders' ideas, but did not support them.

What the School-Enterprise Office lacks most at present is personnel in professional management, marketing, accounting, etc., but no school leaders care about it.

They only want to do things related to military technology.

Harbin Institute of Technology is a pure science and engineering university, and Xie Wei did not intend to trick the school leaders into laying the basic framework of the School of Management first.

Too much to chew.

"Xie Wei, Liu Debao said you proposed that the school restore the weapons design major?"

As soon as Li Rui returned to school, he went to the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department angrily and found Xie Wei, who was debugging a CNC system sample with Du Guowang and others. With a gloomy face, he pulled Xie Wei to a deserted place and questioned Xie Wei directly.

"I don't!"

Xie Wei was determined not to take the blame for Liu Debao.

"You don't have one? Tang Daoxian is in your experimental class, right? The instructor Luo Yang didn't even contact the school. You can find Lao Liu and ask him to arrange for professionals to help Tang Daoxian improve his plan for a single-soldier sniper gun..."

Li Rui had good reasons to look for Xie Wei.

"..."

Hearing Li Rui's words, Xie Wei cursed Liu Debao in his heart, but he couldn't find any reason to refute.

This is true.

I just want to help my classmates develop.

It was Principal Liu's idea to develop gun and artillery majors or even armored vehicles.

"The school gave us the initial 5 yuan as start-up funds. Since you proposed it, the subsequent projects in this area will have to be funded by your school-enterprise office..."

After Li Rui explained his purpose, he turned around and left without caring about Xie Wei's reaction.

There is only one purpose: before the weapons major resumes enrollment, there must be a project, through which capable personnel will be drawn from relevant units to serve as teachers of relevant majors, and then students will be enrolled.

To carry out a project, you need funding.

Since the school now has many majors to be restored, there are naturally more projects.

The funds allocated by the superiors are definitely not enough.

Majors such as weapons design are under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building and do not fall within the business scope of the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building, which is the superior authority of Harbin Institute of Technology.

The department will definitely not provide additional funding.

The Fifth Ministry of Machine Building will not do that either. Their subordinate units are short of projects and funds, and many leaders are facing the situation of being blocked by the heads of subordinate units who come to their door with their bedding rolls on their backs to ask for projects and funds.

Where can we get the funds for the subordinate units of the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building?

The school has project autonomy, self-management, and self-funding...

"Wait~"

Xie Wei became anxious.

However, Li Rui walked even faster.

"Principal, you can't do this! I was the one who brought up Tang Daoxian's matter, but the school wants to set up a weapons design major. What does it have to do with a student like me?"

Xie Wei quickly caught up with Li Rui and pulled his sleeve to stop him from leaving.

"Also, the school-enterprise office belongs to the school, and has nothing to do with me personally! The director in charge is Wang Zheng, right? It has nothing to do with me either."

"It has nothing to do with you? Then why did you ask the school leaders not to interfere with the development of the school-enterprise office? The school leaders cannot use the money earned by the school-enterprise office. If there is any trouble, the school leaders have to clean up the mess. Why?"

Li Rui raised his eyebrows and questioned Xie Wei sharply.

"Uh~"

This question stumped Xie Wei.

He really didn't know how to answer.

"If you say that again, the previous agreement will be invalidated, and the school leaders will coordinate the income of the school-enterprise office..."

"Gotta~"

Looking at Li Rui helplessly, Xie Wei felt powerless.

In terms of shamelessness, he was still far inferior to Li Rui and others who had just come down from the battlefield.

"you win."

"That's right."

Seeing Xie Wei was frustrated, Li Rui stopped refutation and smiled. "The Ministry of Commerce has intervened in the issue with Unicharm. However, the result may not meet your expectations."

Principal Li decided to quit while he was ahead and changed the subject.

"???"

What happened to Unicharm Co., Ltd.?
"They are unwilling to file a lawsuit and have agreed not to pursue Shuermei's previous infringement. But now they are saying that if we want to continue to use the Shuermei brand for export, we have to pay them patent fees..."

Nima!

Xie Wei almost cursed out loud.

As expected of an international giant, they saw through their plan and did not give the sanitary napkin brands affiliated with the school-enterprise office any chance to save advertising costs and increase brand awareness.

“They registered our patent…”

When Li Rui talked about this, his face was full of helplessness. "I wish I could shoot that bastard Wu Tao to death! Asking him to clean the toilets in school is really too good for him!"

Wu Tao swept the toilet?
Before, I asked him to go back and reflect on himself, but now he is cleaning the toilet?
Xie Wei didn't care about the school's handling of Wu Tao, but was curious about the solution proposed by Unicharm.

"The Unicharm sanitary napkin brand came in. They provided funds and technology and established a joint venture with a domestic company. Originally, they wanted to use our factory as a joint venture factory, but I refused..."

Li Rui said as he observed Xie Wei's reaction.

Hearing this, Xie Wei sighed silently.

International capital is indeed like a shark that smells blood. It pounces ferociously when it sees an opportunity and does not give domestic brands any chance to develop.

reject?

Impossible.

Foreign exchange and technology are both needed by the country.

"So, the Shulmei brand can't be used in the country?"

"Correct!"

Li Rui's face was full of seriousness.

Although this is the best result at present, the patent has been registered by Unicharm. Even though we know it is a disadvantage, we have no choice but to endure it.

Principal Li was worried that Xie Wei would go berserk, so he was so concerned about his attitude.

"The products produced by the other party in the country are the designs, packaging and technologies used by Shulmei..."

"Since they don't want to sue us, we'll sue them!"

Accept this result?
impossible.

The other party did such a disgusting thing, but Xie Wei did not intend to let it go.

"what?"

"We have complete design and improvement information. Unicharm used its own technical experience to reverse our technology and then registered it. Even if they complete the information, it can't be perfect!"

Xie Wei expressed his thoughts.

It is impossible for China to give up the Shulmei brand.

With the promotion of sanitary napkins, even without advertising, sanitary napkins have already had a considerable foundation in the big cities in the three northeastern provinces: this is a heavy industrial base, and there are many female employees in various units and enterprises. Thanks to the influence of Harbin Institute of Technology in the three northeastern provinces, and even with the help of leaders such as Li Rui to promote it, many units purchase them and distribute them to female employees as welfare.

Major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou have also established sales channels.

How could you give up?

"Okay! I'll arrange it right away..."

After Li Rui finished speaking, he turned and left.

"That's not right! This old guy is throwing the funds related to the weapons design major on me?"

After Li Rui left, Xie Wei finally realized that he had fallen into the old man's trap.

"Oh, what a fuss!"

Du Guowang looked at Wang Zheng who was bowing his head and Xie Wei who looked calm, and sighed, "In that case, we might as well focus on military technology. As long as we can develop military technology, it doesn't involve infringement or not! The international arms market is not only large in scale, but also highly profitable."

Director Du said this after listening to Wang Zheng’s story about the dispute with Unicharm.

"Weapons and equipment do not involve too many patents, let alone infringement issues. Director Du, the weapons and equipment exported from our country are mainly light weapons, which are sold by pound. How much profit is there?"

Xie Wei rolled his eyes and retorted to Du Guowang.

This old guy is not a good person either.

As the director of the mechanical and electrical engineering department, why are you interested in military technology instead of focusing on automatic control technology?
"That's not the way to say it. We don't have advanced equipment! The army is now out of money, and the original free aid has become an export..."

Du Guowang said with his neck stiff.

It is because there are no valuable advanced equipment that we can only sell light weapons by weight.

Who among the international arms buyers doesn’t want to have more powerful and advanced weapons and equipment!
"..."

Wang Zheng stared at Du Guowang blankly.

Weren't we discussing the dispute with Unicharm? How did it turn into a discussion about the export of weapons and equipment?

Moreover, what Du Guowang meant was that the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department also wanted to develop weapons and equipment?

"If we have advanced technology, will the country agree to let us sell it? Any technology that is more advanced than the current equipment may allow the enemy to infer the domestic technology level based on the level of exported equipment, which is not conducive to national defense."

Xie Wei smiled bitterly.

The country is poor and the technology is backward, so all aspects need to be considered.

Only when you become truly powerful will you no longer care about the advanced equipment you sell.

Those exported are definitely castrated versions.

"As long as the export of independently developed technology projects does not endanger national defense security, there should be no problem..."

Du Guowang looked at Xie Wei's reaction and paused here.

Xie Wei's puzzled look seemed to indicate that he had made up his mind. "Xie Wei, I heard that you suggested that the school restore the weapon design major... Our Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering has a very good foundation and can fully undertake the research of tank and armored vehicle related projects..."

"..."

Wang Zheng was dumbfounded.

Xie Wei was also dumbfounded.

Even Liang Hongling who was standing by was dumbfounded.

(End of this chapter)