Technology invades the modern world

Chapter 48 Can you calculate this?
Pokrovsky's thoughts drifted to Bangalore, India. Compared to him, his colleagues there had it much easier.

Also in 57, they allowed India to assemble and manufacture the MiG-17 on its own, and agreed to produce 50% of the parts domestically in India within the next three years.

As a result, India couldn't even perform basic assembly. Of the 36 MiG-17s assembled locally, 27 experienced airway vibration failures. Three years later, the domestic production of parts hadn't even reached 10%.

Pokrovsky's colleagues in Bangalore were ready to give the three brothers a hard time. You can't blame me if you can't make it yourself, right? My parts are very expensive.

The reason why Pokrovsky stayed in China until today was also with a similar purpose, waiting for the Chinese side to be unable to handle the problem on their own and come to them for help, and then, according to the orders from Moscow, either put forward new demands or severely humiliate their Chinese counterparts.

But he didn't expect that he was the one who was humiliated. Pokrovsky felt that his Chinese counterparts were a little too friendly. If he were the other party, he would definitely curse even more harshly.

In Yanjing, the weather at the end of July was a bit scorching hot. The Science and Technology Commission at the foot of the Western Hills had already received reports from the front lines of the Ice City.

The man in the white shirt who arrived overnight applauded repeatedly:
"Okay, okay, we must inform Dean Qian and the Fifth Hospital of the commendation internally, and also make sure to notify the right people about this good news.

China has its own ballistic missiles. Great! That's great!

Also, please call Dean Qian back for a meeting, as we have a lot of things to discuss.

Director Wan, please remember this for me. The first thing is to organize experts to discuss the practicality of DF-1. It must be confirmed as soon as possible, and then mass production will be organized as soon as possible after confirmation.

The second is after mass production, which areas need to be equipped and how to carry out related training.

The third is that President Qian wrote in the telegram that this technology is world-leading. If the Soviet Union covets it, we should get something in return if we want to sell it.

These are the three main points, and we need to arrange them as soon as possible."

For the defense industry at that time, DF-1 was like a blessing after a long drought. At least it could save some people, some teams, and some industries.

By deploying to the front line, some industrial supporting factories can also be saved.

After a brief moment of excitement about the DF-1 ballistic missile's world-class accuracy, President Qian calmed down on the special plane back to Yanjing. Instead, he felt that it was a blessing in disguise. From another perspective, this might not be a good thing.

Because technological breakthroughs prove China's ability to be self-reliant and alleviate security anxieties, they will instead create resistance to academic openness.

If technological breakthroughs can be achieved without academic openness, then the motivation for academic openness will be lost.

It was impossible for him to attribute all the credit to the Monte Carlo method and variational method given by Lin Ran.

On the special plane, President Qian has been thinking about how to promote the relaxation of academic exchanges.

Academic openness is particularly important at a time when Soviet experts have completely withdrawn.

The next day, Dean Qian came to the office as usual and asked, "Secretary Zhang, where's the latest issue of International Science Digest?"

He searched for it on his desk but couldn't find it. Usually, it would be translated into Chinese and placed on his desk in the middle of every month.

Zhang Kewen walked into the office and whispered, "President Qian, I haven't had time to tell you yet, but the comrades from the Science and Technology Commission have informed you that the Soviet Union has stopped supplying International Scientific Abstracts.

The supply of "Reports of the Soviet Academy of Sciences" and "News of the Soviet Academy of Sciences" was also stopped.

The Science and Technology Commission told us not to worry, and that the comrades in Moscow are trying to figure out if they can ship some back."

Dean Qian slammed the table: "Damn Russians!"

During the afternoon meeting at Xishan, Dean Qian was preoccupied with how to gain the support of the director of the Science and Technology Commission during their private chat. However, when they were the only two left in the meeting room, the director waved his hand, signaling his secretary to leave and guard the door to prevent anyone else from entering.

Then he took out a document from the drawer and handed it to Dean Qian: "Old Qian, take a look."

All the words of praise that needed to be given had already been said at the meeting.

Now there are only two of them left, and the other party wants to discuss some substantive matters with Dean Qian.

After reading it, Dean Qian felt like he was having a conversation with Lin Ran who was far away in Hong Kong. What the other party said was exactly what he was thinking. Ultimately, China has to rely on itself.

"well said."

The middle-aged man waved his hand and then took out a piece of paper: "This is a song that the other party released in Hong Kong not long ago. You can take a look."

Dean Qian took it and looked at it. His face suddenly changed when he saw the words "standing by and watching". After reading the whole text, he quickly explained: "Professor Lin will teach us the Monte Carlo method, so he can't just stand by and watch.

In my opinion, he was deliberately making this gesture to dispel suspicion."

The middle-aged man nodded: "Of course, of course I know.

If we were to expose the technical information he passed on to the Americans, Lin would be in big trouble.

I am well aware of his good intentions towards us, but this song has caused a very bad influence in Yanjing. In addition, the current climate is not right, so Lin can only exist in the form of a confidential project in internal documents.

We need to downplay his influence as much as possible in public.

In addition, because of the success of the DF-1, even though the team led by Hua Luogeng had not yet deciphered the Monte Carlo method from the three papers mentioned by Lin Ran, I helped everyone obtain unprecedented conditions. "

Dean Qian's eyes showed a hint of expectation: "What are the conditions?"

“Professor Lin’s current internal code name is Fermat, and this is a long-term project with the highest level of confidentiality.

For a long time in the future, Professor Hua Luogeng will stay in Guangzhou to build a team. He will use part of the foreign exchange reserves to import academic journals from Hong Kong, translate them and send them back to Yenching to make up for the gap caused by the Soviet Union's cessation of supply of academic journals.

After the data returned to Yenching, it was provided only to a few scientists on the grounds of confidentiality, thus avoiding unnecessary trouble.

The middle-aged man has been busy during this period.

The climate in Yanjing is bad, so let's move it to Guangzhou.

If academic exchanges with the West cannot be maintained, then they will package it as a confidential project and turn it into the deciphering of information related to the confidential project.

Dean Qian had privately mentioned to him when he first returned to China whether it was possible to import Western academic journals and whether he could find a way to import them from overseas Chinese.

The Soviet Union's well-timed supply cut gave him the best excuse.

He had always kept this matter in mind, and this time he finally found the right reason and the right opportunity.

Lin Ran never expected that his wish to leave behind a spark of fire would be realized in this way.

Dean Qian was shocked after hearing this, thinking that Lin Ran had planned everything out, and that even if he didn't come back, he could still leave a channel for academic exchanges between China and the West.

(End of this chapter)