Return to Hong Kong Island for a Century

Chapter 307 Technical Roadmap

Ma Shengli quickly wrote these things down. He had an indescribable feeling for Li Song, which was beyond words.

Ma Shengli also felt it was unreal, even though he knew it was real, because Temple Run reportedly sold over 100 million movie tickets in China.

I've also heard that Li Song's company takes a 15% cut of box office revenue, and that Li Song owns 95% of the company, with Temple Run grossing over $600 million.

You can calculate how much money you'll get, but once Li Song says it out loud, he arranges to spend it all in a very short time.

That's over fifty million US dollars, and there's another fifty million US dollars to go. It'll be arranged in the blink of an eye.

Such a large sum of money would require meetings and discussions before it could be used within the mainland.

And what Li Song said about the rockets—I didn't expect it to be even more impressive than I knew; they were aiming for reusability.

Ma Shengli had also learned that recyclability was a development direction, but the current technology was not up to standard.

To be precise, China will not risk experimenting with new technologies at present, because the national priority is stability.

High costs are acceptable now, as long as the satellite can be sent into space, cost is irrelevant.

If a new technology is shelved, leading to the postponement, delay, or even major incidents of a series of plans, who will bear the responsibility?

In addition, new technologies cost money.

As the head of the Science and Technology Commission, Ma Shengli knew that China was currently taking small, rapid steps in the field of new technologies, which meant that small technologies were being developed gradually, so that even if this didn't work, too much investment wouldn't be necessary.

Moreover, there are currently two international technological routes: Aramco's integrated circuits and Fat Bear's vacuum tube technology, so the domestic market is still observing.

Integrated circuits were flawed in dealing with major wars, while vacuum tubes had an advantage in this regard.

Of course, history has countless possibilities. In history, the fat bear fell, so he represents failure.

What if it had been America that fell in history?
Then Europe and even the Americas would probably be engulfed in war.

How would those regions in Europe and America that want independence react with the support of the "fat bear" (referring to the United States)?
The development of technological civilization actually has many possibilities.

As for the mainland, having no idea what the future holds, it naturally wouldn't dare to place a heavy bet on one direction.

As a private enterprise, Li Song can invest in developing new technologies.

Because Li Song's money was his own.

If the mainland wanted to implement a recycling program, it would need to allocate funds. With so much funding for this department, how would other departments view it?
You say it's important?

So what doesn't matter?

What is unimportant in chemical engineering, metallurgy, infrastructure, agriculture, urban construction, and so on?
“Mr. Li, I will report as soon as possible,” Ma Shengli said when he saw that Li Song had not said anything.

"Okay." Li Song nodded.

Ma Shengli took what he had written down and went to report on his work. Li Song didn't go anywhere and flew directly to Shanghai the next day.

As for the factories, I've only been looking at them for a few days, so I don't need to visit them every time I come.

On February 18, 1981, the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, a Wednesday, Li Song arrived in Shanghai, and the people in Guangzhou received the technical data that Li Song had his bodyguard obtain the day before.

The technical documents actually arrived in the evening, but the team leader responsible for contacting Li Song went to Kyoto last night.

The purpose of going to Kyoto was the matter Li Song mentioned yesterday. Regarding rocket technology, although the data had been given to the mainland, Li Song hadn't given permission, so the mainland couldn't secretly obtain it for research.

The main reason is that Li Song made a huge contribution, and we also roughly know Li Song's thoughts.

Li Song spoke up, and the relevant expert group quickly categorized and distributed the technology to various research institutes and departments, requiring them to thoroughly understand the technology as soon as possible.

The main challenges are materials technology and manufacturing technology. There are definitely difficulties, but there is readily available technical data. What is needed is time and continuous experimentation.

As for the lithography machine, optical materials, and wafer fab technology that Li Song mentioned, the higher authorities urgently dispatched personnel from the country's top optical research institutes to Guangzhou.

Optical materials are becoming increasingly important in warfare, from small items like telescopes, aiming scopes, and gun sights to large reconnaissance equipment.

As for lithography machines, there is also development in China, but the current domestic technology is contact lithography, and it is still laboratory technology. What Li Song presented was projection lithography technology.

Historically, my country's lithography machine technology reached the world's advanced level in the mid-80s, but it was later blocked by foreign countries, so it gradually declined.

We'll find someone to assemble a dedicated team to do this once we get the technology.

As for wafer fabs, that's something we'll definitely have to do.

As for Li Song's investment, it will definitely be carefully calculated for him, and the relevant research institutions are not short of funds.

If a research institute in a domestic industry receives several million yuan in funding, and other research institutes only receive tens or hundreds of thousands of yuan, will the other institutes have no objection?

However, there are some things that the people below don't know, so allocating funds can sometimes be a real dilemma.

With Li Song's money, things became much easier. Everyone knew who had given the money, and as long as the public funds weren't touched, no one else could say anything.

As a leader, you have subordinates, confidants, and a group of people behind you, so the issue of funding has always been a point of contention.

Putting everything else aside, once the funding arrives, everyone's benefits will be better, and we can also change our office environment and such.

Li Song can only continue to do these things by relying on the mainland, because if he wanted to build the related industrial chain himself, it would take forever. Anyway, he has shared the technology with the mainland. When the mainland has money in the future, will it not purchase his products?

It's enough for us to just dominate the mainland market.

When Li Song arrived in Shanghai, he saw in the newspaper that the BMW motocross team had made it into the top eight. Although Li Song did not expect the team to achieve a high ranking, he was still very happy to have achieved this result.

Zhu Ling wasn't in Shanghai; she was filming at the Three Kingdoms Film City.

Li Song arrived in Suzhou, the venue for the Taihu Lake off-road motorcycle event.

Yang Wen has always been here. He used to be the manager of the Dongfang Hotel, then he went to work in logistics at the BMW Motorrad factory, and later he was in charge of the preparation for the Taihu Lake Motorcycle Off-Road Race.

"boss!"

"Manager Yang, once you've finished things here, go to the BMW factory. They're short of a vice president for logistics," Li Song said to Yang Wen.

"Thank you, boss!" Yang Wen was still worried about where he would go after this was over. Motorcycle off-road races couldn't be held every day or every year, and his position at the motorcycle factory had already been taken by someone else.

Unexpectedly, Li Song offered him a more important position upon their first meeting.

The BMW car plant is ten times the size of the motorcycle plant.

Besides, cars are more upscale than motorcycles. Although I know that the prices of some top-of-the-line motorcycles abroad are also frightening, so what? Cars are still more upscale.

(End of this chapter)