"Mr. Qin, there is a Western reporter who wants to interview you."
Listening to Xu Zhengyang's words, Qin Tao subconsciously wanted to wave his hand. Even if he didn't see this kind of person, the conversation might not be pleasant, and he might be digging holes for himself, and he might be trapped in it.
However, he still said casually: "What's your name?"
"Beaumont."
"full name?"
When Xu Zhengyang finished saying his full name, Qin Tao immediately nodded: "Invite her in!"
Soon, a Western woman in her thirties walked in: "Mr. Qin, I'm glad you can accept the interview. I come from France and want to report something that surprises us in the West. I hope I can be here with you.
Find the answer."
"What's up?"
"Why is the cost of producing aircraft carriers so low in the East? According to relevant analysis, the cost of building a Ford-class aircraft carrier in the United States can produce five 003 aircraft carriers here. How do you do it? Is it by squeezing labor?
"
"Our workers all work voluntarily, and their wages are also very high." Qin Tao said: "Zhengyang, go to the finance office and ask for a salary list for ordinary workers."
Xu Zhengyang was very curious, why was Mr. Qin so enthusiastic about such a foreign woman? He actually showed her such confidential information as salary?
However, since Mr. Qin wants it, he can just go and get it himself.
Soon, the salary table was displayed on the wall through the projector. Beaumont's eyes were filled with surprise: "An ordinary worker can earn more than 8,000 yuan a month!"
"Yes, I can guarantee that this salary schedule is indeed valid. Next, you can ask our front-line workers how much they earn per month."
Now, the minimum wage in the capital is only 700 to 800 yuan a month. Those who can earn more than 3,000 yuan belong to the white-collar class. Ordinary workers in Mingzhou Group can earn more than 8,000 yuan a month, which is definitely high-end.
income.
"Moreover, this is the actual amount left after paying insurance and pension. At the end of each year, we will give an extra two months' salary as a year-end bonus. Our ordinary workers should have no lower wages than those in the West."
"Yes, if converted, the income is about the same as that of workers in the West." Beaumont nodded.
"However, prices in the East are low, and the actual purchasing power of this money is far greater than that in the West."
Beaumont nodded again.
“If it’s not low wages, then what is it?”
"Thirty years ago, our country put forward the slogan that science and technology are the primary productive forces." Qin Tao said: "Our low costs are of course obtained by high technology."
"What kind of high technology is needed for shipbuilding?"
For Westerners who have never been to the East, it is indeed difficult to understand the level of science and technology in the East. Even in the impression of many Westerners, the East should be similar to Africa.
Now, Qin Tao wants to correct the other party's impression.
"Next, I'll take you to our shipyard and you'll understand. Zhengyang, make arrangements and let's go to Huating Second Shipyard."
"good."
Soon, a special plane took off from the capital and flew directly to Huating.
Sitting on the large sofa, Beaumont was very envious: "Mr. Qin, is this the life of the rich in the East?"
"No, I am not a rich man from the East, I am an entrepreneur from the East. I often need to travel between places. In order to avoid wasting time, I have this special plane." Qin Tao said: "You should know that for entrepreneurs, time is the most important factor.
The most important thing is that after I show you the equipment in the shipyard, you can come back in the evening."
"Mr. Qin, did I disrupt your schedule?"
"It doesn't matter, as long as you can objectively and fairly report everything you see in the East so that the world can better understand us in the East, that's enough."
"I certainly will."
The Mingzhou Shipyard is still building aircraft carriers, and the level of confidentiality is very high. Therefore, Qin Tao took Beaumont to the Huating Second Shipyard to have a look, and she should understand.
Cong Ju heard that Qin Tao was coming and was very curious. When she saw that Qin Tao brought a foreign reporter, she became even more curious.
So, just as Xu Zhengyang was walking in front with Bo Meng, Cong Ju spoke softly from behind.
"Mr. Qin, what is the identity of this reporter? Does he deserve your personal companionship?"
"Sister Cong Ju, this reporter can report our Dongfang fairly and objectively, and let the world know about our Dongfang and our Mingzhou Shipyard, so..."
Cong Ju nodded: "Okay, what do you want her to see?"
"Look at our production line."
"good."
"Huating Second Shipyard is a civilian ship production base. It currently mainly produces liquefied gas ships, which are also the flagship products of our Mingzhou Group." Qin Tao introduced: "Miss Beaumont, you should know that shipbuilding starts with cutting steel plates.
Right?"
"Um."
"Let's start by cutting the steel plate."
For Beaumont, this is definitely a whole new world!
As soon as she entered the factory, she saw several trucks transporting goods, pulling steel coils on them. However, these trucks only had a body, no front, and no cab!
"These cars..."
"At present, our smart driving is very mature. Some roads in Huating have opened smart driving test roads. As for our factory area, it has been fully popularized. All vehicles transporting goods are driverless."
"So, you saved the cost of the driver?"
"The driver profession will disappear in the future." Qin Tao said: "For our company, the demand for drivers is getting smaller and smaller. However, as long as we do not recruit new drivers, the old drivers will slowly retire or be transferred to other positions.
, as long as there is no fault, our Mingzhou Group will not fire workers."
Beaumont nodded.
"But how do you schedule so many cars?"
"Every vehicle is connected to the Internet and can be automatically dispatched through the program to know the status of each vehicle."
"oh."
Think about it, since it is intelligent driving, it must be connected to the Internet.
After the steel coils are transported to the destination, the next step is to uncoil and cut. You can see that there are only a few workers working on site, leisurely unloading the steel coils, uncoiling, and putting them into the machine. Then, everything is automatic again!
"Your technology is indeed the most advanced. In Europe, these are all manually operated, but here, they are all automated! No wonder your construction costs are so low. But..."
"But what?"
"The thickness of steel plates is different, and the equipment required is also different. During use, will some equipment be too busy and some equipment idle?"
"This situation does happen, so every one of our devices is connected to the Internet and we can know the running status of each device at any time." Qin Tao said: "We not only use it for ourselves, but can also open it to other brother units. If
If you want, you can check at any time to see which machine is available."
In shipyards, a lot of equipment is idle, such as plate bending machines. To bend steel plates of different thicknesses, different bending machines are needed. This will cause problems: some bending machines are too busy, and some bending machines are too busy.
The board is idle, what should I do at this time?
For European shipyards, just wait!
All of these have caused huge waste and increased costs, but in Mingzhou Group, these situations do not exist!
Beaumont walked over and was surprised to see that one of the bending machines was actually making a sculpture!
"This sculpture was planned to be erected by the Huating government in Zhangjiang. After completing the design, they came to us to find a machine. After checking it on the computer, I found that the No. 3 bending machine was free for half an hour today.
, so we scheduled production and took advantage of this free time to complete this outsourcing project." Cong Ju explained at the side.
Many municipal sculptures are also made of steel plates. Thin steel plates are bent into special shapes and then welded. In the past, these were done manually bit by bit, which was a waste of time and money. But now, everything has become automated!
The bending machine bends the thin steel plate into the corresponding shape, and then enters the following process, automatic welding. In half an hour, the municipal sculpture in the shape of a mountain and flowing water was made, and it was sprayed with a layer of primer!
The bending machine that completed this task began to continue manufacturing parts for ships.
Click, click!
Beaumont's camera kept taking pictures, and she felt a new door slowly opening.
"Every machine can be connected to the network, and every machine can check its usage on the computer. What kind of high technology is this?"
"Internet of Things." Qin Tao said with a smile: "In our future city, there is the concept of the Internet of Things. If you have entered this virtual future city, you should be able to have a deeper understanding of what the Internet of Things is."
Beaumont's face was full of doubts. Obviously, she didn't understand what the Internet of Things was at this time.
"I've finished reading here. Let's go to the office and sit for a while. Then you will know what the Internet of Things means."
If you just talk about concepts in an empty way, the reporter in front of you may not necessarily understand it. Just like big data, if you talk to ordinary people all day and night, he will not understand it. However, later, he will find that the prices of things he buys often increase, while others
It’s cheaper if you don’t buy it, then you realize that this is what big data is for!
The definition of the Internet of Things is very complicated. It takes a long paragraph, even if it can be summarized in one sentence, it means that all items are connected to the Internet through information sensing devices to exchange information, that is, things are related to each other, in order to achieve intelligence.
Identify and manage.
This won't make sense either.
Or experience it yourself.
"Okay, let's go to Gate 8," Cong Ju said.
At this time, of course Beaumont didn't know what door No. 8 meant. He just followed the others and when he was still two or three meters away from the door, he saw the door slowly opening.
It's nothing, there are automatic doors and there are security guards at the door! Beaumont followed and walked over, and then the door slowly closed. Only then did she realize that there was no guard at the front or rear!
The surveillance must be the surveillance camera next to it. The security guard was in the surveillance room. When he saw Cong Ju and others coming, he opened the door!
"The security level of this gate is not high, so you can enter with me, but not the second gate. Each of you needs to bring a visitor card." Cong Ju said, giving one to Qin Tao, Bo Meng and Xu Zhengyang.
one.
"The security guard won't open the door?" Beaumont was curious.
"Security? Do you think the door just opened was opened by the security? There is an Internet of Things terminal on the door, and the camera has facial recognition. When it recognized that it was me, it opened the door automatically."
Behind the camera is not a security guard, but a specialized face recognition system, which can then send instructions to the door, and the door will open automatically!
Listening to Cong Ju's introduction, Beaumont opened his eyes wide, and then took over the radio frequency card that represented his personal identity.
"This card is equivalent to a proof of identity. As long as you carry it with you, you can enter any door at any time here."
There are also door cards in the West, but these need to be swiped. Now you just have to carry them with you, and the door can sense them. Of course, because the doors are connected to the Internet, the communication between them is through the network.
"In the future, intelligent access control systems will be like this. As long as people approach, the door will automatically open. Of course, this is just the simplest aspect of the Internet of Things application. It is not worth mentioning. We can enter through two more doors.
It’s the computer center.”
Beaumont was the first to walk to the second door and watched the door slowly open, which was very novel.
Go through the two doors again and enter the computer center.
The computer room composed of a row of cabinets surprised Beaumont: "Does a shipyard need such a powerful computer?"
If it is a ship design unit, it will definitely need powerful computer-aided design. However, what does a shipyard use such a cabinet computer for?
"Of course it's automated production. Come on, let's take a look at the big screen here."
There were several workers on duty inside, looking at the screen carefully. In order not to disturb their normal work, but also to see more clearly, Cong Ju brought Beaumont to the big screen.
It was similar to the large screen at the Satellite Launch Center. It looked very shocking. At this time, the background of the entire large screen was an overhead view of the shipyard, with various icons on it.
Because of the icon format, Beaumont could quickly identify them: those moving icons should be self-driving vehicles, and those fixed icons should be machines and equipment.
Green represents work, red represents maintenance, white represents idle, yellow represents the situation is unknown and someone needs to be sent to check, but there are very few yellow ones, almost none.
There are definitely tens of thousands of terminals on the entire big screen!
Beaumont looked at the doors he passed through.
As if he knew what she was thinking, Cong Ju picked up the laser pointer and pointed it at that location. Then, the area began to zoom in and various information was displayed.
Just as it happened, a worker hurriedly walked by. When he was more than 20 meters away from the gate, he appeared in the gate's information display, character recognition... The recognition was successful, name, age, type of work, authority, and even the upper right corner.
One more photo!
When he came over, sure enough, the door status showed open!
All this happens automatically without human intervention. Isn't this amazing?
At this moment, a white machine appeared on the screen.
"Automatic welding machine No. 72 will be idle in two hours!"
"You can give it the welding task of the hydraulic pump base inside the cabin, but you need to transport a batch of materials in advance to see which car is free!"
Soon, new tasks were arranged.
Beaumont's expression was extremely complicated: "The addition of this Internet of Things system has increased the production efficiency of your shipyard by at least three times, and greatly reduced the cost. You, Dongfang Shipbuilding, really have something!"
"Science and technology are the primary productive forces. With the development of the times and the advancement of technology, the Internet of Things has come closer to us. Now, we only use the Internet of Things within the factory. In the future, we will expand to the whole country."
What would that be like?
All machines and equipment can be fully utilized. A certain automobile factory needs a special type of bolts, and the supporting factory has no time to produce them. You can immediately find where the machines and equipment are idle on the Internet of Things, place an order for production, and arrange logistics to avoid waste.
Half a minute!
A certain mobile phone factory found that the cameras only had enough inventory for one day, so they could immediately order and schedule production from any domestic manufacturer, produce them during the day, ship them at night, and have them arrive at the factory the next day!
In this way, the production efficiency of all industries in the entire country will be improved! There will not be a situation where production is stopped due to lack of any spare parts. All the industrial chains in the entire country will be perfectly integrated. By that time, the cost will be lower
!
Seeing Beaumont fall into fantasy, Qin Tao smiled. It seems that this reporter has understood!
"It's noon, let's go have dinner." Qin Tao said, "Let you see the application of the Internet of Things in life."
Bo Meng followed Qin Tao and Cong Ju into the top floor of the staff canteen. This is a pilot project for smart canteens. As long as you order food next to the dining table, the kitchen will receive the message, then automatically stir-fry the food, and finally the food will be delivered by a robot.
When watching the robot dining car approaching, Beaumont's lens started clicking again.
"Mr. Qin, I feel as if I have arrived in the future world."
"Yes, our future world will be like this. When you are free, go and see our future city. It is built according to the future smart city. Inside, reinforced concrete and chips have been perfectly combined...
…”
Beaumont nodded: "Definitely, definitely!"
Qin Tao picked up the chopsticks and took a bite of the shredded potatoes. No, the taste was terrible. Automatic cooking machines are still far from being practical!
However, Beaumont doesn't care about these tastes. In Europe, potatoes can only be eaten boiled or roasted, both of which are staple foods. Unexpectedly, they can also be eaten as a vegetable here.
Interesting, the East is so interesting!
That afternoon, the special plane returned to the capital. Beaumont said goodbye to Qin Tao at the airport, still very excited.
"Mr. Qin, before I came to Dongfang, I thought it was very backward. But now, I have a new understanding of Dongfang. I will definitely report on a real Dongfang and the real Mingzhou Group!"
"In Europe, there are still many people who look at us with colored glasses. Thank you for standing up." Qin Tao replied: "Thank you also for promoting a true Eastern world!"
Only now did Xu Zhengyang understand Qin Tao's true intention: to make Europeans understand and envy the East!