Chapter 110: The development of SMIC with the power of the whole country
Liu Lang solved one of the biggest problems for Ren Weitian, so he immediately started thinking about the company's next plan.
Ren Weitian is a man of action. Now that he has money, he has to fight for the rest by himself. His favorite saying is: Ten thousand years is too long, seize the day.
Either don't do it, or try your best 100%. In short, you must try every method you can think of to achieve your goals.
Liu Lang became interested in Guowei Company, so he and Sun Hu flew from Shenzhen to Shanghai and came to SMIC.
Liu Lang visits SMIC once or twice every year, fearing that they will take "detours". Fortunately, SMIC's managers are still Huang Kun, Xie Xide and Zhou Ming, although all three of them are almost seventy years old.
However, their energy is still good. In fact, people of their age may not have enough energy and physical strength no matter how good they are. A serious illness may bring them down, just like Professor Xiong Huaizhi did.
But they dare not retire because the country's next generation of semiconductor workers has not been truly trained. They will not let go until they see that these young people can take on important responsibilities, otherwise they will not close their eyes until they die.
Fortunately, a large number of outstanding talents have emerged in recent years, and they are growing at a rapid rate. In particular, Wang Haijun, who returned from studying in an island country, has become the chief engineer of the lithography machine project. The progress of young people has convinced several old professors
I feel relieved that maybe they can retire peacefully in a few years.
Today's SMIC is very different from when it was first built. The seven-hectare factory has three factories with a total area of more than 4,000 square meters, a four-story office building, and a dormitory for 100 people.
Building, staff canteen, activity room, and precision instrument research and development building, it can be said that the facilities are complete.
There are not many such complete factories in the whole country. Of course, these are all made with money. In the past few years, the country has spent a total of 500 million yuan on SMIC. This is still direct investment, not indirect support. If
Including indirect investment, the total investment must exceed one billion yuan.
One billion yuan is a bit far behind Liu Lang's one billion US dollars. Some people may think that the country's investment in SMIC is very small.
In fact, this is not the case. It is now the year 1990. Every industry and department in the country needs money. The country’s focus is actually on investment in steel and electricity. After all, these two are the foundation. Without steel, no construction can be done.
What's going on without electricity?
Steel and electricity are priority industries. In other industries, you either have to "resign yourself to fate" and get whatever the country gives you, or you have to be self-reliant.
Of course, the state's investment in education and modern industry is much larger than that in other industries. For example, the one-time investment of 200 million yuan in preparation for the establishment of the Fucheng Industrial Zone has made many leaders of ministries jealous.
But despite such difficulties, the country still regards SMIC as a thorn in its side and invests a lot of manpower and material resources every year to make this company one of the top state-owned enterprises in just five years.
This is the advantage of using nationwide efforts to develop an industry. It can develop an industry in the shortest time and make it bigger and stronger at the same time.
Of course, the growth of SMIC cannot be called a national effort. After all, one billion in five years is not a lot in the world, and it can only be regarded as passable.
The most successful country in developing the chip industry with nationwide efforts is South Korea. This is how their Samsung Electronics developed. Twenty years later, Samsung Electronics has become a super enterprise that is on par with Apple and Intel in the United States. In terms of comprehensive strength, it even exceeds
Without these two companies, the development process of Samsung Electronics reflects the national capital in every aspect.
Having such a company is a blessing for the country, but it is also unfortunate. Samsung's annual output value is equivalent to one-fifth of South Korea's GDP. There is a popular proverb in South Korea, called birth, death and Samsung, which means
Koreans cannot live without this company in their lives.
The Samsung Group has penetrated into every aspect of people's lives, and it has also penetrated into every corner of the Korean government. Every president has to face this behemoth, and their careers are even at the mercy of the other party, so these people have only two ways to go.
, either by groveling or by strong suppression. The former can also make them survive, such as
If it is the latter, then sorry, the only way is to perish. The most typical representative is Long Wuxuan, who is known as the civilian president. During his term, he tried his best to eliminate the snobbery of the other party. It seemed to have achieved results, but just now
As soon as he left office, he was splashed with dirty water, and finally committed suicide by jumping off a cliff. He used his personal experience to warn those who would come after him not to "do the same thing".
China is not a small country like South Korea. A big country has great ambitions and cannot devote all its energy to a certain industry, so this situation will not happen. Naturally, SMIC cannot compare with Samsung Electronics.
SMIC still follows the industrial chain approach, which is the "Fengtian" model. With SMIC as the leader, other companies support it, thereby driving most companies to grow together, and finally forming an industrial chain.
In recent years, SMIC has indeed driven a large number of companies, such as semiconductor processing companies, electronic component companies, optical instrument companies and other companies. These companies have formed a scale through continuous integration and improvement. In Liu Lang's view, the reform of semiconductor companies
It is much more successful than the reform of industrial enterprises.
The reason is actually very simple, that is, the country's semiconductor companies are originally scattered, and their contribution to the country is far behind that of industrial companies. Most of the small-scale companies are dispensable, and there is usually no one.
Attention, similarly, the difficulty of reforming such enterprises is also much smaller.
In a word, SMIC's growth has exceeded Liu Lang's earliest overdue development. If it continues to develop at this rate, China will definitely have a place in the IP chip market in the future Internet era. There will no longer be a situation where the country spent hundreds of billions every year like in the previous life.
The situation of importing chips with U.S. dollars occurred.
Liu Lang and Wang Haijun were walking in the scientific research building, which has four domestic first-class laboratories. Most of the experimenters are college students who have recently graduated, and there are also industry elites drawn from various places.
There are many domestic semiconductor companies, but not many outstanding talents. The first batch of employees were selected from across the country. Later, SMIC conducted two more talent selections and dug out more than 100 employees through the "big competition"
Outstanding employees were transferred to SMIC. In order to solve these people's worries, Shanghai City specially built employee dormitories for them near Shanghai City. In addition, all household registration and other matters were resolved, and they moved from a third-tier small town to a first-tier city like Shanghai.