In Liu Lang's previous life, Volkswagen entered China in the early 1980s, but it would take nearly ten years until the first car, the first-generation Santner, was launched.
Over the past year, they have been continuously engaged in localization, which is a "painful" process. Even if Volkswagen has not handed over the core technology, it has only handed over the simplest
The single parts were handed over to state-owned enterprises, but the company was still stumped. Parts the size of screws could not be made, the car body could not be made, the tires could not be made, and the car seats could not be made. In the end, only the antenna on the car could be made.
It can be made, but not in terms of standards. In short, in front of the world's most advanced automobile companies, the country is worthless even if it shows its wealth.
For this reason, machine tool factories and supporting factories across the country began to research these parts and improve the sophistication of the production lines. It was not until the 1990s that the supporting products reached the standards of Volkswagen. The first Santer produced by the joint venture was
The nationalization rate of Namibia has reached 80%.
German Volkswagen later made a lot of money in China, and it also brought huge changes to the country's industrial system. Through the nationalization rate of automobiles, it improved the country's technical level and directly cultivated a group of relevant talents.
A cooperation method was created for subsequent joint ventures: if you want to enter China, then hand over the technology and let us do it. However, this method is still superficial in Liu Lang's view and does not allow the country to master the core technology, such as
Automotive engine technology.
Of course, foreigners are not fools. Of course they won’t hand over this kind of technology that is related to the lifeblood of the country to you, but if they don’t give it to the Chinese, why don’t they learn it secretly? It’s just that the Chinese were too practical at the time and didn’t think of going deeper.
"Professor, this news is very important! It seems that we have time to go to Shanghai to meet the Germans!"
Liu Lang was thoughtful.
"Meet the Germans for a moment? Why?"
Xiong Huaizhi was puzzled.
"The nationalization rate of Volkswagen cannot be achieved by just one company in Shanghai. It would require all the factories in the country to achieve it. Moreover, I think we can take advantage of this opportunity to introduce a batch of advanced machine tools from Germany, which will definitely improve industrialization."
Great opportunity for level!”
Liu Lang's thinking was much deeper than Xiong Huaizhi's.
The nationalization rate of Volkswagen in China was very slow, and it took nearly ten years to complete. The main reason was naturally that the level of state-owned enterprises was not high and they could not build it even if they wanted to.
If you want to manufacture high-end parts, machine tools are of course the most important. The most advanced machine tools in the country were also imported from the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. Later, on this basis, they developed some of their own, such as lathes, planers, and milling machines.
, punching machines, etc., are definitely not bad in terms of types. Except for CNC machine tools, there are some domestic basic machines in foreign countries.
They all have it, but the technology is too backward and the level of refinement is too low. CNC machine tools have been used on a large scale abroad, and the control systems are all electronic. Of course, because computers have not yet been widely used, CNC machine tools at this time cannot
Compared with those produced more than ten years later, the level of refinement is at least ten times that of domestic machine tools.
Liu Lang feels that the gap between China and foreign countries in machine tools is not too big now. If we catch up, we can still close the gap within ten years. When computer-controlled machine tools become popular, it will be even harder to catch up.
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The world's industrial structure has not yet entered a period of change. At best, foreign machine tools are better than domestic ones in terms of electronic systems. The biggest gap between the two sides is the gap between manual control and electronic control. This gap is not too huge. Calculated, it is still at
On the same straight road, the computer-controlled industrial revolution is a big curve. If you make a timely change, you will use this big curve to accelerate. If you don't change, you will be thrown far away.
If the country accelerates its progress, it may be able to close the distance with Western countries before the industrialization change, and then accelerate during the change, narrowing the gap again, or even completely surpassing the other country.
The industrialization revolution with computer control as the core is still ten years away. The country must firmly use this time to accelerate progress in industry. This is the principle of overtaking in a corner. If you want to overtake in a corner, you must first
What needs to be done is to transform and upgrade the national machine tools, and upgrade the workshop-style machine tools to the level of electronic system control.
Liu Lang has an idea, which is to use the Volkswagen localization project to accelerate the evolution of related companies across the country.
"I wonder what's going on with ABB? This curve overtaking plan needs their help!"
Liu Lang frowned and kept thinking...!
The upgrading of machine tools is a long-term problem, but the manufacturing of stainless steel smelting furnaces is close to success.
At the end of December 1984, when the last component was successfully assembled, the country's first medium-sized stainless steel metallurgical furnace was officially developed.
This is a major event of historic significance to the country. Leaders of relevant departments came in person to witness this historic scene. This stainless steel smelting furnace is more than four meters high, has a power of 2,000 kilowatts, and can smelt every hour.
Output two tons of high-quality stainless steel.
Following Professor Xiong Huaizhi's order, high-heat coal coke was injected into the smelting furnace, and the internal furnace suddenly burst into flames. Then all components began to operate. A large amount of argon-oxygen mixed gas was injected into the argon-oxygen furnace, and the steel in the furnace became red after high temperature.
After a few minutes, it melts into molten iron, is decarburized, annealed and tempered, and then poured into a gate-shaped mold.
After more than forty minutes, a stainless steel door was forged.
Everyone present cheered. In the past few months, everyone had worked hard day and night. Some people did not even return home. Now everyone's efforts have finally been rewarded. Excitement, sadness, and all kinds of complex emotions surged up.
In my heart, many people shed tears.
"Minister Li, the whole process was a complete success. This is our country's first high-quality stainless steel door!"
Xiong Huaizhi pointed to the silver-white door and said while suppressing his excitement.
"Okay, great, great, you have made great contributions to our country's industrial construction, and I want to take credit for you!"
Li Changtian, the Minister of Industry, was also very excited.
"It's not easy, it's not easy!"
Liu Lang also let out a sigh of relief at this moment. This is not only the credit of these people. Without the help of those machine tool factories, the smelting furnace would not have been successfully manufactured in such a short period of time. It can be said that this is the work of all the national industries.