Chapter 92 Machinery Manufacturing is Not So Simple
"Liu Lang's results are indeed like this. He got full marks in science, which is due to his super memory and understanding ability. The only areas where he got points were in Chinese, politics and English, especially in Chinese composition. He only got 5 out of 30 points.
points because he did not understand the essay and went off topic. If he had understood the essay correctly, his college entrance examination score would have improved by more than ten points."
Lu Mingzhi has read Liu Lang's test paper. This Chinese composition is not difficult for other candidates. Basically, among millions of candidates, the lowest answer can be 15 or 16 points. Liu Lang only got 5 points on the paper.
, indicating that he does not understand this question at all, but for a three-year-old child, this is not a problem. If he writes an article with profound "connotations", it will make people suspicious.
"Oh, yes, I remembered it. Xiao Liu Lang, your essay was about class struggle, right? Haha, it's not bad. It seems that your parents have been very successful in educating you! You have never forgotten class since you were a child.
Fight!"
When Ding Wei said this, the people around him burst out laughing again.
"But Xiao Liu Lang, our country no longer talks about class struggle. Now we talk about reform and opening up... Do you know what reform and opening up is?"
Ding Wei asked with a long smile.
"I know! This word is all over the newspapers!"
Liu Lang replied.
"Well, tell me what reform and opening up is. If you are right, I will reward you with something good!"
“Isn’t reform and opening up meant to open the country and bring in advanced foreign technologies and talents so that all the people in our country can become rich and powerful?”
Everyone, including Ding Weichang, was stunned when they heard this.
Liu Lang's answer is simple, but it goes straight to the most critical core of reform and opening up.
"Introducing advanced foreign technology and talents will make all the people in our country rich and powerful. That's very good! It's very good!"
Ding Weichang praised repeatedly, and others kept nodding. Although Liu Lang saw it in the newspaper, there were many descriptions of reform and opening up in the newspaper, and there were also articles that were cautious about reform and opening up.
But he only remembered this sentence, which was the most accurate sentence about reform and opening up. I'm afraid this was not a simple memory problem. Maybe Liu Lang already had his own understanding of reform and opening up.
"Xiao Liu Lang, what you said is very good, but I would also like to add that there is nothing wrong with making the people of the country rich and powerful, and there is nothing wrong with introducing foreign technology and talents, but foreign technology and talents are just a process
, We must ultimately cultivate our own talents and create our own technology. Only in this way can our country become truly strong and our citizens truly wealthy and no longer subject to the control of foreigners, do you understand?"
"Well, I understand!"
Liu Lang nodded.
"Xiao Liu Lang, you are the talent our country needs to cultivate. Your responsibility in the future is to make our country rich and strong. What skills do you think we need to learn in the future to build our country better?"
Here comes the key point. Ding Weichang and others wanted to discuss Liu Lang's professional issues. Now he asked directly, and everyone looked at Liu Lang.
"There are many kinds of technology! But I like industry, especially mechanical processing and manufacturing. My choice is to major in mechanical engineering at Huaxia University!"
Liu Lang replied casually.
"Well, little Liu Lang, tell Grandpa Ding how you can make our country rich and powerful by relying on mechanical engineering!"
"It's very simple! If our country's mechanical engineering is strong, we can build our own planes, rockets, and aircraft carriers, so that others can't bully us!
If we are strong in mechanical engineering, we can build our own cars and then buy them in other countries, and the money we earn will make us rich!
If we are strong in mechanical engineering, we can build bridges in the mountains, build tunnels under the sea, and nothing can stop us. We can even build spaceships to sail to the moon. Not all of these require mechanical engineering.
Has it been realized? Grandpa Ding, do you think I am right?"
There were more than twenty people sitting in the conference room. At this time, the room was completely silent, no one spoke, there was only the buzzing sound of the electric fan.
"Is this mechanical engineering?"
an official asked subconsciously.
In the understanding of many officials, the so-called machinery refers to bearings, machine tools, drilling equipment, oil production machinery, etc. These machinery are also accompanied by stupid and rough workers. They wear oily clothes and have dirty faces.
To put it bluntly, there are not just 100 million but tens of millions of such people in China today. Now after listening to Liu Lang's words, how come the originally "lowly" machines in my impression suddenly became "high-class"?
It’s no wonder these officials are ignorant. The main reason is that the country’s industry has remained at a very low-end level since the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
During the First Five-Year Plan and the Second Five-Year Plan, the country established a relatively complete industrial system with the help of the big brother of the former Soviet Union. There were many large enterprises such as steelmaking and ironmaking, but steelmaking and ironmaking were really not complicated.
craftsmanship, otherwise there would not have been a period of time when people all over the country set up earthen furnaces to make their own steel and iron.
The country also wanted to build some high-end industries based on this, but unfortunately the big brother of the Soviet Union came to his senses at this time and never let this little brother have a relationship. Moreover, the relationship between the two countries gradually became hostile, and in the end it was almost a matter of life and death.
situation.
After that, the country started to engage in "movements" one after another. People were busy with ideological transformation every day, and how could they care about material life? Therefore, the industrial system was never established.
Until now, the country's industrial level has not improved much compared to the 1950s. Things like screw bearings are no problem. They can be used in general production anyway. For example, the Jiefang truck is already the highest-end mechanical product.
The country also has some warships, but these ships are not really high-end products. Anyway, they can only be unsinkable at sea and can fire a few cannonballs. Because building large ships or even aircraft carriers requires the ability to roll steel plates seven or eight centimeters thick.
, this technology will take more than ten years for the country to
However, look at those countries in the West. They built sea fortresses exceeding tens of thousands of tons as early as forty or fifty years ago. Later, a national leader once said: China’s industrial level lags behind Western countries by fifty years.
The above, this is absolutely true, and even more.
Liu Lang has the soul of a reborn person, and of course he sees this very clearly. However, in this era, many people do not have this awareness. Their view of reform and opening up is still on the reform of the economic system. The main purpose is to first
To make the people rich, as for other aspects, we still have to "cross the river by feeling for the stones" and take it one step at a time. Our understanding of industry is only at the low-level level of producing more steel every year and digging more coal every year.
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Therefore, in their eyes, machinery manufacturing is low-end and has little impact on the country. This is really wrong.
However, Liu Lang's words broadened their horizons. It seemed that machine manufacturing was not as simple as they thought.