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Chapter 91: Giving a Little Shock to Those Who Understand Technology (Subscription Requested)

When it comes to the Northeast, people usually automatically think of one name: the eldest son of the Republic's industry, the cradle of China's heavy industry.

And Shenyang, in particular, won the reputation of being the 'Hometown of Machine Tools' in the 1960s.

In those days, nine out of ten domestically produced machine tools were made in this place.

However, with the changing times, the former 'Hometown of Machine Tools,' like the businessmen in Chen Jue's old home of Wen City, began to enter a period of decline after its glory.

Now, when mentioning the stereotype of the Northeast, it's all about 'big gold chains, small watches, and barbecue three times a day.' With the rise of internet live streaming and short videos, these audio-visual entertainments have become derogatory terms for the so-called revitalization of the Northeast's 'industry'.

However, Shenji Group, where Chen Jue arrived, is one of the few mechanical industry giants in the Northeast that still adheres to its bottom line in this impetuous environment.

Because Shenji's predecessor was formed by the reorganization of Shenyang First Machine Tool Factory, Sino-Czech Friendship Factory, and Liaoning Provincial Precision Instrument Factory, its earliest history can even be traced back to 1935!

In the nearly century-long development of the company, the honors Shenji has won and the technical difficulties it has overcome are as numerous as the storms it has experienced.

For example, the first domestically produced CNC machine tool, the STM200160 CNC vertical gantry composite milling and turning center, was manufactured by Shenji in October 2009.

Its appearance completely filled the domestic gap in CNC machine tools and broke the monopoly of the Germans and Japanese on high-end CNC machine tools.

Furthermore, CNC machine tools have been put into mass production in core manufacturing fields such as automobiles, national defense, aerospace, rail transportation, and other key industries, improving the quality level of 'Intelligent Manufacturing in China'.

However, due to the constraints of the times and the overall environment in the Northeast, Shenji's development in recent years has not been ideal.

Frequent bankruptcies and reorganizations after its listing have led to a large loss of technical personnel.

The newly launched machine tool products have also failed to keep up with the trends of the new era, resulting in the entire company being insolvent and ultimately being acquired by state-owned giants like 'General Technology'.

However, in Chen Jue's view, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse.

Since this place is known as the cradle of domestic machine tools, it shouldn't be too difficult to introduce a batch of equipment from here to fill the gaps in the Cube Factory.

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Sitting in a Hongqi business car, they arrived at the entrance of Shenji's park. After explaining their intentions to the security personnel at the entrance.

Soon, Chen Jue and Lao Shang were invited to a sales hall.

"President Chen, you've really come to the right place to purchase high-precision CNC machine tools!"

"Our Shenji is second to none in the industry when it comes to CNC lathes, CNC milling and boring machines, vertical machining centers, horizontal machining centers, drilling machines, high-speed profiling milling machines, laser cutting machines, quality centering machines, CNC tool holders, and so on."

The young male salesman responsible for receiving them was wearing a suit and leather shoes. His name was Liu Qing. The young man was tall and had a very smooth tongue. He introduced the parameters of the machine tool models on display in the hall in a very knowledgeable manner.

When Chen Jue ran the auto and motorcycle parts factory before, he occasionally learned a few tricks from the masters who worked on the production line. Although he didn't know the ins and outs of these machine tools, he had some knowledge of the purpose of most of them.

However, when he saw that the precision of these Shenji-produced machine tools in the hall could be controlled to the ten-micron level at the highest.

This machine tool precision that could be sold to the public almost made Chen Jue drool.

You must know that in the field of mechanical processing, the precision requirements for different products are always the higher, the better.

The obsolete products that Chen Jue's old factory used to produce, which were also the very common industrial lifting ring blanks in the auto and motorcycle parts industry in Wen City, had a precision requirement of at most a millimeter level.

In front of professional insiders like Shenji, they couldn't be associated with the word 'precision' at all; they were extremely rough.

Seeing that this boss from the South, Chen Jue, valued machining precision so much.

Liu Qing, the person in charge of the explanation, mentioned some of Shenji's glorious and interesting stories.

In the past, the mechanical processing precision in China was indeed far behind Germany and Japan fifteen or twenty years ago.

Under the management of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom), machine tools with a precision of plus or minus 6 microns were within the scope of strict Western embargoes against China.

However, after 2013, several young master craftsmen suddenly appeared in Shenji, miraculously pushing the precision of domestic cutting-edge machine tools to 3 microns, breaking the 5-micron precision myth of Germany and Japan in one fell swoop.

Upon hearing this interesting anecdote, Chen Jue couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

While admiring Shenji's technical strength, he took Lao Shang, who had been silent throughout the whole process, and followed Liu Qing for a tour. After taking pictures at the exhibition area of the hall, which was known as China's first machine tool.

Then, the group went straight to the reception room and directly discussed the machine tool procurement matters.

However, when Chen Jue took out the three-dimensional dynamic construction plan of the Cube Factory, as well as the internal workshop's real-scene video and photos, Liu Qing, who had just thought that this young boss from the South didn't understand anything, immediately showed a respectful expression!

"President Chen, are you sure what you're showing me isn't an AI animation? Does such a factory really exist?" Liu Qing's voice was a bit louder.

Because the factory workshop created by this company called Cube Technology was just too simple and too beautiful!

The oversized cube building standing on the coast, just looking at the 200-meter side length specifications, was enough to make Liu Qing's scalp tingle.

Not to mention that this super factory was entirely prefabricated from metal plates from the inside out.

From laying the foundation to the completion of the entire main structure, it took no more than ten days.

The impact of the combination of industry and architecture completely conquered Liu Qing, who understood technology!

"I've already built it, and I'm just waiting to add equipment and put it into production! Do I need to lie to a salesman like you?" Chen Jue smiled slightly and pulled up the local Douyin circle in Ruixian.

He found a few videos taken by young people in Ruixian after the completion of the Cube Factory and showed them to the other party.

The real on-site photography in those videos directly stunned Liu Qing!

"It's so beautiful!"

"President Chen, I feel that your Cube Factory is enough to apply for an award in the field of architecture," Liu Qing couldn't help but sigh upon seeing this.

However, upon hearing that Chen Jue actually planned to fill such a large factory with CNC machine tools and various machining centers.

Especially after learning that the dock on the first floor of the workshop, which could accommodate ships of tens of thousands of tons, would also be equipped with some large CNC gantry lathes for shipbuilding, Liu Qing immediately couldn't sit still!

Because such a large order was completely beyond the authority that a small salesman like him could handle.

"President Chen, please wait a moment! I'll immediately call our Sales Department Director Zhou over to connect with you personally!"

Guaranteed second update ~ I didn't use a computer to write it, so I guess there are some typos and paragraph issues. I'll fix them tomorrow.