the world is at stake

But the school buildings and teaching buildings here are quite large, and there are many open spaces around them.We took it over and consolidated it and spent money to fix it up and redecorate it.

The buildings in the original campus were dingy, the doors, windows and exterior walls were all broken, so they looked like they were not classy, ​​but they looked better after repairs. "

Following the direction of the pick-up staff, several foreign-looking teaching buildings stood in front of Jung.The latter didn't know what the previous building looked like, but the outer wall of the floor in front of him was not bad at first glance.

Jung was amazed at the military training going on on the playground.The pick-up staff laughed and explained, "For some reason, the group thinks that if the students are not serious, it is a lack of control.

The venue here is huge, and 'Holy Light' moved all the teachers and students from several other colleges and technical secondary schools that it took over, and found a group of retired army non-commissioned officers for intensive military training.

Because of this, many nearby parents send their children to school.The high-intensity climbing and rolling for three whole months is really a lot of exercise.Many students don't want to study after military training, so it is easier to join the army.

In the past, the requirement of vocational and technical schools was that 'men should not die and women should not be born'.The atmosphere of the students after the military training has greatly improved, and the school has given a lot of incentives and subsidies, the school spirit and discipline are much stronger than in the past. "

There is a lot of sadness in this sentence.

The country is developing, but not every young person can go to university.There are still many young people in their teens who are at a loss because of various encounters and stay at the bottom, unable to find a direction for the future.

The media rarely pays attention to this group, and even reports are basically negative news.

Given China's population base, this "unmotivated" class is also extremely large, but they often have difficulty finding a decent job.Good food delivery.

The "dispatched workers" sent to the United States by "Holy Light" are this group, but most of them are screened within the military industry system, which is considered a kind of welfare.A larger number of young people at the bottom also need to gain room for advancement.

In Jung's memory, schools at home and abroad rarely conduct high-intensity military training for three months.He was very puzzled and asked: "Could it be that 'Shengguang University' will open an affiliated technical school?"

"There will be." The pick-up staff answered with certainty, "It is certain to train senior technicians. Because there is a shortage of talents in this field in China. The level of technicians is poor, and it is difficult to play a role with high-end equipment.

Private companies are often unwilling to do training work, and prefer skilled workers who can work as soon as they come.

But now the teaching level of technical schools and vocational schools is very poor. They are full of chefs and hairdressers, and they are all skilled in auto repair and excavator driving.

With reference to the current industrial chain system at home and abroad, 'Holy Light' intends to undertake social obligations in this area and train senior technicians.

For example, a lot of high-tech equipment has high technological content, but its operation does not require a master’s or doctor’s degree; feeding mice and washing flasks in biochemical experiments is also boring, and requires long-term patience and seriousness;

A lot of jobs seem to be lofty, but in fact, after formulating operating specifications, they can be left to ordinary people to do.

Europe and the United States have done a good job in this regard, allowing professionals to do more creative work.Domestically, they can't make a life-and-death turn around this corner, and are unwilling to give high incomes to technicians. "

Jung agreed with these words and nodded repeatedly.

The chores of many scientific research institutes abroad are actually outsourced, spending money to improve efficiency.But there are also unscrupulous professors who simply recruit a student to do odd jobs and squeeze the coolies.

"Wait for the school to recruit undergraduates, masters, and Ph.D. students, but also to have three months of military training?"

"Military training is affirmed for undergraduates. Is it military training for master's and doctoral degrees? According to the group's consideration, even if there is no military training, physical exercise should be strengthened. But whether it can be implemented is still unknown."

Jung was also quite in favor of some military training.

Foreign college students have a high enthusiasm for physical exercise, and fitness is very common.A good body can improve one's temperament and self-confidence, and it is easier to cope with heavy studies and work.

Domestic students are overwhelmed by heavy academic work and lack of exercise since elementary school.

This series of measures made Jung feel that the 'Holy Light University' is indeed in line with international practices.

It's almost May now, and it's not long before school starts in September.

The college has just opened, freshmen mainly focus on theoretical study, and do not need any high-end equipment for the time being.As for master and doctoral students, they can borrow equipment from other universities, and they can barely survive a semester or even a school year.

Jung's qualifications and abilities are world-class, and he joined the Materials Department of the Faculty of Engineering and Application of 'Sheng Guang University'.Although the college has not yet recruited students, many master and doctoral students have tried their best to contact him and want to study his major.

Jung's research direction is exactly the semiconductor material that is urgently needed in China.For example, wafers are the foundation of the semiconductor industry, and [-]-inch wafers are being popularized internationally.

In China, only Shanghai Xinsheng, founded by Zhang Rujing in 14, can produce [-]-inch wafers.However, the newly promoted equipment cannot be produced nationwide, and a large part of it is imported.The industrial chain has almost been interrupted at this point.

Shanghai is the most concentrated area of ​​domestic semiconductor and electronics industries.Before the college was officially in operation, Jung had seven or eight more doctors and masters.The first problem is to improve technology and yield.

因为国内目前只能搞定4寸和6寸晶圆的全套技术。别说12寸了，8寸都有困难，要到20年才突破。相关设备还基本都买美国的。

If you want to break through technology, you have to find out first.

Jung led the team to take some time to basically run through the domestic semiconductor industry, examine it with the eyes of the highest foreign standards, and came to the conclusion that many domestic products have no commercial competitiveness at all.

"This kind of equipment has long been eliminated, and no one will use it." Jung pointed at a six-inch crystal ingot straight-pull furnace in a certain electromechanical power plant in Zhejiang, shaking his head endlessly.

But the doctor next to him whispered, "Teacher, there are still people using this kind of furnace."

"Who is so stupid? Buying such crap?"

"ourselves."

Ah... Jung opened his mouth in astonishment, and asked back, "Ourselves?"

The doctoral student explained in a low voice: "'Shengguang' has two nationally produced semiconductor production lines, from silicon material silicon ingots to wafer manufacturing to chip design to mask lithography and packaging testing, all of which are based on domestic equipment. .”

"Can this work?"

Jung also lowered his voice.

"Based on the domestic level, the price of such a production line will not be much cheaper, and the production efficiency may be less than one-tenth of that of foreign production lines. The yield rate will be meaninglessly low, and the cost will break through the sky."

This is not in line with the laws of economics.

The doctoral student continued to smile wryly and nodded: "That's right, it's all about spending money. The production line was built in Ganzhou, and planning began last year. The construction period is one and a half years, and it will be put into production in November this year.

It is estimated that after the production line is in operation, it will lose hundreds of millions of yuan every month.But the group headquarters didn't care, and only asked for continuous improvement in production. "

Fuck, this is really a waste of money!

There are foreign off-the-shelf products that are not used, and domestic bad products must be used, regardless of profitability.The doctoral student explained, "The main concern is the foreign embargo."

The 'foreign embargo' is quite in line with the current 'white terror' atmosphere in the United States.Maybe one day Trump will make a big deal.

"It's okay, the problem can only be found after the equipment is used." Jung admired 'Holy Light', a private group that did not make profits, and did such a thankless thing.

"Actually, it's not as bad as imagined." The doctoral student added: "The group has placed a new order and plans to install ten more similar wafer production lines."

ten?

Jung couldn't accept this, and he couldn't spend money like this.If you want to promote technological progress, it is a luxury to have two experimental production lines.

"It is said that the group means that monocrystalline silicon can't be done well, and polysilicon should be made first. Chips can't be made well, and photovoltaic cells should be made first. In short, the scale should be built first, and the production capacity will be exploded."

The doctoral student gritted his teeth when he said this.

PV?

Jung didn't know much about this matter, he could only listen to his students in detail.

It can be said that China's photovoltaic industry has experienced ups and downs. All kinds of monsters and ghosts have poured in to make money, making the richest man in the country, and creating all kinds of rotten sores that cheat subsidies.

This is an industry that has been hit by a bloodbath since the beginning of the century, and the subprime mortgage crisis in 08 was a lore-like blow.But even so, the photovoltaic industry has been made the world's number one by the Chinese from scratch.

Photovoltaic products do not have much technical content.Brackets - only for China.It is to stick the photovoltaic glass and the battery sheet with EVA film and then package it.

At the craziest time, even small garment factories in the south could enter the photovoltaic industry.Family workshops can buy two or three diamond wire cutting machines, buy a few silicon rods, and cut them into slices to make money.

Raw materials and equipment are imported from abroad.The photovoltaic cells are assembled and sold abroad, mainly the European Union.Many domestic companies have made a lot of money by relying on this, and many people have lost everything after a while.

Electronic grade wafers require single crystal silicon with a silicon purity of '9 nines'.The requirements for photovoltaic silicon wafers are much lower, and polysilicon with 'six nines' is enough.

Although the country no longer provides subsidies, after more than ten years of development, domestic photovoltaic technology has become world-class.This market has already been fighting to a fever pitch, but 'Holy Light' still plunged into it.

LONGi relies on monocrystalline silicon photovoltaic cells to support its market value to 2020 billion yuan in 500.The business is currently climbing.

Since there are successful precedents, 'Holy Light' just copy them.

Losing money is nothing, it is better to lose less.Anyway, 'Holy Light' really doesn't care whether it makes money or not, it just wants to use domestic equipment and resolutely not use foreign equipment.

"As long as domestic enterprises have normal cash flow and management systems, they can grow very quickly."

The doctoral student continued: "Talking about this CZ furnace, 'Shengguang' has invested in several domestic companies, and also poached people from abroad for technology, and it is expected that [-]-inch wafers will be produced domestically next year.

Now 'Holy Light' is tantamount to a roundabout tactic.Before conquering the chip, take down other semiconductor peripheral products first.Unsure about 12-inch wafers, first spend money to produce 8-inch wafers. "

There is a terrible law in the manufacturing industry-it doesn't matter if the technology is poor, but it will be terrible when it scales up.

This is the case with 'Sacred Light', which relies on the size of the stack to keep costs down.To build a photovoltaic cell, the goal is to reduce the price of the past three digits to single digits.

After hearing this, Jung gritted his teeth—it really made 'Holy Light' do it, and the friendly merchants in the market would be killed and bloody, and the biggest profits would naturally belong to it.

Sure enough, the more money you spend, the more money you make.

Chapter 67

"There is a big difference between the 8-inch and 12-inch processes. The 12-inch has higher requirements on the machine. The same heat treatment process, the difference between the center and edge of the 12-inch wafer will lead to a sharp drop in yield."

Jung visited Zhejiang Electromechanical Plant which produced 'CZ Furnace'.He was still thinking about pointing out the many low-level technical mistakes made in the factory, when he met a foreigner with a white beard who was doing training on the job.

"Even in the photovoltaic industry, polysilicon has no future. I suggest that the 'Shengguang' Group should make monocrystalline silicon. The upper limit of photoelectric conversion efficiency is higher and has more potential."

In front of the old man with a white beard is a [-]-inch CZ furnace from the American Kayex company.Jung walked behind it and was surprised to find that it was the latest model.

There are still many accessories next to the Czochralski furnace, a few have been unpacked, and many are still in packaging.The technicians in the factory are walking around to put it together.

After walking past, Jung asked the doctoral students behind him, "How can there be American equipment in this factory? Didn't they only purchase domestic ones?"

The doctoral student is in his thirties. He has been working for a master's degree for many years and is studying for a doctoral degree again.He is more familiar with the situation of the factory, so he laughed a few times at this, and said perfunctorily: "It's imported, just as a reference."

There is no problem with reference, but it is a bit wrong to invite foreign engineers from the original factory for reference?

Jung didn't speak, and probably had a guess in his heart.

The recent preparations for the construction of the "Holy Light University" have gathered many senior technical personnel from the United States.In addition to professors in universities, there are also R&D or production engineers in high-tech enterprises.

Most of them have 'Asian' faces, but it is not surprising that a foreign devil with a high nose and deep eyes pops up occasionally.There are no more than two reasons for this group of people to appear.

Either there is no other way out, or you are tempted by a high salary, or a combination of both.

"The 'Holy Light' group is really powerful." Jung said in a low voice.The doctoral student behind him smiled silly and didn't reply.

The "Thousand Talents Program" has been implemented in China for many years, and there are not many high-level talents brought back, and the number disclosed to the public is only [-].

But only a few months after Harden took office, the "white terror" created by the FBI drove five or six thousand senior intellectuals with "Chinese background" to flee back to China—if they didn't escape, they would really be arrested.

Already, individual suspects who are 'incomparably loyal to America' have been banned from leaving the country and have been brought to court several times.

It's okay if we don't get caught, the people with 'Chinese background' are just panicking.After being caught, it was like stabbing a hornet's nest, and a large group of people fled frantically.

Some liberals 'believe that democracy will eventually triumph over crazy McKenzieism' and they have fled to places like Canada to wait and see. The FBI unceremoniously asked Canada to extradite the relevant personnel back to the United States for trial.

If the 'loyalty investigation' is more relaxed, be tolerant.Most intellectuals with a 'Chinese background' will certainly remain in the US to live comfortably and cut ties with China.

But the FBI didn't do that, it was 'one size fits all'.The arrogance of the Americans was fully exposed at this moment, and no heavyweight came forward to accuse Harden of doing something wrong.

Discipline leaders are not potatoes in the field, they will grow out of them.A team led by a "leader" can often advance the development of a certain industry for several years or even decades.

The 'white terror' has indeed interrupted the way for Chinese scholars to go to the United States to communicate to a certain extent, but it has forced a large number of academic leaders to return to China.The rest is how to make good use of this group of people.

The number of this group of high-level talents will definitely exceed [-], which is very... surprising—whether they are willing to build socialism or not, they are just for my use anyway.

Time changes everything.

Jung was forced to come back, and it was hard for him to comment on who benefited from this matter?Judging from the current situation, the United States has lost a large number of experienced scientific research and creative talents.And this group of people all went to China.

In addition to talents, cutting-edge equipment from the United States seems to be bought into China without any obstacles.

Although the CZ furnace from 'Kayex' company is not an embargoed equipment, it is always strange that it appears in a Chinese-funded electromechanical plant in such a grand manner.

Jung didn't know the white-bearded foreigner, and he didn't go up to talk to him, but he always felt that the other person might be an industry expert hired by the 'Holy Light' just like himself.

Technological breakthroughs require countless trials and errors.But once you get it right, it's often cheap to replicate it.This is the charm of industry.

After a simple survey of wafer manufacturing in the domestic semiconductor industry, Jung himself has several project improvement plans, all of which are mature technologies being used by Western companies, which can have an immediate effect on the improvement of domestic technology.

The top executives of 'Holy Light' also gave an internal principle - don't care about whether patents are patents or not.We produce our own products for our own use, and we don’t sell them to outsiders. We make the products first.

In this case, many technical paths and difficulties are much easier to handle.Just copy and save time and effort.

As the time gradually approached July, Jung, as a returning professor, silently contributed to the semiconductor industry chain of 'Holy Light'.

As far as he knows, in addition to the Group's efforts in photovoltaics, multiple domestic technology production lines will produce low-end products such as power chips, fingerprint sensors, and communication chips.Steady progress.

This month is the end of the college entrance examination, and about 940 million of the 760 million candidates will be admitted.

The difference is that the 'Holy Light University' was born out of nowhere, and it suddenly went to various provinces to promote enrollment, and competed with domestic famous universities for high-quality students.

This kind of competition does not use grades as the only criterion, but to set up a professor-level admissions team to interview high-scoring students from each province one by one by phone or video.

The media was amazed by this way of recruiting students, and thought it was a breaking news. The 'Shengguang' Group also used major media to make follow-up reports and hype several major selling points of 'Shengguang University'.

"Professors in many domestic universities are low-level, even Fudan University in the north of Qing Dynasty is unreliable. Mr. Dong Guo steals high positions and misleads his children everywhere."

"The faculty of 'Holy Light University' is truly world-class. The professors who attend the class are either from Harvard or Princeton, or Johns Hopkins, or Berkeley, California."

"Now that the United States persecutes people with 'Chinese background', it is very difficult to study in the United States. But when you study at 'Shengguang University', you can fully enjoy the international teaching level, and you can study abroad in China."

"'Shengguang University' is a private university approved by the Ministry of Education. In addition to having world-class famous teachers, the tuition fee is not cheap. If you don’t have 10 yuan a year, you can’t afford it.”