Return to 78: Why are all the Americans panicking about doing scientific research?

"Dear leaders, I actually have selfish motives. The machinery company is booming, but the family knows their own business. The more prosperous the development, the greater the demand for talents. Nowadays, senior intellectuals are in a state of one carrot and one job. I really have no choice but to think of this way to carry out joint development between school and enterprise."

"Our company provides internship venues and sends experienced trainees to teach and mentor interns to enhance their hands-on and business capabilities."

"Interns from universities and technical secondary schools drive our company's technological upgrades through their knowledge and culture."

“By learning from each other, we can improve the capabilities and levels of both parties. Whether it is the school or the company, the business capabilities will be improved.”

"In the future, the machinery company will also cooperate deeply with some universities that are capable of conducting scientific research to jointly develop new products. Our company will provide funds, and the school will provide research sites, research equipment, and related technical personnel. When the products are sold, dividends will be distributed according to the cooperation ratio to feed back the university's R&D funds and construction funds."

Lin Kaifeng's eloquent speech caused everyone at the scene to fall into silence.

Compared with the dilemma-ridden first application, the second idea proposed by Lin Kaifeng is highly feasible from any perspective.

These days, every department is short of money.

The city government’s financial income is not very good either.

Everything is making way for economic reform.

The country's funds are limited and the amount of foreign exchange is very limited.

We need to use a small amount of foreign exchange to do so many things, so we have to be frugal in every aspect.

This is why.

When people heard that Lin Kaifeng wanted to introduce a canned ham sausage production line from an island country, they thought it was a fantasy.

Applying for foreign exchange to purchase advanced foreign goods and equipment is not something you can decide on a whim.

Write up the report and submit it layer by layer.

If any link is stuck, subsequent links cannot proceed.

Even if it is sent to the final decision-making department, it may be rejected.

A leader said with interest: "Comrade Lin Kaifeng, can you tell us what projects your machinery company is going to research in the future and what projects you need the university to cooperate with?"

“Household appliances.”

Lin Kaifeng blurted out without thinking: "The country has issued a meeting to vigorously develop the home appliance industry and the automobile industry. The machinery company is entering the automobile industry, and the home appliance industry cannot be left behind. Only by walking on two legs and moving forward in parallel can the machinery company's benefits become better and better, and drive the local economic development steadily upward."

In the next stage, Duan Linkaifeng will focus on two things.

One is to vigorously develop automobile production and build real cars as soon as possible.

In addition, Lin Kaifeng plans to concentrate some of the company's technical backbones to conduct research on home appliance products.

We formed a joint experimental group with the university to jointly tackle the color television technology.

Whether it is color or black and white televisions, China has the ability to produce them independently.

But having the ability to produce does not mean having the ability to supply in large quantities.

It does not mean that color television technology is mature.

Compared to black and white TV, color TV is one of the most difficult projects.

In 70, a domestic television factory took the lead in researching the first color television.

But until now, the production of domestic color TVs is still very small.

The main problems are that some materials do not meet the standards and the technology has many flaws that are difficult to resolve.

If these problems are not solved, domestic color televisions cannot be mass-produced.

Fang Boyan, who had been in charge of industrial work for a long time, knew more about this issue than Lin Kaifeng. He said, "You mean that the technicians from the machinery company and the university should work together to solve the problem of the core component of the TV, the cathode ray tube?"

Lin Kaifeng nodded and smiled, "In addition to the cathode ray tube, there is also the shell material of the TV."

"Leaders, you should have visited other places and seen a lot of imported home appliances, whether it is televisions, radios or electric fans, imported home appliances from abroad have an obvious characteristic."

Having said that, Lin Kaifeng deliberately looked at Leader Chen.

As the local top leader, Leader Chen often leads teams to visit and inspect other provinces and cities.

Lin Kaifeng suddenly stopped talking halfway. Leader Chen shook his head and laughed, "You little brat, you're really good at keeping us in suspense."

"A widespread feature of imported household appliances is their plastic casings."

"Due to material and technical limitations, most of the household appliances produced in China use wooden shells."

Lin Kaifeng said: "The leader is really knowledgeable, this is exactly what I want to express."

"Compared to wood, plastic has more advantages, such as being light and beautiful."

"Our televisions still use wooden shells, and the same is true for radios. Only a small number of exported products have plastic shells."

"Even so, the materials used are still dependent on imports. Why? Because we don't have the molds to make the plastic shells."

"Speaking of molds, there is another big issue involved, CNC machine tools."

"No problem exists alone. One problem is linked to more than a dozen other problems, just like the sausage I mentioned. A small sausage can drive the development of multiple industries."

"The emergence of a problem will also affect multiple industries."

"The higher authorities have to make a choice between improving the living standards of the people and focusing on developing a certain industry. This is why a large number of research departments lack sufficient research and development funds. Even if technical experts want to solve a series of problems caused by relying on foreign imports, they are unable to do so."

"In this regard, we at Northern Machinery are willing to do our part and use company funds to help the scientific research department solve the problem."

“While solving the problem, our company will also benefit from it.”

Talking about moral principles all the time will only disgust people, so Lin Kaifeng adopted a clever way of storytelling.

Win-win cooperation.

Through school-enterprise cooperation, we help scientific research institutions increase their profits and obtain research and development funds.

It is equivalent to allocating funds to these colleges on behalf of relevant departments.

The machinery company gets a certain return from its investment.

The cooperation with Aimin Commune and Dongshan Brigade was a joint venture between workers and peasants, and was in line with the spirit and policies consistently promoted by the superiors.

Cooperation between manufacturing enterprises and schools is also in line with the policy.

It is a combination of work and study.

It is neither an attempt to restore capital nor for personal gain.

Workers, farmers, businessmen, students and soldiers cooperate and help each other - this has already been the tone set.

"Lao Fang, what do you think about this problem?"

Leader Chen asked.

"You can try it."

Fang Boyan smiled faintly and said, "Lin Kaifeng is a man of many ideas. He is good at dealing with foreigners and getting the most benefits from them at the lowest cost. This is his usual trick."

"Why not let him try? Maybe there will be some unexpected results."