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"Comrades, today's meeting is related to whether our Dragon Country's color televisions can be exported overseas and make domestic televisions more well-known."

"Perhaps in your opinion, this is just a cooperation and a normal commodity supply, but for Northern Machinery Company and the television industry, this is a battle."

"A decisive battle with the island nation's television industry."

A few days later in the afternoon, factory managers from many domestic TV manufacturers and heads of electronic component factories gathered in the conference room of the Northern Machinery Group.

The joint venture was settled and Joseph became the company's first general manager.

Best Buy will place an order for 500,000 color televisions with the company.

To deliver a large number of color televisions on schedule, the help of supporting enterprises across the country is indispensable.

Lin Kaifeng personally went to the capital with a large stack of contracts and agreements.

Through the coordination of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building, all the heads of companies with the ability to produce color televisions were gathered at the Northern Machinery Company.

"General Manager Lin has said so much. We promise to win this battle and will never bring shame to the country for our export products!"

"Our factory has just acquired the ability to produce colored motors. If we are only responsible for processing some spare parts, I think there will be no problem."

"Comrade Lin Kaifeng, you have taken down the most difficult bone and brought in an order for 500,000 color TV sets for the country. Whoever dares to hold you back, I will be the first one to not let him go."

"Some people always say that our domestic TV manufacturers are incompetent. They have never considered that during the planned economy period, each factory had a production quota. Even if they wanted to increase production, they couldn't do it. Foreign countries were guarding against us tightly, and it was difficult for all kinds of urgently needed production materials to enter the country smoothly. This resulted in low TV production and internal defects in black and white TVs."

Everyone expressed their stance and promised to fully cooperate with Lin Kaifeng to complete this mission.

Ever since they heard that Lin Kaifeng had obtained an export order for 500,000 television sets, the heads of the supporting enterprises named by the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building felt shocked and even more ecstatic.

Within a few years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the television industry in Longguo showed signs of booming development.

It has the ability to produce and sell black and white televisions by itself.

By the 1970s, through introduction and independent research and development, developing color televisions was no longer a technical challenge for domestic companies.

Although we have mastered the technology to manufacture color televisions, it is difficult to upgrade the existing color television technology due to external blockades and restrictions.

Foreign color televisions have undergone several rounds of upgrades and have firmly controlled core technologies.

Domestic color television production gradually fell into a trough.

Now, the situation can be changed immediately.

Lin Kaifeng said with a serious expression: "The color TV export project was brought in by the Northern Machinery Company. I will take on the responsibility and serve as the commander-in-chief of this "battle". Do you have any objections?"

Hearing this, everyone first laughed, and then applauded.

Then, Lin Kaifeng, like a general commanding an army, assigned production tasks to each company based on their strengths.

Some companies specialize in producing television parts, while others produce electrical components such as cathode ray tubes.

Calculate the time.

The island nation has already begun researching liquid crystal display technology.

Soon, their scientific researchers will make a breakthrough in the liquid crystal project.

Not only will it launch LCD TVs, but it will also launch expensive rear-projection TVs.

The diode technology will be defeated by new technologies and eventually disappear from the historical stage.

The order has been given.

Northern Machinery Company is responsible for the final assembly of televisions and the production of some core materials.

The core of the machinery company's color television is the cathode ray tube.

Lin Kaifeng neither chose rear-projection technology nor used liquid crystal technology which was gradually expanding into various fields.

Instead, it adopts a more advanced and realistic imaging technology.

A flat rectangular display technology that was born in the mid-to-late 90s.

The biggest feature of this technology is picture fidelity and high definition.

The image quality is unquestionably stunning.

If used on other household appliances that require displays, it can beat all competitors.

As for why LCD technology was not adopted...it's simple.

Avoid trouble as much as possible.

In the late 1970s, liquid crystal technology received widespread attention from the scientific community.

Begin to play a role in various fields.

The island country was the first to use liquid crystal technology to research household appliances and obtained a large number of patents.

If the color TV designed by Lin Kaifeng used the more advanced liquid crystal technology.

Even if the island country cannot win the competition, it will still disgust Lin Kaifeng in private.

They maliciously filed patent lawsuits and used various means to obstruct the launch of flat-screen TVs.

Color television is the flagship product of the island's national electrical appliances and also their main product.

"Mr. Lin, your father-in-law called you and said he had something urgent to discuss with you."

The meeting had just ended when Assistant Bai Ru appeared in front of Lin Kaifeng.

Lin Kaifeng nodded and said, "Bai Ru, please send the heads of the factories off for me."

After Bai Ru sent the heads of each factory away, Lin Kaifeng turned around and returned to the office.

I picked up the phone on the table and called my father-in-law Lu Dayong.

"Kaifeng, the commune has invited the expert you mentioned. He is now at the team headquarters. When will you be back?"

"So fast!"

Lin Kaifeng's expression changed, and he said excitedly: "Father-in-law, I will go back now. You must entertain this expert well. It will be of great help to improve our grain planting."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Kaifeng couldn't help but feel happy.

He called Lu Dayong and Niu Yonggui to the office and briefly explained some work to them.

Immediately, Lin Kaifeng drove straight to the production team himself.

Sitting in the brigade office was a thin intellectual in his forties or fifties.

"Professor Fang, please don't be polite. Coming here is like coming to your own home. Just tell me if you need anything."

Faced with the warm hospitality of Lu Dayong and others, Professor Fang, a researcher from the Institute of Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, felt a little overwhelmed.

Not long ago, Li Chaoyang, director of Aimin Commune, contacted the Agricultural Research Institute in the name of the commune.

Specifically invite Professor Fang to come and assist with the work.

It is promised that all expenses incurred in the work will be borne by the local authorities.

Ensure that Professor Fang is provided with the best scientific research environment and the best working place.

Thinking that the commune had encountered unresolvable problems in agricultural production, Professor Fang took a train alone to find out what was going on.

I didn't expect that as soon as I arrived at the brigade headquarters, I was treated like a distinguished guest.

Everyone passed cigarettes and offered tea.

His attitude was extremely polite.

"Professor Fang, I finally got you here!"

Soon, a young man rushed in from outside.

He came to Professor Fang like a gust of wind and tightly held Professor Fang's hands, which were full of calluses from years of participation in production labor.