Material Empire

In the large conference room of the University of Agricultural Engineering, the heater was fully heated. Although there were still large areas of snow on the lawn outside the window, the room was as warm as spring. The delegates who came from all over the capital to participate in the Agricultural Machinery System Catch Up with the International Advanced Technology Action Plan Symposium gathered together. Everyone took off their heavy coats and only wore sweaters, but their faces were still glowing red. The slightly fatter representative still had sweat on his forehead.

The meeting hadn't started yet, and everyone was looking for their acquaintances, exchanging greetings loudly, and the atmosphere in the entire conference room was extremely enthusiastic:

Oh, old horse, long time no see, how is it, have you been promoted again?

Haha, Professor Niu laughed at me, I'm still the same as before. By the way, I heard you won another Science and Technology Progress Award?

It's just a nomination, so I may not be able to be judged... Hey, isn't that Director Lu, your daughter will take the college entrance examination this year, right? How about it, it's okay to focus on the key points of the exam...

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China's agricultural machinery scientific research system is very large. Simply listed, it can be roughly divided into five systems: scientific research institutes directly under the central ministries and commissions, local research institutes at all levels, university scientific research institutions, scientific research institutions of large and medium-sized agricultural machinery enterprises, and individuals outside the system Or collective agricultural machinery scientific research institutions, some people jokingly call it the five major front armies.

Within each front army, the composition is also extremely complex. For example, the research departments of the central ministries and commissions can be divided into industrial and agricultural departments. The so-called industrial department is the agricultural machinery research institution under the Ministry of Machinery, and the agricultural department is the agricultural mechanization research institution under the Ministry of Agriculture. The central government is the same, and the local government is also the same. If the configuration is repeated up and down, thousands of agricultural machinery departments will come out.

Stimulated by the International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, Cui Hongchun instructed to formulate an action plan to catch up with the international advanced level. Wang Changsong did not dare to neglect, and immediately contacted the University of Agricultural Engineering, asking its organization to take the lead in handling this matter. To come up with a plan of action, it is of course necessary to solicit opinions from all sides. Due to traffic conditions, it is impossible for the Ministry of Agriculture to call all agricultural machinery researchers from all over the country to the capital. It can only send people from major units in Beijing to participate in the seminar. But even so, with a random swipe, forty or fifty people came.

Although they belong to different systems, they are all engaged in agricultural machinery. Everyone cooperates and competes on weekdays, and there is a turnover of personnel during several organizational adjustments, so they are basically acquaintances. There is no time for nonsense.

The person who presided over the meeting was Wang Changsong, deputy director of the Agricultural Machinery Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, and he was very familiar with all the participants. He looked at his watch, then looked at the situation of the venue, and found that several important figures had already arrived, so he came to the conference table, cleared his throat, and announced to everyone:

Okay, except for a few comrades who are temporarily unable to attend due to important work, all the participants have arrived today, so let's start the meeting.

Hearing Wang Changsong's voice, the people who were chatting vigorously remembered that they were here for a meeting, not a market. They reminded each other and returned to their seat, and then some people began to take off their reading glasses to observe the banner hanging at the end of the meeting room, and muttered in confusion: Chasing... the action plan, what do you mean?

Everyone be quiet, today's meeting is very important! Wang Changsong emphasized in a sonorous voice, This is a meeting held to implement Minister Cui's important spirit of speeding up the pace and catching up with the advanced technology of international agricultural machinery. ...

Next, Wang Changsong introduced the situation of the recent International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, listing the various gaps between China's agricultural machinery and the international advanced level. Comparable to the advanced deeds of rotary tillage blades. Of course, Wang Changsong did not mention the grievances between Qingfeng Factory and Fenghe Factory. He should not express his position rashly on such a negative matter.

Most of the representatives present had visited this agricultural machinery exhibition, so they understood what Wang Changsong said. As the saying goes, good things don’t go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. The rotary tillage blades produced by Qingfeng Factory did not attract much attention, but Lou Fuxiang was reprimanded by Cui Hongchun at the exhibition. Discussed. The focus of everyone's discussion is whether Lou Fuxiang will be raped, and what message Cui Hongchun intends to convey through this incident. As for the fact that the blades produced by a county-level agricultural machinery factory can be exported abroad, everyone’s comments are common: bragging, who can’t.

Of course, Wang Changsong knew what the people below were talking about. However, these people also had backgrounds, such as business leaders with real power and experts in academia. After he finished talking about the matter, he gestured with his hand and said, Okay, this is the main background of today's meeting. Let's talk freely now.

When Wang Changsong stopped talking, everyone stopped talking. Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and some even gestured to each other with their eyes, meaning to ask the other party to speak first. After a silent stalemate for a few minutes, Tang Kezhong, a senior professor at the University of Agricultural Engineering, stood up, smiled modestly at everyone, and said, Since everyone is polite to each other, let me start by throwing a brick and saying something.

Okay! Wang Changsong echoed softly, and clapped his hands a few times, so everyone in the venue also applauded sparsely.

Tang Kezhong claims to be a theoretical authority on agricultural mechanization. He was originally engaged in natural dialectics. After the state proposed to promote agricultural mechanization in the late 1950s, he turned his research direction to agriculture. Before the meeting, Wang Changsong had already greeted Tang Kezhong, so he was extremely well prepared for today's meeting:

Agricultural mechanization is an extremely important issue. In order to achieve the goal of quadrupling the total output value of industry and agriculture by the end of this century, we must transform from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture, and this must first realize agricultural mechanization.

Regarding the significance of agricultural mechanization, I would like to make three points: First, the historical experience of the development of agricultural mechanization in the world. Since Britain and France began to use steam power in agricultural production in the middle of the 19th century, the world’s agricultural mechanization has gone through more than a century...

When Tang Kezhong started to speak, the delegates who were alive and well just now began to feel weak. Some people pretended to record in their notebooks, but they were actually drawing villains; Take the opportunity to repose. At least eight of the ten people in the venue were heavy smokers. At this time, they naturally took out their cigarettes, sat down leisurely, and began to puff. The whole room was immediately filled with nicotine and PM2.5.

As the chairperson of the meeting, Wang Changsong naturally didn't want to appear too contemptuous. While memorizing the main points of Tang Kezhong's speech in his notebook, he nodded from time to time to express his agreement. In fact, Wang Changsong was already very familiar with the things Tang Kezhong said, because the old gentleman said the same thing every time, citing scriptures and allusions, and the clouds were clouded. If you say he doesn’t step aside, he can really give you some guidance from a historical and philosophical perspective; if you say he step aside, what he said was already said by a mentor in 1870, and there is nothing new.

But it is such an old gentleman, you still have to let him talk, because it is said that some leaders admire him very much, saying that he has a high theoretical level. If he is not involved in a major project, the leaders above will ask why they did not find him. In fact, Wang Changsong also inquired about it. The leader above just had a long chat with Tang Kezhong when he was in distress and was sent down. At that time, he admired him very much. After the leader came back, he was busy with everything, so he had no time to care about what Tang Kezhong was currently researching.

Tang Kezhong finally finished speaking, and he seemed quite tired. Wang Changsong quickly combined with what he said, picked out a few opinions that he agreed with a little, and then began to look for the next speaker.

With a beginning, the people behind will not feel shy. These people have been in the scene, and there is no stage fright for them in such a meeting, they just don't want to be the first to speak.

Let me talk about this issue from the perspective of our research institute... an expert from the Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute began to speak. As usual, he will first talk about the domestic background based on the spirit of the central leadership's recent speeches, and then talk about the international background based on the world's technological development trends, and finally put it into practice and propose some development directions.

Our suggestion is that we should give priority to the development of engines, focus on the development of tractors, develop tools as soon as possible, and develop vehicles at intervals. This engine refers to the engine. It is necessary to achieve both gasoline and diesel, a reasonable division of labor, high and low matching, and a system... At that time Most of the experts learn Chinese from the Chinese teacher, and they can make parallel sentences with one mouth, which is catchy and easy to learn and remember.

After the experts from the National Academy of Agricultural Machinery finished speaking, the experts from the Beijing Institute of Agricultural Machinery stood up, fully affirmed the previous expert’s opinion, and then put forward a few supplements. Take tractors as a priority development target, and small agricultural vehicles as a key target.

Then there were those from the Agricultural Machinery Factory, the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the Agricultural University. Everyone talked more and more lively, but it did meet Wang Changsong's request to speak freely. There are contradictions in the ideas put forward by various units, and there are also similarities in the views of heroes. Often, these two units jointly deny the views of the other two units, and then pinch each other internally, while other units find that there is a possibility. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he stepped in again to fight one family.

The former harmonious atmosphere has quietly changed. Although everyone still calls each other so affectionately, calling each other Lao Zhang, Lao Li, and even nicknames such as Fatty Wang and Pockmark Liu, but in On the issue of stance, they refused to give up an inch, and stabbed each other's softest ribs one after another.

This is a lot of fun!

Yesterday I wrote a bridge section that was not well designed, dug a big hole, and then quickly discarded it, so there is no update, sorry.