Chapter 757: The Seventeenth Machine Department is Forced into a Corner

The Chinese New Year is coming soon. This year's Liehuo Science and Technology Award has been changed to before the Spring Festival, contrary to the previous two habits of being awarded after the Spring Festival.

It seems that with the improvement of the efficiency of reporting results, as well as the accumulation and improvement of experience in support and evaluation work, the award evaluation work can be completed before the Spring Festival. Both the department and the award winners actually hope that the awards can be presented before the Spring Festival.

It is definitely better to have a prosperous New Year with the reward than to receive the reward after the New Year.

The auditorium of the 17th Ministry of Machine Building was crowded with people and the atmosphere was lively.

It's near the end of the year, and the participants are mainly comrades from units near Beijing. Those who are too far away cannot come, so they can only be announced at the meeting, and then the commendation items such as certificates and medals purchased by the department must be mailed to them. As for other welfare-type rewards, they will be distributed on behalf of the award winners after their units have received the medals and medals.

Since it was an award ceremony, everyone sitting in the venue naturally had to talk about this matter. Naturally, Gao Zhendong was also their focus of discussion.

“I wonder how many Gao Zhendong can get this year?”

"Seven or eight, right?"

"It's hard to say. It seems like there weren't many last year."

"Hey, then you don't know. There weren't many last year. You just saw that there weren't many. In fact, there were a lot."

"What? There is such a thing? Tell me about it!"

"No, that's against discipline."

"Tsk, seven or eight? What are you thinking? Chief Engineer Gao has almost twenty new materials for the 6011 battle alone. All of them are first-class seedlings, and there is no problem for them to get second place at least."

New materials are new materials, but some are improvements on existing materials, and some are completely new. The improvements are worth at least second class, and the completely new ones are definitely first class.

"Yes, and he has finished them all. How many do you think he can get?"

"Twenty first, I guess."

"Maybe not that many, first and second class are probably half the same."

"How about we bet on a meal?"

"You two should keep your money to yourself. No gambling allowed!"

"It's boring..."

In fact, not only them, but also Lao Chen and Gao Zhendong himself were curious about how the department would handle this matter.

It was easy for others to talk to, they just split it up, you participated in one, I participated in one. Even Zheng Liangshu, as the person in charge of the other party cooperating with the third branch factory, nominally withdrew from most of the projects and handed them over to others.

For Zheng Liangshu, he is in the administrative field, not the technical field. He must have things like research projects, but sometimes too many of them are not a good thing.

Of course, generally speaking, no one would have this worry. It’s a lot of trouble to deal with just one or two, so when will there be the worry of “too many”?

But since Gao Zhendong is involved in this matter, the nature of the matter has changed.

If Zheng Liangshu did not realize what the nearly 20 projects represented in his excitement at the beginning, he realized this problem soon after the 6011 battle began. It was a happy trouble, so he took the initiative to distribute a lot of them and gained a lot.

But unlike Zheng Liangshu, Gao Zhendong couldn't divide the profits in this matter. No matter how he divided it, the heaviest share would always be in his hands, and he couldn't give it to others even if he wanted to.

In other units, all the achievements are attributed to one person. Well, there must be something fishy!

But in the Third Factory, what? All these new achievements have nothing to do with Gao Zhendong? There must be a big problem!

But both Lao Chen and Gao Zhendong knew that it would be difficult for the department to commend Gao Zhendong based on the project.

Too many, really too many! It will have a certain impact on the seriousness of the first prize of the Liehuo Science and Technology Award.

It is unfair not to reward people for their achievements, but it is also unfair to ordinary people to evaluate them together with outliers like Gao Zhendong.

So Gao Zhendong didn't care at all about what award he could win. He was just slightly curious about how the department would handle this matter.

Gao Zhendong was not the only one who was interested in this question. People familiar with him in the 17th Ministry of Machine Building were also very curious about it.

Amid this curiosity, this year's Liehuo Technology Award ceremony proceeded as usual, without any incident, as if nothing had changed from last year.

Gao Zhendong's name has not been mentioned, and people are not surprised. It was the same last year and the year before. If he is put first, people will lose interest and attention in all the projects after him.

This is the top among technical workers!
When people's curiosity reached its peak, the first prizes were almost awarded and the ceremony was coming to an end.

At this time, the leader of the 17th Ministry of Machine Building clapped the microphone.

"Next, it's our last award, and it's also the most special one." Here it comes, this must be Gao Zhendong, but why is it the last award and not the last person?

"This year's Liehuo Science and Technology Award Special Prize is awarded to Comrade Gao Zhendong from the Beijing Third Steel Rolling Plant, and the winning topic is none!"

There was a loud bang below, and it exploded. Special prize? Why didn’t we have this thing before?
And what does that mean? Gao Zhendong doesn't have a single award-winning project? What a joke.

But everyone soon came to their senses.

"It seems that this award is tailor-made for Gao Zhendong."

"Well, the ministry probably can't do anything about it. There are no more awards to give."

"The ministry's consideration is reasonable. If we commend them based on their research projects, it will make other comrades look like they are not worth mentioning."

"Yes, yes, this is a bit unfair to other comrades. Compared with Gao Zhendong, there is no comparison at all!"

"Just pick Gao Zhendong out, he's the best! Experience is always the best, the leaders in the department are really good."

"Did you notice that there is no specific topic? This award is just for Gao Zhendong."

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"Isn't he doing enough research? Just a blast furnace operation line is far more significant than these individual materials. It is a huge improvement for the entire 17th Ministry of Machinery."

"I am convinced by this result!"

"..."

There was thunderous applause in the meeting hall, and the comrades expressed their emotions with all their might.

Gao Zhendong also understood that this "special prize" is actually a bit like a lifetime achievement award, or a weaker one, the "highest comprehensive achievement award of the year". It does not tell you the topic or specific indicators. The requirements seem simple: you must have enough achievements and great significance!
Both quantity and quality must be top-notch, neither can be missing!

What is top?

The criteria for being top-notch is that if the department feels that it is enough to give you a few first prizes, then you are not top-notch enough.

Mr. Chen... No, now he is Director Chen of the Third Rolling Mill. Old Chen laughed happily beside Gao Zhendong and said, "It seems that the department is really driven to despair by you, hahahaha."

Gao Zhendong didn't know how to respond to this, so he just chuckled a few times.

Comrade Zheng Liangshu, the director of the third factory, also laughed out loud. Thinking about how his old leader was forced into this state by Gao Zhendong, he laughed in a rather unkind way.

"Next, please invite Comrade Gao Zhendong to come up to the stage to receive the award!"

Amid the warm applause and admiring gazes of all comrades, Gao Zhendong stood up and walked towards the podium.

Under the blazing light, his figure seemed unusually tall.

——"The Liehuo Science and Technology Award Special Prize is a non-established award, which is only awarded in certain extremely special circumstances. It is awarded to a large number of scientific and technological personnel with extremely high comprehensive scientific and technological achievements in a year. So far, there have been only a few winners, and the total number of awards has been less than 10. The winner with the most awards is Comrade Gao Zhendong, a leader in the metallurgical industry, and the rest of the winners have won once."

——Excerpt from "History of Metallurgical Technology" published in the 21st century.
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"Chief Engineer Gao, I can understand the 20-second slow-scanning photosensitive element. I tested the resistivity of oxygen-doped antimony sulfide and found it to be on the order of 10 to the 13th power ohm.cm. It does have this effect, but I don't quite understand the one-hour slow-scanning photosensitive element."

Sitting in front of Gao Zhendong was Liu Rongguo, the officemate named "Xiao Liu" who had been working with him since he started burning thermocouple electrodes.

However, there are only a few people who still call him "Xiao Liu". He has leapt from a technician to a formal engineer, and is a top technician in the field of special alloys and non-alloy special materials.

He does not just rely on Gao Zhendong for help. As a graduate of a formal college, he is also constantly learning and improving at work, and is constantly accumulating theoretical knowledge and practice.

Therefore, he also has his own thoughts on some topics.

Gao Zhendong was happy to answer his question: "The situation is this: without coating other material layers, the high resistivity of oxygen-doped antimony sulfide itself is enough to achieve a charge storage time of 20 seconds. But when the target surface is further made into a double layer, the antimony sulfide material mainly plays a photoconductive role, while the loose potassium chloride coating layer with a higher resistivity plays a long-term storage role. In this case, the charge storage time can reach 1 hour."

As Gao Zhendong spoke, he drew the equivalent circuit diagram of the target surface of the slow-scan camera tube on the blackboard and explained it carefully to Liu Rongguo based on the equivalent circuit diagram.

These words made Liu Rongguo suddenly enlightened and he shouted that he had learned it.

"So that's what's going on. I see. Mr. Gao, don't worry. I will make sure this matter is handled properly."

Whether this problem is figured out or not, it actually has no effect on Liu Rongguo's realization of Gao Zhendong's intention. But for Liu Rongguo, this is a rare learning opportunity. His major is metallurgy, and this knowledge mixed with electricity is very helpful to his vision.

"Sister Fang, the rest of the things are left to you!" Liu Rongguo turned and smiled at Fang Yinghong who had returned to the factory from 1274.

"No problem, I have looked at the doping requirements, no problem, no other improvements are needed to complete it."

(End of this chapter)