Chapter 457 Watershed

"The electronics industry and computer industry are developing rapidly and rapidly. Our country must catch up!"

The leaders of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building set the tone at the beginning of the meeting, and then asked enviously: "Comrade Deming, I heard that the newly separated game console company of Universal Electronics was listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in the United States?"

"The market value has now exceeded 10 billion US dollars?"

“This is a truly big company!”

Wang Deming said modestly: "This is also inseparable from the care and love of the leaders."

"Without the technical engineers of many domestic scientific research institutes who work day and night, and without the workers of many electronic equipment factories who work in three shifts without sleep and forget about food, Global Electronics would not have achieved such results."

Wang Deming used to hold a high position in the system, so he certainly knew how to say things that would hit the concerns of the leaders.

After he said this, all the leaders present were beaming, as if Hong Kong's Universal Electronics was able to spin off Universal Games and list it in the United States because of their strength.

Wang Deming then added: "But business is difficult now. After the launch of Toyo's NCE red and white game console last year, it received many orders and took away a lot of our market share. Our handheld game console market has dropped by about 30% compared to last year."

"So, leader, our country has successfully developed a billion-times high-speed computer, and I hope you can provide further funding."

"Let's have a few more large computers in the country to carry out relevant research in various disciplines."

“Especially in the electronics industry.”

The leaders of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building readily agreed. They had already tasted the sweetness of this joint venture and OEM model. "Comrade Deming, if this is the case, our Fourth Ministry of Machine Building will issue a meeting notice and require electronic industrial departments from all regions to come to Beijing for a meeting together."

“At that time, Universal Electronics will allocate all the research plans, and then we can negotiate with each research institute one by one.”

The leader glanced around and said with a hearty smile: "Comrade Deming is truly investing for the country. He is not just making profits, but has also greatly promoted our domestic electronics industry."

Several other leaders also smiled and nodded in agreement, "Yes!"

"The improvement of productivity is inseparable from the development of science and technology!"

After praising him, the leader explained the reason for coming to see Wang Deming this time, "Comrade Deming, since you are determined to continue to invest in scientific research in China, especially in the field of global electronics and the electronics industry, you will definitely be inseparable from chips."

Wang Deming nodded slightly and listened carefully to the leader's intentions.

The leader continued, "Although our country's chip industry is not as fast as that of the United States, the supply chain is very complete, especially after the import of 3-inch wafer production lines, domestic chip research has been greatly improved."

"But domestic funds are limited after all. After discussing in the meeting, can Universal Electronics directly invest in several of the world's most advanced wafer production lines in China?"

After saying this, the leader looked at Wang Deming with burning eyes.

Wang Deming thought for a while and said, "Leader, the most advanced 7-inch wafer production line should not be available for purchase, but we can try the 5-inch one and negotiate with the United States."

"There is hope for this." If it were the 70s, the United States would definitely not export such high-tech products. However, in the 80s, after China and the United States formally established diplomatic relations, it was the honeymoon period of Sino-US relations.

The United States wants to export their most advanced fighter jet, the F15, to China, but China really can't afford it.

However, several Apache helicopters were also purchased for rescue operations in the Tibetan Plateau.

What Wang Deming knew was that even decades later, when the parts of the Apache helicopters were used up and had to be retired, the helicopters produced domestically could not be successfully used in plateau areas such as Tibet.

The environment in the Tibetan Plateau is complex and the wind direction is changeable, so helicopters are particularly prone to crashing.

Didn’t the famous NBA star Brian Kobe die in a helicopter crash in foggy weather?
It is precisely because of this that many people in China are misled by the US policy toward China. All they do is earn more foreign exchange. As long as they have money, what technological products can't they buy?

But it is really unclear whether I am confused or not.

This was the time when domestic chip research was abandoned, but it was obvious that the leaders of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building had their own ideas and thought of Global Electronics, which had been cooperating with domestic companies to produce electronic components.

In particular, in order to improve its own technical strength, Global Electronics actively invested a lot of funds in the research institutes and technical departments of various electronics factories. It also used the name of the electronics factories to go around to related universities and research institutes.

The smile on the leader's face became even brighter, and we quickly set a date for two months later.

Two months later, in the large conference room of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building, people from electronic research institutes all over the country gathered in groups to inquire about the purpose of this meeting of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building.

They had previously been notified that many of the research projects they had applied for were either cut off by higher authorities or because the country had already purchased more advanced technologies from abroad.

Or the higher authorities cut it down to only one-tenth, because the relevant technology abroad is not yet mature and they do not believe that it can really be developed domestically.

So, when they received a notice from the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building that a super large company listed in the United States wanted to cooperate with China in technological research, they were very excited.

Especially the Institute of Computer Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Although China had just developed a billion-times computer, after domestic experts invited Japanese experts to exchange ideas, they were fooled by the Japanese experts and suddenly felt that the billion-times computer we had just developed was "Galaxy".

Neither in terms of technology nor in terms of architecture could catch up with Japan's mainframe computers of the same period.

After inviting Japanese experts, domestic leaders and experts deliberately disclosed all the technologies to them.
Little did they know that Japan's large-scale computers at that time were completely inferior to those of my country, and the original mission of the people coming from Japan was to learn from us.

Unexpectedly, there was no need to steal at all. The Chinese wanted to just stuff the technology into their arms.
Soon, amidst a sports march, the leader of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building came to the stage to give a speech. He said that our technology was weak and could not catch up with the United States, Japan and other countries.

And the country was short of money, so the leaders of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building specifically sought cooperation with listed companies in the United States.

We hope that all research institutes will exert their full strength to win the recognition of major American companies and continue the normal operation of the institute by obtaining research funds from American companies.

If the institute does not receive research funding from American companies and cannot continue to operate, it will have to be closed down and merged.

(End of this chapter)