Chapter 481: During the Spring Festival

In the country with the largest and most populous continent in Asia, the largest migration of modern humans has entered the intermission stage. During the first half of the 20-day migration, more than two billion Chinese people passed through All kinds of ways rushed to their hometown from all directions, in order to participate in the biggest gathering of the year: the Spring Festival.

People take trains, cars, airplanes and various means of transportation to shorten their travel time, just to return to their hometown earlier. And the army of motorbikes returning home from Guangdong, Fujian and other places also rushed to their hometowns in Sichuan and Chongqing in tight time.

China, the world's largest economic growth body.

In addition to consuming 60% of the world's concrete, 50% of steel, 45% of coal, and 25% of electricity, the most important thing supporting the development of this country is This country has the largest industrial workforce in human history: an industrial army of 450 million people creates, produces, manufactures, and sells nearly half of the world's daily necessities.

Almost all of them have received primary education, more than 70 percent of them have received upper secondary education, and 30 percent of them have received higher education.

They supported the rapid development of this country with cheap and professional technology, and at the same time slowed down inflation all over the world. Cheap Chinese products can quickly improve the happiness of people all over the world. After all, not everyone can afford an iPhone, nor can everyone afford Adinaq.

The sports shoes made by Putian allow Malagasy civilians with a per capita income of only one dollar a day to wear well-fitting shoes.

The low-cost smartphones made by Chinese companies such as MI and vivo allow Indian civilians with an average monthly income of only 13,000 rupees (approximately RMB 1,200 to 1,300) to use real smartphones for the first time.

China's Humen (including Chang'an) has more than 20,000 mold manufacturers, producing nearly 25% of the world's molds. It only needs a complete power outage and supply cutoff for one day, and the manufacturing industry in the world will evaporate hundreds of billions.

This team of professional industrial workers cannot be replaced by any other world, whether it is Vietnam, India, Indonesia or other places where the so-called emerging industries are.

Because the level of education in countries with lower labor costs than China is terribly low, knowing 300 characters and knowing addition and subtraction within four digits is not considered illiterate if you have received elementary education. Don't expect these guys to operate CNC machines to produce parts, unless you want to get reimbursed for the expensive machines.

Because they don't know the meaning of the three-dimensional coordinate system xyz in processing, and they will never know how to use the g command. They can only be a tool man who switches the upper and lower parts of the workpiece door.

These countries will not have their own machine tools with reliable quality and low price. After all, they can't even produce the simplest stepper motors on a large scale and reliably.

Because they do not have so many people who have received secondary and higher education to invest in the production and R&D of the primary industry.

So they will not have their own JIER, BJ Jingdiao. There will not be these core companies that dominate the engineering field and counterattack the global heavy machinery engineering to re-establish industry standards.

And any place that is more professional than Chinese industrial workers, the labor costs there can deter large-scale capital entry.

This huge industrial army comes from all over the country like migratory birds. Like hematopoietic stem cells, they rush to big cities and industrial-intensive areas to continuously transfuse the country with blood. Now is the time for the tired birds to return to their nests.

Many couples who go out to work in the Sichuan-Chongqing region go out on motorcycles with their luggage on their backs. And now they are once again riding their motorcycles home with their luggage on their backs.

Starting from Guangdong, the mighty army of returning home motorcycles exceeded 100,000 people. Because it is difficult to buy tickets for the Spring Festival travel, many people have to choose to go home by motorcycle in the cold weather.

Cycling thousands of kilometers, spending two to three days on the road, many people just go home to see their parents. Bring the new clothes bought from the big city to the children. The cold and hardships along the way have become less unbearable.

Coming out of Jiang Aiguo's home, Jiang Jianmin did not follow Jiang Hua to his third uncle's (Jiang Hua's father) house, but took Jiang Hua and Zhang Tong to the last volunteer service point for returning home motorcycle troops in Shuangqing.

"I checked before, and today there will be the last batch of motorbikes returning home passing by here. Then they will go back to the towns below Shuangqing. It should be the last batch. There are more than 1,000 people. Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, this volunteer point There is not enough manpower. I will help here for a while. I will go to my sister's house later." Jiang Jianmin said that the volunteer service point is a few big tents set up on the side of the road.

Jiang Hua glanced at Zhang Tong: "Huh?"

"See what I do. If you want to stay and help, just say so."

"I'm afraid you won't like it."

"Why don't you like it. Anyway, idle is idle."

Because of the particularity of the returning motorcycle army, some local service stations are generally prepared in the places where the returning motorcycle army passes by every year, which are used as resting places for returning workers. The main thing is to provide some hot water and places to go to the toilet. The places with better conditions will provide hot soup and simple free meals. It is not delicious, but it is not difficult to eat and can be full.

This service point after getting off the expressway is the last service point after entering Shuangqing. When you get here, it's not far from home.

Yang Ning, who works in Guangdong, has been riding his Haojue 150 with his daughter-in-law in the cold wind for two days. Although wearing a thick down jacket, my wife still has a stuffy nose and a cold.

There is no way, because it is too difficult to buy train tickets for the Spring Festival, especially as Guangdong is a province with a large population, every New Year's Eve ticket grabbing is like a war. If you are lucky, you will grab it and become the lucky one. If you are unlucky, you can only think of other ways, or simply don't go back.

But definitely go back this year.

"My baby is going to study next year! I have to go back during the Chinese New Year, and I will run around to see if I can go to a good school in the city." My wife has been nagging about this since years ago, and I can't do it if I don't think about it.

Yang Ning, who works on the operation and programming of a four-axis linkage high-speed engraving machine in a factory in Humen, can also earn a salary of 11,000 yuan a month. Looking at his peers around the world, Yang Ning's salary can be said to be low. But compared to many fellow villagers and classmates, I can say that I am not bad, and my salary is higher than that of many classmates who have studied in college.

Yang Ning himself is very contented. At the age of 18, he graduated from high school and went to Guangdong to work. He entered a factory to learn the technology of CNC milling machines. One study lasted for three years, and after leaving the teacher, he worked alone in the factory. I met a girl from the same country in the factory next door, and the two met, fell in love and got married like countless migrant couples. It is so plain that it does not require much writing, but it is a portrayal of the lives of countless migrant workers in the southeast coastal areas.

I gave birth to a child at the age of 22, and my life is full of turmoil. The biggest change is that I have learned more four-axis linkage technology, and my salary has increased by several thousand dollars. Next year, there should be an extra thousand yuan per month. Twenty-eight-year-old Yang Ning feels that life is good.

I bought a big house in my hometown town and became a technical backbone in the factory. He plans to save money to buy a second-hand car next year, so that he won't be so embarrassed if he can't buy a ticket during the Chinese New Year.

Riding back to his hometown with hundreds of motorcycles, he was the last group of people to return home. Come back on the line of New Year's Eve. It's not that I don't want to be early, but because the factory is too busy. Because of the cost, many Japanese companies are now moving to Southeast Asia to start their business. For example, Hitachi Group, which has been cooperating with their factory before.

They have now set up many electrical departments in Southeast Asia, including mold production has also been brought to Southeast Asia. However, there are too many problems in the production of molds in Vietnam, and insufficient precision is a frequent occurrence. There are also various processes that are not matched, and the surface finish of the products produced by the mold is not enough, which is very annoying to repair.

In order to reduce labor expenses in China, Hitachi chose to set up factories in Southeast Asia, and even brought local supporting factories there for technical volunteers. But there are still many problems. Several years have passed, and there are still many problems that cannot be solved well.

As a result, many products had to be transferred back to China for production, and then handed over to Southeast Asia for production and use.

Recently, the factory has taken over urgent work from Hitachi to repair a batch of molds produced in Southeast Asia. This kind of thing is the most annoying. Repairing other people's molds is more troublesome than re-opening the mold yourself. But in order to maintain a big customer like Hitachi, there is no way for the whole factory to work overtime.

Fortunately, three days before the Chinese New Year, I finally finished the work. Only then did Yang Ning find time to go to the mall with his wife to buy various New Year's goods. Now the back shelf of his motorcycle is packed with a lot of New Year’s goods, including new clothes and schoolbags for children, down jackets for parents, and so on. Although online shopping is very convenient now, sometimes you have to hand over something yourself to have real feelings.

After getting off the highway, many of the motorbike army returning home together drove straight home without taking a break. But Yang Ning felt that his wife was a little uncomfortable, so he stopped at a rest spot on the side of the road to take a rest.

"Drink some hot soup, freshly boiled. Added a lot of pepper to drive away the cold." A man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who made people feel good at first glance, handed over a cup of thick soup in a disposable paper cup.

"Thank you." Yang Ning took it and handed it to his wife: "You drink first."

"Yeah." The wife who had a cold was not polite, took a sip of the hot soup. The choking pepper in the mouth immediately makes people feel their nasal congestion cleared up, and after two more sips, the cold body will gradually recover some warmth. The wife looked at Yang Ning: "You drink too." She said and handed over the quilt.

"Don't give in, we've boiled a lot here." The man with thick eyebrows and big eyes handed over another cup of thick soup.

"Isn't it hard to ride a motorcycle back home?"

"Yes." Yang Ning took the thick soup and replied: "I ran for two days and slept in the service area of ​​the expressway last night."

"It's not far from home now."

"It's not far, it's only 40 kilometers away. It'll be there in an hour. I'll be home soon, and I can see my wife, old man, and my baby." Yang Ning's stiff face that was frozen here was revealed smile.

After drinking hot soup and resting for a while, Yang Ning and his wife rode their motorcycles again, and home was already in sight. The tiredness accumulated during the two-day journey disappeared miraculously.

Walking through familiar and unfamiliar streets, my home can already be seen. It's on the third floor in the second row on the side of the road, the house with the big red lanterns.

"Dad~Dad~Mom~" A tiger-headed little boy shouted loudly from the balcony after seeing Yang Ning's motorcycle.

Stepping on the stairs to go upstairs, the door has been opened before reaching the door. The old father all around looked at Yang Ning and his wife with a smile: "I'm back."

"Dad, we're back."

"Just come back."

There are no tears in the eyes and no true feelings shown in the TV series. All the usual repetitions are like the son just returning home from get off work. But every Chinese will understand how much expectation is behind the "just come back".

After not seeing her son for a year, Yang Ning's wife dug out the new clothes for the child from the luggage she brought.

"Small, I can't return it yet." Yang Ning's wife found that her son, whom she had not seen for a year, had grown up a lot, and the size of the clothes she bought was too small. She touched her son's head happily and sadly, and hugged him.

Yang Ning, who was always frugal outside, said on the first day back home: "Small is small, let's go to the big shopping mall in Shuangqing to buy new ones during the Spring Festival."

At the service point, it was already dark after Zhang Tong and Jiang Hua sent away a young couple who had just hugged and cried here.

The lights of Wanjia are gradually shining brightly, illuminating the magical three-dimensional city of Shuangqing, layer upon layer like a river of stars.

"Let's go, we are going home too." Jiang Hua greeted Zhang Tong.

"Go home, um. Go home!" Zhang Tong stepped forward and took Jiang Hua's hand.

Jiang Jianmin covered his eyes: Oh, where did my heroic sister go? !

ps: There is only one update today, please forgive me.

ps2: jd Jingdiao is BJ Jingdiao. This is a private enterprise that I personally feel has grown up. The development history of this enterprise is a legend. It only took more than ten years for this manufacturer to grow from a small manufacturer that no one cared about to the global leader of art bas-relief high-speed engraving machines, engraving software and programming software.

When I first came into contact with it ten years ago, I kept complaining: this software is made by sb! Difficult to use and stuck, almost no optimization.

And when I use it again ten years later, I can say responsibly that BJ Jingdiao is world-class in both Jingdiao software and Jingdiao machine tools, especially in the field of artistic bas-relief software and industrial engraving, BJ Jingdiao stands out. It really managed to beat a lot of foreign manufacturers.

Sometimes there is no need to belittle oneself. In fact, many products of Chinese industry are quite competitive. It's just that these brands themselves do not enter the public's field of vision, nor are they products for people's livelihood. They are all products that are the cornerstone of the industry. So looking at the trend without Apple and Google, even these Chinese products look very rustic.

But all tertiary industries are built on rustic primary industries. Without the primary industry, all prosperity is just a cloud, as illusory as water without a source and a tree without roots.