Chapter 226 What Can We Talk About?

"What you can make, we don't need; what we need, you can't make. What can we talk about?"

In the office of the Science and Technology Department of the Shipbuilding Corporation, Kang Zhichao, the deputy chief engineer in charge of shipbuilding equipment, said in a very rude tone to Tang Zifeng and his party who came to visit. There was an expression on his face that he was looking for someone to cause trouble, which made Tang Zifeng suspect that he had just suffered brutal domestic violence before leaving for work in the morning.

After Tang Zifeng succeeded Zhou Heng as the person in charge of Linyiji, he did not let himself get involved in the daily management of Linyiji. He assigned personnel, finance, production, logistics and other powers to various factory leaders. He took several followers and began to visit various industry authorities and some key enterprises one by one to understand the demand for machine tools in various industries in the next few years. .

After lingering in the first half of the 1990s, China's economy began to grow rapidly in the mid-to-late 1990s, with the equipment manufacturing industry developing most rapidly, which brought good opportunities to the development of the machine tool industry. Tang Zifeng clearly knows that the rapid development period of China's manufacturing will last for nearly 20 years, until it approaches the upper limit of growth, and then it will transition to what later generations will call the "new normal."

This upper limit of growth cannot be changed by humans. For example, by 2018, China's crude steel production will reach 55% of the world's total, and further development is no longer possible. Once the industry enters a state of overcapacity, the demand for new equipment will be significantly reduced, and it will be very difficult for the corresponding equipment manufacturing industry to repeat the miracle of rapid development.

How to seize this 20-year opportunity period, develop Linyi Machinery, and achieve the goal of "surpassing horses and catching up with Germany" is an issue that Tang Zifeng will focus on when he takes office. Although he is a time traveler, he does not understand the development context of the machine tool industry, let alone the technical details. This is why he is eager to visit various competent agencies.

Tang Zifeng went out to visit clients and did not take Han Weichang with him. Han Weichang is now Linyiji's sales director and is busier than Tang Zifeng. Tang Zifeng is embarrassed to let him be his gold medal follower anymore. There were three people traveling with Tang Zifeng, one was Shen Weihao, an old salesman from Linyiji Sales Department, one was Luo Xiaolu, a young technician from the Technology Department, and the other was Guan Yong, an engineer from Canglong Research Institute.

Canglong Research Institute currently has more than 100 engineers on staff, most of whom are sent by the member units of "Machine 20", and more than 10 people are recruited from the society. In addition, the institute also employs a group of part-time staff, mainly students from colleges and universities, including Xiao Wenjun, Liu Yidan, etc. These people are often responsible for a specific job, either on a time or piece basis, and they are all part-time workers. temporary wages.

Guan Yong belongs to the first category of personnel. He was sent to work in the institute by Pumen Machine Tool Factory. Pumen Machine Tool Factory is also a member of Machine 20. It is located in Pumen City, Rubei Province. It is an old machine tool company specializing in the production of horizontal lathes and combined machine tools. Guan Yong has worked in Pumen Machine Tool Factory for more than 20 years and is an experienced senior engineer.

During Tang Zifeng's trip, he was also responsible for the dual tasks of contacting Lin Yiji's business and finding research topics for Canglong Research Institute. In addition to being the executive deputy director of Linyiji, he is also the secretary-general of the Machine-20 Summit Secretariat. The business of Canglong Research Institute is also under his guidance.

In previous visits, wherever Tang Zifeng and his entourage went, even if the other party did not sweep the couch to greet them, at least they were quite polite in terms of face. Tang Zifeng represents not only Linyi Machinery, but also all 20 member companies of Machinery 20. Among equipment manufacturing units, who can afford machine tools? Although the market share of domestic machine tools has declined in recent years, and many customer companies are increasingly favoring imported machine tools, when names such as Linhe No. 1 Machine Tool Factory, Changning Machine Tool Factory, Pumen Machine Tool Factory, and Fengmei Machine Tool Factory are mentioned, all walks of life The old people were still full of affection, and they were even a little polite to Tang Zifeng, the secretary-general.

“During the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the national investment in electric power equipment exceeded 2 trillion yuan, and more than 100 sets of 300,000-kilowatt and 600,000-kilowatt units were manufactured every year. Turbine cylinder processing requires the use of 5m×17m CNC gantry boring and milling machines, and rotor processing requires CNC heavy-duty precision lathes. And wheel groove milling machine, blade processing requires four-axis CNC milling machine, hydraulic copy milling machine..." This is the requirement put forward by the Ministry of Electric Power to Tang Zifeng and his party.

"We estimate that we will reach a production capacity of 270 million tons of steel by 2004. For this purpose, we need to build more than 100 sets of continuous casting and rolling equipment. We urgently need a large number of high-precision cylindrical grinders, surface and form grinders, roll grinders and CNC coordinate grinders. ..." This is information from the Ministry of Metallurgy.

"By 2000, we will have the ability to produce 3 million cars annually, of which 1.5 million cars will be produced. The total investment in the automobile industry during the entire Ninth Five-Year Plan period will reach 145 billion yuan, of which 40% will be used for machine tools. Procurement. However, the current quality of domestic machine tools is not very good, and product stability, reliability and accuracy maintenance are unsatisfactory, resulting in 50% of the industry's machine tools having to rely on imports.

"If domestic machine tools can replace imports, even partial replacement, it can greatly reduce our production costs. We have calculated that for every 1% increase in the localization rate of machine tools, the cost of our auto parts can be reduced by 3%. We Looking forward to domestic machine tools is like looking forward to the clouds when there is a severe drought!" At the Automobile Industry Association, an old man was so excited that he couldn't help but feel his blood pressure rising.

Tang Zifeng carefully recorded the needs put forward by various units, and he had mixed feelings in his heart. The market is huge and customer demand is strong. This is the good news that businesses are most looking forward to. But at the same time, the technical level of various domestic machine tool companies, including Linyiji, is far from meeting customer requirements. Looking at a pot of fat meat, I can't even eat it in my mouth. Who can I talk to about this frustration?

Fortunately, each unit has some understanding of the current situation of domestic technology, so they understand and encourage them both inside and outside the words, and do not make these guests who come to do research feel embarrassed.

After all, China is a developing country. Its society is still in its infancy and its technology is a little behind. Is it any wonder? We have the courage and confidence to catch up with the international advanced technology trend and catch up with the level of developed countries in 30 to 50 years. To say the least, even if we can't catch up by then, it would still be a good achievement if we could narrow the gap a little.

These are the words that Tang Zifeng and his team heard most from customers. Everyone said that they have enough patience. Your machine tool industry will catch up slowly. If you can't catch up for the time being, we can also import machine tools from abroad without delaying our own affairs. You must not put yourselves at risk just for our sake. Do something good for me...

Is this special meow a human saying?

Every time Tang Zifeng heard such subtext from others, he couldn't help but mutter in his heart. It wasn't until he walked into the Shipbuilding Corporation and almost vomited blood after being choked by Kang Zhichao's words that Tang Zifeng realized that those people in other units were indeed gentlemen. Compared with those people, Kang Zhichao was simply a scumbag.

"Are Chief Engineer Kang's words a bit arbitrary?" Tang Zifeng said to Kang Zhichao, resisting the urge to walk away. If he were not the leader of a large state-owned factory, and if he did not have a few subordinates around him, he would have given the half-grown old man in front of him a black punch. Damn it, it's great that you are my client. By the way, you are not my client, so why are you so stubborn!

Kang Zhichao was oblivious and had no worries that Tang Zifeng would use violence against him. After all, this was his home court, and Tang Zifeng didn't have the guts.

"Am I wrong? Five years ago, we made a request to the Machinery Department, hoping that you would establish a project to develop heavy-duty crankshaft processing machine tools. Five years have passed, where are your crankshaft machine tools? We proposed that by 2000, shipbuilding should reach 2.5 million deadweight tons, everything is ready, but in the end it gets stuck on a shaft. Without the shaft, we can't build a shitty ship. We can't build a ship, so why do we need your shitty machine tools!"

Kang Zhichao said angrily, his mouth was dirty and there was no trace of any intellectual accomplishment at all. Although cadres and workers in heavy industrial enterprises would say a few swear words, including Qin Zhongnian who would occasionally use one or two Chinese curses, after all, everyone was a person of status, and they had to pay attention to the occasion and the person to whom they spoke. Is it really appropriate for you to be so rude in front of people from other units, including factory leaders of a certain level?

Tang Zifeng and his party all looked a little confused. After all, Guan Yong was a little older. Seeing that Tang Zifeng looked angry, he quickly came out to smooth things over and said:

"Mr. Kang, there are some reasons for the situation you mentioned. Heavy-duty crankshaft machine tools are among the most high-end machine tools in the world. Currently, only two countries, Germany and Japan, have mastered this technology. The crankshaft machine tools used in the United States, Britain, and France are all imported from Germany. The technical level of machine tools in our country is more than ten years behind that of Germany and Japan. It is indeed difficult to produce crankshaft machine tools at once.

"In addition, the leaders of the Machinery Department have always kept this matter in mind. When Director Xie of the Second Bureau came to inspect our general machinery the year before last, he specifically mentioned this matter and hoped that we could put the development of crankshaft machine tools on the agenda. schedule……"

"Humph, we just said it would be put on the agenda two years ago? No, I just hope you will put it on the agenda. So, have you mentioned it?" Kang Zhichao asked with a sneer.

"Uh..." Guan Yong was speechless. The reason why he mentioned Xie Tiancheng's instructions was because apart from this, the entire industry had done nothing for heavy-duty crankshaft machine tools.

"Does Mr. Kang mean that the reason why you can't build a 2.5 million-ton ship is because you lack a heavy-duty crankshaft machine tool? If we build the heavy-duty crankshaft machine tool you need, you can build it." A ship with a deadweight of 2.5 million, and can we purchase other machine tools?”

Tang Zifeng spoke coldly.