The 04 project team, which was established in Factory 82, is only one part of the "spare tire plan" advocated by Tang Zifeng. In addition to this project team, there are several other project teams in China that are also in a state of confidentiality, and the fields involved are not limited to machine tools, but include electronics, machinery, chemicals, materials and other aspects.

The projects studied by these project teams are all related to national military and industrial security, and at the same time, there is a risk of being stuck by foreign countries. The goal of the project team is to ensure that when the international market environment changes badly and a certain type of technology is embargoed to China, it can be replaced to a certain extent in China.

Compared with mature products in the international market, substitutes may have great disadvantages in terms of performance, quality, cost, etc., but at least they can ensure that the country has breathing room in key technologies and will not be choked by others.

The term "spare tire" was proposed by Tang Zifeng, but the idea of establishing a spare tire mechanism was not his invention, but a high-level consensus. It has only been more than 50 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and most of it has been in a state of foreign blockade. Sometimes it is a unilateral blockade by the Western camp, and sometimes it is a joint blockade between the two camps of the East and the West.

After the end of the Cold War, China's international environment seems to have improved a little, and many of the original "sensitive" technologies can be purchased from the international market. But how can wise leaders be blindly optimistic, they know that it is impossible for a big country like China not to arouse the vigilance of other countries, and any technology is the most reliable only if it is in their own hands.

From the 12-year long-term plan for the development of science and technology at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, to the subsequent five-year plans and various plans for tackling key scientific and technological problems, the central idea is the same: to truly master the core technology in our own hands.

04 The "Equipment Manufacturing 2020 Work Plan" of the Commission of Science and Technology under the project team is only one of several "spare tire" plans in China. There are also some more secret plans, not only Tang Zifeng does not know, but even his father-in-law Xiao Ming has no way of knowing. There are many things that may not be made public until decades later. In this country, there are countless heroes who aspire to be incognito for the rest of their lives.

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Linhe City, under the office building of the headquarters of Linji Group.

Tang Zifeng, together with Zhang Jianyang, deputy general manager of the group, Qin Zhongnian, chief engineer, Han Weichang, general manager of the sales company, and others are welcoming a group of guests from the far north.

A business van pulls up, the doors open, and the first person to get out of the car is a foreign man who is not tall, with a strong build, a high nose, and sunken eyes. Before his feet touched the ground, he had already set his eyes on Tang Zifeng and his party, and quickly covered his face with a smile, waved his hand and shouted to everyone in stiff Chinese:

"Hello, dear Chinese comrades!"

At this time, everyone else in the van also got down. A Chinese in a suit took two steps to Tang Zifeng and the others, first nodded to Tang Zifeng, and then turned to introduce the foreign man to Tang Zifeng:

"Mr. Tang, let me introduce to you, this is Mr. Frolov, the director of the Petrov Machine Tool Factory in Kazan, Russia. ”

This Chinese is also an old friend of Tang Zifeng, he is Zhao Xinggen, chairman of Jingnan Longhu Machinery Company. This time, it was he who pulled the strings and brought Frolov and his party to visit the Linji Group.

"Hello, Mr. Frolov. ”

Tang Zifeng stepped forward with a smile and greeted Frolov. Frolov recognized Tang Zifeng's identity, and opened his arms without saying anything, intending to give Tang Zifeng a Russian-style bear hug. Tang Zifeng assessed the other party's physique and body odor, and quickly stretched out his hand to shake hands with the other party, but in fact, he politely refused the other party's harassment.

"Hello, hello. Frolov was also very quick to see the opportunity, and immediately stopped his figure, and instead held Tang Zifeng's hand. He has also dealt with Chinese a lot, and knows that some Chinese are not very accepting of hugging gifts, and the young Tang President in front of him is estimated to be the same.

Entering the stage of introducing the attaché to each other, the few sentences of Chinese that Frolov understood were not enough, and a Russian translator was prepared in advance on the plane, and at this time he stepped forward to translate for everyone.

After a greeting, Zhang Jianyang beckoned everyone upstairs to the conference room to negotiate. Tang Zifeng and Frolov walked in the front, and before Tang Zifeng could think of something polite to say to the other party, Frolov opened the conversation box first, muttering a long list of Russian, and Tang Zifeng was confused.

"Mr. Frolov said that he has a lot of affection for China because his father used to work in China, and that was in the 50s, and his father was a ...... in northern China."

The Russian translator was also stuck for a while, and Frolov was talking too fast just now, so that the little translator girl couldn't keep up.

"He's talking about Tengcun, it's your Tengcun Machine Tool Factory. ”

Zhao Xinggen, who was walking on the other side of Tang Zifeng, took over the conversation and said to Tang Zifeng: "When the Soviets helped us to carry out 156 key projects, Frolov's father was one of the Soviet experts, and the place he went to was the Tengcun Machine Tool Factory. ”

"Hey, Mr. Zhao, do you still know Russian?" Tang Zifeng was a little surprised.

Zhao Xinggen pouted: "I don't know any Russian, it's because I do business with the Russians and I learned a few greetings." Frolov said this many times in front of me. He used this as a reason that he had to come to see Mr. Tang. ”

"Then I'll really have to entertain him. Tang Zifeng said, "His father worked in Tengji, and he can be regarded as someone who helped us." The grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by a spring. What's more, I think this Frolov is quite nostalgic, and when he meets, he is called comrade, which makes people sound quite cordial. ”

Zhao Xinggen said disdainfully: "President Tang, don't listen to him say so beautifully, he is here to set porcelain with us Chinese." ”

"For a set of porcelain?" Tang Zifeng was shocked, "No, Lao Fu looks like he is in his early 50s, he looks honest, how can he have such a scheming?"

Zhao Xinggen said: "Mr. Tang, don't you know that Russians are loyal on the surface, and they are shrewd in their hearts." When I first did business with them, I believed what they said, and they cheated hundreds of thousands. ”

"No, is there anyone in this world who can trap you Mr. Zhao?" Tang Zifeng said in surprise.

How many times have you forgotten that you've cheated me?

Zhao Xinggen muttered in his heart, but said in his mouth: "Alas, the main thing is that I was confused by his appearance, I really think that the Russians are stupid, who knows that people are pretending to be stupid, and I am the one who is really stupid." ”

Tang Zifeng sighed: "It seems that the world is as black as a crow, and even Lao Maozi has become bad." ”

The two of them were muttering there, Frolov didn't do it, he turned his head to look at the translator, the translator replied a few words, and then quickly explained to Tang Zifeng: "Mr. Tang, Mr. Frolov asked what you were talking about, I said that Mr. Tang heard that his father used to work in Tengcun Machine Tool Factory, and said that he would treat him well." ”

"That's right, you answered well. You tell him that I am discussing with Mr. Zhao what kind of two pots to drink. Mr. Zhao said that Red Star is good, I said that Niulanshan is good, you ask him which one he likes. Tang Zifeng was full of gibberish.

The translator translated this to Frolov, who heard this, laughed, and replied, roughly in the sense that the lobbyist is doing his own thing, and at the same time stretched out his hand and slapped Tang Zifeng on the shoulder a few times, looking very bold. If it weren't for Zhao Xinggen's previous introduction, Tang Zifeng would really be moved by him.

The group arrived in the conference room and sat down on either side of the table. On the Russian side, in addition to Frolov, there was also an engineer named Jakob and a sales staff named Avakiyan, who were sitting on either side of Frolov at this time. Although Zhao Xinggen came with Frolov, he belonged to the Chinese side, so he sat on Tang Zifeng's side.

"Mr. Zhao, why don't you introduce the situation first. ”

After the two sides sat down, Tang Zifeng made a gesture to Zhao Xinggen and said.

"Okay. Zhao Xinggen is also in charge, and today's meeting was started because of him, so naturally he should make an introduction first.

"Mr. Frolov's Petrov Machine Tool Factory is one of the top five large machine tool factories in Russia, with a history of nearly 100 years and a very strong strength. For the past few years, Petrov Machine Tool Factory has been in business contact with our Longhu Machinery Factory. They asked us to manufacture optical machines, and we also purchased CNC systems from them. The cooperation between the two sides, uh, overall has been very pleasant. ”

When Zhao Xinggen said this, he was stunned, obviously this "pleasantness" was discounted a little. He had already told Tang Zifeng just now that at the beginning of his cooperation with Frolov, he had been cheated, and he may have earned some money later, otherwise he would not have been so polite to Frolov.

Zhao Xinggen's "optical machine" is a common name in the machine tool industry, which refers to the machine tool host without transmission parts and numerical control systems, including bed, workbench, column, guide rail, bedside box and other components. Some CNC machine tool manufacturers do not produce these components themselves, but buy optical machines from other machine tool companies, and then install hydraulic transmission components, pneumatic components, electrical components, motors and CNC systems, etc., to become a finished CNC machine tool.

The profit of CNC machine tools is mainly reflected in the CNC system, the profit margin of optical machine is low, and some machine enterprises are unwilling to produce optical machine, which is also reasonable. Zhao Xinggen's Longfor Machinery Company has no foundation in CNC technology, and has always produced machine tool parts by itself, and then purchased CNC systems to install on machine tools.

The cooperation between Longfor Machinery Company and Petrov Machine Tool Factory can be regarded as making use of its strengths and avoiding weaknesses, and each taking what it needs. As for how Zhao Xinggen was cheated by Frolov and suffered a big loss, he was reluctant to talk about it, and Tang Zifeng had no way of knowing.