We don't need what you can make, and you can't make what we need. 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 unceremonious tone to Tang Zifeng and his entourage. He had an expression on his face that he wanted to find someone to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, which made Tang Zifeng suspect that he had just suffered cruel domestic violence before he left for work in the morning.

After Tang Zifeng replaced Zhou Heng as the person in charge of Linyiji, he did not let himself fall into the daily management affairs of Linyiji. He assigned the power of personnel, finance, production, logistics and other powers to the factory leaders, and he began to visit the competent departments of various industries and some key enterprises one by one with a few entourages to understand the demand for machine tools in all walks of life in the next few years.

After the first half of the 90s, China's economy began to grow rapidly in the mid-to-late 90s, especially the development of the equipment manufacturing industry, which brought good opportunities for the development of the machine tool industry. Tang Zifeng clearly knows that the rapid development period of Chinese manufacturing will last for nearly 20 years, until it is close to the upper limit of growth, which will turn into what later generations called the "new normal".

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

How to seize the opportunity period of 20 years, develop Linyi machine, and achieve the goal of "overtaking horses and catching up with morality" is a problem that Tang Zifeng should focus on studying at the beginning of his tenure. Although he is a traverser, he does not know much about the development of the machine tool industry, and he does not know anything about the technical details, which is why he is anxious to visit the competent authorities.

Tang Zifeng went out to visit customers and did not bring Han Weichang with him. Han Weichang is now the sales director of Linyi Machine, busier than Tang Zifeng, and Tang Zifeng is embarrassed to let him be his gold medal follower anymore. There are three people who are walking with Tang Zifeng, one is Shen Weihao, an old salesman of the sales department of Linyi Machine, one is Luo Xiaolu, a young technician from the technical department, and one is Guan Yong, an engineer from the Canglong Research Institute.

At present, there are more than 100 engineers in the establishment of the Canglong Research Institute, most of whom are sent by the member units of the "Machine 20", and more than 10 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., who often undertake a specific job, or hourly, or piecework, and get the temporary salary of part-time personnel.

Guan Yong belongs to the first category of personnel, and he was sent to work in the research institute by Pumen Machine Tool Factory. Pumen Machine Tool Factory is also one of the members of the machine 20, located in Pumen City, Rubei Province, is a long-established machine tool enterprise 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 and qualified engineer.

Tang Zifeng went out this time, and at the same time undertook the dual task of contacting business for Linyi and finding research topics for the Canglong Research Institute. In addition to being the executive deputy director of Linyi Machine, he is also the secretary general of the Secretariat of the 20 Summit, and the business of Canglong Research Institute is also under his guidance.

In the previous visits, wherever Tang Zifeng and his entourage went, even if the other party did not say that they were sweeping the couch to greet each other, at least they were quite polite on face. Tang Zifeng represents not only Linyiji, but also all 20 member companies of Ji20. Although the market share of domestic machine tools has declined in recent years, many customer enterprises are more and more interested in imported machine tools, but when it comes to the names of Linhe No. 1 Machine Tool Factory, Changning Machine Tool Factory, Pumen Machine Tool Factory, Fengmei Machine Tool Factory, etc., the old people from all walks of life are still full of feelings, and even have a little politeness to Tang Zifeng, the secretary general.

"During the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, the national investment in power equipment exceeded 2 trillion yuan, and more than 100 sets of 300,000 kilowatts and 600,000 kilowatts of units should be manufactured every year, and 5m×17m CNC gantry boring and milling machines were needed for steam turbine cylinder processing, CNC heavy-duty precision lathes and wheel groove milling machines were needed for rotor processing, and four-coordinate CNC milling machines and hydraulic copy milling machines were required for blade processing......

"We expect to reach 270 million tons of steel production capacity by 2004, for which we need to build more than 100 sets of continuous casting and rolling equipment, and we urgently need a large number of high-precision cylindrical grinders, plane and forming grinders, roll grinders and CNC coordinate grinders...... "This is information from the Ministry of Metallurgy.

"By 2000, we want to form an annual output of 3 million cars, of which the output of cars reached 1.5 million, the entire Ninth Five-Year Plan period of the automobile industry will reach a total investment of 145 billion yuan, of which 40% of the funds will be used for machine tool procurement. However, at present, the quality of domestic machine tools is not too hard, and the product stability, reliability and accuracy maintenance are unsatisfactory, resulting in 50% of the machine tools in the industry can only rely on imports.

"If domestic machine tools can replace imports, even if they are partially replaced, they 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 look forward to domestic machine tools, just like the hope of a great drought!" In the Automobile Industry Association, an old gentleman said, emotional, uncontrollable, and saw that his blood pressure was soaring.

Tang Zifeng carefully recorded the needs of various units, and his heart could be described as full of mixed feelings. The market is very large and the customer demand is very strong, which is the most anticipated good news for running a business. But at the same time, the domestic machine tool enterprises, including the first machine, the technical level is far from meeting the requirements of customers. Looking at a pot of fatty meat, I couldn't eat it in my mouth, who can I tell about this grievance?

Fortunately, each unit also has some understanding of the current situation of domestic technology, so the words are full of understanding and encouragement, and it does not make these guests who come to do research feel embarrassed.

After all, China is a developing country, and its society is still in its initial stage, so what is wrong with it being a little backward in technology? We have the courage and confidence to catch up with the international trend of advanced technology and catch up with the level of developed countries in 30 to 50 years. Taking a step back, even if you can't catch up by then, it is a good result to narrow the gap.

These are the words that Tang Zifeng and his entourage hear the most from customers. Everyone said that they have enough patience, your machine tool industry slowly chasing, if you don't catch up for the time being, we can also import machine tools from abroad, will not delay your own business, you must not do this for us, and then you will be tired of yourself......

Is this special meow a human word!

Every time Tang Zifeng heard such a subtext from others, he couldn't help but muttered in his heart. It wasn't until he walked into the shipping company and was choked by Kang Zhichao's words that he almost vomited blood, Tang Zifeng knew that those people in other units were indeed humble gentlemen, and this Kang Zhichao was simply a scum compared to those people.

"Chief Engineer Kang's words, is it a bit arbitrary?" Tang Zifeng resisted the urge to brush his sleeves away and said to Kang Zhichao. If he wasn't the leader of a large state-owned factory, and if he didn't have a few subordinates around him, he would have given the half-old man in front of him a bit of a black punch. Nima, it's great if you're Party A, by the way, you're not Lao Tzu's Party A, why are you so dragged!

Kang Zhichao was ignorant and unconscious, and he was not worried that Tang Zifeng would be rude to him. After all, this is his home field, and Tang Zifeng does not have such guts.

Five years ago, we asked the Ministry of Machinery to set up a project to develop a heavy-duty crankshaft processing machine. Five years have passed, where are your crankshaft machines? We proposed that by the year 2000 the shipbuilding would reach 2.5 million deadweight tons, and everything was ready, and finally it was stuck on a shaft. Without shafts, we build a fart boat. We can't build a ship, what do we need your fart machine for!"

Kang Zhi said angrily, his mouth was not dry and clean, and he couldn't see any intellectual cultivation at all. Although the cadres and workers in the heavy industry enterprises will say a few swear words to some extent, including Qin Zhongnian, who will occasionally pop out one or two sentences of national scolding, but after all, everyone is a person with status, and they must pay attention to the occasion and object when speaking. In front of people from other units, and you are also a factory leader at a certain level, is it really appropriate for you to speak disrespectfully like this?

Tang Zifeng and his entourage were a little unbearable on their faces. Guan Yong was a little older after all, and when he saw Tang Zifeng's gloomy face, he hurriedly came out to play a round and said:

"Chief Engineer Kang, there are still some reasons for the situation you mentioned. Heavy-duty crankshaft machine tools, in the world is one of the most high-end machine tools, at present only Germany and Japan two countries have mastered this technology, even the United States, Britain, France with crankshaft machine tools, are imported from Germany. The technical level of machine tools in our country is worse than that of Germany and Japan for more than ten years, and it is indeed difficult to get a crankshaft machine tool at once.

"In addition, the leaders of the Ministry of Machinery have always kept this matter in mind, the year before last the second bureau of Director Xie to our general machine to inspect, but also specifically mentioned this matter, I hope we can put the development of crankshaft machine tools on the agenda......"

"Hmph, I just said that I put it on the agenda two years ago? No, I just want you to put it on the agenda, so, did you mention it?" Kang Zhichao asked with a sneer.

"Uh......" Guan Yong was speechless. The reason why he mentioned Xie Tiancheng's instructions was because there was really nothing else that was being done in the industry for heavy-duty crankshaft machines.

"Does Chief Engineer Kang mean that the reason why you can't build a 2.5 million deadweight ton ship is because you lack a heavy-duty crankshaft machine tool. If we build the heavy-duty crankshaft machine that you need, you can build a 2.5 million dwt ship, and you can buy the rest of our machines?"

Tang Zifeng spoke coldly.

(End of chapter)