For more than 30 years, the people of the whole country have worked hard to bring China, once the country with the largest number of poor people in the world, to the second place in the global economy.

However, in the midst of rapid growth, there will also be many problems left behind, and they will be exposed in unpredictable moments.

One day in November, the autumn wind was blowing, the fog was thick, and the sun was hiding in the thick clouds.

A van with a capacity of nine people was converted to fill 62 kindergarten children and was rushing to school. Unexpectedly, due to the driver's operation error, he went straight in the opposite direction and hit the heavy coal truck head-on, causing a major traffic accident. Twenty-two people died in accidents, 19 of whom were toddlers between the ages of 4 and 6, and 42 kindergarten students were injured in varying degrees.

The accident spread through the Internet and shocked the whole of China, knowing that children are the flowers of the motherland, and they will wither before they can bloom in the future. While the people of the whole country are heartbroken, they have also begun to reflect on why such a serious traffic accident occurred.

Overloading is undoubtedly the direct cause of the huge number of casualties, and it is only then that everyone realizes that China does not have a national school bus standard for students to travel safely, which shows that the lack of social supervision is the main reason. The sources of school buses that transport tens of millions of students to and from school are mixed, and many of them are simply converted from passenger vehicles. Although there are symbolic local regulations in various places, their implementation is blank, and safety supervision is a mere formality.

China has become the world's largest car market, but the number of traffic accidents has also jumped to the top, and this school bus accident has taught us what needs to be filled.

Major public events tend to drive progress in society because humans reflect and fill loopholes.

"Who will protect the children?"

"China needs safe school buses!"

The call for unification resounded across the network, and this is the most direct means of repair.

When the accident fermented through the Internet, Han Hao was already aware of the incident. As a father, he couldn't imagine his children sitting on that school bus, and the space carrying nine people was packed with 62 children, which was a tragedy and a man-made disaster.

As the CEO of China's largest auto group, he felt obligated to do something.

At noon that day, when the Internet was still boiling to discuss and reflect, Han Hao held an interim meeting within the company.

The theme is very clear, which is to build the safest school bus in the world for Chinese students.

Chunghwa Group will vigorously promote safe school buses in China for non-profit purposes, so as to ensure the safety of hundreds of millions of students.

"To be honest, I was happy to be the owner of the world's fourth-largest car group before today, but this accident has brought that beauty to the ground. It exposes the stark truth that we have neglected many things in our pursuit of rapid growth, and we have also shirked our due responsibilities.

I can't imagine what kind of eyes foreign colleagues will look at when we have developed the fastest and best car in the world, but we have not built any qualified school buses. Although it seems that the accident has nothing to do with our group, and the vehicles of both parties involved are not our products, as the largest and best automobile company in China, it keeps saying that it makes cars for the revitalization of China, but it does not escort the future of the motherland.

It's an incompetence, and it's a shame!"

The Zhonghua Group is smooth, everyone has been accustomed to Han Hao's pleasant face for a long time, and he has long since stopped exposing his emotions easily. But today, everyone knows that China's richest man is already angry.

In particular, the words "incompetence and shame" hit everyone at the scene hard, and many people couldn't help but bow their heads.

The accident ruthlessly slapped the entire Chinese auto industry in the face, and the face of the self-proclaimed automobile power in the world was easily removed.

"Shame and courage!

I'm giving you three months to put in front of me the safest and most mass-produced school bus in the world, no matter what method is used. ”

Han Hao gave a death order, and the Zhonghua Group must take responsibility for its identity.

As the main body of responsibility, Zhonghua Bus undertook the research and development of the school bus project, and they can transfer all kinds of talents within the group to complete the task before the start of the next semester before the start of the new semester in 3 months.

If you want to say that the country that does the best school bus in the world, it must be the three developed regions of the United States, Japan and Europe, and they have enough accumulation in the field of school bus safety. In the United States in particular, school buses are said to be as safe as tanks.

In the evening of the same day, the Zhonghua Group sent three delegations to the United States, Japan, and Europe to learn from experience, in order to complete the tasks assigned by Han Hao as soon as possible.

According to the actual situation in China, the R&D department has divided school buses into two types: urban and township, including large, medium and small types of design standards, and strives to cover all road conditions to the greatest extent.

In less than a day, the discussion of school bus safety suddenly rose to the level of national participation, and the highest call was to build China's own safe school bus.

Who can accomplish such a difficult task?

Everyone voted for the Chung Hwa Group, which is both an expectation and a pressure.

Among the many domestic automobile companies, they basically make a fuss about lucrative passenger cars, especially the joint ventures in the field of sedans. As for commercial vehicles, especially in the field of buses, joint venture brands have not made efforts, but Chinese domestic brands occupy a dominant position in the market.

Among the car companies, it is the most eye-catching China bus, you must know that the "Kunpeng" bus has successfully opened up the situation and has become the preferred tool for many citizens to travel daily.

On the same day, the news that Zhonghua Group was determined to enter the field of school buses was only spread in a small area internally, and Han Hao did not want to rub such a sad social hot spot, and it was better to bury his head in work than to mix blindly.

However, the cries of public opinion and the applications of many reporters for interviews really made it impossible for the China Group to stand alone.

Weibo has become a channel for ordinary citizens to respond to public opinion, resulting in the current social saying that "Weibo governs the country", and many people do not forget to take the initiative @ "Zhonghua Group" and "Han Hao" two VIP accounts in the comments.

Since the last time for the public milk powder incident, Han Hao took the initiative to speak out on Weibo, and his personal account has basically fallen into a period of silence. Unlike other celebrity entrepreneurs, whose accounts are maintained by a dedicated public relations team, Han Hao's accounts have always been controlled by himself. However, due to the continuous influx of private messages and all kinds of demands, he had to stop using the account.

However, in the face of public appeals this time, he finally authorized the official Weibo account of "Zhonghua Group" to publish the movements of Zhonghua Group, announcing that the company will launch China's safest independent school bus product in three months.

"In the face of the school bus accident, we are not only saddened, but also constantly reflect on ourselves. As a Chinese car manufacturer, it is a kind of incompetence and a shame to not make a difference in the field of school buses in time!

After learning from the pain, we have the responsibility and obligation to escort the growth of the next generation of the motherland. We decided to make a military order: to come up with China's safest self-owned brand school bus in 90 days and go on the market in mass production. ”

Such a statement is equivalent to letting the people of the whole country witness that with the credibility of the China Group as a guarantee, Han Hao is indeed determined to overcome this difficulty.

As soon as this article came out, the applause continued, but the doubts also frequently appeared.

Chung Hwa Group has the strength to build a good school bus, which is where everyone has reached a consensus. However, to complete this work within three months, it is indeed suspected of pulling out seedlings. You must know that car manufacturing has its own scientific laws, and blindly relying on subjective will will cause problems. The completion of the design, to the manufacture of the prototype and the road test, all require objective time. The problem is that, according to the statements of the Chung Hwa Group, what they lack most is time.

"I believe that a school bus will be built in 3 months, but why is it called the safest school bus in China?"

On the Internet, people don't care that you are the richest man in South Korea, virtual identity gives everyone an equal point of view, and the voice of doubt has indeed hit more than seven inches.

Since Han Hao dared to make a public promise, of course he had his own credentials.

He has reached a preliminary cooperation intention with Blue Bird, the second largest school bus company in the United States, through the U.S. branch of Zhonghua Group, and is ready to introduce the American big-nosed school bus into China in the form of technology transfer.

"Take-Digest-Innovate"

The direct introduction of school bus technology, which is at the forefront of the world, is enough to prove that Zhonghua Group is not bragging. The strong R&D capabilities of China Automotive Research Institute are recreated in combination with China's national conditions, so as to create a first-class school bus of its own brand.

Originally, many people in the Zhonghua Group believed that the "Pengcheng" minibus that is now benchmarked against Toyota Coaster can become a qualified school bus with a slight change. You must know that "Pengcheng" Zhongba has begun to be installed in government departments on a large scale with its outstanding cost performance and the image of the Chinese brand, and has proved its strength in the fierce market competition.

However, the "Pengcheng" bus is enough to be a tool for leading travel, but it is not excellent in the field of school bus safety. Even if the "Pengcheng" bus is changed to the big nose image of the American school bus, that is, the "truck head + bus body" model, it still cannot become a real school bus.

This has to start from the body design of the "Pengcheng" minibus, in order to ride comfortably and space, it adopts a load-bearing structure, which is a common process for modern cars, which leads to easy energy absorption and collapse in the event of a collision, and the safety is slightly worse.

The American school buses are all using non-load-bearing bodies, that is, the traditional truck chassis structure, coupled with independent girders to form an I-beam steel structure, like a solid fortress, no collapse and energy absorption design directly rely on hard resistance, no matter the passive and active impact is as powerful as the tank.

So, that's the secret to the strength of America's school buses.

Founded in 1927, Bluebird is the first company in the world to launch school buses, and currently ranks second in the U.S. market share of 30%.

In fact, Han Hao also has an idea, that is, to directly acquire the Blue Bird school bus brand, which can be combined with the leading new energy technology of Zhonghua Group in the future to seize the market for the next generation of school bus travel.

The "Kunpeng" new energy bus has crossed the ocean, and it has been seen in Europe, becoming a new star of local buses. China Bus has the ability and confidence to open up new fields and occupy a leading position in the global bus industry.

This technology transfer can be regarded as a prelude to the acquisition, and once successful, it can form a synergy with Zhonghua Group's entry into the United States.

Until the agreement was reached, the Chung Hwa Group remained silent and no longer responded to public questions. If the process is continued to be revealed, it will give the other side a bargaining chip, which is not conducive to the confrontation at the negotiation table.

In the end, at the price of 9 million US dollars, Zhonghua Group obtained the transfer of the design intellectual property rights of the two Blue Bird school buses, and it is not a dream to build a first-class school bus in 3 months, and finally has the confidence to respond to the previous doubts.