"Dad, our college invited a professor from Harvard University to give a lecture today, and it was very good. ”

At the Feng family, at the dinner table, her daughter Feng Shan told Feng Xiaochen about what she had seen in school seriously.

Feng Shan, 21 years old this year, is a third-year undergraduate student at Renmin University. According to the meaning of Feng Xiaochen and Du Xiaodi, she originally hoped that she could study an engineering major in college, but who knew that she chose to major in economics, and it was also called a female inheritance of her father's business, because Feng Xiaochen's formal education is a master's degree in economics from the Academy of Social Sciences, although he is actually good at mechanical engineering.

For Feng Shan's choice, Feng Xiaochen and his family did not stop it, after all, studying economics is also very popular nowadays, and when the child is older, it is inconvenient for adults to interfere with her will.

"What did the professor say?"

Hearing his daughter's words, Feng Xiaochen asked casually. He is now a senior leading cadre, and he is usually exposed to a lot of information, and if there is any merit in the latest theoretical views of an economics professor, the intelligence department of the equipment company will sort them out as soon as possible and send them to his desk in the form of briefings for him to browse. He asked Feng Shan, in fact, he asked casually according to his daughter's words, Feng Shan's interest was very high, he, who is a father, can't sweep his daughter's interest, right?

Feng Shan said: "What the professor said is what your equipment company does, of course, he didn't name you. He just said that what kind of manufacturing industry our country spends so much effort on is purely misguided and makes wedding dresses for others, and this view of development is completely wrong. ”

"What are these words?" Du Xiaodi, who was sitting on the other side of the table, quit, "How can manufacturing be to make wedding dresses for others? Look at how many large-scale complete sets of equipment your father and they have built, without these equipment, can our country be so strong?"

"How can our country be considered strong?" Feng Shan said disdainfully, "You look at the United States, then it is called strong." ”

Feng Xiaochen looked at his daughter, nodded and said, "Well, even if the United States is strong, isn't their strength made by manufacturing?"

"Of course not. Feng Shan said seriously, "Dad, let me tell you, the professor said that in this world, first-class countries do standards, second-rate countries do brands, and third-rate countries make products." Our country belongs to a third-rate country, and we only know how to make products, but we don't know how to do standards and brands. After a year of hard work, it is not as much money as people make by sticking a trademark. ”

Du Xiaodi said: "The brand is also supported by the product, right? What are the standards, now we participate in the formulation of a lot of standards, your father also went to participate in the seminar on international wind power standards last month, our country's enterprises have a great say in the international wind power standard system." ”

Feng Shan retorted: "What is wind power, these things, are not done by people in the United States, only we Chinese think it is a treasure." ”

"That's what the Harvard professor you said you said?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

Feng Shan said: "It's not all what he said, our teachers also said the same thing in class." However, the professor who came to give us a lecture today gave us a very good speech. After listening to his lectures, I realized that many of my past ideas were wrong. ”

"Uh......" Feng Xiaochen was speechless, he was silent for a moment before he said sneeringly: "Xiaoshan, I think that many of your ideas in the past were right, but after listening to his lectures, they were wrong. By the way, what is the name of this professor, you name it and let me hear it, maybe I've heard of it. ”

Feng Shan said: "You must have heard of him, he is particularly famous. And he used to be a professor at the Academy of Social Sciences, maybe you listened to his lectures when you were a graduate student. ”

Feng Xiaochen was stunned for a moment, and then a complicated expression appeared on his face: "What did you say...... It can't be Gao Lei, right?"

"Yes, yes, it's Gao Lei. Dad, have you heard of his name too?" Feng Shan said happily.

"I've heard more than ......"

Feng Xiaochen only felt that the sky was thundering, and he made trouble for a long time, and the Harvard professor that his daughter said was actually Gao Lei. This gentleman is really a little strong who can't be killed, he ran to the United States a few years ago, and now he is actually back, and he still has such a strong ability to bewitch young students, so that Feng Shan, who was somewhat angry and had a young temperament under the influence of Feng Xiaochen and his wife, quickly defected.

The grievances between Gao Lei and Feng Xiaochen have been entangled for more than 20 years, and they even involve Du Xiaodi. Back then, in order to hack Feng Xiaochen, Gao Lei accused Du Xiaodi of going to the University of Technology for graduate school at a meeting attended by central leaders, which caused a lot of turmoil. A few years ago, he lost his position at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences because of his opposition to the equipment company, and he had to go to the United States.

Feng Xiaochen and Du Xiaodi actually talked about these things at home, but Feng Shan always thought that her parents' work had nothing to do with her, and Feng Xiaochen and his wife, like other parents, only cared about their children's studies and did not talk much about social matters with Feng Shan, which led to Feng Shan not knowing that there was actually a feud between her parents and Professor Gao.

"Gao Lei?" Du Xiaodi also frowned when he heard this name. At the beginning, Gao Lei accused her of cheating in the graduate school entrance examination, and almost ruined the future and reputation of her and her mentor Cai Xingquan. Last time, she also heard Feng Xiaochen talk about the conflict between Gao Lei and the equipment company, and her impression of Gao Lei was naturally extremely bad.

"Xiaoshan, Gao Lei's quality is very bad, the walls are grassy, both sides are down, there is no academic ethics at all, he only knows how to blindly cater to the West, don't believe his words. Du Xiaodi reminded.

"Mom, do you know Gao Lei too?" Feng Shan looked at Du Xiaodi in surprise. Feng Xiaochen knew Gao Lei, and Feng Shan was not surprised, after all, Feng Xiaochen was engaged in economic management. Du Xiaodi actually knew Gao Lei and his person, and he could also evaluate his academic ethics, which made Feng Shan feel strange.

Feng Xiaochen didn't explain this question, but asked Feng Shan: "Why, do your classmates and your teachers agree with Gao Lei's point of view?"

Feng Shan said: "Not really. Our classmates are divided into two factions, and the teachers also have two factions, one faction thinks that Gao Lei's views are very wise and hit the key point of China. There is also a faction like you, who say that the real economy is the most important, and that they believe that China will be able to surpass the United States. ”

"Are you a Luo who belongs to the former faction?" Feng Xiaochen asked with a smile.

Feng Shan said: "I used to be a centrist, but after listening to Gao Lei's lecture, I think what he said is right. You think, the United States has Boeing planes, Apple mobile phones, Intel and IBM, and we in China can make shirts, socks, toys and so on. Isn't it wrong that we don't make as much money as Boeing makes from building an airplane?"

"Who have you heard say that China can only make shirts and socks? Haven't you seen the shield machine designed by your uncle? The 18-meter-diameter shield machine that Chenyu Company is building now is second to none in the world, and the price of a shield machine can also buy a Boeing 737, don't you know? Also, Uncle Wang Weilong of Zhongyuan Province, you also know him, his Luoye Machinery Company, which produces 300-ton dump trucks, has been sold to South America, and a car is more than 20 million yuan. Feng Xiaochen casually gave examples to refute Feng Shan's point of view.

"However, that's ......what Americans don't want to make," Feng Shan's tone was a little weak. As Feng Xiaochen's daughter, she has not been taken by her father to visit equipment manufacturing enterprises in various places, although she does not have much interest in those large machinery and equipment, but at least she has an impression. What's more, Chen Yu Company is her own company, and she knows about the shield machine and concrete pump truck made in the company. Others say that China can only make shirts and socks, but she can't say that. Thinking of Gao Lei's statement in the lecture that China will only manufacture textile products, she began to realize that there were some untruths in Gao Lei's words.

"Xiaodi, it seems that we are still too neglectful of the national education of the next generation. Feng Xiaochen said to Du Xiaodi. The next generation he is talking about here is not just a needle Feng Shan, but a young generation of people of Feng Shan's age. Feng Shan grew up next to him, the general manager of the equipment company, and was influenced by many industrial concepts of serving the country, but he was still brainwashed by Gao Lei and others, believing in the fallacy of "third-rate countries engaged in production", and how other young people would worship this point of view is even more conceivable.

Du Xiaodi also sighed: "Yes, when we were young, we worked hard to learn technology from abroad and establish such a large industrial system, but now young people feel that it is boring to engage in production, which is indeed a very sad thing." ”

"Anyway, our classmates don't think it's interesting to study engineering. Feng Shan interjected, "When we were in high school, the students with the best grades chose to study economics and finance like me, and only those with poor grades would apply for engineering majors." ”

"By the way, Gao Lei said that our country is a third-rate country, did he say how we can become a first-class country?" Feng Xiaochen asked Feng Shan with interest. He really wanted to know what new fallacies Gao Lei had invented after spending a few years abroad. Gao Lei is also in his 60s this year, and he traveled thousands of miles back to China to give lectures, he should have a plan, right?

Feng Shan looked at Feng Xiaochen's expression, wondering if he meant mockery, and when she saw Feng Xiaochen's face was quite serious, she said, "He talked a lot, and I can't remember it all." He said that our country is too focused on GDP, and for the sake of GDP growth, it will invest heavily in railways, highways and other infrastructure construction, which consumes half of the world's steel and cement every year, and this development model is wrong. In the end, he said that if China wants to become a modern country, there is only four words to go out......"

"What four words?"

"Deindustrialization. Feng Shan said word by word.