Chapter 81: The Beginning of the Great Change (20)
Liang Yuan and Liu Wenyue said that the introduction of 2.0 micron process technology is not far away, in fact, it also benefits from the invisible benefits of this technology transaction.
For the Republic, we did not hesitate to take out such a thing as superconducting materials to communicate with the United States, which in itself represents an attitude.
The United States is not monolithic, and there are those who clamored for harshness toward China, and naturally there were those who shouted for relaxation against China.
Generally speaking, members of Congress who are harsh on China basically have a good relationship with Bay County, but the situation here is also complicated.
For example, Wanxian has been interested in F15 fighters for a long time, and by severely punishing the shareholders of the Republic, McDonnell Douglas naturally has the intention to promote this deal, but Grumman's interests are on the other side of the strait, and he is still counting on the easing of relations to win the order for the replacement of the main fighters of the Republic Navy and Air Force, so this is a pain in the original rivals in the arms industry, and they have launched their own proxy wars within the Congress.
Although McDonnell Douglas has the intention of promoting F15 arms sales to Taiwan, Douglas within McDonnell is very unimpressed with this, and once McDonald's arms sales to Taiwan are successful, the good relationship between the civil aircraft and the Republic since the 70s will be destroyed.
In the future, the F16 fighter will enter Taiwan because General Dynamics (GD), the manufacturer of the F16 fighter, does not have any business in the territory of the republic, so it is naturally unscrupulous.
Liang Yuan often confused the major general in the United States when he first came in, and on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the word "general" is like the number 8 and 6 in the Republic, which is a super hot word for American registered enterprises.
In the 80s and 90s, there were as many as five of the world's top 500 groups in the United States with General Motors as the corporate name, the most famous of which was General Electric (GE), which was founded by Edison.
General Dynamics (GD) is the top defense contractor on the planet, the U.S. Army's M1A1 tank, the U.S. Air Force's F16 fighter jet, the U.S. Navy's Ohio-class nuclear submarine, Polaris, Minuteman, Trident ICBMs are all produced by General Dynamics, the founder of General Dynamics is the pioneer of the U.S. submarine industry - John Philip Horan.
General Motors (GM) has a large investment in the Republic, General Motors' car brand Buick, Chevrolet has always been a strong competitor in the Republic's automotive industry, and the founder of General Motors is David Buick, one of the early investors in the American auto industry.
There is also a generic (GM) as the abbreviation of the trademark, this company called General Mills is often well-known by foodies, snack food Wonderful Crispy Corners, and Häagen-Dazs ice cream that girls like are all brands owned by this Fortune 500 company.
In addition to the four most famous four in the United States, there is a more awesome GA-ASI (General Atomics), which is the main implementer of the Star Wars program in the United States, space railguns, laser defense weapons, superconducting electromagnetic guns, and nuclear submarine reactors are all within the business scope of this company, but after the Cold War, the United States military spending was reduced, and the business of GA-ASI (General Atomics) was also cut to pieces, and finally in a series of mergers and acquisitions, it was divided by Hughes, Lockheed Martin and other arms giants.
After the advent of the Internet era, the general insurance company (GR) under the global stock god Warren Buffett replaced the position of GA-ASI (General Atomics) and continued to write the legend of the word "GM" in the American corporate world.
After learning about the past and present lives of these major GMs across the Pacific Ocean, Liang Yuan accidentally found that he seemed to have a soft spot for the number United, for example, Yuanjia already has United Airlines and United Trust.
When will the Yuanjia joint account be developed into a general account on the other side of the Pacific Ocean in the future, Yuanjia will probably beat the world at that time, and occasionally, someone will come up with some messy ideas.
Of course, Grumman, McDonnell Douglas, General Dynamics and other companies are spraying in Congress, and Liang Yuan is not idle, using Shangri-La's strong lawyer resources in North America to invest in lobbying firms outside Washington, and Liang Yuan does not mention issues related to the Republic, but only asks lobbying companies to follow Grumman's direction.
Although the lobby groups outside the hospital had not yet grown into a shadow White House and a shadow Congress in the 90s, the connections and influence of more than 10,000 elites who had held middle and high-level positions in the US military, government, and other departments had begun to emerge.
In the 90s, Wanxian was unusually successful in using the US lobby group, such as successfully purchasing F16 fighter jets in the name of the mainland threat, and so on.
At that time, the white rabbit-like republic actually conducted capital exchanges with lobby groups through the New York branch of the Bank of China, which was basically equivalent to offering bribes in the Republic of China.
After this defeat, the successful exploitation of the American extra-hospital lobby by the Republic was postponed directly beyond the new century.
In the United States, lobbying firms can be broadly divided into two categories, one for domestic interest groups and the other for foreign governments to serve their interest groups.
The cunning Liang Yuan did not look for a lobby group on the line facing foreign governments at all, but directly mixed into the line of internal fighting in the United States.
Although it seems dangerous to enter the channel of infighting between American conglomerates, Liang Yuan is not an MT that pulls firepower, but only cooperates with Grumman to beat the side drum, and Liang Yuan does not participate in the competition for the share of domestic arms in the United States, so taking this line is of great benefit to the covert work of lobbying.
In the future, Yuanjia's business scope in North America will not be too small, in addition to lawyer resources, if the lobbying group outside the court is handled, then Yuanjia will not have problems in North America as long as it does not involve too sensitive industries, such as the future of the United States in the Gulf region, including the sworn enemy Iran's funds are almost not refused, I have to say that the skills of the Middle East tyrants to use money to smash people are far more skilled than the Republic of China countless times.
Different from the previous history, this time with Grumman, the leading party, the US Congress on the implementation of sanctions in the Republic of China is very controversial, Grumman pulled companies like General Electric, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nike and other companies to get together, in the Bay County lobby group under the series of McDonnell Douglas, General Dynamics and other enterprises with export opportunities to Taiwan is the other side, the two sides have been fighting back and forth for more than half a year, Liang Yuan took in more than 3 million US dollars, and then the results came out, the original previous cooperation was not affected and continued to be implemented, and the subsequent industries must be submitted to the Congress for approval regardless of whether they are sensitive or not。
Compared with the previous history, the door to Sino-US exchanges was opened almost two years ahead of schedule. Otherwise, we will have to wait for Zizton to come to power before normal exchanges between China and the United States will resume.
Of course, there are advantages to early recovery in the early resumption of exchanges, and there are naturally disadvantages to early recovery, the well-known speech of the southern tour has not yet begun, the imperialists in the republic will not die, the slogan of the special zone is a new colony, and the newspapers shouted loudly, this Liang Yuan is not even bothered to take care of it, and naturally there are high-level headaches.
No matter how the situation changes outside, Liang Yuan knows that playing the game of seclusion and seclusion is self-castration and active death, although he has Siemens and Motorola countless times in his heart, but cooperation still has to be discussed, but Liang Yuan, who was stimulated, decided to open the spare tire plan in advance, and then Philips entered someone's field of vision.
A month ago, the Superconductivity Center of Tokyo University announced that it had successfully obtained a superconducting wire with a length of more than 12 meters through low-temperature cold preparation.
The Todai Superconducting Center used this wire to create a small superconducting coil, and after successfully activating the superconducting coil, a stable magnetic field with a magnetic field strength of up to 0.6 T was obtained at a temperature of 20 K.
As soon as this news was announced, not only did the international superconducting materials community explode, but GE almost immediately accelerated the speed of negotiations, and the differences between the US Congress for more than half a year were also bridged at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.
The general public did not understand what these two short figures meant, and in industry alone, they almost immediately set off huge waves.
Superconducting motors, superconducting magnetic levitation, and room-temperature superconductors are some sci-fi cutting-edge concepts for the time being, and the two data of superconducting wires prepared by the University of Tokyo have the possibility of large-scale application in MRI equipment.
The MRI device was invented by the Federal German company Siemens at the end of 1978, and in 1983, five years after the invention of MRI, Siemens successfully installed the first clinical MRI device at the Hannover Medical School in Germany. Even so, the global technology community has given the device almost endless admiration to the oil-cooled, 0.2 Tesla magnetic resonance device that requires the patient to lie down honestly for an hour and a half for each examination.
At the end of the same year, a breakthrough was made in the United States for superconducting nuclear magnetic resonance instruments.
Since the birth of nuclear magnetic resonance in 1978 until Liang Yuan's crossing, there have been more than 10 Nobel Prizes directly related to nuclear magnetic resonance in the short past 30 years.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is known as the most revolutionary invention in the field of contemporary medical imaging, and it is one of the most powerful helpers in the history of the war against human beings and diseases.
If the aero engine is the flower of modern industry, the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument is the top pearl in the medical device industry.
The core of the MRI equipment is the magnetic field generator, the stronger the magnetic field, the clearer the imaging effect, and the shorter the event of the patient's examination.
In 1990, the price of the world's most advanced Siemens superconducting nuclear magnetic resonance imaging equipment was 9.2 million US dollars, with a superconducting magnetic field strength of 1T and a examination time of 70 minutes for each patient.
In Siemens' product line, the 1T superconducting NMR instrument is already the top commercial product, and Siemens' largest sales volume is about 8 million US dollars a set, a magnetic field of 0.6T, and a mid-range superconducting NMR device with an examination time of 80 minutes per patient.
If the Superconductivity Center of Tokyo University does not falsify, it means that this new superconducting material can be put into commercial application almost immediately.
In the cost of nuclear magnetic resonance machines, superconducting coils can account for almost more than 70% of the total cost.
According to the data released by Dongda, the cost of magnesium diboride superconducting wire is only two-thirds of the cost of the current Ni series superconducting wire, which is almost seismic news for the global nuclear magnetic resonance industry.
At present, an MRI equipment starts at 4 million US dollars, with a fixed eight-hour work system of overseas doctors, the examination time of each patient is 70 minutes, excluding the time of equipment drawing analysis and substitution, four patients can be examined in one day, and the number of working days overseas is about 230 days a year, even if the equipment utilization rate reaches 100%, 900 patients can be examined in a year, and the service life of an MRI equipment is about ten years, and about 9,000 patients can be examined during the entire life of the equipment。
The annual maintenance cost of MRI equipment is basically 10% of the purchase price of the equipment.
Not counting the cost of space, electricity, personnel, cooling, etc., the depreciation of MRI equipment alone will cost 1,800 US dollars per patient, and if you choose the top MRI equipment, the depreciation cost of each patient will be as high as 3,600 US dollars, and if you add other expenses of 5,000 US dollars, an MRI examination is already a conscience price, and the MRI examination of top overseas medical institutions is based on US dollars, and non-rich people cannot afford it at all.
As for the republic, X-ray is already high-tech, B-ultrasound and CT can represent the international frontier and high-end, and the magnetic resonance imaging equipment is still in a state for the time being.
Nuclear magnetic resonance equipment is currently the top disease diagnosis equipment in the field of human medical care, which can be said to be closely related to human life expectancy, and now the Superconductivity Center of Tokyo University is expected to reduce the current high cost of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging equipment by more than half but has not been disclosed.
Of course, these are all air for Liang Yuan, don't look at someone who is invisible behind the scenes, but the processing direction of magnesium diboride superconducting wire is simply controlled by Liang Yuan behind his back, and all the processing technology patents are naturally in the hands of Yuanjia.
At present, the R&D level of nuclear magnetic resonance in Japan is not top, and only GE, Siemens and Philips can be called the top in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging equipment.
It's a pity that Liang Yuan didn't have time to take care of it, and he kept releasing Lip pigeons, and Philips couldn't find the temple gate with a pig's head for more than half a month, so he could only watch the GE negotiations be completed and the rhythm of the sky in the field of magnetic resonance imaging equipment.
Now Liang Yuan and Liu Wenyue pull off Liverpool's words naturally mean something, Liu Wenyue can't know that the world's most powerful lithography machine manufacturer in the future, the Netherlands ASML (Ames), was spun off from the Philips R&D department a few years later.
Although Yuanjia, who is now stimulated, plans to develop his own lithography machine, wouldn't it be better if he could really have the thighs of the big guy to hug.