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Yang Xinyu's words, three points are ridicule, and the other seven points are sincere. He is also a technical cadre, but in terms of sensitivity and foresight for technological development, he is far inferior to Qin Hai. As early as the period of Pusang automobile localization work, Yang Xinyu often asked Qin Hai for advice, over the years, he asked Qin Hai for advice dozens of times, each time he was able to get some useful inspiration from Qin Hai, so the dependence on Qin Hai became stronger and stronger.

Hearing Yang Xinyu say this, Qin Hai was slightly modest, and then went straight to the point and asked, "Director Yang, what is it that makes you worry about it like this, say it and see if I can help you share a little." ”

"It's my old job, it's still a car thing." Yang Xinyu said.

"Cars?" Qin Hai nodded, "No wonder, now that the whole country is engaged in cars, it will indeed worry about you, the big director." ”

In the mid-90s, China's auto market was not overstated as "full of princes". Following the success of the Pusang Automobile introduction project, several large automobile companies have introduced automobile production technology from abroad through the joint venture method, forming several joint venture automobile production bases. With the further liberalization of the market, all provinces and cities have taken a fancy to the broad prospects of the automobile industry, and have applied for the establishment of their own automobile enterprises.

According to the original assumptions of the Planning Commission and the Machinery Commission, there is no need to build too many automobile enterprises in China, but the limited funds should be concentrated on a few enterprises to become bigger and stronger. However, the determination of the provinces and cities in the automotive industry is irresistible. They used all their lobbying power to put pressure on the Planning Commission, forcing it to issue one automobile production license after another, and began a leap forward in the automobile industry.

China's auto industry did not start late, but because it was isolated from foreign countries for a period in the middle, there was a technological disconnect. The introduction of Pusang Automobile is a very obvious example. Pujiang Automobile Factory, which has been building Pujiang brand cars for 20 years, found that all its technologies were outdated when it came to joint ventures with foreign countries, and had to start making up lessons again from a place like a small screw cap.

Thanks to the foundation laid by the localization project of Pusang Automobile, the domestic automobile supporting industry has begun to take shape, and can provide a considerable part of auto parts and automotive materials, which is also an important reason why various places dare to launch automobile projects. However, automotive technology is not so simple after all, the appearance and structural design of the car. As well as the production of core components in automobiles, including engines, gearboxes, etc., is still a short board in the domestic automotive industry. Yang Xinyu, as an official of the Machinery Committee, had to be anxious about these things.

"The problem of the car engine is now the biggest problem in front of us. If we do not break through this hurdle, China's auto industry will always have to follow others. Yang Xinyu said to Qin Hai.

"I remember that Pujiang Automobile Company introduced the engine technology of the German Wolfsburg Company and built a production base with an annual output of 100,000 engines?" Qin Hai asked.

"Now it has expanded to 200,000 units a year." Yang Xinyu corrected, "In addition to Pujiang Automobile Company, Beidian and Anshi Automobile Companies have also built their own engine production bases. Each of them has an annual production capacity of more than 200,000 units. ”

Beidian Automobile Company and Anshi Automobile Company are both old domestic automobile companies, and in the past two years, they have introduced automobile technology from the United States and Japan respectively. Production of joint venture brand cars. Qin Hai had only heard about the establishment of engine bases by these two companies, and he didn't know much about it. Hearing Yang Xinyu say this, he replied casually: "Since this is the case, what else is Director Yang worried about?" Let these companies increase some investment and increase production capacity. Isn't that okay? ”

"The problem is that the engine technology of these companies is imported from abroad, not independent technology." Yang Xinyu broke the sky with one word.

"So that's ......" Qin Hai finally understood what Yang Xinyu meant. As a traverser, Qin Hai should actually be able to think of this. It's just because his own specialty is materials and he doesn't have much research on automobiles that he ignores this important issue. He remembers that until the beginning of the 21st century, most of the cars running on the land of China were engines with imported technology, especially in high-end cars, which were almost completely monopolized by foreign brand engines.

"So, the Machinery Committee is planning to do something in the independent research and development of engines?" Qin Hai asked tentatively.

Yang Xinyu said: "There is indeed this plan, but this matter was not initiated by the Machinery Committee, but jointly initiated by several large automobile companies such as Beidian, Pujiang, and Anshi." They have put forward a slogan to develop their own brand engines that will reach the world's first-class level by the end of this century, and this has been appreciated by the relevant leading comrades of the central authorities. ”

Qin Haidao: "This is a good thing, hasn't the country always advocated independent innovation?" These large car companies can spontaneously propose to innovate, and the state should vigorously support it. ”

Yang Xinyu nodded, but his expression was not relaxed, he said: "Independent innovation is a good thing, but there are also many difficulties in front of us. There are a myriad of technologies involved in engines, and in many ways our country lacks a foundation, and it is not easy to build a world-class engine in a few years. ”

Qin Hai said disdainfully: "Whether you can get it out or not is another matter." Car companies have this determination, or they should support it. What foreigners can do, we can also do, is nothing more than investing enough money. ”

Yang Xinyu smiled bitterly: "Chairman Qin's speech is really atmospheric, nothing more than ...... That's it, do you know how much money you need to invest in this? ”

"How much?" Qin Hai asked.

"The initial investment is not less than 20 billion." Yang Xinyu stretched out a slap and flipped it back and forth four times, indicating a number of "20".

"Hiss......" Qin Hai took a breath softly, he really didn't expect that it would take so much money to develop an engine technology. To put it mildly, Daqin Group is also willing to invest heavily in scientific research, for a number of key technologies in the 800,000 tons of ethylene project, Daqin Group has invested one or two hundred million yuan. What he didn't expect was that the technology of automobile engines would be more difficult than the core technology of 800,000 tons of ethylene, and the investment of 2 billion yuan was only the initial investment in Yang Xinyu's mouth.

"Why do you need to invest so much money?" Qin Hai had to ask.

Yang Xinyu got up and went to his desk to take a copy of the text and handed it to Qin Hai. Qin Hai took a look, only to see that the cover read: "Report on the technical research of high-end car engines with independent intellectual property rights", and then look at the following paragraph, there are the names of several large automobile companies such as Beidian, Pujiang, and Anshi that Yang Xinyu just mentioned, in addition, there are also the signatures of the Automobile Industry Association and several other slightly smaller automobile companies.

"This kind of collective spirit of tackling key problems is worth advocating." As Qin Hai spoke, he flipped through the report and began to read it at a glance.

At the beginning of the report, as usual, there are some official article clichés, which are nothing more than acknowledging the great achievements of the domestic automobile industry and the great achievements of various car companies, and then turning the topic, pointing out that there is still a big gap between the level of China's automobile industry and foreign countries, and it is extremely incommensurate with the status of a populous and industrial country like China. It is proposed to unite a number of domestic enterprises and scientific research institutes to carry out research on domestic engines.

The second part of the report is a detailed description of the engine research work, which lists the ten major difficulties in engine technology, including theory, materials, technology, equipment, etc., and also lists some research ideas. Qin Hai doesn't know much about engine technology, and some of the content can't tell the authenticity, but when it comes to the part of the engine material, he understands some, and after careful reading, he finds that the technical problems involved are indeed complicated, and he feels quite scratching his head in terms of his knowledge system 20 years ahead.

"Do all these technologies need to be broken through?" Qin Hai pointed to the report and asked Yang Xinyu.

"Yes." Yang Xinyu said, "This is a list made by several major car companies after organizing hundreds of experts to conduct research, and some of these technical difficulties can be solved by introducing technology, but most of them need to be based on independence." ”

"To break through these technologies, an investment of 2 billion can only be regarded as an initial investment." Qin Hai reluctantly admitted that in terms of material problems, he can use his golden finger to help cheat, and maybe save some R&D investment, but if the difficulty in other aspects is the same as the difficulty of materials, then the funds required will be immeasurable, unless Yang Xinyu has the ability to find several traversers in different fields and cheat together.

"You've come at the right time, we're going to have a seminar in two days to discuss this. The meeting was attended by leaders and technical executives from various car companies, as well as authorities from several scientific research institutes. When the time comes, you can participate as a material expert and help me check the gates. Yang Xinyu said to Qin Hai.

Qin Haidao: "Okay, but what I know is limited to the field of materials, and I am a layman in other aspects, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you much." ”

Yang Xinyu shook his head and said, "No, I believe in your Xiao Qin's technical vision, even if it is a field that you are not familiar with, you can hear some questions, and you can provide us with some enlightenment at that time." ”

"Then I'll be respectful and obey." Qin Hai agreed to Yang Xinyu's invitation with a smile, he actually wanted to hear about the situation and increase his understanding of this field. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)