Chapter 638 Building Materials Industry
When this work is completed, cities in the earthquake zone will be barred from building high-rise buildings (the ban will only be lifted after the "jishu" of earthquake-resistant "modular buildings" matures). Even if the cost is high, inconvenient, and not good-looking, conventional buildings cannot be allowed to be built locally, because once an earthquake occurs, these conventional buildings are big coffins!
Hu Weidong's view is that we can learn from Japan in this regard, although Japanese buildings are not good at fire and sound insulation (building materials can be improved to a large extent), but the earthquake resistance is indeed far from Chinese or Western-style buildings can be compared, and even if they collapse, because the building materials are relatively light, the death rate is much lower. In addition, Hu Weidong also asked domestic architects to study new buildings with strong earthquake resistance, and he also provided some ideas from later generations, such as the "modular building jishu" that was first invented by the Japanese in history but caused a sensation in the hands of the Chinese.
This kind of building has two major advantages, one is super earthquake resistance, the whole building forms a whole, can effectively resolve the damage to the building structure by the earthquake, unless the ground is rapidly deformed and the building overturns, theoretically it can even resist a 9-magnitude earthquake; The second is that the construction speed is extremely fast, because the main structures are built in the factory, the construction site only needs to be assembled, so compared with the traditional building, its construction speed is terrifying, three days can already be called "XX speed", and "modular building jishu" can do three floors a day, or even faster
However, this new type of building in Hu Weidong's memory is mainly based on steel structure. So there are two huge defects, one is the high cost, the other is the fear of fire, although ordinary fire is unlikely to melt the solid structural steel, but as long as the strength of the lower structural steel is reduced because of the high temperature, the whole building is in danger of collapsing, which is far inferior to the traditional reinforced concrete building. But even so, Hu Weidong is still quite optimistic about it, as long as he invests money and jishuliliang to strengthen research and find more suitable building materials than steel. The potential of this new type of building is undeniable.
The tremendous progress in construction has led to the acceleration of urban construction in China several times faster than a few years ago. This will undoubtedly be of great help in accelerating China's urbanization, especially in solving the housing problem of the urban population. You must know that China now has 10 to 20 million rural people moving to the cities every year, and combined with the growth of the urban population itself, the number of new housing needs is extremely staggering. However, just building fast, there are not enough building materials. It is still not possible to build a sufficient number of residential buildings quickly. Fortunately, due to the attention of the central government. Again, there is nothing wrong with this
In 1941, China's total cement production exceeded the 50 million ton mark for the first time, further consolidating Shijie's position as the No. 1 company, and Jishu's lower-demand brick factories sprung up all over the country. As a result, the central authorities had no choice but to repeatedly order and reaffirm restrictions so that the cultivated land would not be too damaged
Fortunately, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the central government's control over the local economy was obviously far from being comparable to that of later generations, and the situation improved greatly within a period of time of cracking down. Although even so, the development of the building materials industry will inevitably cause a lot of damage to the environment, but this is also no way, after all, China is to achieve urbanization after all, as long as it is not like many places in later generations to build and demolish, demolished and built and caused a senseless huge waste, it is worth paying some necessary costs for the development of the economy, and after the introduction of German urban planning talents, China's urbanization ideas in this time and space are more clear and clear, and will not change as frequently as in history, As a result, even compared to the relatively frugal first 30 years after liberation, there is significantly less waste in the process of urbanization
Although China's industry continued to develop at a rapid pace in 1941, Hu Weidong, who returned to China after the peace agreement was reached and temporarily resigned from his military post and turned to be in charge of industrial and scientific research, did not dare to relax at all, and he knew very well in his heart that the reason why the total industrial output value had increased at a terrifying rate of nearly 50% per year in recent years was that a series of large projects had been put into operation one after another, and China's original foundation was too poor, so the rate of improvement was extremely high.
Now that German aid in terms of equipment and personnel has ended, and the Soviet side has ended even earlier, it is still possible to obtain jishu and equipment through trades, but with the Shijie war intensifying, it will be far more difficult to bring in good talent than before. Moreover, the Czechs made a fuss in the past year also gave the Chinese Red Party a wake-up call, and the decision-making level of the Red Party finally unified their understanding that China's future development must be based on self-reliance, and that it should not blindly be greedy for more and faster without regard for strategic security; this is certainly correct in the long run, but in the short term, China's industrial development speed will inevitably be lowered.
Moreover, even if there is a large amount of external aid to support China, because China's total industrial output is now far from being comparable at the beginning, and the base is several times larger, it is impossible to look so good in terms of growth rate figures, and in Hu Weidong's own opinion, China's total industrial output value in 1942 can increase by 30% compared with 1941
It is precisely because of this that the Chinese government has gradually relaxed restrictions on private enterprises in some industries in order to tap the potential of China's industrial development as much as possible, and the leaders of the Red Party have also realized the advantages and disadvantages of the state-owned economy and the private economy in practice. Take the TV as an example, if the first TV was developed from scratch, the state-owned enterprises can concentrate the entire industry and even the elites of other industries to tackle key problems because they accept the unified leadership of the central government, which is incomparable to the township enterprises and private enterprises, but after mastering the TV set, how to make the factory TV more satisfying to consumers, this is not what state-owned enterprises, at least the traditional state-owned enterprises that do not distinguish between government and enterprises, are good at
However, when new products were just launched without competitors and the market was still a complete seller's market, Hu Weidong still advocated that the state should first eat the "first soup", especially for export commodities, and the state could come forward to set the prices in a unified manner, so as to maximize profits, so as to avoid the vicious competition of domestic enterprises, and as a result, the prices of export commodities were extremely low by foreigners, and even affected the psychology of foreign consumers and caused the market to shrink. (To be continued......)