Chapter Fifty-Six: Unexpected Difficulties!

"The number of visits is amazing."

Tan Qinggu's expression was excited, and he said to Gao Yuan: "Kunlun asked the current number of visits, has reached the average daily level of tens of millions, you know, we are a purely academic website, and we also use Chinese completely, can have today's heat, can only be described as terrifying." ”

Gao Yuan bowed his head slightly, and when the heat of this period of time went down, the flow of Kunlun Dao would inevitably fall, but in any case, the goal had been achieved, and it far exceeded expectations.

As the popularity of Kunlun Wendao has skyrocketed, more relevant domestic research institutions have also extended olive branches to give Kunlun Wendao copyright authorization in order to enrich the database.

In short, Gao Yuan's own efforts, coupled with the support of the military and the help of other scientific research institutes, really did Kunlun Dao.

In the field of materials science, there are four top journals in the world, namely Nature, Science, Publications of the Chemical Society of North America, and Advanced Materials.

And now the academic community generally believes that due to the sudden appearance of the freak Kunlun Wendao, the status of the four top journals of materials science has been completely shaken, and it will even face the risk of reshuffling in the future.

Tan Qinggu said to Gao Yuan seriously: "I have two thoughts now, first, resort to the law, sue those who illegally translate your papers, and take them to court!" ”

"Second, taking advantage of this opportunity, are we considering starting our own academic journal on the basis of Kunlun's question?"

Gao Yuan smiled and said, "I just thought about the two questions you said. ”

"First of all, don't be in a hurry to sue this kind of thing, we can just make a statement and maintain the right to be held accountable, after all, it is not realistic for us to take legal means for such a large-scale translation and dissemination, and it costs money to fight a lawsuit, so we can't sue the entire academic community."

"But we can maintain the right to accountability, and in the future, if there is a conflict with Western academia, we can sacrifice this article as a weapon against our opponents."

"As for the issue of journals, I completely agree with your idea, the time and place are favorable, not only should we launch our own academic journals, but also should strike while the iron is hot, launch it quickly, and preferably be officially published next month."

"I don't think the name will change, but add a suffix, let's call it [Kunlun Wendao-Materials Science], if we want to launch a physics journal in the future, it will be called [Kunlun Wendao-Physics], and so on."

Tan Qinggu was surprised by Gao Yuan's ambition, and it seemed that he wanted to make Kunlun a large-scale comprehensive academic journal, not just planning to focus only on the major of materials science.

Every day after the Spring Festival has been full and busy.

Gao Yuan finished arranging the company's daily work, and then went to the Shuguang Research Institute under Sinochem Group with Xu Qingzhou and others.

Thanks to a series of high-profile moves by Kunlun Company since last year, Gao Yuan and others have already become famous, and before they came, the General Armament Department also specially greeted them, so it was no surprise that they were received extremely grandly.

The Shuguang Research Institute is located in the beautiful Guilin, and the reception dinner was held in a luxurious hotel by the river.

Guangxi's local dishes are mainly sour and spicy, which is very flavorful, but it is a pity that I drank too much during the New Year on the plateau, and there were some sequelae, and I had some aversion to alcohol.

In addition, he didn't like to be polite with others, so before the banquet was over, he quietly slipped out of the restaurant under the pretext of going to the toilet.

Thinking of Guilin's landscapes and rivers in the world, I don't know what year and month I will come next time, the plateau will go down the stairs, and I want to see the night view by the river.

As a result, at the end of the stairs, he met an acquaintance whose name seemed to be Li Changxing, one of the accompanying personnel of the Shuguang Academy, who was engaged in technology.

Compared with those administrators, Li Changxing is like a stuffy gourd, he is not good at talking, and after introducing himself, he sits in the corner and drinks alcohol.

"Boss Gao, do you smoke?"

Li Changxing was surprised, smiled a little stiffly, and handed over half a box of crumpled cigarettes, Yuxi brand.

"Thanks, I don't smoke." Gao Yuan politely refused.

Li Changxing didn't say much, he took out a stick and put it on it, looking at his skillful posture, it should be an old smoking gun.

"I didn't expect to meet you here."

"Each other, they all ran out to hide from the wine, let's not praise each other."

"Boss Gao is really funny, I don't know how you feel about visiting our aviation tire laboratory this afternoon?"

Gao Yuan frowned, staring at the moonlight on the river, "Do you want to hear the truth, or do you want to hear the lie?" ”

Li Changxing was slightly stunned, "Naturally, I want to hear the truth." ”

Gao Yuan shook his head, "It's no fun, before I came, I thought it was a problem with chemical materials, as long as the rubber substrate, adhesives, vulcanizing agents, etc. are modified, they can produce products that are as good as the tire triumvirate, or even better than them." ”

"But after a look at your place, I realized that I was really too naΓ―ve, and the problem with tires was not only because of material science, but also because of the machines that made tires."

"Although I'm not a professional, according to my observations, the tire building machine in the afternoon may have no problem making ordinary car tires, but the accuracy is far from enough to make aviation tires."

Gao Yuan originally just said it casually, who would have thought that Li Changxing would be unable to hide his excitement, and slapped the railing by the river hard and said: "Boss Gao is worthy of a generation of geniuses, what you said is so right!" ”

"Aviation tires are almost completely monopolized by the Big Three, and when I was working in Japan, Bridgestone's molding machine was designed and manufactured independently, and the specific parameters were completely kept secret from the outside world."

"If you really want to talk about the quality and chemical properties of the substrate, in fact, everyone is not bad, especially the rubber substrate of the German Continental brand, or the adhesive of Yokohama, Japan, are the famous existence in the industry."

"But in the real world, the three giants of Bridgestone, Michelin, Goodyear, and tires occupy almost 50% of the global market share! The reason is that they have too much technology in their hands, and even their tire building machines are developed by themselves, no matter how much money you spend, it is impossible to buy them in the market! ”

Gao Yuan thought for a while and said: "No pain, no gain, according to the data of the global research company IDC, in 2019, the R&D investment of Michelin in France and Bridgestone in Japan was about one billion US dollars, while the R&D investment of Goodyear in North America and Continental in Germany was 500 million US dollars. ”

"As for my country, the highest R&D investment is Linglong Tire and Triangle Tire, which cost 60 million US dollars respectively, and the rest of the manufacturers invest less, or even almost no R&D."

"Science and technology are fair, and the gap between R&D investment and investment is dozens of times, and when it is put on products, it is naturally backward in performance, and with the passage of time, this technological gap will only get bigger and bigger."

"By the way, you said you worked in Japan?"

Li Changxing nodded, "I graduated from the University of Tokyo with a Ph.D. in materials engineering, and then worked at Bridgestone for seven years. ”

Gao Yuan was slightly stunned, a doctor from the University of Tokyo, and had worked in Bridgestone for seven years, no wonder he was called by the leader today, it turned out to be a high-end talent.

Gao Yuan smiled, "Then why are you back again?" Shuguang Academy can't give you Bridgestone's treatment, I'm afraid the salary will drop a lot, right? ”

Li Changxing nodded and said, "It's down a lot, but there's no way, my mother was sick last year." ”

Li Changxing explained why he returned to China, Gao Yuan listened, and suddenly felt a feeling of sympathy, it turned out that Li Changxing's mother also had a problem with Gao Yuan's father, cerebral infarction.

Speaking of which, cerebral infarction is a real death, and nine times out of ten it will have sequelae.

Comrade Gao Xiangnan's legs and feet are not very flexible, while Li Changxing's mother hurt her language nerves and can't speak, and her legs and feet are not very neat, but they are not as serious as language.

Li Changxing's father died early, and the mother and son depended on each other at home, and now that his mother is sick, Li Changxing is a filial son, he almost didn't think about it, so he chose to return to China.

After returning to China, Li Changxing was hired by Shuguang Institute to be the deputy chief engineer of the aviation tire project.

But Gao Yuan looked at Li Changxing's tone when he talked about these things, and it is estimated that he is not very ambitious, after all, he is a deputy position, with limited rights, and the work unit is a large state-owned enterprise...

Gao Yuan and Li Changxing chatted very speculatively, and stood by the river for half an hour, but everyone was so anxious that they kept calling him, so Gao Yuan and Li Changxing had to go back again.

"Boss Gao has seen the status quo, I don't know what you plan to do?" Li Changxing asked seriously.

Gao Yuan scratched his hair, "Aviation tires are much more difficult than I expected, but I can't do mechanical automation anymore and get a new tire building machine, right?" ”

"So, I only have one choice left now."

"What do you mean?" Li Changxing showed a very interested look, but at the same time he was a little worried, afraid that Gao Yuan would retreat.

"I plan to tear down the current tire production process, not a single one, and all of them." Gao Yuan said lightly while looking at the stairs under his feet.