Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1492 The Lame Giant

Duan Yun has always wanted to recruit outstanding talents from all over the world, and scientists from the Soviet Union and its republics are also one of the targets Duan Yun wants to recruit.

In the impression of many people in later generations, the products of the Soviet Union are "stupid, big, black and thick", and the heavy industry and military technology are relatively developed. However, the civilian light industry field is very poor, and there are almost no civilian products that can be sold.

But in fact, it is a consistent tradition of the Soviet Union to attach importance to education and technological development, and the Soviet Union has a lot of scientific and technological talents.

Since the end of the 60s and the beginning of the 70s, the development of science and technology has been particularly valued by the Soviet Union, and it has been regarded as the "decisive strategic direction" and "primary" and "key" issues of its economic development. A series of policies and measures have been adopted for this purpose. measure.

The scientific and technological team of the Soviet Union grew rapidly. By the 80s, the Soviet Union had 143 million scientific and technological workers, accounting for about a quarter of the total number of scientific and technological workers in the world. 1% of them were engaged in natural science research, and the cost of scientific research increased significantly.

In the 80s, the expenditure on science and technology accounted for about 5% of the national income. The Soviet Union established huge research institutions throughout the country, providing an average of more than 500 million inventions and creations each year, accounting for 1/3 of the world's total scientific research achievements.

Regrettably, however, the former Soviet Union did not form a virtuous circle in which scientific and technological progress and economic development mutually promoted each other. On the contrary, science and technology were seriously disconnected from the economy, and economic achievements were extremely disproportionate to technological progress, resulting in The reasons for this result are manifold.

First of all, the relationship between basic scientific research and applied scientific research was not properly handled. The former Soviet Union was at the international advanced level in many basic disciplines such as cosmic mathematics and mechanics, thermonuclear fusion, and quantum electronics, but lagged behind in applied scientific research. .

Just like the Soviet Union's space program, the lunar exploration program, and the United States formed an evenly matched situation. However, these advanced space technologies were not successfully transformed into civilian use, but became used by the Soviet authorities to "pretend" and interact with the United States. Compared with the capital, many projects are just a face project, and a lot of money has been invested, but the return is very little.

On the other hand, the scientific research of the Soviet Union adapts to the distorted militarization of the national economy. Those cutting-edge technology departments directly related to the military have been given priority in the development. A large number of scientific and technological forces and achievements have been concentrated in thermonuclear weapons, lasers, electronics, missiles, and atomic energy space. Technology and other cutting-edge sectors, while the strength and achievements of civil industry and agricultural science and technology in the economic field are obviously lagging behind.

According to statistics, 75% of the Soviet Union's national scientific research funding is used in the military field, and only 20% is used in other fields. In terms of industrial technology applications, it lags behind the United States by at least ten years.

This also made the Soviet Union a "lame giant", which seriously unbalanced the overall development of the country, and the military aerospace field can be described as thriving.

In addition, although the former Soviet Union had a lot of scientific and technological development and creation, very few were actually used for production, or because technology was out of touch with production, some scientific research results had no application and promotion value, or because of physical reasons, technology was transformed into a channel for production Not smooth, roughly only about 1/4 of scientific and technological achievements have been applied in the national economy, a large number of scientific and technological achievements cannot be transformed into real productivity, resulting in huge waste, and also limiting technological progress and contribution to economic growth.

The last point is the problem of physical fitness. The scientific research funds of the Soviet Union mainly depended on free state budget allocations. Therefore, the scientific research departments did not care about the use effect of funds, the application and promotion of scientific research results, and enterprises were very concerned about the adoption of new scientific and technological achievements. It is a negative attitude, so in the use of new technologies, the former Soviet Union lags behind Western European countries by several years, and lags behind Japan by more than ten to twenty years. This is actually a serious waste of national resources.

In fact, the unbalanced development of science and technology and the ineffective use of scientific and technological achievements are also very prominent in China.

Since the 80s, mainland China has produced hundreds of thousands of major scientific research achievements above senior officials, but the conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements has been hovering around 30%. Compared with developed countries, China's overall level of industrial technology and equipment is 15% behind. In ~20 years, the contribution rate of technological progress to economic growth is only 28%, which is far lower than the level of 60% to 80% in developed countries. This shows that the "two skins" problem of China's technology and economy has not been fundamentally resolved.

The Soviet Union will not officially disintegrate until the end of 1991, which means that Duan Yun will not have the opportunity to recruit scientists from the former Soviet Union until then.

However, it is definitely not an easy matter to recruit Soviet scientists, because within one or two years before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, domestic economic problems did not break out, and the lives of most ordinary people can still be maintained, especially some The income of scientific researchers will not change in the short term.

In addition, most scientists in the former Soviet Union yearn for life in the United States and Europe. The disintegration of the Soviet Union gave them the opportunity to defect to their former national political enemies, and many outstanding Soviet scientists accepted the "recruitment" of the US government a long time ago. However, when other countries talk about recruiting outstanding Soviet scientists, they can only choose the remaining talents from the United States.

Therefore, Duan Yun also wants to get a share of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, especially recruiting those top elite talents, which is actually very difficult. He needs to make arrangements in advance, throw "olive branches" to those Soviet scientists in advance, and promise various high salaries Remuneration, and only in this way, those Soviet scientists could take Duan Yun's company as a "retreat" and "option" after the disintegration of the country, and go to China for "gold digging".

Moreover, in the selection of these scientists, not all talents are what Duan Yun needs. Duan Yun still needs to re-screen to pick out the talents he really wants.

However, judging from the current situation, this is a very difficult matter. Although Hu Zhengming can help him set up R&D centers and laboratories in Europe, he can't help at all with the Soviet Union. The cloud also needs to think of other ways.

"Professor Hu, among the scholars and friends you know, have you ever dealt with the Soviets?" Duan Yun asked.

"We can get in touch with some Soviet technical experts at international conferences, but it is impossible to have in-depth exchanges. American scientists want to go to the Soviet Union, they have to go through layers of approval, and the CIA does not allow us to go Contact with the Soviet Union..." Hu Zhengming said.

"Sure enough." Duan Yun nodded slightly when he heard this.

"You don't want to set up a research and development center in the Soviet Union, do you?" Hu Zhengming asked.

"Let's be honest with you, I really have this idea." Duan Yun glanced at Hu Zhengming, and then said: "If you have any friends who can often deal with Soviet scientists, you can introduce them to me..."

(End of this chapter)