Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1624 Family Dinner
In the next two days, Duan Yun visited Volvo's R&D center and a local vocational school in Gothenburg.

Volvo's R&D center is still very large. It has gathered almost the top technical talents in Sweden. It has more than 3000 software and hardware engineers. This is a very efficient team. During working hours, the Swedes are conscientious, but not They only like to work overtime. They have two days off a week and nearly one month of paid annual leave every year. They can travel around the world with their families.

Swedish employees generally work about 1500 hours a year, beyond which they can choose freely, and they can spend more time autonomously.

The overtime work culture of Asians is not popular in Europe. They divide their lives into two parts. How much money is spent on the moonlight family, even if their income level is top in Europe, but they still can't save money. From this aspect, the Swedes still enjoy life very much.

In addition, Sweden is a country with a very low unemployment rate. Almost all adults can enter jobs immediately after leaving school. Those with good grades can directly enter Swedish domestic universities, or study abroad at top universities in the world. They all completed compulsory high school education, and then entered specialized technical training schools.

In fact, there are also many technical schools in China, but many of them are unemployed after graduation, and even most of the skills they learn are not used at all, but they do not exist in Sweden.

Swedish technical schools are recruited by large domestic companies on a fixed-point basis, and they pay great attention to hands-on ability. Theoretical courses only account for less than 1/4 of the total courses, and the rest are all actual time. The intensity of training is also very high. Usually there is a three-year education system, but in Sweden, as long as you complete the prescribed training time, you can directly enter the factory to work.

Liu Donghai and Zhao Xiyou, who were in the same company, were deeply moved by the fact that your workers are treated very well. An intern worker who has just entered the factory can get about 1.5 Swedish kronor a month, which is equivalent to more than 2000 US dollars. Veteran workers can get 3 to 5 Swedish kronor, which is equivalent to 4000 to 7000 US dollars. This salary level is still very high.

Leading cadres like Liu Donghai and Zhao Xiyou who have worked in enterprises for many years now earn a monthly salary of around 200 to 300 yuan, which is less than a fraction of that of Swedish interns. feel sad.

After the two-day visit, on the last night before leaving Sweden, Johnson, the president of Volvo, invited Duan Yun and the three of them to their home for dinner. At home, it can be seen that he attaches great importance to Duan Yun and his group.

In fact, Duan Yun is what Johnson is most interested in. During the previous negotiations and visits, Johnson found that although this billionaire from China is young, he has a lot of knowledge and insight, and he is very interesting. people.

For a long time, Johnson's impression of China was a poor and backward country, where the government was an authoritarian government, and the people there were uncivilized, ignorant and ignorant.

But the arrival of Duan Yun can be said to have greatly changed Johnson's view of China. The few days with Duan Yun made him feel that at least in China's elite class, there are still very young and powerful people.

Johnson is an expert in machinery. He has always been proud of his knowledge. However, after Duan Yun called him, he was surprised to find that the young Chinese beside him not only had wealth far beyond his imagination, but also possessed a lot of wealth in machinery and electronics. His attainments also made him a little far behind.

Management talents and technical talents are completely two kinds of people. Johnson has always thought that Duan Yun is a successful entrepreneur and manager, but now he realizes that he can achieve today's achievements definitely not because of conscious luck and opportunities, but indeed because of Really learned.

Before Duan Yun and Johnson talked about the development of China's chip industry, Johnson also has certain attainments in this regard, but he is far behind Duan Yun. Duan Yun said something about microelectronics technology Professional topics are sometimes even unheard of by Johnson, but they sound quite reasonable, with rigorous logic and sharp thinking, which is a very advanced technical concept.

As for the cars and machinery that Johnson is good at, when Johnson talked about these topics, he thought that Duan Yun would not be able to keep up with his thinking, but the fact is just the opposite. Duan Yun's knowledge of machinery and cars is also quite profound Yes, when it came to the end, Johnson was a little ashamed, and some technical views made Johnson feel astonished.

At the family dinner that night, Johnson's wife prepared a lot of exquisite dishes, and Johnson himself also took out a bottle of 1947 Bordeaux wine from his collection. Red wine can sell for tens of thousands of dollars, but in a VIP room like Duan Yun's reception, Johnson took it out without hesitation, which shows his respect and appreciation for Duan Yun.

That night, Duan Yun and Johnson chatted for a long time, but Zhao Xiyou and Liu Donghai, who were sitting next to Duan Yun, couldn't get in the way at all, because Duan Yun and Johnson mainly talked about issues related to automobile technology. Liu Donghai and Zhao Xiyou couldn't keep up with their thoughts at all.

Duan Yun talked about the future development direction of automobiles last night, especially the technological innovation of the automobile industry entering the 2.0 era.

In the era of automobile 2.0, high performance and lightweight are the two cores.

Automobile lightweight includes three technical directions, namely structural lightweight, material lightweight and process or manufacturing lightweight.

For OEMs, due to the existence of supplier resources, it is relatively easy to achieve lightweight new materials and new processes, but the cost is a huge resistance. Only lightweight structures can achieve the effect of killing two birds with one stone. Therefore, structural optimization design or innovative design It has become the main direction of the main engine factory, and simulation technology, as a necessary means of structural lightweight design, has once again demonstrated its important technical advantages.

In this regard, Duan Yun and Johnson talked a lot, and even touched on some very detailed technical issues, and Johnson was greatly inspired by some of the above views.

Later, Duan Yun talked about the issue of future car intelligence, and the most important thing is that he plans to develop an open car electronic system standard.

(End of this chapter)