Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 878 Shock
When Jiang Yan was conducting a large-scale bidding, the talent report he wrote was also submitted, which attracted great attention from above.

Reform and opening up had no precedent at home or abroad. Our country is now truly crossing the river by feeling the stones. We have not dealt with some Western countries for too long, and we are not clear about some of their routines. We always talk nonsense, so many companies were deceived and suffered a lot of losses.

Jiang Yan clearly remembers some things and has emphasized some things, such as the fact that the country did not pay much attention to patents at the time, which resulted in many good things being stolen by others.

Before the reform and opening up, many things were actually invented, such as the pagoda candy anthelmintic that we ate when we were children, and artificial synthetic protein - bovine insulin, etc. At that time, we did not apply for international patents, which wasted the opportunity. People from other countries stole our products and applied for patents, resulting in us having to give them patents for our own inventions.

Therefore, in this report, Jiang Yan specifically pointed out that those that can apply for patents should apply for patents immediately, including some Chinese patent medicines. In the past, traditional Chinese medicine in China still had great development prospects. It was only the large-scale introduction of Western medicine that led to the decline of traditional Chinese medicine.

In fact, traditional Chinese medicine is very powerful. After all, it has been passed down for thousands of years. Products like Chuanbei Loquat Paste, Liuwei Dihuang Pills, and Chaihu Oral Liquid are all the results of Chinese medicine research and development. They are very effective, low-priced, and easy to use.

Take the so-called Viagra in the West for example. In traditional Chinese medicine, this kind of medicine is not considered decent. There are countless such medicines in traditional Chinese medicine, but the lack of packaging and self-marketing has allowed Viagra to become popular in the world.

The reason why traditional Chinese medicine has declined is very simple. Talent training is too troublesome, while Western medicine training is convenient and fast, and various surgeries can be done. In addition, some Western pharmaceutical giants have cultivated a comprador class in China, and various propaganda has belittled traditional Chinese medicine, which has led to the decline of traditional Chinese medicine. Jiang Yan explained all of these one by one, which caused a great shock to the above.

Jiang Yan also pointed out in the report that many inventions in a large number of universities in my country have been abandoned, and some of them are even things that our country urgently needs. Jiang Yan also specifically talked about several examples, which directly led to the country's first systematic survey. As a result, many things that were previously blocked by foreign countries now have substitutes, which has brought the country's defense industry a big step forward.

Jiang Yan's work was further adjusted by the higher-ups. He became a nominal consultant of the National Development and Reform Commission. His main task was to guide the development of the national automobile industry. After receiving this order, Jiang Yan immediately rolled up his sleeves and got to work.

In response to this phenomenon in the industry, he issued two internal reports within one day, emphasizing that it was because the domestic supporting facilities did not meet the requirements, the equipment was updated too slowly, and the talent was not given enough attention. This led to the slow development of not only the automobile industry, but also other industries, especially manufacturing and heavy industry.

Jiang Yan's report received great attention from the higher-ups. From the meeting to the decision, and then to the allocation of part of the financial support for various companies to strengthen equipment upgrades and research and development, it took less than a week to release it. When Jiang Yan learned about this, he felt sincerely happy. No matter what, if the country attaches importance to it, it will inevitably develop in a healthy way.

In addition, after in-depth research, the country is preparing to officially implement a new wage system and a special allowance system for talents starting in January next year. This shows that the country is beginning to attach importance to talents, which is more important than anything else.

It was originally agreed that the vehicle trial production would be carried out around Labor Day, but due to supporting factors, the time was delayed until July. This was because Jiang Yan's company sent a number of technical personnel to provide on-site guidance, otherwise it would have been even slower.

Now Jiang Yan and his team have built more than a dozen prototype cars. There is currently no mature testing site in the country. With no other options, Jiang Yan could only let Xu Damao take his prototype cars to laboratories in Europe and other countries for testing, and then invested huge manpower and material resources to build his own laboratory.

Before the test results came out, Jiang Yan was not prepared to start selling the products, so the factory had no production in the past few months and had to rely entirely on the transfusion from Xu Damao and Zhang Pengfei. Fortunately, the instant noodle factory and beverage factory newly opened by Jiang Yan and his colleagues have begun to distribute products on a large scale.

As soon as the new formula of Mr. He's instant noodles was launched, it beat those with the old formula. The popularity was beyond words. In addition, the wages of workers have increased. Even though the instant noodles produced by Jiang Yan's factory are twice as expensive as other instant noodles, many people buy some to try. Jiang Yan even negotiated with the Ministry of Railways under the arrangement of an old leader he had helped before. The instant noodles produced by Jiang Yan and his team appeared on the train for the first time.

Zhang Pengfei also bought back the formula of Laoshan Cola at a high price. Not only that, Jiang Yan and his team also promised that the Laoshan Cola factory would provide them with a new beverage production line for free. The same was true for the negotiations with the Polar Bear Soda Factory.

After purchasing the two formulas, Jiang Yan and his newly established company immediately began research and development, and then production. Since they used the latest production line, they sold the products in bottles and cans together.

Laoshan Cola was renamed Feichang Cola by Jiang Yan. Laoshan Cola uses a traditional Chinese medicine formula. After discussion, Feichang Cola is mainly promoted as a healthy brand. The name of Polar Bear Soda has not been changed, but its packaging has been redesigned.

Very Cola is OK, but the production of Polar Bear Soda is a bit lagging. It's not because of anything else, but because of the lack of raw materials. The oranges used to produce Polar Bear Soda are not ordinary oranges. They are a kind of red orange called "Da Hong Pao", which only grows along the 100-kilometer coast of the Three Gorges Basin.

The flesh of that thing is relatively hard and is rarely eaten raw. It is mostly used in canned food. However, compared with ordinary oranges, its fragrance is even more refreshing and not greasy.

Every October, oranges begin to ripen, and the total output is roughly less than 10,000 tons. Then they are picked as they ripen, and after harvesting, they have to be transported from Wanzhou, Sichuan to Beijing by train.

At this time, the workers of "Polar Bear" need to peel the oranges by hand first, use a grinder to crush the orange flesh and make orange jam, and use a high-speed centrifuge to throw out the orange oil in the orange peel.

Orange oil is the most precious part, and one ton of oranges can only produce six kilograms of oil. The remaining orange peels will not be wasted. They will then be bought by major pharmaceutical factories in Beijing and made into "Orange Red Pills" to be sold to the people in the city.

Every year, the orange peels peeled by "Polar Bear" can meet about 50% of the raw material needs of major pharmaceutical factories in Beijing, and the remaining shortfall is purchased from the public.

Originally, they could supply these raw materials to the Polar Bear factory alone, but the output of Jiang Yan's newly opened factory was about ten times that of the original Polar Bear soda factory. So the raw materials became a problem. The taste of other oranges was slightly different from that of this kind of orange. There was no way, they could only solve the raw material problem first.

Under the arrangement of his superiors, Xu Damao traveled thousands of miles to the production area in Wanzhou, Sichuan, to negotiate with the farmers about expanding the scope of cultivation. In order to facilitate transportation, they decided to extract it directly locally and can the rest on the spot, so they invested in a canning plant.

Tea beverages were also produced simultaneously. The first product, the Xurisheng iced black tea, was in short supply. However, Jiang Yan and his team did not take it lightly and continued to pay close attention to quality issues.

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