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Chapter 1183 Olympic Technology Explosion (rd update, please subscribe)
Olympic Games!
Since the 1960s, the focus of the entire Southeast Asia seemed to be on the Olympic Games. This was the first time that the Olympic Games were held in an Asian country.

In order to host the Olympic Games successfully, after winning the right to host the Games in 1955, Nanyang invested billions of dollars in infrastructure and public works construction, built Olympic venues and related supporting facilities, strengthened public civilization, and showcased Nanyang's traditional culture. This promoted the development of Nanyang's manufacturing, construction, transportation, services, electronic communications, sports, tourism and leisure, and cultural industries.

With the Olympic Games as a shot in the arm, the Nanyang economy soared from 1958 to 1960, and even formed the "Olympic boom" phenomenon. Many economists also regard the Chang'an Olympics as the engine of Nanyang's economic take-off.

Of course, Nanyang’s economy has many engines, and the Olympics is just one of them.

Nanyang hosted the Olympic Games more to showcase Nanyang's international image, to show the world the "Nanyang Miracle" praised by the world, and to further promote the Nanyang brand.

What is Nanyang brand?
It is construction and development, and these are the biggest cards that attract developing countries the most.

However, Nanyang then regarded the Olympics as a comprehensive national cause, incorporating it into the "National Income Doubling Plan" and the "National Economic High-speed Growth Plan". Taking the Olympics as an opportunity, through high investment, it promoted the rapid development of various industries and achieved sustained economic and social prosperity. A series of Olympic venues sprang up, a series of ring highways were extended, and new trams and subways were added, further consolidating the foundation of Chang'an's transportation.

To a certain extent, the Olympic Games made Chang'an more prosperous and modern. In newspapers, the Olympic Games have always been the focus of people's attention. It can even be said that, for now, there is no news that attracts more attention than the Olympic Games.

At the subway station, in front of the charity association's donation box, as in the past, there are always passers-by donating money into it. There are adults, children, Chinese people, European people, people walk by hurriedly, hurriedly express some love. When passing by, they take a look at the poster on the wall, Zhao Mingren sighs in his heart, then stuffs one yuan into the donation box, and then hurried into the station and get on the train.

On the walls of the carriages, posters with the words "Faster, Higher, Stronger" are hung in both English and Chinese. The athletes on the posters are showing off their heroic postures during sports. The strong muscles of both male and female athletes in sportswear, the strength and beauty of their postures always attract people's attention.

Although the aesthetics of Nanyang are influenced by tradition, they were also influenced by Germany in education. In addition, in modern times, physical weakness was regarded as a sign of incompetence. Therefore, Nanyang as a whole now tends to favor a strong and muscular aesthetic.

Gnarled muscles and a firm abdomen have long become the most popular body shape standard for young people. This aesthetic view is naturally fully displayed on the poster. Zhao Mingren was absent-minded for a long time, looking at the muscular athletes on the poster thoughtfully. Before he knew it, the sound of the train announcement rang out in the carriage.

After hearing that Chang'an Tower Station had arrived, Zhao Mingren stood up and got off the train. As soon as he walked out of the station, Chang'an Tower came into view. Once built, this 600-meter-high Chang'an Tower became a landmark of Nanyang. Before the advent of communication satellites, its signal could cover half of Japan to the north and Myanmar and other places to the west.

This TV tower is not only a landmark of Chang'an, but also a dissemination center of Nanyang culture. Of course, it is also the headquarters of Asia Television. Below the Chang'an Tower is the Asia Television Building, a building over 200 meters high, located just below the hill where the Chang'an Tower is located. The subway station is in front of the building. After entering the building, before he even reached the elevator, a colleague hurriedly caught up with him and said:

"Director, the big boss is here."

"what?"

Who is the big boss?

It is definitely not the general manager of Asia Television, but Zhu Yihai, the general manager of Labor Group. Asia Television is just a subsidiary of Labor Group. What is the big boss doing here at this time?
Before Zhao Mingren could figure it out, as soon as he stepped out of the elevator, his assistant rushed over and said:

"Director, the boss has asked you to go to the meeting room on the 42nd floor as soon as you arrive."

He quickly got into the elevator again and took it to the top floor. Soon, Zhao Mingren arrived at the conference room. Through the glass wall of the conference room, he could see other people explaining something, and the big boss was sitting there.

After walking into the conference room and listening for a while, Zhao Mingren understood why the boss came here - it was about the Olympic Games broadcast.

"…During the last Melbourne Olympics, the emergence of communication satellites enabled us to broadcast live across continents, and we successfully did so, with good results. For the broadcasting rights for this Olympics, we will still use the same approach, but thanks to the fact that we already have three communication satellites, we can broadcast globally…"

Before launching the first artificial communications satellite, Asia Television negotiated with the International Olympic Committee to buy the intercontinental broadcasting rights for the Olympics for US$5 per year, and paid a one-time payment of US$50. Such a large expenditure brought amazing returns.

Before the launch of artificial satellites, the method of broadcasting important remote actions was to edit and produce documentaries shot in advance and then broadcast them to various countries. This could not cross continents and lost the effectiveness of news. If it crossed continents, the film had to be transported by plane. In short, live broadcasting was impossible.

However, the invention of artificial communication satellites changed everything. Through the small trial in Melbourne, Asia Television received millions of dollars in return - this was only the return for agreeing to broadcast programs by TV stations in Europe and the United States, and did not include advertising and other income. As far as Zhao Mingren knew, the income from the broadcast of the Melbourne Olympics alone covered the development and launch costs of the two communication satellites, Asia-Pacific 1 and Asia-Pacific 2, and the remaining part was almost enough to launch the Asia-Pacific 3 communication satellite.

In a word, broadcasting the Olympics is a sure-win business. In the past few years, Asia Television has made a lot of money just by renting satellites to broadcast signals from other countries' TV stations. Companies that have tasted the sweetness of satellites are now researching a new generation of communication satellites.

Before the Olympics are about to begin, the big boss will naturally come here to pay attention to this goose that lays golden eggs.

Of course, they have recently made a lot of preparations for the Olympics, such as fully broadcasting color signals. Two months ago, Nanyang entered the era of color television.

In fact, it is not just the color signal. As a promoter of color television, Asia Television also works with related companies to research and improve color cathode ray tubes. The reason why Nanyang's color televisions are popular in countries around the world is not because of their relatively low prices, but because of their better color effects. According to the industry, Nanyang's color cathode ray tubes are about 5-7 years ahead of the United States, and Asia Television has some credit for this. They have developed more advanced broadcasting equipment to make the broadcast images clearer and more colorful.

"Well, very good, you are well prepared."

Putting the report on the conference table, Zhu Yihai praised it and asked:
"What about the live broadcast? How many cameras do we use? Are there any problems with the switching of lenses?"

This is a matter of technical details, the director shouted immediately when he saw Zhao Mingren just coming in.

"Director Zhao, please explain this to President Zhu."

"Ok."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Mingren stepped forward to introduce the technical department's preparations for screen switching and photography techniques during the live broadcast. In fact, for Nanyang, the Olympics is not just a display of Nanyang's superficial prosperity and construction achievements. Behind the scenes, there are many technical advances that are not well known to people.

"…In addition to high-definition cameras, we have also developed a new type of tape recorder in cooperation with Nanyang University. Compared with the American Ampere VRX-1000 tape recorder, it uses 18mm tapes and is easier to carry. It can not only record the game in real time, but also adjust the time of live broadcast and rebroadcast, so as to ensure that the audience will not miss any game…"

From satellite broadcasting to higher-definition cameras and screen switching and broadcasting control systems, these are all jointly researched by Asia Television and universities and companies in Nanyang. Many of the technologies that seem a bit clumsy at this time are actually the most advanced.

These technologies are multifaceted. Although a considerable portion of these technologies are copied and researched by the King's Laboratory based on the technical data and physical objects provided by Li Yian, they are technically the most advanced.

To a certain extent, this Olympic Games is definitely the one with the highest technological content in Olympic history. The emergence of the pioneering small tape recorder not only fundamentally changed the photography and video technology, but also other aspects.

Take the timer used in competitions as an example. Competition timing often needs to be accurate to decimal seconds. This accuracy was only achieved by high-precision timepieces in the past. Although quartz clocks were later able to achieve higher accuracy, they were bulky and consumed a lot of power at the time, making them very inconvenient to use.

To this end, the Lange company in Nanyang conducted technical research and not only produced a portable quartz clock weighing only 1 kilogram during the Asian Games, but also produced a pocket watch-sized quartz stopwatch timer last year, which is already the most advanced. These achievements were directly used in quartz watches, directly breaking the monopoly of Swiss watches in the world.

In the past decade or so, the emergence of numerous advanced products has always been the world's initial impression of Nanyang products.

After all, from the very beginning, Li Yian rejected low-end manufacturing, and Nanyang did not choose to rely on cheap labor to gain competitive advantage, but instead determined the development direction of industrial upgrading and technology-based country. For more than ten years, Nanyang's brand and quality have been amazing the world.

And now this Olympic Games is an intensive presentation. Not just a presentation, to a certain extent, in order to cooperate with the holding of the Olympic Games, the industry in Southeast Asia has launched a large number of products. These products seem to be for the Olympic Games, but in the end they will be put into the civilian market. Even if they cannot be directly put into the market for a while due to price and other reasons, with the development of technology, they will become the mainstream of the market and lead the consumption trend of this era.

Various advanced products that seem like black technology in this era are destined to amaze the world through the Olympics.

More than an hour later, after leaving the Asia Television Building, Zhu Yihai, sitting in the car, would occasionally cast his eyes towards the "Chang'an Tower", the world's first television tower that has amazed the world since its launch and has long become a symbol of Nanyang.

However, at this moment, a thought involuntarily emerged in his mind.

What is the true symbol of Nanyang?

(End of this chapter)