The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 178 Thinking (asking for monthly ticket)
Zhu Xiongxin was stunned.

"No way! How could they not come back after studying abroad? It's not easy for the country to send them abroad to study! The purpose of sending them abroad to learn knowledge and skills is to return with success and serve the country." Zhu Xiongxin said with a frown.

Liu Tao shook his head slightly.

Zhu Xiongxin is a typical scholar. He is too idealistic and thinks everyone is too good!
You must know that human hearts are the most difficult to guess and the most changeable. Even saints cannot control human hearts.

"We are so far behind European and American countries in terms of material things. The difference in wages alone is dozens or even hundreds of times. One month's income there is equivalent to several years' income in China, and you can use the money to buy cars, refrigerators, air conditioners, and televisions without the need for industrial tickets," Liu Tao said. "How many people can keep their original aspirations and mission in mind when they are hit so hard by this?"

For Liu Tao, he had experienced an era of great material abundance, and even the prosperity of the West could not attract him in this era.

But for others, it was a huge shock.

The gap between the two sides is so big that it makes people despair.

Not everyone can work hard and forge ahead in the face of such a huge gap and great despair. Many people will lose faith and lose their direction.

Why are scientists like Qian Xuesen so admired?
That's because people like them, who gave up the comfortable life in Europe and the United States and chose to return to the impoverished New China to build a new China, have such lofty patriotic sentiments that are admirable, and such people are a minority.

There are so many overseas Chinese, many of whom are engaged in various fields, but I am afraid that less than one percent of them will choose to return to China to participate in national construction.

If Liu Tao is just an ordinary person, with a monthly salary of 400 US dollars in the United States, he can have a car and a villa, and can easily support a family of five by working alone. After returning to China, he has 100 RMB per month, which is about 67 US dollars. He wants to buy a car, a refrigerator, etc., not to mention whether the money is enough, and he can't even buy them. Then it is very likely that Liu Tao will choose to stay in the United States instead of returning to China.

Liu Zhenbang drank a glass of wine and said, "This will definitely happen. It is also a high probability event. We should really think about it. After all, it is not easy for the country to organize students to study abroad. It costs precious foreign exchange, and the cost of studying abroad is not low!"

Just recently, the Ministry of Education proposed a strategy to send 20 students to study abroad every year in the next five years, and students every year five years later. In the last decade of the th century, the number of students studying abroad reached to per year.

This strategy is undoubtedly very ambitious.

Although tuition fees are much lower due to national reasons, the country still has to invest about $10,000 in each international student. If 3,000 people are sent abroad to study each year, that means an additional $30 million. If there are 6,000 people, that means $60 million!
For China, which is currently short of foreign exchange, it is actually not easy to come up with this amount of money every year.

You have to know that this is just for international students. There are also those organized by the education system who go abroad to attend academic conferences, visit as scholars, etc., which costs tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

If international students go abroad and never come back, it will definitely be a huge loss to the country.

It's quiet at night.

The courtyard was wrapped in a layer of silver, with thick snow piled up and the roofs were covered with snow. It snowed heavily tonight.

The light in the study was still on.

Liu Tao was holding a pen and writing on an A3 drawing.

This is a group structure diagram.

Since he had agreed to take over the hundreds of third-line military factories, Liu Tao would not regret it and was also thinking about this matter.

At the top is the China Panshan Group Corporation.

This will be the top floor, and it will be evolved from the current Panshan Machinery Factory.

Liu Tao has deep feelings for Panshan Machinery Factory, and the group company unconsciously wants to carry the word "Panshan". Then in the second-level group are China Southwest Ordnance Industry Group Corporation and China Southwest Industrial Group Corporation.

China Southwest Ordnance Industry Group Corporation is responsible for military business, while China Southwest Industrial Group Corporation is responsible for civilian business.

The two major groups are organized into production bases.

Military production bases: Sichuan Production Base (Production Base 01), Yunnan Production Base (Production Base 02), Guizhou Production Base (Production Base 03), Guangxi Production Base (Production Base 04).

Civilian production bases: Sichuan Production Base (05 Production Base), Yunnan Production Base (06 Production Base), Guizhou Production Base (07 Production Base), Guangxi Production Base (08 Production Base).

Next are the factories under the production base.

Liu Tao rubbed his temples, feeling a slight headache. He didn't drink enough wine, and it was really uncomfortable to be neither in nor out. He couldn't fall asleep because his blood was too excited.

"Although it can exist in the form of a production base, each military production base must be capable of producing weapons, and it cannot be too concentrated." Liu Tao shook his head.

The military-industrial system is like this, and we must always be prepared for danger.

Although there is no need to continue to isolate ourselves from the outside world in the deep mountains and forests, it does not mean that all production should be cancelled. Every province must be able to produce various types of weapons.

At present, this aspect is relatively well-formed in Yunnan Province. Including the 356 Factory under construction, there are a total of six factories, five of which are military factories and one civilian factory.

Except for Factory 356, the other five factories are very large, almost equivalent to a town.

Of course, because the mountains occupy the majority, there is not that much actually usable land.

But it's still amazing.

盘山机械厂（235厂）、云省铸造机械厂（991厂）、云省家具加工厂（9815厂）、云省机器维修厂（9807厂）、云南西仪工业厂（356厂）。

These are the five military factories belonging to Panshan Machinery Factory, which have retained their original military industrial codes.

As for some third-line military factories, they naturally disappeared.

Yunnan Province Home Appliance Manufacturing Plant, a civilian factory, is now under construction and will be used to manufacture air conditioners and refrigerators.

Liu Tao thought about it and decided to change the Yunnan Home Appliance Manufacturing Plant into China Gree Home Appliance Group, which would specialize in manufacturing air conditioners and refrigerators in the future.

Then his attention shifted to the military industrial production bases in Sichuan Province. Liu Tao filled in Sichuan Bashan Machinery Factory (Factory 565) and Shancheng Iron Horse Factory (Factory 256). He then wrote down China Automobile Group and China Motorcycle Group on the civilian factory side. Military factories alone were not enough to absorb the employees of the huge third-line military factories in Sichuan and Shu. All Liu Tao could think of was making cars and motorcycles.

It just so happened that he had the technical reserves for cars and motorcycles, and Factory 256 itself was manufacturing military vehicles.

As long as military technology is converted into civilian technology, it is not difficult to build motorcycles and cars.

Of course, the main consumer markets for motorcycles and cars are still in Europe and the United States. As for China, motorcycles and cars are still purchased by units. The market is limited, and even if it is liberalized, the number of people who can afford cars and motorcycles will always be limited.

(End of this chapter)