The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 330 'Galaxy' Supercomputer
Today, Panshan Group's business scope has expanded to include civil machinery, electronics industry, weapons industry, shipbuilding industry, aerospace missile industry, and highway bridges.

It can be said that it is no longer limited to the weapons industry system.

The size of Panshan Group is also extremely shocking.

The amount of tax paid has reached an exaggerated level.

In fact, the number of armed personnel in the Panshan Group’s armed forces department is much larger than the total number of other weapons industry systems.

The development of Panshan Group relied on itself, and China North Industries Group Corporation did not invest any funds from the beginning.

It took only five years for the Panshan Machinery Factory, a third-tier factory, to develop into the current Panshan Group.

If Liu Tao were not still young, only 28 years old this year, the administrative level of Panshan Group would probably have to be raised.

Liu Tao was able to be promoted to his current level because he has made great contributions, is married and has children, and the cadre retirement system was introduced last year. The state and the party encourage the promotion of young people, so Liu Tao had this opportunity.

Otherwise, Liu Tao would have to stay at the department or bureau level for at least ten years.

After the meeting, Liu Tao sighed secretly.

There are so many third-line factories, but the China North Industries Group Corporation can only set aside 30 billion yuan next year to support the reform of the third-line factories in the weapons industry system.

The China North Industries Group Corporation will only support the reform of the third-line factories in the entire weapons industry system for another three years.

In other words, if the company is still unable to break even after three years, the China North Industries Corporation will no longer be in charge, and the trouble will be the responsibility of the local industrial bureau.

And this 30 billion RMB can be taken out by China North Industries Group Corporation because it makes money.

It is probably difficult for other industrial systems to support the reform of the third-line factories in their own systems.

Military-to-civilian transition, this is just the beginning.

In the future, the state-owned factories will be restructured into enterprises, so that the current state-owned factories can adapt to the competition under the market economy system.

At present, a dual-track system is implemented, with the planned economic system and the market economic system running in parallel.

However, this is only a measure taken for the transition from a planned economic system to a market economic system. It will not last long. In the final analysis, a market economic system will eventually be implemented.

The current situation is mainly to give everyone a period of adaptation.

In the next three or four decades, reforms will continue to be implemented so that the market economy system will account for an increasing proportion and eventually become the mainstream.

Liu Tao has noticed that more and more overseas Chinese are returning to China to build factories. The number of businessmen from Hong Kong and Macao investing in and building factories in the mainland seems to have increased a lot all of a sudden. Even more people from Europe and the United States are investing in and building factories in China.

In recent years, life in Europe and the United States has not been so comfortable.

The country had not yet recovered from the first oil crisis when the Afghan War broke out in 1979, causing a surge in oil prices. The Iran-Iraq War in 1980, the Falklands War in 1982, and the Fifth Middle East War all broke out one after another, further pushing up oil prices.

Even after the Falklands War and the Fifth Middle East War ended, the price of oil was still higher than $35 a barrel.

Such high oil prices are a huge blow to the European and American economies.

In recent years, for Europe and the United States, it is definitely the second oil crisis that has broken out.

After the outbreak of the second oil crisis, the US economy was severely hit, the US foreign trade deficit was aggravated, and the stagflation trend was deepened. At the same time, Europe was also in trouble, and the number of corporate bankruptcies increased sharply. In order to reduce production costs, many companies moved their factories abroad.

As relations between China and the United States improve and cooperation between the two sides increases, China is also improving its relations with Europe, and the ties between the two sides are becoming closer. China, which has a large number of high-quality labor forces, has become an excellent choice for industrial transfer from Europe and the United States.

The consumption capacity of the domestic market is relatively limited. Now that Hua Xia has taken over the production capacity, it is more used for export and is mainly export-oriented.

The main purpose here is to create employment opportunities and earn some hard-earned money.

Liu Tao left the China North Industries Corporation and returned home.

At this time, Zhu Lin was listening to music. This was a walkman, a product that Panshan Group had just developed. It could be used to play music or record tapes, as well as to listen to the radio. It was a multifunctional player.

Such a Walkman costs 200 RMB in China and 150 USD in Europe and the United States.

The one given to Zhu Lin is numbered 000000 and is the real first Walkman.

The Cantonese album currently being played is Alan Tam's from Hong Kong.

As the overall situation in Hong Kong was settled, its ties with the mainland became closer, and Hong Kong's tapes and movie videotapes began to be continuously introduced into the mainland. Of course, only a few people could buy genuine copies, and most of them were pirated copies.

Some individuals make some money by pirating, while some companies specialize in piracy.

At that time, there was actually no patent law, and there was no such thing as piracy or non-piracy. People had no copyright awareness at all.

Liu Tao took the child from Zhu Lin's arms and couldn't help but kiss the child on the forehead.

His four children all look good. The boys are handsome and the girls are like porcelain dolls.

It can be said that marrying Zhu Lin greatly improved the Liu family's genes.

"Our country has officially announced that our country's first billion-times computer, 'Galaxy', has been successfully developed," said Zhu Lin.

Liu Tao was stunned for a moment, a little surprised.

This is China's first computer that can perform more than 1 million calculations per second and is a supercomputer.

He was not surprised by this, because the computing power of his computer far exceeded that of the 'Galaxy' supercomputer.

However, the successful development of the "Galaxy" supercomputer is of extraordinary significance, as it represents a breakthrough for my country in supercomputers.

As early as a few years ago at the National Science Conference, it was proposed that the goal of "putting my country's super-high-speed supercomputer into use" should be achieved by 1985, and this time it was two years ahead of schedule.

The successful development of the Galaxy supercomputer has enabled my country to enter the world's largest computer development industry, marking a new stage in the development of Chinese computer technology.

Currently in the field of supercomputers, there are only a handful of countries that can build supercomputers, and the United States has the strongest computing power.

The development of supercomputers has now reached the fourth generation. The fourth generation supercomputers belong to the large-scale integrated circuit computer hardware. The logic elements use large-scale and ultra-large-scale integrated circuits. The software includes database management systems, network management systems and object-oriented languages.

As for the first generation of computers, they were vacuum tube digital computers, the second generation computers were transistor digital computers, and the third generation computers were integrated circuit digital computers. Since 1970, with the entry into the fourth generation of computers, the development of computers has been very rapid.

As for China, because of the flapping of Liu Tao's wings, a huge chain reaction was triggered and the country developed very rapidly in the computer field. Last year, China became the world's second largest personal computer producer, second only to the United States.

(End of this chapter)