The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 428 The Future Belongs to China
Zhu Lin was fascinated by "The Future Belongs to China" as soon as he saw it.

She knew that her husband was very talented, which could be seen from the poems written by Liu Tao.

Even though they have been published four times, Liu Tao's two poetry collections are still very popular and are deeply loved by young people, especially students.

Many students saved money just to buy these two poetry collections, and then couldn't put them down.

But when I saw "The Future Belongs to China", even though Liu Tao wrote in running script instead of regular script, it seemed there was no problem at all.

"You wrote this book very well." Zhu Lin was still not satisfied, "Will this book be published?"

Liu Tao nodded slightly and said, "Yes, it should be published."

There is nothing confidential involved here.

Of course, this book also needs to be reviewed by the relevant departments. This is also a procedure to avoid people using it as a reason to cause trouble.

"Can China really become the world's factory? Will the future really belong to China?" Zhu Lin hesitated.

In this era, when the country reopened its doors and came into contact with Europe, the United States and other parts of the world, it was discovered that China was far behind Europe and the United States. The self-confidence of the Chinese people was greatly hit, and they generally lacked self-confidence.

It is Zhu Lin, Liu Tao's wife, who has much more knowledge than ordinary people, but still lacks self-confidence.

After all, China is indeed too backward now.

Especially as the exchange rate between the RMB and the US dollar continues to adjust, judging from the data, the gap between China's GDP and per capita GDP and those of Europe and the United States is getting bigger and bigger, which makes people feel desperate.

Liu Tao said firmly: "This is the general trend of history and the choice of history. It will definitely come true."

The fact that China can become the world's factory is the inevitable result of internal and external factors coming together. It can be said that it is the right time, the right place and the right people!

China went from chaos to rectification, and the policy of reform and opening up was proposed as our country's basic process. At the same time, the above made the judgment that "peace and development are the themes of the times" and believed that a major war would not break out, at least not within the next twenty years. Therefore, the country's focus was adjusted from the original preparation for war to "taking economic construction as the center", developing the economy and improving people's livelihood.

The three times of streamlining the troops so far have been for the purpose of economic development.

Under the condition of limited military expenditure, we should streamline the troops and make them thinner, so as to build the troops and enhance their combat effectiveness.

The external reason is the outbreak of the first oil crisis. In addition to building a strategic oil reserve strategy like the United States, the increase in oil prices has dealt a huge blow to European and American industries. Capital is profit-seeking. As production costs increase and profits become slim, capital will look for blue oceans again, thereby reducing production costs and obtaining higher profits.

Coupled with the outbreak of the second oil crisis, it can be said that low-end manufacturing in Europe and the United States has become unprofitable or even loss-making. Under such circumstances, "de-industrialization" has become inevitable.

With the largest population in the world and a large number of workers with basic education, China has a huge "demographic dividend" and its attractiveness to capital can be imagined.

Furthermore, the current era is that the Soviet Union is attacking and the United States is defending. The United States is at a disadvantage in the competition with the Soviet Union. The decline of the United States in the past decade has even led to a growing voice in the United States to raise the white flag. The US strategy is to win over China and thus balance the Soviet Union in East Asia.

This led to the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, and the rapid warming of the political and economic situation between the two sides. The great improvement in the external environment allowed China to attract capital investment. The historical opportunity was given to China, and China also seized this rare opportunity. With concerted efforts, China became the "world factory" in just 20 years.

"If we really become the world's factory, then we will be a true industrial country, and our country will definitely be much stronger than it is now." Zhu Lin clipped the book, full of anticipation.

There is not a single person of their generation who does not hope that their motherland will prosper.

"Yes, we will definitely become a modern industrial country." Liu Tao is full of confidence.

With him in this life, China's situation in recent years is much better than in the original time and space. The US dollars earned every year alone can make China develop faster.

Not to mention, China now does not just make clothes and shoes, but also has many mid-to-high-end industries. China is also at the forefront of the world in semiconductors and is developing very rapidly.

In terms of infrastructure construction, Liu Tao also pushed Panshan Group to make large investments and solved a large number of technical problems.

Over the course of a few years, he alone saved the country at least hundreds of billions of dollars in scientific research investment. Not only did he save huge amounts of scientific research investment, he also saved a lot of time.

We have also achieved scale in cultivating a team of talented people.

He had no doubt that China would become a modern industrial country, and he felt that this time it would take even less time.

China's development will become faster and faster.

"It's enough that our generation has to endure hardships. Our next generation won't have to endure so much hardship." Liu Tao said: "Our next generation should work hard in a prosperous motherland, instead of being ready to fight a war at any time like us, facing life-and-death crises."

Since then, a large number of college students have graduated every year, creating huge employment pressure.

But to be honest, that is a happy trouble.

It’s not that there are no jobs, it’s just that there are no easy jobs with high salaries.

As long as you want to work and are willing to endure hardship, there is no job that you cannot do.

Unlike this era, people are so poor that even if they have the strength to move bricks at a construction site, they don’t have the chance.

Zhu Lin said: "Yes, there have been constant wars in the past few years. First there was the Iran-Iraq War, then the Falklands War, the Fifth Middle East War, and now the Fourth India-Pakistan War has broken out. I am worried about when the S3 season will start."

"It's not easy to start the S3 season. The Soviet Union has changed leaders one after another over the years, and they all died of illness after only one or two years. Now they have chosen a young one and don't have to worry about sending him away after one or two years. However, the prestige of the young will be insufficient, and the internal power struggle will not end so quickly. It is not easy to get out of the internal friction." Liu Tao smiled, "On the other hand, the US economy has not been very good in the past decade or so, suffering from inflation caused by the surge in oil prices. It is unknown how long the high inflation rate will last. In addition, the US military is still in a period of confusion and has not yet emerged from the Vietnam War."

In the first quarter, the US inflation rate was still as high as 13.98%. Although it is not as high as the previous 20%, it is still shocking. The yield on US Treasury bonds has set a historical record, attracting dollars from all over the world to flow back to the United States. Latin American countries have been cheated and are suffering. One by one, they are in economic crisis and are seriously short of foreign exchange. As long as they wave the US dollar, they can easily buy a large number of high-quality assets at low prices in Latin America, and can buy a large amount of grain, beef, mutton, iron ore, etc.

To be honest, he didn't believe that the two poles would decide to play the S3 season when both poles had their own troubles and problems.

(End of this chapter)