King of Industry

Following the car of Director Wang of the Ministry of Construction to Xueyuan Road, Zhao Guoyang just got off the car when he saw a group of young students walking by the construction site, talking and laughing.

Under the roar of the excavator, their conversation was covered up a lot, but it didn't affect their interest in the conversation at all.

Seeing the sunshine and brilliance on the faces of these young people, Zhao Guoyang felt a little moved.

Before he was reborn, he often came here to give lectures and give reports at various colleges and universities.

It's just that at that time, the road here had been repaired long ago, and the environment was much better than now, except for the air quality, of course.

Get out of the car together with him. Director Wang noticed Zhao Guoyang's gaze, and explained with a smile: "Researcher Zhao, there are many colleges and universities on this section of Xueyuan Road, and there are especially many students."

"I know, the Eighth University is here!" Zhao Guoyang nodded and said.

"Yeah, Researcher Zhao also knows about the Eight Great Universities?" Wang Shou couldn't help asking as soon as he heard the words.

Zhao Guoyang gave a "hmm" and didn't say much.

After the founding of New China, how to better develop the social economy and improve the people's living standards is one of the problems that the country needs to solve urgently.

The original system of higher education, especially engineering education, is extremely incompatible with the need to establish an independent and complete national industrialization system.

In this context, in 1952, the state decided to carry out major adjustments to colleges and universities across the country. In addition to retaining some comprehensive universities, according to the teaching experience of the Soviet Union, the big brother of socialism, it was split and reorganized according to professional settings to establish professional colleges.

As the capital of China and the political center, Beijing's colleges and universities naturally take the lead in this merger of departments, doing their part and being very active.

In this way, the state chose to build a "college district" in the northwestern suburbs of the capital.

At that time, Capital University, Huaqing University, Yenching University and many professional schools merged and reorganized eight highly specialized universities.

Namely: Jingcheng College of Geology, Jingcheng College of Mining, Jingcheng College of Iron and Steel Industry, Jingcheng College of Aeronautics, Jingcheng Petroleum College, Jingcheng College of Agricultural Mechanization, Jingcheng Forestry College and Jingcheng Medical College.

This is the origin of the "eight colleges".

Seeing Zhao Guoyang's pensive look, Wang Shouyi smiled and led him the way: "Researcher Zhao, let's go to the construction site over there first. There is an overpass under construction, there may be something you need to see .”

"Okay, please trouble Director Wang!" Zhao Guoyang thanked Wang Shouyi, and then followed his footsteps.

Of course, Zhao Guoyang is no stranger to the overpass that has already taken shape.

This is where Xueyuan Road intersects with the future North Fourth Ring Road. Not far in front of it is another well-known university in Huaxia——Beijing Film Academy.

Although geographically speaking, the Beijing Film Academy is already outside the scope of Xueyuan Road, but due to fame and other factors, it is generally classified as Xueyuan Road.

However, it does not belong to the "Eight Colleges".

As soon as Wang Shou came to the construction site, Zhao Guoyang found that he seemed to be surrounded by a bunch of large cranes.

These cranes are scattered in different branches, and they are operating almost non-stop.

As the head of the competent department, Wang Shouyi's arrival naturally attracted the attention of the person in charge of the construction site.

Not long after, a tall, thin, neatly dressed middle-aged man wearing a hard hat, accompanied by several people, rushed to the scene.

"Ah, Wang Chu, rare guest! Why are you free today to come and guide the work?"

The visitor held Wang Shouyi's hand and said with a smile on his face.

Wang Shouyi seemed to be quite familiar with this person. After hearing the other party's question, he laughed and said, "Mr. Mao, didn't I just say that I just brought a friend to visit the construction site and inspect the construction equipment?" .Why are you still working hard for you, the boss?"

After hearing this, the tall and thin man naturally looked at Zhao Guoyang who was behind Wang Shouyi.

"Uh, this is the friend Director Wang mentioned, right? Hello, hello! I'm Mao Feiming from the Beijing Third Construction Company!"

Hearing others reaching out to him, Zhao Guoyang was naturally not reserved, so he quickly nodded to Mr. Mao, and said politely: "Mr. Mao, excuse me!"

When Zhao Guoyang shook hands with Mr. Mao, Wang Shouyi introduced from the side: "Mr. Mao, researcher Zhao is a 'special researcher' of the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry, and a technical talent enjoying the 'National Special Allowance'."

"He came here today mainly to inspect the use of machinery and equipment in our capital's infrastructure!"

After listening to Wang Shouyi's introduction, Mr. Mao and the few attendants behind him were stunned.

In their impression, researchers who "enjoy special state allowances" are all leaders in all walks of life.

Such a person must be at least fifty years old, right?

But the "Researcher Zhao" in front of him seemed a little too young.

Of course, Mao Feiming was very familiar with Wang Shouyi, and he knew that Director Wang would definitely not just talk about it.

Moreover, just looking at this researcher Zhao's temperament, and his calm and calm appearance, it seems to be the case.

After the group welcomed Wang Shouyi and Zhao Guoyang, they talked and laughed and took them to visit the construction site under construction.

After taking a quick look around, Zhao Guoyang also had a general understanding of the progress of the project and the gaps in mechanical equipment.

Looking at Mr. Mao who was carefully accompanying him, he asked: "Mr. Mao, after looking at it just now, is the construction efficiency of our project a bit low?"

Before he could make a sound, Zhao Guoyang continued: "I just took a rough look, and the number of cranes and excavators on the construction site is far from enough."

"Most of the time, when one team finishes their work, the other team immediately picks up the machine and continues to use it... In this way, safety is not guaranteed; second, inefficiency is almost an inevitable result!"

After listening to Zhao Guoyang's words, Mao Feiming's face flushed a little.

He originally thought that this "Researcher Zhao" with a mechanical background was just here to take a look. Who knew that he pointed out the biggest problem on the construction site as soon as he came, and he deserved the title of "Special Researcher".

After coughing awkwardly, Mao Feiming nodded with difficulty, and explained: "Researcher Zhao, you are right. The main reason why the construction progress of our Fourth Ring Road is so slow is this equipment."

Sighing, Mao Feiming continued to speak: "If you want to say that our Beijing No. 2 Construction Company can be regarded as a relatively large engineering construction company in the entire North China region, the number of construction machinery and equipment allocated by the state and purchased by us is comparable to that of our peers. They still have certain advantages.”

"But even so, our gap in the number of critical equipment such as cranes and excavators is still too large..."

When Wang Shou heard the words, he sighed and said, "Yes, Researcher Zhao, Mr. Mao is right. Our infrastructure department goes to dozens of large construction companies across the country to count the number of machinery and equipment every year."

"Mao Zong's second construction company is definitely among the best in terms of the number of construction machinery."

Gently rubbing his temples, Director Wang continued: "But Researcher Zhao, you should know that the lifting machinery manufacturing industry in our country is just in its infancy. There is no way to guarantee the production capacity and product quality. "

"Even the top players in the same industry in China, such as Pengcheng Construction Machinery Group Corporation, Wuyi Heavy Industry, Zoomlion Heavy Industry, etc., still do not have the ability to mass-produce large-scale lifting machinery..."

Hearing this, Mao Feiming echoed: "Yes, there are only a few domestic companies capable of producing lifting machinery and equipment, and each of them has a full order."

"Sometimes, our company's purchasing personnel go to several major machinery companies to ask grandpa and grandma to wait for a month before they can barely win an order of four or five units."

"No way, everyone has to eat, the shortage of equipment is too serious!"

Mao Feiming and Wang Shouyi's narration did not exceed Zhao Guoyang's expectations.

In fact, he has a very clear understanding of the technical level of domestic construction machinery.

As for excavating machinery, it is better to say that it is very difficult to tackle technical problems of large-scale lifting machinery.

Even for the best domestic heavy construction machinery companies, it is not easy to make breakthroughs in a short period of time.

Speaking of pain, Mao Feiming couldn't stop.

The person continued to complain: "The production capacity of domestic lifting machinery and equipment is limited, and the technology is not reassuring enough. But the price of foreign products is too high, and it requires foreign exchange, which is unacceptable."

Looking up at Zhao Guoyang, Mao Feiming smiled bitterly and said, "Researcher Zhao, you should have seen it just now. The construction machinery and equipment on our construction site are rarely imported, mainly because of the price problem!"

After hearing Mr. Mao's narration, Zhao Guoyang nodded silently.

Indeed, he also knows that it is not easy for the domestic hoisting machinery manufacturing industry to develop gradually from scratch under the technological blockade of Western countries.

If you want to catch up with the advanced level of foreign countries at once, it is really difficult for others.

While Zhao Guoyang was thinking about it, Wang Shouyi asked Mao Feiming: "Mr. Mao, how is the level of our domestic hoisting machinery manufacturing industry worse than that of foreign countries? Why can't we solve the problem of mass production?" What about the solution?"

"This..." After hearing the question from the supervisor, Mao Feiming felt a little embarrassed.

He covered his mouth with his hand, coughed and said, "Director Wang, I'm afraid you have to ask the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry about this. I really don't know the leaders in charge of construction machinery..."

Hearing this, Wang Shou's eyes lit up.

He immediately turned his head, looked at Zhao Guoyang and said, "Hey, look at me, I'm so confused, I forgot that there is an expert called Researcher Zhao, researcher Zhao, can you clear up our doubts?"