After Zheng Li teaches Li Miaomiao magic, there will be a certain period of chatting.
Li Miaomiao usually shares some news with Zheng Li and communicates with him.
Zheng Li is very naive in many things, but he is particularly sharp in some aspects.
“Baosteel’s smart factory’s first-quarter production data has been released. Whether it is the factory accident rate, per capita steel production, or total steel production, there has been a significant increase.
This data led Baosteel to decide to transform the entire Baoshan base into a smart factory in the next three years.
Recently, we have been discussing specific cooperation matters with Huawei.
With the will from above and Baosteel's desire to become a benchmark enterprise for China's Smart Manufacturing 2035, things are progressing very quickly.
For Baosteel and even Shen Hai, this is a remarkable achievement. "
Zheng Li asked: "If the entire Baoshan base needs to be transformed, there should be higher-level requirements for information security, right?"
In the past, it was just a factory undergoing smart factory transformation, and the information security requirements were level 3.
However, the entire Baoshan base is fully intelligent, with artificial intelligence taking over most of the steel production. If a small amount is carried out through industrial VR, higher-level information security measures are required.
Otherwise, if a hacker intrusion causes a production accident, no one can bear the responsibility, especially if it is an overseas hacker.
No one can be traced to account.
As for which party the overseas hackers belong to, it may not be possible to find out.
Li Miaomiao: "Yes, I have communicated with Huawei executives before, and the other party's intention is to physically isolate the entire Baoshan base from the network.
Then do a complete LAN build internally.
This can not only solve hidden dangers in information security, but also get rid of interference from external networks and further reduce network delays.
Just by taking over the Baoshan base, it will take three years to complete the entire project, which is estimated to cost about 5 billion as a general contract.
What's more important is that this is the best sign and case for Huawei. We have even done it for Baosteel. Isn't it a piece of cake to do yours? "
China itself has written in its national strategic plan for the beginning of 2022 that the whole country must concentrate its efforts. For example, in the steel industry, only a few very large enterprises need to be left to teach them well.
The general meaning is that the steel industry needs to be integrated, which is actually what China has done.
From the merger of Baosteel and Wuhan Iron and Steel in 2016, various localities have transferred the equity of local steel companies such as Maanshan Iron and Steel, Taiyuan Iron and Steel, Shandong Iron and Steel to Sinosteel for free.
Anshan Iron and Steel Group and Benxi Iron and Steel Group merged and reorganized, and Fangda Group reorganized Dazhou Iron and Steel, Pingshan Iron and Steel and Fangda Special Steel.
A series of events illustrate that the consolidation of the steel industry is accelerating.
The will of the country is most vividly reflected in this heavy industry field.
If Baosteel can set an example in the smart steel industry, other large steel groups will follow suit.
The transformation of China's overall steel industry alone is enough to make Huawei eat a lot.
What's more important is that Huawei's smart industry team can use this as an entry point to enter more manufacturing industries.
From steel, we can branch into the coal chemical industry, and then the chemical industry after the coal chemical industry, and then the petroleum industry after the chemical industry.
The above is just an idealized development, and things will never be so smooth sailing.
The smart transformation of steel is only the first step in the smart transformation of China's manufacturing industry. The cake for upgrading China's manufacturing industry is too big, and Huawei has already taken the lead. Giants such as Ali, Goose Factory, Pinduoduo, Qiandu, and Rice have all Watching with eager eyes.
In fact, Baosteel has been committed to intelligent steel production. As early as five years ago, Baosteel's number of employees dropped from 52,323 in 2019 to 45,405 in 21.
The number of layoffs is almost 7,000.
Baosteel's downsizing corresponds to a substantial increase in revenue and profits. Revenue increased from 292.4 billion to 365.3 billion, and profits increased from 13.87 billion to 26.455 billion.
Baosteel was able to reduce so many employees in 2021 because they promoted robots to replace manual operations. The robot they promoted at that time was called Baoluo Robot.
The cooperation between Baosteel and Huawei worked very well this time, which made Baosteel’s boss decide to gradually promote a combination of artificial intelligence, robots and industrial VR to replace manual labor in the next five years.
They want to reduce the number of employees from 45,000 to less than 10,000.
What is cost reduction and efficiency improvement? Technological progress is the most beneficial means to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
“Just the smart transformation of the domestic steel industry, this track is so imaginative, not just imaginative, it has already realized some of its benefits.
It is certainly impossible for other Internet giants to eat this piece of cake while watching Hua Wei.
According to the information I received from Ari executives, their cooperation project with Panzhihua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. will also start production in the first half of this year.
Rice chose not to compete with them in the steel industry, but focused on the smart manufacturing of Rice cars.
When I went to Yanjing for a meeting before, Senior Brother Lei invited me to dinner and listened to his introduction.
They hope to reduce the production cost of rice cars to the same level as Tesla through artificial intelligence processing industry VR. "
Zheng Li: “When I go from the R&D center to the headquarters office building for a meeting, I take the rice car.
In terms of ride comfort, Rice cars are good.
Are they profitable now? "
Li Miaomiao replied: "Not yet, there is still a long way to go before making a profit. If I remember correctly, the total loss of DaMi Auto last year was about 2 billion RMB.
Once the manufacturing and marketing costs are suppressed, losses can be turned around quickly.
It's just that the prices of global commodities have increased dramatically in the past two years, especially materials related to new energy, which have skyrocketed.
The price of lithium carbonate is about to skyrocket.
It’s not easy to keep costs down.
I basically know the team of DaMi Auto, and there is no problem with their abilities. Sometimes when starting a business, you really need to see whether you have stepped into the limelight. "
When you are an executive, you will find it very easy to get to know people. No matter where you go, someone will hand you a business card and introduce themselves. Even after he has introduced you, someone will add a supplementary introduction.
For example, Li Miaomiao went to Rice Auto for an exchange. During the exchange, the senior management team of Rice Auto introduced themselves one by one. Later, Lei Jun also talked about the personal situation, personality characteristics and resume of each executive.
"Where is the goose factory? What's the current situation of the goose factory?" Zheng Li asked curiously.
Zheng Li has experienced the Huanyu-Peng City built by Goose Factory. It is somewhat similar to the virtual city built in the region when he was in the Mage Alliance.
Since the Mage Alliance cannot put everyone on the same network to communicate, it adopts a method similar to a local area network.
The areas under the jurisdiction of the Mage Tower share a net.
Basically each mage tower will have its own virtual city.
As a Dharma God, Zheng Li has also seen many virtual cities, with various styles.
It is still relatively rare to move a real city almost intact into the virtual world.
What Zheng Li didn't expect was that virtual real estate could also be sold for money.
Virtual currency existed in the medieval times of the Mage Alliance, but he had never seen virtual real estate before.
Whether it is real currency or virtual currency, currency itself has no value, so the transition from real currency to virtual currency is easy to understand.
However, real estate and virtual real estate are completely different concepts. Zheng Li was very curious after hearing about how to assign value.
After later communicating with Li Miaomiao, he learned that virtual real estate provides value through online education, but Zheng Li still felt that the price was too expensive.
In Zheng Li's opinion, knowledge is the most valuable, and in Blue Star, the price of the latest nature book is only a few tens of meters.
It is also easy to find free electronic document downloads, which means no money.
Li Miaomiao replied: “Because money comes in so quickly in VR, they put most of their energy into the construction of the metaverse ecology.
Although the Industrial Internet is also being promoted, it seems to have only a very small intensity.
After I communicated with them, except for the VR field, other fields have received very few resources.
The traditional WeChat and game teams still have a certain amount of resource tilt, and there is no longer much voice in directions such as the industrial Internet that are not favored.
He probably doesn't intend to get involved in this muddy water. "
“Originally, the industrial Internet was not their main business, but now they have finally found the direction of the next-generation Internet revolution, and they must concentrate all their efforts.
I went to attend a press conference held by Goose Factory. After that, the vice president of Goose Factory said that he could give me a set of virtual real estate in Huanyu-Pengcheng. "
Zheng Li: “I can’t understand why the virtual real estate was sold out in less than two days at such a high price.”
Li Miaomiao explained: “In human history, value has been given to things that have no value since ancient times.
From the earliest shells to later precious metals, to currencies and virtual currencies, these are all values given by humans.
The same principle applies to virtual real estate. Human consensus gives it value. To put it more darkly, it is capital that gives it value.
Various things that were originally meaningless are given value. The more such things, the more obvious the gap between the rich and the poor in the world.
Capital harvests by assigning value to meaningless things.
BTC can be worth 50,000 yuan, while the spot price of copper futures is only 7,000 yuan. One BTC can be exchanged for 7 tons of copper. The actual value of the two cannot be equated at all.
In fact, our current food production is enough to feed the world's seven billion people. These deliberately assigned values are to divide society into more levels.
Just like an online game, more and more props come out to classify players. But in fact there are always only two categories - players and game manufacturers.
Manufacturers sell the props they designed to players in various ways to create differentiation among players.
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Cryptocurrencies, funds, bonds, and equity assets are all game props.
Virtual real estate is so expensive and there are still people buying it. The real essence is that capital has needs in this regard and new asset types are needed. Goose Factory just happens to cater to this demand. "
