Research Institute.Office!
Zhou Yang was sorting out information when Chen Beixuan's voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Report!"
"Come in!"
As the office door was pushed open, Zhou Yang saw Chen Beixuan walking in, followed by two middle-aged men, who turned out to be the chief and deputy directors of the printing factory - Chen Shang and Ding Can.
As soon as he entered the door, Chen Shang said: "Director, you have remembered us!"
Zhou Yang said with a smile: "It sounds like I have forgotten you all!"
"I haven't forgotten it yet. Director, think about how long it has been since you last visited our printing factory. I guess it's been at least two or three months!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Ding Can echoed and said, "More than that, at least four months!"
"Haha, isn't my daughter-in-law working in your factory? Every day she goes home and talks to me about how your printing factory is doing. I basically know everything about your factory. Do you still need to use it?" Zhou Yang said with a smile. .
"Hahaha, so that's it. I asked you, Director, why are you so confident about us!"
Zhou Yang shook his head and said, "Okay, no more gossiping. I heard that your factory's order has been completed?"
"It's over. Now let's wait for Qingcheng to take away the remaining 50,000 volumes of Mao Xuanxuan. This matter will be considered over!" Chen Shangdao.
"Then how much did the publisher pay us?"
"A total of 320,000 yuan has been paid back, and there is still 80,000 yuan that has not been settled. They said that all will be settled after October!"
"Okay, a lot of the 320,000 yuan is the cost invested by the institute for you, let alone the machine and so on. You have to pay back the money you spent to buy the paper!" Zhou Yang said.
"Okay, then I'll go back and talk to Comrade Li Manqiu from the finance department to see how much it is!"
"Well, besides, I called you two here this time mainly to talk to you about the next tasks of the printing factory!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Shang and Ding Can both straightened their backs and their expressions became serious.
"Old Chen, how is the plate-making work of the "Self-study Series of Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry" and "Self-Study Series of History, Disheng, and Life" that I gave you before?"
"It's all done!"
Then Chen Shang asked in surprise: "Director, you won't let us print these books next, right?"
"Yes, starting from tomorrow, all the machines in your factory will be started, and the two series of books and all the mock test papers will be printed with full strength!" Zhou Yang said.
"Director, please give us the numbers. How many books and papers do you plan to print for each series?" Ding Can said.
"There is no specific quantity. From now on, your factory will print as much as you can!"
Chen Shang opened his mouth and said: "Director, our factory now has five large printing presses. Even for a large series like "Self-study Series of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry", we can print five to six thousand sets a day. If we keep printing, Then we have to print millions of copies. Can we sell this kind of book if we print so many copies?"
Ding Can also echoed: "Let's not talk about whether we can sell it or not. Even if we want to print millions of sets, we don't have that much paper in stock!"
Zhou Yang said calmly: "Don't worry about whether it sells or not. I will figure out how to sell it. You just print it!"
"Besides, if you don't have enough paper, just buy it. You have the golden name of the military, so the paper factory dares not to give you the goods. Of the 320,000 yuan, in addition to returning the capital to the research institute, the rest will be used to buy printing paper!"
Chen Shang and Ding Can looked at each other and saw the shock in each other's eyes.
They could see that the director was really serious about it.
Investing hundreds of thousands in capital is no joke. Based on the current price of paper, the paper purchased is enough to print tens of millions of books.
I really don’t know what the director is thinking, but he actually wants to print a series of self-study books on mathematics, physics, and chemistry and a series of self-study books on history, geography, and biology. Even if these things are printed, will they be sold?
Zhou Yang also saw the shocked expressions of the two people, but he did not explain, but said again: "Don't ask anything now, just execute the order!"
"Yes, I promise to complete the mission!"
"Well, go back and prepare. After the finished product is printed in a few days, send me a set!" Zhou Yang said.
"good!"
After watching Chen Shang and Ding Can leave, Zhou Yang fell into deep thought.
Zhou Yang knew what Lao Chen and Ding Can were worried about, but what they didn't know was that the resumption of the college entrance examination was about to be put on the agenda.
As expected, next week, in early August, that person will chair a symposium on science and education.
This symposium invited more than 30 famous scientists and educators to participate. The purpose was how to deal with existing problems in domestic education, and the resumption of the college entrance examination was the core of the discussion.
It is worth mentioning that it was during this symposium that the State Education Commission decided to maintain the method of recommending college admissions in previous years on the grounds that it was "too late to change" and had just sent the plan to the highest level.
This aroused opposition from the participants, who all exposed the shortcomings of this method, advocated the immediate resumption of the college entrance examination, and suggested that if it is too late, the enrollment time for the current year can be postponed.
These opinions were supported by high-level officials, who decided to resume the college entrance examination this year and revised the admissions documents drafted by the State Education Commission.
In early October, the Supreme Bureau discussed and approved the admissions working document.
In mid-October, the State Council approved the State Education Commission's opinions on college admissions in 1977 and resumed the national unified examination, stipulating that all workers, farmers, educated youth, cadres, and fresh high school graduates could apply.
On December 10, 1977, 5.7 million candidates across the country entered the college entrance examination room that had been closed for more than ten years.
Although according to the conditions at the time, less than 300,000 people were admitted.
However, the resumption of the college entrance examination has activated the college dream of thousands of people, prompting them to pick up books again.
The resumption of the college entrance examination is definitely a far-reaching event, because it reopens the path for ordinary people to advance. It not only affects the destiny and future of tens of millions of young people, but also affects the national destiny of the country.
Starting this year, we have spent 40 years increasing the number of domestic university graduates dozens of times.
Among them, the number of science and engineering graduates alone reaches six to seven million, which is more than 10 times that of Thieves.
As a certain professor surnamed Jin said, what the thief fears us most is not the ship artillery, nor the tens of trillions of GDP, but the millions of college students we have every year, especially those majoring in science and engineering.
It can be said that the fate of thousands of young people and the fate of the country depends on this college entrance examination!
It is imperative to resume the college entrance examination, but it cannot be ignored that the college entrance examination in 1977 was still relatively hasty.
It only took two months from the announcement of the order to the start of the college entrance examination.
This is still somewhat unfriendly to young people who have put down books for almost ten years.
It is impossible for them to return to school to review again, conditions do not allow it.
Therefore, the only thing they can do is to find books to study by themselves, and various self-study series have become the targets of looting.
This is definitely a rare opportunity for Babaoliang Printing Factory.
This is why Zhou Yang asked Chen Shang and others to start printing self-study books and other teaching aids from now on.
I believe that as long as they print the book, it will be favored and sought after by all young people who aspire to take the college entrance examination, and they will naturally have no worries about sales.
Whether the institute can eat meat in the next period depends on the printing factory!
(Restore the red-headed documents of the college entrance examination)
(College Entrance Examination Registration)
(Young people in the 1970s reviewing in the library)
(Self-study series of mathematics, physics and chemistry)
