After returning from the canteen to the residence arranged by Mr. Nie, Zhou Yang fell into deep thought.
According to Mr. Nie, what the higher-ups want to cut is not just the funding for the Eye of the Sky project. It seems that there are quite a few projects involved. It can be said to cover all fields of military and people's livelihood.
Moreover, the funds for each project have been cut to a large extent, and the most serious ones have even been cut by more than half at once. As a result, all scientific research institutes are currently in turmoil and mourning is everywhere.
Obviously, this is different from Zhou Yang's memory.
In his memory, the country's large-scale reduction of scientific research funding and even the suspension of self-research projects should have started in 1979.
Zhou Yang remembered clearly that it was after a high-level visit to the United States that the two sides signed a scientific and technological cooperation agreement.
Afterwards, high-level officials concluded that a world war could not be fought. In addition, serious problems arose in economic development, and scientific research funding had to be significantly reduced. Subsequently, a large number of national defense scientific research projects and key national defense science and technology projects were forcibly cancelled.
For example, the "Yun-10" large aircraft, Z-8 helicopters, "Red Flag" cars, long-range bombers, large missile destroyers, the Great Wall/Shuguang large computer project, digital welding systems and a series of high-precision military and civilian technology projects.
Of course, this also includes photolithography machines and chip technology, which are currently seriously stuck. They were all eliminated at this time.
And it's only the beginning of 1978, so why are the authorities so anxious to start cutting back on scientific research funding?
There must be a monster when something goes wrong. Is it because of the war that is about to begin, or is it because of other reasons?
Zhou Yang thought seriously for a while, but still had no clue!
But he also knew that the decision made by the superiors must be reasonable, and it was most likely because of money.
Everyone is watching the current domestic economic development. In the past year, my country's per capita GDP was 198 US dollars based on the exchange rate. The living conditions of both urban residents and rural residents are very poor.
More importantly, because of the large-scale purchase of Western technology and equipment starting in the 1970s, our finances were overwhelmed and multiple debt crises occurred one after another.
Last year, the country implemented the "82" plan, which directly caused the fiscal deficit to exceed 15 billion. At this time, the total national fiscal scale was less than 100 billion. Such a high fiscal deficit has seriously affected the operation of the national economy.
Because of this, although the total size of my country's GDP has been rising over the years, the living standards of the people have not changed much.
Under such circumstances, developing the economy and improving people's living standards has become a difficult problem facing the big bosses.
At this time, most of the national fiscal revenue was invested in the national defense budget, and there was no extra money to develop the economy!
You can't have your cake and eat it too!
On the one hand, there is a seriously lagging national economy, on the other hand, there are high defense budget expenditures and huge scientific research expenditures. How to choose this issue?
No matter what the choice is, some people will have to make sacrifices after all.
In the end, the higher authorities chose to develop the economy, improve the living standards of the people, choose these projects, and even operate on the military itself.
As a result, there was a series of cancellations of key projects and a massive disarmament of millions.
The reason is that the country needs to save money to develop the economy because there is no money.
Therefore, from the perspective of the matter itself, the above decision is not wrong.
Although there is no right or wrong in this matter, the impact is far-reaching, especially in the field of national defense research, and the results are disastrous.
We must know that most of our national defense scientific research projects and key projects are funded by the state. Once the state stops allocating funds, the projects will definitely continue to be studied.
By then, the project will be discontinued, the team will be disbanded, and it will become inevitable that scientific researchers will be laid off.
What's more serious is that without these core projects, our basic research and core technology research will inevitably be abandoned and fall into the abyss. From now on, we can only crawl behind others.
It was us who abandoned our martial arts skills and lost our independent manufacturing capabilities, which ultimately led to us being repeatedly choked decades later!
Therefore, if there is a way, Zhou Yang does not want these major projects to be cancelled.
But Zhou Yang knew that his abilities were limited and it was impossible to keep all the projects.
What he can do is try to keep key scientific research projects, such as the "Yun-10" large aircraft, long-range bombers, large guided missile destroyers and photolithography machine projects.
Especially for lithography machines and chip projects, the gap between us in this era and the bunch of bastards that will choke us in the future is not big. In fact, we are even more advanced in terms of technology.
Yes, although we started late in the semiconductor fields such as lithography machines and chips, by the 1970s and 1980s we were already leading the world.
In 1956, my country's first transistor was born, officially entering a new era of semiconductors; in 1958, my country's first germanium transistor was successfully trial-produced.
In 1962, my country's first generation of silicon planar transistors came out. In 1965, the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully developed the Type 65 contact lithography machine. This technology has reached the world's top level.
In 1972, Wuhan Radio Component No. 3 Factory compiled the industry production guide "Manufacturing of Photolithography Masks"; in 1977, my country's GK-3 semi-automatic photolithography machine was born, reaching the international mainstream level.
In contrast, the future lithography machine giant ASML has not yet been established, and TSMC was established later than ASML.
It can be said that if we do not stop the lithography project, there may not be ASML and TSMC in the world of lithography. How can we have chips being strangled by the throat in the future?
But if you want to get involved in these things, there is always a reasonable reason, otherwise it will easily be misunderstood.
And Mr. Nie asked him for help this time, which may be a good opportunity.
Therefore, the most important thing right now is to resolve the funding crisis of Eye of the Sky first, and then other projects will be discussed later.
Anyway, the authorities are just beginning to cut funding now, and it’s not yet time to cut funding across the board, so these projects can still last for a while.
What Zhou Yang can do is to use this time to make money as soon as possible. If he can keep a project, he will keep it.
Through talking with Nie Nansun, Zhou Yang learned that this year's Eye of the Sky project has applied for a total of 9 million yuan in funding, but for the entire project to operate normally, there is a gap of at least 4 million!
It is worth mentioning that this shortfall of 4 million is not a one-time occurrence, but occurs every year.
It is not even ruled out that the higher authorities will cut funding again in the future, and then they will be short of even more funds.
In other words, he must find a suitable project for the Eye of the Sky project that can earn at least 4 million yuan per year for Mr. Nie and others.
But what project can guarantee that you can make so much money every year?
At that moment, Zhou Yang took out a pen and paper, leaned on his desk, and started thinking seriously.
When thinking about this problem, Zhou Yang first thought of cross-border works from other fraternal units. Instead of thinking hard about it himself, it would be more convenient to just copy the homework.
Firstly, it saves trouble, and secondly, most of the "cross-border" works of these brother units have withstood the test of the market and have a relatively high success rate, such as 504 Ice Cream!
People living in Lanshi will soon see a scene like this: a wooden box tied to the back seat of a "Big 28" bicycle, with the words "504 Big Ice Cream" written on the box.
Whenever a big bicycle drives into the village, children will gather around and hand over crumpled coins one after another.
The uncle selling ice cream will take out an ice cream from the wooden box and hand it to the children after receiving the children's cents.
Take a sip, it's sweet and cool, it's truly a human enjoyment.
It is difficult for ordinary people to imagine that the name "504" of "504 Ice Cream" comes from the military industrial enterprise "504 Factory".
And this 504 plant will have a more foreign-sounding name in the future, called "Nuclear Industry Group Lanzhou Uranium Enrichment Co., Ltd."
In other words, this factory produces nuclear raw materials...
In addition to the 504 ice cream, the "Bat brand" electric fan is also famous in the military industry. The production unit is Factory 720, which is Nanjing Yangtze Machinery Manufacturing Factory.
Even though the name of this company is not as domineering as Factory 504, Yangtze Machinery Manufacturing Factory was founded in 1943 and is my country's first large-scale electronic complete machine manufacturing enterprise that designs, manufactures and exports radars by itself.
There are also the FC-15 model 1050mm luxury ceiling fan produced by the state-owned Chang'an Machinery Factory, and the Shuangfeiyan brand refrigerator produced by Chengdu Engine Company, which mainly produces aerospace engines...
Every time he thought of a project, Zhou Yang would write a name on the paper. After a while, a piece of white "Guanglian paper" was filled with words.
Then, Zhou Yang looked at the dozens of projects on paper and was stunned!
There are too many. Which project should I choose for Mr. Nie and the others?
What a worry!
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(familiar bicycle, familiar wooden box)
(504 large ice cream)
(The award-winning bat electric fan is said to still be used in many southern homes!)
(Shuangfeiyan brand refrigerator)
PS: Chapter 2 is delivered!
I returned to the city from my hometown today, so I’m sorry for the late update!
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