Beijing, the large conference room of the National Equipment Industry Company.

The ceremony of announcing Luo Xiangfei's retreat and appointing Feng Xiaochen as the general manager of the equipment industry company was very simple.After the officials of the organization department read out the appointment and removal decision, Luo Xiangfei and Feng Xiaochen went to the front of the conference room at the same time, Luo Xiangfei reached out, held Feng Xiaochen's hand, and solemnly said:

“Little Feng, this burden, I will hand over to your hand.”I hope you will fail the cause that China has fought for generations, and I hope that China's equipment industry can be at the forefront of the world in the hands of your generation."

Feng Xiaochen, in contrast to the ease of the past, held Luo Xiangfei's hand in two hands, and replied in the same solemn tone: "Don't worry, Luo, our generation will not disgrace the predecessor."The foundation you have created will surely be carried forward in our hands.”

Warm applause rang out, which included both respect for Luo Xiangfei and recognition of Feng Xiaochen.In the past ten years, Feng Xiaochen has used his ability, character and professionalism to win everyone's respect, not to mention Wang Jian, Zhou Mengshi, Huang Ming these colleagues of the same age, even Wu Shican, Xue Yue and others, also Feng Zhichen hearted, willing to accept his leadership.

Luo Xiangfei left, Feng Xiaochen moved into his office, equipment industry company into a new era, everyone is looking forward to Feng Xiaochen after the new official took office after the head of the "three fires."

“Provide research and development of high-tech equipment for the first half of the 21st century.”

This is the plan presented by Feng Xiaochen at the first mid-level cadre meeting after taking office.This program did not surprise everyone, in fact, before Luo Xiangfei left his job, the company's middle-level cadres have been discussing this issue for many rounds, but has not been implemented.High-tech equipment research and development is a long-term work, the initial stage of the run-in is crucial, involving a lot of aspects, the work is very complex.As a departing leader, Luo Xiangfei was not suitable for such a job, so he left the task to Feng Xiaochen.

Feng Xiaochen has long seriously considered this issue, and when he organized the experts of the National Industrial Laboratory to help Yubei, he had repeated discussions with Zhang Lubin and others.These experts of the National Industrial Laboratory, who usually do not have a hard-made task, are equivalent to the state spending money to raise a group of idle people, and these people are not naturally able to live, so every day in the sky and empty to ponder all kinds of things, the horizon is much wider than those front-line researchers.Feng Xiaochen, with the experience of the two worlds, combined with the opinions of these experts, gradually formed a relatively complete idea.After completing the business handover with Luo Xiangfei, he can put these ideas into practice.

"In the early 1980s, when the reinstallation office was just established, our main task was to introduce technology, learn from Western advanced experience, and shorten the gap with Western developed countries in the equipment industry."At that time, our goal was very clear, the road was also stepped on by others, we just need to follow this road.

After more than ten years, we have initially achieved the expected goal, and the gap with Western developed countries has been shortened from the original difficult to look at their backs, so that they can already hear their footsteps.Although our technology in general is still backward, but I believe that in another ten to fifteen years, we can go hand in hand with foreign countries.

At that time, we will lose the object of catching and imitating, the goal is gone, the road is gone, what should we do next?We cannot wait until that time to consider the development direction, but should be prepared in advance, so that we can maintain the current momentum and achieve the overtaking of the curve.”

He talks to the people.Among the cadres, he is the one who has the most confidence in the future, because he has witnessed China's technological catch-up.He knows that even without his crossing, China can catch up with the level of developed countries in the first half of the 21st century, and now he is here to shorten the process and avoid some mistakes that should not be made.

“Worse is good.”Minister of Strategic Planning Wu Shican nodded his praise.

When the equipment industry company was first established, the department and the position were set up along the structure of the reinstallation office, the departments were still called somewhere, and the person in charge was called a certain place long.In the past two years, in line with the development of the times, the company has changed the title of the department, the technical department has become the technical department, the cooperation department has become the cooperation department, and the heads of various departments have been renamed ministers.This change in the title is not too much, it can reduce the traces of administrativeization in the company, so that the internal staff and external customers are no longer in accordance with the official status to measure the management of the company's management.In addition, in the future, if the level of the equipment industry company is upgraded, the various functional departments will no longer be at the level of the establishment, and the director will be renamed as the minister, and the flexibility will be much greater.

When Feng Xiaochen had just taken over the position of general manager, Wu Shican, Xue Yue, Liu Yanping and other elderly people had changed their mouths to call him Feng General, but the result was not only that Feng Xiaochen felt uncomfortable, but Wu Shican and others also had some awkwardness.Feng Xiaochen tried to keep everyone's original name, still calling him Xiao Feng, but there is also a problem with this name, that is, it is difficult to form the necessary sense of authority.After all, Feng Xiaochen is already the head of the company, called by a "little Feng" by his subordinates, and always seems not serious.

Finally, everyone tacitly chose a compromise plan, that is, the name of Feng Xiaochen.This is both close and can show some respect, but also a more common way in the system.Of course, those who can call Feng Xiaochen directly by his name are also middle and high-level cadres with certain qualifications in the company, such as Zhou Mengshi and Huang Ming, which are generally matched by Feng.

Wu Shican shouted well, interrupted Feng Xiaochen's words, and Sohe continued to say, "He" said:

"In the past, we have been isolated from foreign countries for too long and have been pulled out of a long distance by people.People take a technology to come, we all have to seriously learn, sometimes not.But over the years, we have slowly caught up, and some technology and people's gap is not so big.Take the last time and the state power plant, the young engineers of Longjiang Electric Plant, the technical level is not inferior to the engineers of Siyi, and in some places even stronger than they are.

Deputy Minister of Administration Xue Yue took over the conversation and said: "Americans are also people, and they have a head on both shoulders, which is not necessarily smarter than us."In the past, we were blocked by people, and something completely groped on their own, and took a lot of detours, so we were left behind by others.Over the years, we have opened the door, and many young people have come back from studying abroad, and their horizons are very open, and with smart and good learning, it is not a great thing to surpass Americans."

“Mr. Xue, you’re too optimistic, aren’t you?”Just now, Feng always just said that we can hear people's footsteps, and when you come to you, it is more than the Americans, which is a little too radical."Zhong Qifan, deputy minister of regulations, half-joking and half-seriously choked Xue Yue, this man is a person who is more advocating the West, and has always believed that there is still a big gap between China and the West, which is somewhat out of line with the optimism and self-confidence that prevails in equipment companies.However, he is still very dedicated, as the vice minister of the Ministry of Law, he presided over a lot of negotiations and negotiations with foreign companies, but there has been no harm to the national interests of the country.

"It makes sense to sail."Feng Xiaochen echoed a sentence, and then smiled and said to Xue Yue: "Old Xue, sooner or later we will have to surpass the Americans, but before that, I am afraid we have to study for more than ten or twenty years, after all, people are old industrial power, there are a lot of good goods under the box."

Xue Yue changed his mouth very quickly, and when he heard Feng Xiaochen say this, he immediately said, “I admit this.”A few days ago, I went to Pujiang Shipyard and heard them talk about the steel plate used by the US aircraft carrier, and the yield strength reached 700 MPa, which is twice as high as the best steel we use now.The level we are now is equivalent to the level of the United States in the 1940s and 1950s, and this gap is really big."

"High-strength steel, this is what we want to include in the research and development plan.High-strength steel is not only used on aircraft carriers, but also the pressure-resistant shells, large pressure vessels, railway tracks, and construction machinery in nuclear power plants must use such steel.At present, we use almost all of the high-strength steels that we use rely on imports, and this problem must be solved."Wu Shican said.

Feng Xiaochen said: "New energy, new materials, information technology, biotechnology, this is the key industry identified by the state."We want to compete in these areas in the first half of the 21st century with developed countries and finally determine our leading edge in these industries.All these industries to develop, to be competitive, in the final analysis depends on what kind of high-end equipment our equipment manufacturing industry can provide for them.Without high-end equipment, no industry can occupy a leading position in technology.The development of equipment must be ahead of the development of various industries, which is the challenge we face.”

"For the first half of the 21st century high-tech equipment, it is impossible to imagine."Wang Ji, Minister of Cooperation, said bitterly, “How do we know what kind of equipment we need in the future?”When you are young to read science fiction, say that by the end of this century, every household has a robot, everyone does not have to take a car, but fly a spaceship in the sky.But there are only a few years left until the end of the century, where is our ship?”

It is a bit of a joke that people laugh, and it is a bit too outrageous to think of the "four modernizations" imagined by everyone more than ten years ago.At that time, people can't think of what it will look like in 20 years, so how sure about predicting what will happen in 20 years?