Chapter 574 Technological Explosion
The next day, Zhou Tian came to the office early in the morning braving the biting cold wind. Perhaps because it snowed yesterday, the temperature was exceptionally low today. Even though he was wearing a thick cotton coat, he still felt a little shivering.
After entering the office, he felt a gust of warm air blowing in his face. He felt much better and took off his cotton coat and hung it on the wall.
"Dean! Good morning!"
Liu Yuan, who was cleaning the office, saw Zhou Tian and immediately called out respectfully.
"Xiao Liu, good morning to you too. I don't know why the weather is so cold. It's much colder than in previous years!"
Zhou Tian said this while rubbing his hands and sitting down at the desk.
"Yes, Dean, this winter is too cold. If our institute hadn't installed radiators, I don't know how we would have gotten through it."
Liu Yuan also agreed. With the delivery and renovation of several newly built high-rise buildings of the institute, now except for a few workshops left in the entire institute, all other workshops have been demolished.
The former office buildings and dormitories have been transformed into 17-story office buildings. Compared with the former three-story buildings, the renovation of the institute has a more modern style.
If it was 55 years ago, perhaps this style would be more prominent, but since Zhou Tian started building high-rise buildings, in the past three years or so, the entire city has followed suit, and high-rise buildings have already stood in rows, and many of the previous buildings have been demolished.
The roads and streets are paved with asphalt, and the Red Star No. 1 bus has been replaced for three generations, each generation can accommodate much more people than the previous one.
The previous gas-powered and electric buses were all eliminated, the old city began to expand towards the third ring road of later generations, and the special vehicles of government departments changed from jeeps to Red Star No. 2 sedans.
Compared with the first-generation Red Star No. 1 sedan, the No. 2 sedan is undoubtedly more powerful and more comfortable.
"Dean, I have put the annual reports submitted by several branches on your desk yesterday. Vice Dean Song asked you to take a look at it as soon as possible!"
Thinking of what Vice President Song said yesterday, Liu Yuan immediately reminded him.
"Okay, I get it. By the way, Xiao Liu, go call Vice President Zhang and tell him that I have something to discuss with him!"
Zhou Tian nodded when he heard this, glanced at the documents on the table, and then gave instructions.
"Okay, Dean!"
Liu Yuan responded, put down the broom, turned around and left the office.
“What a hard life!”
Zhou Tian looked at the thick pile of documents on the table and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but he still took the documents and began to look through them.
Above are the performance reports and summaries of the six branches in the past year. First of all, the automobile factory. Since the Red Star No. 1 sedan, bus and off-road vehicle went into production in 1955, the automobile factory has developed by leaps and bounds thanks to strong support from above.
In 1955 and 1956, without any foreign exports, the country alone purchased 10,000 Red Star No. 1 sedans and 3,000 buses. Even the off-road vehicles that were not favored by Luo Ming and others at the beginning were deeply loved by the military, and 3,000 of them were directly purchased.
This bankrupted Zhou Tian's original plan to earn foreign exchange through automobile exports. It was not because he had no confidence in the cars made by his own automobile factory, but because the production volume simply could not meet the demand.
To this end, in 1957, Zhou Tian had to immediately add 30 automobile production lines, successfully increasing the annual output of automobiles from 30,000 to 100,000, a full three times increase.
In April 1957, the Red Star sedan was launched internationally through French sales channels. Its trendy appearance, smooth lines, powerful power and sci-fi interior made it popular with many foreigners.
Although it did not become as popular as Zhou Tian expected, it gradually became popular in Europe. It was not until the second half of the year that car sales began to increase significantly.
At this point, the institute has one more automobile factory that earns a lot of foreign exchange. However, compared with machine tool factories and home appliance factories, the various industries driven by the automobile factory are undoubtedly much more than those of home appliance factories and machine tool factories.
In addition, the automobile industry itself is a high-profit industry. The foreign exchange earned by automobile factories alone in a year is more than twice that of machine tool factories and home appliance factories.
With three factories that could earn foreign exchange, the country's economy quickly improved because it had completely repaid the huge amount of foreign exchange owed to Big Brother in 1957.
Some Red Star appliances also flowed into the domestic market in small quantities. Zhou Tian always maintained the upgrading and transformation of the appliance industry, making Red Star appliances incomparable to current appliances in terms of quality and technical strength, and in short supply in the international market. It even became a synonym for high-end appliances.
Seeing that France was making huge profits from this, many countries even began to establish diplomatic relations with China and import Red Star brand home appliances, regardless of the restrictive treaty set by the Bald Eagle.
This made China's international situation much better than in the past.
The foreign exchange earned by the automobile factories and home appliance factories alone reached more than 3 billion US dollars a year, which made the institute's position in the country even more unshakable.
As for the machine tool factory, after completing the foreign exchange order with the big brother, I don’t know whether it was out of arrogance or because they felt that China had taken advantage of them, so they automatically interrupted the foreign exchange trade with the machine tool factory.
But it must be said that this exactly suited Zhou Tian's wishes. After interrupting trade with Big Brother, he directly upgraded the products of the machine tool factory, jumping from the Red Star No. 2 machine tool to a machine tool capable of manufacturing semi-automatic precision machines.
The shift from exports to domestic sales caused the domestic industrial level to explode instantly, surpassing many developed countries.
Domestic technology has also begun to have a big explosion. Whether in high-end technology or civilian technology, the country's speed of progress has shocked many bigwigs.
Various technologies emerged like mushrooms after rain. Motorcycles, tractors, bicycles, and various hardware products entered the fast lane directly.
Mining machinery has also begun to be used in various industries. Both steel production and various ores have entered a stage of explosive growth, and even the petrochemical industry has begun to make great strides forward.
Various chemical products also began to be produced and sold by themselves, starting with various plastic products, plastic films, and plastic barrels, which began to enter thousands of households.
In the electronics industry, as chips began to be used in various fields, the machine tools in the research institute have long since evolved from machine CNC to electronic CNC.
Three-axis CNC machine tools have also begun to appear in large quantities in the institute. Now the institute has begun to study four-axis and five-axis CNC machine tools. Unfortunately, due to the explosion of industry, many special materials cannot keep up.
Even with Zhou Tian's cheats, he still couldn't keep up with the explosion of technology.