Chapter 731 U.S. Arms Suppliers
Because it is related to the future development of enterprises and the urgent need to seize the opportunity to make the domestic information industry catch up with the international advanced level, Yang Xing rarely got rid of the low-key style of participating in this kind of seminar in the past. Two days before the National Information Strategy Conference, he was just arguing with others. In the last two days of the meeting, he basically made a long speech freely, basically pouring out all his ideas and criticisms of the domestic information industry. His sharp and bold words made the experts and officials present dumbfounded. In their words, "Boss Yang, don't really think that he is the Prime Minister!"
Although they are not satisfied with Yang Xing's strong style, the participants have to admit that Yang Xing does have excellent strategic vision. When everyone is still quarreling about Internet security, 3g, radio and television systems, film and television copyrights, they have already made these things into a big chess game a few years in advance. Now they are close to the next generation of Internet, 4g, all-fiber ultra-high-speed network and other advanced goals. Even with mobile, which has hundreds of millions of users, large companies such as China Unicom and Telecom have to admit that Yang Xing's journey has not only been summarized by the word "lucky", but no one can match his vision and foresight look around the country.
Wen Rengui, who presided over the meeting, was also a little surprised by Yang Xing's strong performance at the meeting. He remembered that Yang Xing always liked to hide behind the scenes and do things silently. When everyone saw his achievements, he just gave a light introduction. He didn't like to brag, so he turned his attention to other places. But he had unique insights and could find a different way to see things. He could point directly to the core of the problem with a few words.
It is not that the country does not pay attention to the information industry. The Ministry of Information and Industry has been merged into one department alone. Several five-year plans regard the information industry as a national pillar industry and give policy preferences. At that time, Li Guozhu, secretary of the Central Plains Provincial Party Committee, was deceived by people around him to establish a strategic information industry park, but fortunately he was dissuaded by Yang Xing. The central government has invested heavily in the network telecom infrastructure that leads the technological trend, but although the technology gap with foreign countries has narrowed in recent years, the gap is still huge. The country even specifically put forward the term "digital divide" for this. According to general ideas, the method of catching up with foreign development is becoming increasingly inconsistent with the current situation of the domestic information industry.
Yang Xing wanted to use the certain first-mover advantage that his company has gained in the information industry in recent years to promote the domestic information industry. Of course, he wanted to draw a national information strategy blueprint according to his ideas. It seems a bit over the business, but who gave him a super trump card like rebirth?
Otherwise, his approach to making a stubborn and gambler in the financial market, spending hundreds of billions of dollars to bet on. After winning, he would not regret it and feed back into the industry without any regrets. Then everyone would be a rich man. This seminar was originally a brainstorm to plan and design the country's informatization path in the next ten or twenty years. Yang Xing dared to make a bold move. Even if it was a good word, would the government have the elegance to tolerate others?
Yang Xing is no longer an angry young man who only talks at the meeting. In addition to pointing out the shortcomings of the domestic information industry, he also cited a large number of data and examples to prove his views. In addition, the confidentiality of the meeting was very high, so he was relieved and bold to showcase many high-tech products that had only left the laboratory. This opened the eyes of the experts and scholars attending the meeting. Many leaders and officials of information companies began to lean towards his suggestions without realizing it.
Finally, the seminar basically reached an agreement. Since we want to surpass the day to catch up with the United States, the central government needs to show great courage, guide the information industry policy, promote the integration of the three networks, accelerate the pace of pre-research and industrialization of the next generation of Internet, telecommunications networks, and television networks, and create an "Chinese standard" industrial ecosystem as soon as possible. It will be a huge market involving trillions of dollars, which can truly realize the major transformation from "Made in China" to "Made in China".
Although Wen Rengui was a little surprised by Yang Xing's performance at the meeting, he was soon attracted by the information provided by Yang Xing after the meeting. Because this matter was too important, in order to keep it confidential, he had to take Yang Xing to Zhongnanhai to have a first interview with No. 1. Perhaps because he has been here many times, Yang Xing has a much less sense of awe of Zhongnanhai now. His experience of talking to Cheng Canghai and other previous leaders made him calmly look at the gentle and elegant current supreme leader.
"Are you saying that the US and ** proposed cooperation to you and were preparing to use China Star Group as a long-term military supplier. Has placed a large purchase order?" Wen Rengui and Chief No. 1 were well-informed and felt unbelievable after hearing this news. To put it nicely, the current relationship between China and the United States is business partners. To put it bluntly, it is competitors. Although they have to maintain contact due to commercial interests, they regard each other as a major concern and have never been less vigilant. In addition to ideological confrontation, China is too big and has a rapid economic development. It is very likely that it will become a new power to challenge the US global hegemony after the Soviet Union and Japan, and it is destined that the two cannot live in peace for a long time.
It turns out that the US team, the most conservative right-wing group in the United States, has long regarded the People's Liberation Army as the biggest opponent to inherit the Soviet Red Army and was more cautious. In the late 1990s, the two armies of China and the United States were at odds over the Taiwan issue. After Bush took office, major conflicts such as the collision of Chinese and US aircraft broke out, and almost fought. If it weren't for the sudden "9/11" incident that shifted the focus of the US strategy to the war on terrorism, I was afraid that the two major powers would not be able to exterminate the fire of conflict even though they were separated by the Pacific Ocean.
In this case, the US military actually chose a company with a strong Chinese background like Zhongxing Group as the procurement target, which really surprised them. It was Yang Xing who explained in detail that they understood the whole story. Because after the founding of the United States, the US team's weapons procurement has not set up a state-owned arsenal like the Soviet Union, but has purchased it by bidding for private weapons companies.
In history, the United States was an absolute isolationist for a long time, and had to do all kinds of weapons by themselves. In World War I, when the US military went to the European continent to participate in the war, it was discovered that many weapons and equipment were lagging behind the British and French coalition forces. The United States was good at both sides during World War II, and made great money with its strong economic strength. After World War II, it became a "arsambar of democratic countries" and has been strengthening its military product development capabilities and has developed the entire industrial chain through continuous military ordering. Soon, the arms dealers led by Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Thor, etc. jumped to the top in the world, leaving other opponents far behind.
However, as the Cold War intensified, the United States and the Soviet Union launched a fierce arms race, and the cost of various new weapons increased. After World War II, the United States launched the Korean War and the Vietnam War one after another, especially the latter, which made the U.S. spending expenses to an unbearable level. The ex-factory price of a US m41 light tank produced in 1957 was US$85,000. By 1964, when the US military purchased large quantities in order to participate in the Vietnam War, the unit price of such tanks had risen to US$189,000. Tanks with the same performance were much cheaper at the time, which directly led to the decline of the US national strength and was forced to abandon the "gold standard" system.
This also had a fatal impact on the US industry. The military is no longer the "Santa Claus" that all companies will meet their requests. A large number of weapons development projects with major technical risks have died one after another, and the losses caused by this can only be "wiped" by the R&D companies themselves. The US side gradually realized that it is unnecessary to pursue comprehensive advantages in military technology, and it is simply a waste.
So the US military began to purchase non-critical weapons and equipment from allies such as light weapons, electronic parts, transport aircraft, etc. The most famous example is that in the Gulf War, the United States used refreshing precision-guided weapons, from cruise missiles to GPS receivers, most of the core electronic chips were made in Japan. A famous Japanese man Shintaro Ishihara showed off in his famous book "Japan Can Say No", "If Japan sells the technology it has mastered to the Soviet Union, then the balance of power in the whole world will undergo a huge change."
Of course this is just his crazy remark. The Japanese government knew in mind that the core technology of all the US military's precision weapons was still controlled by American companies. The reason why they bought Japanese chips was nothing more than a good deal. Even if Japan adopts a non-cooperation attitude, the commanding heights of the technology will not be lost. However, as soon as this opening was opened, the quantity and amount of US military purchases abroad increased steadily.
With the acceleration of globalization, the trend of international division of labor in manufacturing makes it difficult to distinguish between weapons and components produced by allies and those produced by hostile countries. The US military procurement units often turn a blind eye to this. In fact, in recent years, as Chinese manufacturing has conquered cities and land overseas, purchasing cheap Chinese goods has become a good way to reduce costs in the US military logistics department, which is now deeply trapped in the war between Afghanistan and Iraq, and its military expenditure is quite short of money.
Zhongxing Group has powerful electronic and mechanical production technology, and its products are very popular in the North American market. Many American soldiers purchased many Zhongxing products through civilian channels to go to the battlefield. The feedback was very good. They strongly required the US military to distribute similar equipment to soldiers. The senior management of the US military cannot ignore it. What's more, the US military and Zhongxing Group have had extensive cooperation. When Yang Xing first acquired the Iridium Satellite Call Company, he reached a contract with the US military worth tens of millions to provide him with global satellite mobile phone services. Later, Zhongxing also entered the security industry and produced many practical logistics support equipment, many of which fell into the eyes of the US military.
Recently, on the Iraq battlefield, the US military was disturbed by roadside bombs and other improvised explosives, so it had to buy specially designed mine-proof anti-ambuster vehicles (mraps). Yang Xing, who made early arrangements in this regard, made Lin Jiana get a lot of patents and production capacity. After careful evaluation of the Pentagon, the US felt that instead of purchasing from Zhongxing Group piece by piece, it would be better to use it as a special arms supplier for the Corner to achieve long-term cooperation...rt!~!
Chapter completed!