Yao Chongshan is 28 years old this year, and in a few months he will be able to obtain his doctorate degree from Bincheng University of Technology.

Logically speaking, getting a doctorate should be a happy thing for many people, especially in this year, having a doctorate is quite popular and it is not a problem in employment.

Especially for those who specialize in technology, he is the most intimate doctoral student in metal casting on the market. Before he graduated, he participated in many large-scale projects with his supervisor, and published several papers in some well-known magazines in China.

He is also very famous in this industry. With the recommendation from his supervisor, it will not be a problem for him to find a job with an annual salary of more than 200,000 yuan in the future as long as he graduates and leaves the school gate.

This is just the price of expulsion by some steel companies in the north. Someone from Angang contacted him. If he was willing to go to their place, his annual salary would be 200,000 yuan, and he would give him a house and a car. The annual salary increase would be easy to discuss.

On the other hand, Shougang in Beijing and Baosteel in Puhai also offered him conditions, and the conditions were better than the other. Among them, the best conditions were Baosteel, the boss of the wealthy domestic steel enterprise, which was the richest.

The conditions given by others are to have an annual salary of 400,000 yuan, apply for a Puhai household registration, and provide a house for five years after working in Baosteel. For more than ten years, it is no problem to get a car.

The most important thing is that people say that the annual salary is not capped. As you work in the company for a longer period of time, the higher the salary you will be paid, which shows the company's thirsty for talent.

In the past two years, the domestic steel industry has been developing more and more with the continuous development of the domestic economy, and the development speed is getting faster and faster. However, it has not been technically kept up.

Now these steel mills not only produce some low-end boards, pipes and other building profiles, but also often receive orders from other large domestic enterprises because of their special background in state-owned enterprises.

For example, the orders of large nuclear power companies, the orders of large domestic hydropower companies, and the orders of shipbuilding industries, etc. The orders of these companies often have very strict standards for the requirements for profiles and fittings.

Compared with the most common profiles on the market, it is a world of difference. Such profiles not only require the shape of construction, but also have great requirements in terms of strength and life.

This requires a very high casting process and also putting effort into metal alloys.

Although such profiles are very difficult to build, once you can develop them, the profit will be quite considerable. At least the profit you can create is far higher than the profit you can sell tens of thousands of tons of ordinary steel in the market.

Therefore, these domestic steel mills are very close to such orders. But unfortunately, our country is still not qualified in the casting process and materials of some special profiles, so we can only watch some orders but cannot afford them.

But this does not hinder everyone's determination to solve this problem. The steel industry has been very prosperous recently, so everyone has so much spare money to reserve talents or invest in technology. If it really doesn't work, they will spend a lot of money abroad to introduce technology.

But the key to everything is that you must have your own qualified talents, so senior talents like Yao Chongshan immediately became popular among large steel companies.

Understand technology, understand the processes and processes of the casting industry, and also understand the metallurgical industry of special alloys. Isn’t this the cutting-edge talents that steel companies urgently need?

So now talents like Yao Chongshan are very popular in the talent market. There are several doctoral students who graduated at the same time, and they have basically signed contracts with several domestic steel industry giants early.

If they don’t make any mistakes, they will immediately be trained by the companies as technical backbones. After working in their positions for five or six years or seven or eight years, some of them may achieve success in the field of scientific research, while others may take up leadership positions. Anyway, they are all the ones with unlimited futures.

If it were a few months ago, Yao Chongshan might have chosen one of the steel companies to sign the contract and sell himself without hesitation.

But now he is not in a hurry, but wants to weigh more trade-offs. Even his mentor feels a little strange about his thoughts. Xiao Yao, a child who is usually very smart, is now? Why are you stupid when you reach such an important juncture of employment?

In fact, all this started with a few months ago when Yao Chongshan and his mentor went to the United States to attend a technical exchange seminar.

At that time, Yao Chongshan followed his mentor to Los Angeles, the United States and participated in a new generation of science and technology expo led by Lawrence Laboratory in the United States.

This Lawrence Laboratory, located in California, USA, is one of the national laboratories in the United States. Although it is not as big as Oak Ridge Laboratory, the laboratory is definitely not small, and its main focus is on metal smelting and manufacturing.

At this expo, it was actually just a large-scale product recommendation meeting. The technology that Lawrence Laboratory mainly promoted this time was the 3D printing technology that was only quietly emerging a few years ago.

When Yao Chongshan entered his major, he heard about this technology before, but this technology had just emerged and was not very mature at that time.

Even though this technology has become increasingly mature in the past two years, it has been questioned by many experts and scientific people, believing that this technology is just a gimmick and it is impossible for it to replace the traditional metal processing industry.

The reason is very simple. Although this technology has its own unique advantages, in the field of modern high-tech machinery, many parts require special alloys, and this 3D printing technology is powerless to process such special alloys.

So far, it can only process some products such as plastics, rubber, or ceramic powder, let alone special alloys, even ordinary metals, the current 3D printing technology is powerless.

With such a useless technology, what else can we talk about? It can become the founder of the Third Industrial Revolution.

So Yao Chongshan did not attach much importance to this technology before, but this time he went to the United States to attend the expo and visited Lawrence Laboratory. After demonstrating this 3D printing technology, his mind became more and more focused.

Although Americans have not shown their top technology, as a professional who has been immersed in the metal casting industry for ten years, Yao Chongshan can basically judge that even if Americans have not fully mastered the technology of 3D printing metal, they have already reached the threshold of this technology.

This made him sigh at the one hand that while the Americans are powerful in their technology, they also develop a strong interest in this 3D printing technology.

During the days he attended the meeting, he actively searched for information and kept consulting experts. The more he understood this technology, the more he felt moved, and then he became obsessed with it.

As an early technology guru, after learning about such an emerging science and technology, he could be said to have quickly fallen into this technology.

Later, when the expo was over and his mentor was about to return to China, he actually applied to stay in the United States for more than a month to learn about this technology. At that time, his mentor was still very unhappy because in his opinion it was a waste of time and money. After all, this technology is still useless in the current view and is not mature in many fields.

However, he finally agreed to his request. During this month, Yao Chongshan went to several well-known universities in California to visit many experts and scholars to gain an in-depth understanding of this technology.

Generally, these American experts are very cautious about Chinese people like him, but later on, he is just a technical mate who is obsessed with this, and he asks some of the most basic things, so people patiently answered his questions.

It was this entry-level knowledge that made him even more addicted to it. When his visa expired and he had to return to China, he even paid out of his own pocket and spent some of his private money accumulated from his master's and doctoral career with his mentor to do projects for about tens of thousands of yuan. He bought all the books on 3D printing technology and then packed them back to China.

After returning to China, he was even more addicted to this, and in the eyes of his teachers, his behavior was a bit obsessed with and not doing his job properly.

If it weren't for his years of following the teacher, he would have been difficult for him to pass his final doctoral thesis.

When Yao Chongshan is about to graduate and leave school in two months, he faces several choices, which are the ones in which domestic steel companies should go to work.

It’s better to just go abroad to study, or stay in school to teach, and then rely on the school’s resources to carry out the scientific research you are interested in.

In fact, the best choice is to go to a steel company to work. After all, the salary is high and the benefits are good. However, Yao Chongshan is not a person who values ​​money in particular. In his heart, scientific research is the most important thing.

But if you stay in school and want to do the project you want, can you get the support of the school?
Chapter completed!