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Li Feng likely has a lot to do next.

But these are things that must be done.

So in the following days, quite a few people came to the lab.

Moreover, those who came were mostly researchers from universities and some were experts.

Over the next few days, Professor Xiang introduced them all to Li Feng. After the introductions, Li Feng discovered that many of them had participated in seminars held at Tsinghua University.

Although Li Feng was initially surprised, he quickly recovered.

After all, the country currently has too few high-end talents. The last group of people who were able to attend the seminar were all prominent figures, and most importantly...

The last group of visitors were all experts and professors in the field of mechanics, so it's quite normal to run into them here.

Moreover, Li Feng sensed that when the professor introduced them to him, they seemed very enthusiastic towards him.

At this moment, Li Feng couldn't help but wonder, is this what academic recognition is?
of course!

This is just Li Feng's guess.

After all, Li Feng didn't know the truth either.

At this moment, Li Feng just hoped that nothing would go wrong.

The money allocated from above is all from the country's savings. If everything goes smoothly, it will save a lot of money.

The extra funds can then be spent on more valuable things.

Li Feng's current priority is to ensure that the money allocated is used where it is needed and that it is spent in the right direction.

After everyone was in place.

The first group meeting was held under the chairmanship of Professor Xiang.

The topic of today's group meeting is very simple: to determine the direction.

If you're unsure of the right direction, it's definitely not going to work.

Therefore, this meeting will determine the future of this project.

9:3 AM on March 5, 1961

In the main conference room of the 116 Engineering Experimental Building at Tsinghua University.

The place is almost full of people.

There were about thirty people in the conference room, including Professor Li Feng and a director from the Ministry of Industry.

The people sitting in this conference room are almost all experts in the fields of engineering or mechanics.

They've gathered here today for one project.

That is Project 116.

According to Director Ling of the Ministry of Industry, this project was approved by Mr. Wu and then implemented by the Ministry of Industry as a key project.

When Li Feng heard Mr. Wu's name, he was immediately stunned.

Li Feng never expected that this project would actually alarm Mr. Wu.

At this moment, Li Feng suddenly remembered that after this industrial mother machine was developed, China's industrial capacity would grow rapidly. It was normal for Mr. Wu, as the person in charge of government affairs, to pay attention to this project.

After Director Ling explained the background, he then went on to introduce the importance of this project and its significance to China.

These opening remarks are essential.

This is a matter of principle. Although everyone here is basically aware of the importance of this project to the machinery industry and even to China, Director Ling still wants to emphasize these points again.

After Director Ling finished his introduction, it was Professor Xiang's turn to speak.

At this moment, he walked to the top seat, coughed lightly, looked around the entire room, and then addressed everyone present.

"Comrades."

"The significance of Project 116 has already been clearly explained to everyone by Director Ling."

"The purpose of Project 116 is very simple: to manufacture our own industrial mother machines." "At present..."

"Our country can only produce some lathes with low precision. What is the reason for this?"

"This is because we lack a control system for machine tools."

"We now have this machine tool control system."

"Furthermore, I can tell you that the machine tool control system was designed by Comrade Li Feng, one of the leaders of our Project 116."

"And this system has been verified."

"I believe you have already seen the control system of this CNC machine tool."

After Professor Xiang finished speaking, the experts and professors below nodded involuntarily. As for the control system of the machine tool, that required studying the code, which was something they were not good at.

Moreover, this is one of the core technologies of European and American countries, and this technology is blocked from China.

Therefore, even if the Chinese wanted to research this, it would be a very difficult thing.

Now that this core element has been mastered, they can focus on the rest.

In the past few days, Professor Xiang has already shown them how to use the machine tool control system written by Li Feng.

In general, it's different from those in foreign countries.

At this point, they even felt that the machine tool control system designed by Li Feng was better than that of foreign ones.

This was something they hadn't expected.

This also made them admire Li Feng's talent in computers. At this moment, they felt that Li Feng not only had extraordinary talent in mechanics, but also in computers.

Now that we have machine tool control systems, the task of manufacturing industrial mother machines has become urgent.

China's machinery industry is currently in dire need of high-precision CNC lathes. If we had industrial machine tools, we could manufacture high-precision CNC lathes.

When many factories have high-precision CNC lathes, they will be able to produce many high-precision parts.

Then the design of highly precision parts can be realized.

This could trigger a chain reaction.

The scientists sitting here participating in this project have all signed confidentiality agreements.

Otherwise, Professor Xiang wouldn't be bringing this up here.

At this point, Professor Xiang continued speaking to everyone.

"The machine tool control system designed by Comrade Li Feng can even surpass those foreign machine tool control systems."

"With this machine tool control system, we can now manufacture our own industrial mother machines."

"This is the ultimate goal of our Project 116."

"Some time ago, Comrade Li Feng had already collected some information and data about foreign industrial machine tools."

"Based on the information and data compiled by Li Feng, I now have some ideas."

"My idea is that we can use foreign industrial machine tools as a reference."

At this moment, someone said to Professor Xiang.

"Professor Xiang".

"We don't have any foreign industrial machine tools readily available."

"And most importantly, no one else will export this industrial machine to us."

"Although the problem with the control system has been solved."

"But the materials and precision required for industrial machine tools are still major challenges."

This person's words resonated with many people.

After all, this is one of the current difficulties. (End of Chapter)