50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 152 Collective Wisdom
Just as everyone was celebrating that our country finally had the big stick in its hands, the whole country was busy preparing for the construction of the Third Front.

The so-called third line refers to the mountainous and dangerous areas south of the Great Wall, north of Shaoguan, east of Wushaoling, and west of the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway.

Among them, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan in the southwest and Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai in the northwest are commonly known as the "Big Third Line", and the hinterland of the first and second-tier regions are commonly known as the "Small Third Line".

Even the kindergarten received a guidance document from its superiors, requiring "careful research and gradual implementation" and the establishment of a backup plan to prevent sudden changes in the situation.

The document requires that all institutions, including colleges and universities, scientific research and design institutions, warehouses, government agencies, public institutions, as well as civil defense measures in cities and mines, must formulate preventive measures.

The notice suspended all planned new first-line construction projects, especially those in 15 large cities with a population of one million. Except for those that were about to be completed and put into production, the rest must be reduced in scale, no longer expanded, and completed as soon as possible.

Existing old enterprises in the first line, especially those in cities with concentrated industries, should split any enterprises or workshops that can be moved, especially those related to the military and machinery industries, into two parts, with part of them being sent to the third and second lines. Those that can be relocated should also be relocated in a planned and step-by-step manner.

No new large and medium-sized reservoirs will be built.

National key universities and scientific research and design institutions in the first-tier cities that can be relocated should be relocated to the third- and second-tier cities in a planned manner; those that cannot be relocated should be divided into two.

In the future, all new projects, no matter where they are built, should implement the principles of dispersion, relying on mountains, and concealment, and must not be concentrated in a few cities or points.

Its guiding ideology is to buy time, actively build the third-line strategic rear, and prevent the enemy from launching a war.

The overall goal of the Third Front construction is to strive to establish a relatively complete strategic rear base in the deep areas that combines industry and agriculture and serves national defense and agriculture in a fast, efficient and economical way.

Although the kindergarten is a small institution, it cannot be vague in implementing the instructions of its superiors. For this reason, Principal Wang specially convened a meeting of the main leaders of the kindergarten to discuss specific implementation methods.

Director Wang spoke first and set the tone for today's meeting.

"Our goal is to meet our superiors' targets quickly, efficiently, and economically. Let's brainstorm and come up with a framework today."

As the head of the auxiliary course teaching and research group and deputy director of logistics, Sun Zhiwei participated in the discussion of the meeting.

Seeing that everyone was silent, the headmaster fixed his eyes on his capable subordinate, Sun Zhiwei. Under the pressure of the headmaster's gaze, Sun Zhiwei had to stand up and speak first.

"I see everyone is thinking about it in detail. I have a rough framework here. I'll post it for everyone's reference first. It can also be regarded as a starting point for discussion."

After he started, seeing that no one objected, he went to the blackboard in the conference room and began to explain while taking notes with chalk.

"Our planning goals are to prevent attacks, protect students and maintain ongoing educational efforts."

"It can be divided into two parts according to the degree of urgency: the first part is emergency avoidance: used to quickly avoid danger in an emergency and protect the safety of students and teachers;"

"The second part is safe transfer: it is used to transfer to a safe area where we can stay for a long time after the first wave of danger has passed, so as to resume education work."

"Emergency shelter requires close proximity and strong defenses, so the area doesn't have to be too large. The locations I can think of are the basement of a dormitory building and the basement of a teaching building."

"These two areas are where children go for daily activities, and they can be moved in just a few minutes."

"As for how deep and how large the construction should be, it may require professional design and assessment."

"I haven't decided on a safe transfer location yet, but I think it would be best to be somewhere far away from the city with convenient transportation."

"It depends on whether it's a long-term or short-term deployment." "For the short term, just having a place to eat and sleep is enough. For the long term, it's like rebuilding a kindergarten, which would be a huge undertaking and cost a lot of money."

"Then there's the preparation of civil air defense supplies. I have no experience with this, but there should be unified standards."

"No, see if you have connections with the military. Their supplies are definitely more complete and better than civilian supplies."

Sun Zhiwei mentioned the headmaster, who seemed confident about it. He smiled reservedly, waved his hand nonchalantly, and asked him to continue.

"For these construction issues, we can probably only make a plan and have the construction team sent from above to do the work. We can only provide logistical support."

"Our own tasks will probably be after the construction is successful, mainly the allocation of personnel, the route of action, the storage and distribution of supplies, etc."

"And we may need to conduct several drills later to rehearse how to avoid risks and protect ourselves in case of emergencies."

"I haven't figured out the personnel, location, design, building materials, costs, and other issues involved."

"I'm young and inexperienced, so this is all I can think of. I will seriously study and humbly accept any opinions and suggestions you have."

"Headmaster, I have finished my speech."

After saying that, Sun Zhiwei stepped aside and waited for the principal to speak.

Director Wang was very satisfied with Sun Zhiwei's performance. Looking at the almost completed plan framework on the blackboard, she had already come up with a lot of additions and improvements in her mind.

Most people are actually the same. If they are asked to start from scratch and make a complete plan, they may not know where to start.

But once you have the framework, it will be much easier to fill it with content and make modifications.

Sun Zhiwei had now drawn the outline and had taken the first credit, so he stopped speaking and just listened attentively.

He set a good example, and others were able to start to develop on this basis. They also had many opinions and suggestions in their minds, and they were eager to try.

Seeing that everyone was no longer looking down like quails, Director Wang smiled and said,

"Zhiwei has made a good start. I see many comrades have ideas. Let's take them one by one and perfect this plan today."

So, everyone spoke enthusiastically at the meeting. You raised some points, I added some details, and he corrected some shortcomings.

At this time, Sun Zhiwei acted as a recorder, recording everyone's opinions and suggestions on the blackboard, filling them into the frame, and nodding from time to time to agree with others' views.

A few hours later, a nearly complete plan took shape on the blackboard.

Sun Zhiwei, the comrades present, and the head teacher were all very satisfied when they looked at the densely packed plan contents on the blackboard.

When the head teacher informed Sun Zhiwei of the content of today's meeting yesterday, he made this plan framework overnight without filling in any details.

(End of this chapter)