The unparalleled talent of the country started from Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 152, million RMB, small treasury

September 20, 1979, Beijing Nanyuan Airport.

After about two months, Chen Shiing-Shen finally returned to China from the United States.

Wu Wenjun and others came to pick up Chen Shiing-Shen in person. The first thing Chen asked when he saw Wu Wenjun was whether Wang Duoyu was in the capital.

"Teacher, he is at Harbin Institute of Technology. After returning to Ice City in July, he has never been to Beijing again."

"Okay, then call him and ask him to come to Beijing. I need to discuss the report meeting with him."

Hearing his teacher's question, Wu Wenjun couldn't help but ask curiously:
"Teacher, do you plan to have him hold a lecture in the United States or in China?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Shiing-Shen shook his head and sighed.

According to Chen Xingshen, he certainly hoped that Wang Duoyu could go to the United States to hold a report meeting. This was not only the opinion of Smale, John Milnor, Andre Weil and others, but also the higher-ups had such an idea.

But the problem is that Wang Duoyu doesn't seem very willing to go abroad.

If Wang Duoyu is too stubborn and unwilling to go to the United States to attend the lecture, it would be a real headache.

At the same time, Li Rui brought two professors, Zhang Jichuan and Fan Baojiang, into the office compound of the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building.

In the office, Director Fang Lihe stared at Li Rui and the other two with wide eyes, then looked at the plan in his hand. After a while, he said:
"Old Li, you guys at Harbin Institute of Technology are really awesome! You've even developed an electric motor. Are you so sure I'll approve your application? You're forcing me to make a mistake!"

Upon hearing this, Li Rui immediately retorted:

"Director Fang, you can't say that. You haven't even tried it yet, so how can you say it's a mistake?"

"Besides, our universities already have printing plants, guesthouses, and internship factories. Now we're just setting up a Diao brand electric bicycle company, so why is that not possible?"

Fang Lihe rolled his eyes: How can this be the same?

Since the 1950s, all major universities across the country have been similar, with many small units under their names.

Some agricultural and forestry colleges have even established practice farms, forestry farms, etc., and school-enterprises are everywhere.

But these are just small and micro enterprises, insignificant. At the same time, these small and micro enterprises are part of the operation and guarantee system in the context of the times and are inseparable.

For example, the Security Department is a department that is very characteristic of the times.

However, the electric bicycle company that Li Rui and his team are applying for is not a small organization or enterprise, but a large enterprise with an investment of tens of millions.

Fang Lihe was of course very surprised by such a large amount of funds, and was also afraid of being criticized by his superiors.

Although the policy of reform and opening up was determined in December last year, in order to ensure the smooth operation of economic construction and prevent investment from being wasted, the focus is basically on petrochemicals and other industries.

Wang Duoyu, who lives in Dahonggou Village, knows this best.

In 1972, the State Planning Commission submitted a "Request Report on Importing Complete Sets of Chemical Equipment", which involved 23 sets of chemical equipment and required approximately US$600 million.

From this time on, our country launched the second large-scale technology introduction and built 26 large-scale industrial projects, all of which were put into production in 1982.

And this is the famous 43 plan.

We and the United States each get what we need.

In this round of large-scale technology introduction, the most eye-catching and important point is actually the large number of fertilizer plants.

Agriculture is the foundation of our country, and fertilizer is an indispensable and important part of agricultural development.

Although farmyard manure is very good, it is very difficult to make it.

The major fertilizer plants that were established in 1973 and 1974 only began to operate this year, and my country's agriculture will not begin to develop until next year.

In fact, there are traces of all this.

The development direction from agriculture to industry was actually determined at that time.

Since the general direction is these industries, electric bicycles are obviously not included in them.

Fang Lihe was unwilling to take risks because of the reasons mentioned above.

"Lao Fang, take a closer look at this. I really believe you will agree."

Li Rui couldn't help but sigh when he saw this.

As expected, Wang Duoyu guessed it right.

In this era, the major projects being built are strategic projects such as Shanghai Baosteel, Shiyan Second Automobile Works, and Daqing 300,000-ton ethylene projects.

On the contrary, strategic industries such as automobiles, electronics, and aviation are difficult to sustain. For example, the Yun-10 aircraft project was aborted due to funding problems. The Beijing Electronic Tube Factory wanted to launch a liquid crystal project, but it was aborted due to lack of national investment.

Starting from 1977 or 1978, the spring breeze of reform and opening up blew across the land, and the wind of blind greed also blew.

The electric bicycle company project mentioned by Harbin Institute of Technology this time is not a good project at first glance. Compared with those big projects, it is completely different.

Upon hearing this, Fang Lihe could only continue reading, but the more he read, the more he felt something was very wrong.

After a while, Fang Lihe raised his head, looked at Li Rui and the other two and said:

"Lao Li, can this motor of yours really be used in other fields?"

In terms of planning, brushless DC motors are highly praised and can be used in automobiles, tools, industrial control, automation, aerospace and other fields.

It can be said that the prospects are very broad!

But because he boasted too much, Fang Lihe became suspicious.

Zhang Jichuan and Fan Baojiang immediately stated that they had brought the manufactured products and could now test them to ensure that there were no problems.

Fang Lihe couldn't help but take it seriously when he saw this. He immediately dispatched several experts from the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building to go and see the motors brought by Harbin Institute of Technology.

Half a day later, the experts were shocked because they were all connoisseurs.

Brushless DC motors are completely different from traditional motors.

Moreover, the brushless DC motor developed by Harbin Institute of Technology is of higher quality than similar products from abroad.

In the 1940s, the first DC motor appeared. In 1955, Americans first proposed the idea of ​​using transistor commutation circuits to replace the motor brush contacts. This was the prototype of the brushless DC motor.

In 1962, a brushless DC motor that used Hall elements to achieve commutation was trial-produced.

In the early 1970s, a brushless DC motor was trial-produced that used a magnetically sensitive diode with a sensitivity about a thousand times higher than that of a Hall element to achieve commutation.

The motor that Harbin Institute of Technology has trial-produced this time is not a brushless DC motor with magnetic-sensitive diode commutation, but a brushless DC motor that uses Hall elements to achieve commutation.

Although the former is certainly much stronger than the latter, the motor developed by Harbin Institute of Technology, which uses Hall elements to achieve commutation, has optimized many steps. Compared with similar foreign motor products in terms of efficiency, noise, accuracy, speed flexibility, overload capacity and other aspects, it exceeds them.

Even compared with the magnetic diode commutated brushless DC motor, there is not much difference.

Judging from the current test data, the brushless DC motor named "Diao Pai" produced by Harbin Institute of Technology is indeed very powerful and can be used in various fields.

Of course, there is also a lot of room for optimization of this motor, such as improving the position sensor, designing it into a fully enclosed type, explosion-proof type, etc., and designing it into an external rotor motor (stator rotation), etc.

These are the future development directions of motors. Motors can be customized according to product characteristics.

"Old Fang, there shouldn't be any problems now, right?"

Li Rui was a little proud, but he did not show it in front of Fang Lihe. He was afraid that Fang Lihe would turn against him.

"That's impressive! No wonder you dared to ask for a 10 million RMB investment!"

Fang Lihe stopped being stubborn and after a moment's silence, he continued:

"I can submit it for you, but what the higher-ups say is not something I can interfere with."

As soon as these words came out, Li Rui was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him.

As long as you can submit it, the probability of success will be much greater.

Ten million RMB is not a small amount of money.

Even though the country has invested in thousands of major projects this year and imported 4.6 billion US dollars worth of technical equipment from abroad, the annual fiscal deficit is as high as 1.76 billion yuan.

You know, last year our country's fiscal revenue was 113.2 billion yuan, but the Shanghai Baosteel project required an investment of 30 billion yuan.

This project is simply not something we can afford at this time.

What if I don't have money?
Our method is very simple, which is to start the bank printing press. This year we directly increased the supply by 5 billion RMB.

What's the point of saying this?

Among thousands of large and medium-sized projects in various countries, even if each project only requires 10 million RMB on average, this would still cost tens of billions of RMB.

But Shanghai Baosteel needs to invest 30 billion yuan. Although it is not necessary to spend so much money in one year, even if it is only 5 billion yuan, it is still a lot.

Therefore, Harbin Institute of Technology’s application for a 10 million RMB electric bicycle enterprise project is certainly not something that the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building can decide.

However, the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building is the direct superior department of Harbin Institute of Technology. Li Rui can't bypass the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building and apply directly to it, right?
This kind of workplace taboo is definitely not something that a veteran like Li Rui can do.

If Lian Fangli and the leader of the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building did not support Harbin Institute of Technology's electric bicycle project, how could the higher-ups agree to it?

Therefore, Fang Lihe only needs to submit it, and the leaders above will naturally decide whether to invest.

Although it is too late to apply now, Wang Duoyu knows that our country will continue to invest in more than 1,100 projects next year.

There are thousands of projects this year and more than 1,100 projects next year, totaling about 2,200 projects. If all of them are completed, in addition to the previous investment amount, an investment of 130 billion yuan will be required.

This is the amount of money we have invested in the market in the past one or two years under reform and opening up, a huge amount of nearly 300 billion yuan.

While Li Rui, Zhang Jichuan, Fan Baojiang and others were waiting for approval from their superiors, Wang Duoyu had also received a notice from the capital.

Chen Shiing-Shen asked him to come to the capital, and he did not refuse. First, he had not seen his wife for some time, and second, he needed to go to "Capital Literature and Art" to pick up the letters from readers.

The reason for this is that after "Snow City Volume 4" was released in July, it attracted strong attention from readers, resulting in another surge in letters from readers.

The novel "Snow City" is almost a narration of everyone's real life, from the great tide of educated youth returning to the city in 1977 to the present September 1979. Most of the educated youth who have returned to the city are struggling.

Logically speaking, the country has established thousands of medium and large projects this year, which will definitely require a large number of jobs.

However, a factory can only employ tens of thousands of people at most, and there are certainly not many projects that employ tens of thousands of people.

Most projects, like the Xianyang cathode ray tube factory, only require a few hundred people.

Among thousands of projects, that would require about a million people, which is not a lot.

However, in Beijing alone, there are currently more than 400,000 educated youth returning to the city, and more than 300,000 educated youth in Shanghai.

Without mentioning other data, just the number of college entrance examination takers in 1977 and 1978 was 5.7 million and 6.1 million respectively, and the number of admitted college students was 270,000 and 400,000.

The number of people who registered for the college entrance examination in the past two years should be mostly overlapping. If calculated based on 6 million, then 400,000 were admitted, there would still be 5.6 million left.

Among the 5.6 million college entrance examination candidates, even if 500,000 are recruited by those thousands of projects, there are still 5 million people.

Nearly five million educated young people were unemployed and could only earn an income by replacing their fathers or by chance.

But more people are struggling.

Unable to achieve their goals in reality, they can only rely on the spiritual world of novels.

"Snow City" is such a work that these educated youth can't stop watching.

In a small conference room on the third floor of the Jingxi Hotel in Beijing, Wang Duoyu met Chen Shiing-Shen.

After the meeting, Chen Shiing-Shen said bluntly:

"Mr. Wang, I just returned from the United States and have met with Smale and others. They all agree that we hope to hold an academic conference next summer."

The status of the Poincaré conjecture in the global mathematics community is unquestionable, and its influence is very great because it is the hottest scientific research topic.

Wang Duoyu published four papers in succession. In particular, in June this year, he published three papers that proved the Poincare conjecture in one go.

This stirred up a hornet's nest and sent shockwaves through the global mathematics community.

Especially after the end of August, after Smale, Shing-Tung Yau, John Milnor, Andrei Weil, Sergei Novikov and others jointly reviewed and confirmed that the three papers were perfect, the American "Annals of Mathematics" typeset and printed the three papers at the fastest speed and delivered them to Youyuan people.

One stone caused a thousand waves!

If it was just a rumor in June and July, the global mathematics community would not have believed it.

Then, around the end of August and the beginning of September, after the three papers were published in the Annals of Mathematics, everyone from Princeton to Berkeley, to the University of Tokyo, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in London, to Europe, and finally to Moscow, one of the only two mathematical centers in the world, was so shocked that they couldn't speak complete sentences.

In the United States, according to Chen Xingshen's understanding, after the publication of the "Annals of Mathematics", the three papers sold 15,000 copies in the United States alone.

This is not some popular science magazine, but a top-level paper from a professional journal. Not to mention ordinary people, even doctoral students doing mathematics research may not be able to understand it.

However, even so, 15,000 copies of the magazine were sold in a short period of time, which is enough to prove the status of the Poincaré conjecture in the American mathematical community.

Therefore, when Chen Shiing-Shen met Wang Duoyu, he immediately stated this situation.

Smale, John Milnor, Charles Fefman, Hirzebruch and others are eager to hold a lecture next summer and strongly recommend that it be held at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States.

In fact, André Weil, Charles Feefman, John Milnor, Robert Langlands and others all hoped to hold this lecture at the center of mathematics in the United States, that is, Princeton University.

However, Chen Shiing-Shen also had his own selfish motives. Although he had previously worked as a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, he still preferred the University of California, Berkeley.

So he didn't tell Wang Duoyu about this.

After Chen Shiing-Shen finished speaking, Wang Duoyu did not speak for a long time.

Because the pressure is now on him. If he makes a decision now, Chen Xingshen will tell his superiors about this matter later, and they will ask him to go to the United States to attend a lecture. How should he deal with it then?
"Professor Chen, I understand. I need to think about it."

Wang Duoyu didn't agree immediately without hesitation.

Even though there are already many masters, doctoral students, and mathematics professors in the United States who are eagerly waiting for him to go to the United States to give a report.

Chen Shiing-Shen is using this trend to put pressure on Wang Duoyu, and may even report the matter to his superiors.

But no matter what, Wang Duoyu didn't want to give up immediately.

Delaying time may not change the outcome, but it should be able to gain more benefits for him.

After leaving the Jingxi Hotel, Wang Duoyu returned to Courtyard No. 6, Xila Hutong.

When Zhu Ling saw him, her face was filled with joy.

"Why did you come back so suddenly? Did you miss me?"

It was not until mid-August that she took a special leave to visit Harbin Institute of Technology and returned to Beijing at the end of August.

It hasn't been long since then, and Wang Duoyu has come to Beijing again. If it isn't because he misses her, what else could it be?
"Yeah, I just missed you."

Wang Duoyu smiled but did not specify what he was doing in the capital.

After dinner, the two chatted for a while, then went to bed and did a few pages of fill-in-the-blank exercises. By the time they finished cleaning up, it was more than two hours later.

On the bed, Zhu Ling leaned in his arms and suddenly said with resentment:

"My mother talked to me a while ago and asked me if there was anything wrong with my health." "Huh?"

"We've been married for a few months, but I'm still pregnant. My parents are worried."

"As an old man, he must be very anxious about this matter. Please be more understanding."

"Are you listening to me? My mom suspects it's your health problem, not mine."

Zhu Ling patted him and muttered dissatisfiedly:
"Why don't you go to Union Hospital for a checkup tomorrow?"

Wang Duoyu looked at the other party in surprise, and then said simply:

"Okay, then we'll go get a checkup from an old Chinese doctor tomorrow."

It will be clear who is behind this trick after tomorrow's inspection.

The next day, at Union Hospital, Wang Duoyu, accompanied by Zhu Ling, went to see two of the most famous old Chinese medicine doctors for a physical examination.

Based on the experience of the old Chinese medicine practitioner, it can be quickly determined whether Wang Duoyu is infertile.

Although there are no modern means now, the medical soft power of Union Hospital is currently the best in the country, and the two old Chinese medicine doctors are the faces of Union Hospital.

So, when the two old Chinese doctors announced that Wang Duoyu was in very good health and had no symptoms of infertility, Zhu Ling and Wang Duoyu reacted differently.

Wang Duoyu was very calm. The Wang family's genes were still very strong, and Wang Duoyu's body did not suffer any accidents because he was a time traveler.

Zhu Ling murmured evasively, "Maybe we are just unlucky, let's try again."

Seeing that she was still quibbling, Wang Duoyu was too lazy to expose her, so he simply pretended to be deaf and dumb and continued with what she said:
"Haha, I think so too. Giving birth is never that easy. Just take your time."

After the inspection, Zhu Ling went to work, while Wang Duoyu went to the editorial office of "Beijing Literature and Art" at No. 97 Qianmen West Street.

"The great writer has arrived. What a rare guest! Please come in! You won't stay for two days this time, will you?"

When Fu Jixiang saw Wang Duoyu, his eyes suddenly lit up and he greeted him warmly.

Wang Duoyu smiled slightly and walked into the yard while chatting with the other party.

After entering the yard, Wang Duoyu quickly met Old Lady Zhou, Gu Zhizhong and others. The editors of "Beijing Literature and Art" were all in the office.

After seeing Wang Duoyu, Zhou Yanru chatted with him for a while and then asked him to come to her office to sit down and talk in detail.

The old lady's purpose was very simple, which was to ask Wang Duoyu if he had any other articles recently.

Although Wang Duoyu's status is different now, the profits of "Beijing Literature and Art" are very good. Every time Wang Duoyu's article is published, the sales volume increases a lot compared to usual.

Not only did sales increase, but there were also many letters from readers and the social response was quite large.

As the editor-in-chief, the old lady naturally prefers to work with authors like Wang Duoyu.

"Editor-in-chief, I haven't done much writing recently. I'll write when I have time."

Wang Duoyu smiled and declined politely:
"Besides, the 'Snow City Volume 5' I wrote earlier hasn't been published yet, so there's no rush."

Although the fifth volume has not been published yet, Wang Duoyu has already received the royalties.

Moreover, there is no concept of royalties now, so no matter how well the manuscript is written or how high the sales are, it has nothing to do with Wang Duoyu.

Therefore, it is not a wise thing to continue writing books at this time.

Of course, if Wang Duoyu is really short of money, he naturally wouldn't mind writing some more articles to enrich his own piggy bank.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yanru could only nod silently. It seemed that there was no way to get the manuscript from Wang Duoyu in a short period of time.

But she should also be content. After all, the "Snow City" written by Wang Duoyu, a total of five volumes, has greatly increased the sales of "Beijing Literature and Art".

After chatting for a while, Zhou Yanru brought Wang Duoyu to the utility room.

When he pushed open the door, Wang Duoyu saw more than eight sacks of readers' letters piled up in the utility room, and his scalp suddenly felt numb.

Why are there so many?
Even though there is a lot of money in it, it is not very pleasant for Wang Duoyu to open these letters every day.

With the help of Fu Jixiang, Wang Duoyu loaded the letters from readers into the car, and then he drove the car himself back to No. 87, Zhongguancun West Street.

I haven't been here for a while, and the courtyard hasn't been targeted by thieves.

It seems that his decision to buy this house was indeed a wise one.

There are foreign-related units nearby, so of course no thief would dare to come here to develop business, unless he wishes his life would be too long.

After putting all the letters in the room, Wang Duoyu did nothing else but started opening them.

Although he is not short of money now, it is not safe to store these letters here.

Unless he opens all the letters and takes away the money inside, then he can just let the rest of the letters do as they please.

He spent the next day opening letters.

By the evening, he had only opened half of the four sacks of letters. After opening them, Wang Duoyu counted them and found that the money given as tips by readers had exceeded 3,400 yuan.

"So rich?"

After muttering to himself, Wang Duoyu did not continue opening the letter, but went out to eat.

In January this year, he and Liu Xiaoli opened the letters from readers and received a total of 4,237 yuan.

Eighteen hundred yuan was taken out of the money, and there was still two thousand four hundred and thirty-seven yuan left.

After that, Wang Duoyu never touched the money again.

Since Liu Xiaoli knew the existence of this money, Wang Duoyu naturally would not use it easily.

Now in September, letters from readers have earned him so much money again. This time Liu Xiaoli doesn't know about it, so he can deposit the money directly into the passbook in the small treasury.

His small piggy bank has always had more than 800 yuan in it, and it has never been touched or increased.

The next morning, Wang Duoyu came to Yard 87 again and continued to open the letters.

It took me a whole morning and two hours in the afternoon to finally open all the remaining letters.

Including yesterday's 3,400 yuan, the total is a huge sum of 5,087 yuan.

So he deposited all the money into the bank, but he opened a few more passbooks and kept them together with the passbook for the small treasury. So his small treasury now has a total of more than 5,900 yuan.

Nowadays, when you go to the bank to withdraw money, you don’t need a password at all, you only need an ID and a passbook.

Therefore, Wang Duoyu attaches great importance to the safekeeping of passbooks and identity documents.

Not only do you need to protect yourself from thieves, you also need to protect yourself from mosquitoes.

There was a picture in the textbook of my previous life that talked about saving money. An old lady saved money all her life, wrapped it very nicely in a plastic bag, and stored it in a glass jar.

Unfortunately, it was eaten by cockroaches, rats and other animals, and the money inside was also eaten into a mess and could not be spent at all.

Money is the dirtiest thing. If someone has touched the cash with hands that have been stained with food, the smell of food will remain on the banknotes, which will naturally drive cockroaches and other mosquitoes crazy.

In addition, the old lady had not touched the glass jar for saving money for several years, so the accident happened.

Wang Duoyu's passbooks were all newly opened. He put them directly in a brass box, and then put them in a few more brass boxes, sealing them all for safekeeping.

Anyway, just seal this thing up like a nesting doll.

Although it is relatively troublesome to withdraw the money, it is much better than having the passbook stolen or eaten, right?
The brass box that looks like a nesting doll may be difficult for others to obtain, but it is still very simple for Wang Duoyu.

Whether you ask Lin Dehong for it or take his used empty bullet casings back to the Mechanical Engineering Department of Harbin Institute of Technology, they can help you make them soon.

After he had stored the small cash bank, he began to do his own work.

The next day, Wang Duoyu did not receive a call from Chen Shengshen, but received a call from Li Rui, the head of the family.

In the office compound of the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building, Wang Duoyu, Li Rui and others came to meet Director Fang Lihe.

When the latter saw Wang Duoyu, he nodded with great joy and praised Wang Duoyu several times in a row.

Fang Lihe asked curiously:

"Professor Wang, the People's Daily recently reported on your proof of the Poincare conjecture. I heard the Institute of Mathematics has already started discussing holding a seminar. Have you decided where to hold it?"

Wang Duoyu shook his head and explained the current situation to Director Fang.

Li Rui also added:

"Lao Fang, when you talk to your superiors, you might as well mention Harbin Institute of Technology. We really need this opportunity to improve our soft power."

Hearing Li Rui's words, Fang Lihe rolled his eyes unhappily and said:

"Although Harbin Institute of Technology has absorbed a lot of equipment and talent from Harbin Institute of Technology, you can't even compete with the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha. How can you still want to compete with Tsinghua and Peking University? I think you've lost your mind, Old Li. Otherwise, why would you be so arrogant?"

There is no need to elaborate on how strong Peking University is.

But Harbin Institute of Technology is located in a corner of the north and is the northernmost provincial capital in the country. In the Northeastern dialect, it is called "that corner".

Never mind its status as the eldest son of the Republic. Judging from the status of universities and the level of attention given to major universities by the higher authorities, Harbin Institute of Technology is not even an adopted son.

How can we compare them with the most beloved sons among the beloved sons of Tsinghua University and Peking University?
Li Rui became anxious when he heard this.

"No, Lao Fang, don't go too far. Harbin Institute of Technology is a university under the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building. If you don't fight for us, then we definitely can't do it."

Fang Lihe was too lazy to pay attention to the other party. What was there to argue about?
Harbin Institute of Technology is not good enough, and using these unorthodox methods will be of no avail.

Originally, Fang Lihe wanted to continue chatting with Wang Duoyu for a while, but after being interrupted by Li Rui, he lost interest in chatting.

So Fang Lihe went straight to the point and started talking about electric bicycle companies.

"First, I have good news for you. The motor project has been approved by higher-ups. However, the higher-ups still have some doubts about the 10 million RMB investment. I hope Harbin Institute of Technology can explain this."

"Secondly, if you really want to produce electric bicycles, how can you ensure sales?"

After Fang Lihe finished speaking, an expert from the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building next to him took out a relevant data report.

This data report is about the relevant data of our country's power generation.

According to the report, the total installed power generation capacity in our country last year was 5712 million kilowatts, of which thermal power generation accounted for 2565.5%, and the total power generation for the whole year was billion kilowatt-hours.

However, the gap in installed power generation capacity is still as high as 1000 million kilowatts, and the gap in power generation is as high as 400 billion kilowatt-hours.

After the expert finished speaking, Fang Lihe continued:
"Experts in the power sector have already proposed a 'grant-to-loan' plan and are preparing to submit it to higher authorities. This means that power infrastructure investment will be replaced by bank loans instead of grants from the previous fiscal year."

"But there is still a huge funding gap and demand will surge."

This problem is obvious, because thousands of medium and large projects have been launched this year, and more than 1,100 planned projects have almost been listed. After all, it is already September.

The Diao Pai electric bicycle enterprise project submitted by Harbin Institute of Technology this time will soon become one of them.

It’s just that Fang Lihe hasn’t received any further notice from the higher-ups, because the higher-ups want to be more cautious. After all, electric bicycles are too new.

Secondly, the issue that Fang Lihe is talking about now is actually the issue that the above are worried about.

The point is very simple and clear: the domestic electricity gap is too large, and the national power infrastructure is backward. After electric bicycles are produced, they are promoted first in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.

But it is undeniable that there is such a huge gap in industrial electricity consumption, not to mention residential electricity consumption.

Electric bicycles are obviously "electric tigers", and residents' electricity demand will increase dramatically.

In addition, Fang Lihe also mentioned the four major issues summarized by experts from the power sector:
First, the safety foundation is not solid, and serious accidents often occur in many power plants.

Second, the reliability of the equipment is extremely unstable, with frequent boiler fire extinguishing, pipe bursting, relay protection malfunctioning, automatic device failure, and forced shutdown.

Third, civilized production is generally dirty and messy, and eight types of leakage in equipment, including oil leakage, water leakage, air leakage, powder leakage, gas leakage, smoke leakage, coal leakage, and hydrogen leakage, have become the norm.

Fourth, economic indicators are not ideal, and the production capacity of many power plants cannot be fully and effectively utilized, making it difficult to adapt to the growing peak-shaving requirements.

In the context of a huge gap in industrial electricity consumption and enormous pressure on the power infrastructure industry, which is unable to meet residential and industrial electricity needs, many residents may have problems such as returns after purchasing electric bicycles.

It may even prevent many consumers who originally intended to buy electric bicycles from choosing to do so.

In this case, how does Harbin Institute of Technology resolve this contradiction?

Li Rui, Zhang Jichuan and Fan Baojiang fell silent. After listening to what Wang Duoyu said, he paused for a moment and said,
"Director Fang, we at Harbin Institute of Technology are indeed unaware of these issues, but this should not be a reason for not approving the project. On the contrary, I think such problems should be actively addressed."

"Since the power department has discovered these problems, I believe they will definitely find a way to solve them. This is not something that Harbin Institute of Technology should consider, and it is not our responsibility."

"Of course, we are also very happy that Director Fang explained these issues to us in advance, so that we can take precautions and make relevant preparations in advance, rather than blindly expand and cause other unnecessary losses."

"In fact, we at Harbin Institute of Technology have a solution to this problem. The first point is naturally to export our products to Europe and the United States. The electric bicycles we produce will solve the short-distance travel problems of residents in their big cities."

Fang Lihe and others immediately pricked up their ears, and Fang Lihe couldn't wait to ask questions about those developed countries.

Wang Duoyu smiled faintly and said:
"When I was reading foreign journals, I also read a lot of relevant foreign reports. When I talked with Professor Chen and others, I also heard them talk about some of the problems in big cities. The most common ones were traffic jams and car accidents."

"Foreigners are also afraid of death and get very anxious when faced with problems like traffic jams. Our electric bicycles can completely solve this problem."

"At next year's Canton Fair, Harbin Institute of Technology can definitely take our electric bicycles to the exhibition and sell these products to foreigners."

Electric bicycles are not new in foreign countries, but there is not much of a market for them.

Even in later generations, there was indeed not much of a market for it.

But selling products relies on deception.

What's more, what Harbin Institute of Technology needs now is to win this project, rather than being stumped by the problems raised by Fang Lihe.

The reason why the Forever DX130 electric scooter in the original time and space history sold so poorly was not only due to the practical problems mentioned by Fang Lihe, but more so due to the unbalanced development of the national economy.

However, only less than a thousand Forever DX130 electric scooters have been sold overseas, which is a problem caused by inadequate technology.

Although there are also practical problems of one kind or another abroad, European and American countries are very rich.

The most critical practical issue is the second oil crisis that began at the end of last year, which led to a surge in oil prices since the beginning of this year.

Today's oil prices have skyrocketed from $13 per barrel to $26 per barrel, and the rate is still continuing to grow.

The sharp rise in oil prices is a real problem. The inflation caused by the Federal Reserve's massive printing of dollars and the sharp rise in unemployment will also cause many people to reduce their household spending.

At this time, the emergence of electric bicycles can be regarded as good news for European and American countries.

"Director Fang, our electric bicycles are rechargeable. Electricity prices in Europe and the United States are not very expensive. With oil prices rising, more people will definitely be willing to use electric bicycles as a means of transportation."

"So I think our electric bicycle project at Harbin Institute of Technology is a very feasible project. It is not just a theory, and we can solve and deal with the practical problems we encounter one by one."

After Wang Duoyu finished speaking, Fang Lihe was the first to lead the applause, looking at the former with admiration.

Li Rui, Fan Baojiang, Zhang Jichuan and others were immediately delighted. It seemed that the project was almost done.

(End of this chapter)