Following Director Wang's car from the Ministry of Construction, we arrived at Academy Road. As soon as Zhao Guoyang got off the car, he saw a group of young students around him walking by the construction site talking and laughing.

Under the roar of the excavator, their conversation was covered up a lot, but it did not affect their interest in conversation at all.

Seeing the sunshine and brilliance on the faces of these young people, Zhao Guoyang felt a little moved.

Before he was reborn, he often came to various colleges and universities to give lectures and presentations nearby.

But at that time, the road here had been repaired long ago, and the environment was much better than it is now, except for the air quality of course.

Director Wang noticed Zhao Guoyang's gaze and explained with a smile: "Researcher Zhao, there are many colleges and universities in this area of ​​college, and there are a lot of students."

"I know, the Eight Great Colonels are here!" Zhao Guoyang nodded.

"Ah, Researcher Zhao also knows the eight major universities?" Wang Shouyi couldn't help asking when he heard this.

Zhao Guoyang said "yes" and said nothing.

After the founding of New China, how to better develop the social economy and improve people's living standards is one of the urgent problems that countries that are in need of development need to solve.

The original system of higher education, especially engineering education, is extremely incompatible with the need to establish an independent and complete national industrialization system.

Against this background, in 1952, the state decided to make major adjustments to colleges and universities across the country. In addition to retaining some comprehensive universities, based on the teaching experience of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union, and the major settings were divided and reorganized to establish colleges of various subjects and majors.

As the capital and political center of China, the capital city of Beijing is naturally the first, taking the lead in this department merger, and is very active.

In this way, the country chose to build a "college district" in the northwest suburbs of the capital.

At that time, Beijing University, Huaqing University, Yenching University and many professional schools merged and reorganized 8 universities with strong professionalism.

That is: Jingcheng Geology College, Jingcheng Mining College, Jingcheng Iron and Steel Industry College, Jingcheng Aviation College, Jingcheng Petroleum College, Jingcheng Agricultural Mechanization College, Jingcheng Forestry College and Jingcheng Medical College.

This is the origin of the "Eight Major Colleges".

Looking at Zhao Guoyang's thoughtful look, Wang Shouyi, who was standing by, smiled and guided him: "Researcher Zhao, let's go to the construction site there first. An overpass is being built there, and there may be something you need to see."

"Okay, please trouble Director Wang!" Zhao Guoyang thanked Wang Shouyi and followed in his footsteps.

Of course, Zhao Guoyang is familiar with the overpass in front of him, which has already been in its prototype.

This is the intersection of Academy Road and the future North Fourth Ring Road. Not far ahead is another famous university in China - Beijing Film Academy.

Although the Beijing Film Academy has already left the scope of Academy Road in terms of geographical location, it is generally classified as Academy Road due to fame and other factors.

However, it does not belong to the "eight major universities".

Following Wang Shouyi to the construction site, Zhao Guoyang found that he seemed to be surrounded by a bunch of large cranes.

These crane divisions are arranged in an orderly manner and are operating almost constantly.

As the top leader of the competent department, Wang Shouyi's arrival naturally attracted the attention of the person in charge of the construction site.

After a while, a middle-aged man wearing a hard hat, tall, thin and neatly dressed, rushed to the scene with a few people.

"Ah, Mr. Wang, you are so handsome! Why are you here to guide your work today?"

The visitor held Wang Shouyi's hand and said with a smile on his face.

Wang Shouyi seemed to be quite familiar with this person. After hearing the other party’s question, he laughed and said, “Mr. Mao, didn’t I say that, I just brought a friend to the construction site to check the construction equipment situation. Why did you work as the boss?”

After hearing this, the tall and thin man naturally looked at Zhao Guoyang behind Wang Shouyi.

"Uh, this is the friend Director Wang mentioned, right? Hello! I am Zhuo Feiming from the Third Construction Company of Beijing!"

Hearing that someone and I reached out, Zhao Guoyang was certainly not reserved, so he nodded to Mr. Mao and said politely: "Mr. Mao, I'm disturbing!"

When Zhao Guoyang shook hands with Mr. Mao, Wang Shouyi introduced: "Mr. Mao, Researcher Zhao is a 'special researcher' of the Ministry of Mechanical and Electronics Industry of the State, and is also a technical talent who enjoys 'special allowances'."

"He came here today mainly to examine the use of machinery and equipment in our capital's infrastructure!"

After listening to Wang Shouyi's introduction, Mr. Mao and the several followers behind him were stunned.

In their impression, researchers who "enjoy special national allowances" are all leaders in all walks of life.

Such people must be at least fifty outside, right?

But the "Researcher Zhao" in front of me seems to be too young last year.

Of course, Mao Feiming and Wang Shouyi were very familiar with each other and knew that Director Wang would never speak nonsense.

Moreover, just looking at the temperament of Researcher Zhao and his calm and composed look, it seems quite like that.

After the group welcomed Wang Shouyi and Zhao Guoyang, they took them to the construction site while talking and laughing.

After a quick look, Zhao Guoyang also had a rough understanding of the progress of this project and the gap in mechanical equipment.

Looking at Mr. Mao who was carefully accompanying him, he asked, "Mr. Mao, after looking at the road, is the construction efficiency of our project a little low?"

Without waiting for a whistle to make a sound, Zhao Guoyang continued: "I just took a look at it. The number of cranes and excavators on the construction site is far from enough."

"Most of the time, one team is over, and another team immediately picks up the mobile phone and then uses it... This approach will not guarantee safety; and the other is, inefficiency is almost an inevitable result!"

After hearing Zhao Guoyang's words, Zhuo Feiming's face turned a little flushed.

He originally thought that this "Researcher Zhao" who was a mechanical engineer was just coming over to take a look, but who knew that when he came, he pointed out the biggest problem on the construction site, and deserved to be called "special researcher".

He coughed embarrassedly, and then nodded with difficulty, explaining: "Researcher Zhao, you are right. The main reason why the construction progress of our Fourth Ring Road is so slow is that it is on this equipment."

Sighing, Bao Feiming continued to speak: "If we say that our second construction company in Beijing is a relatively large engineering construction company in the entire North China region, the number of construction machinery and equipment that the state allocates and purchases independently has a certain advantage over our peers."

"But even so, in terms of the number of critical equipment such as cranes and excavators, our gap is still too big..."

Wang Shouyi next to him sighed and said, "Yes, Researcher Zhao, Mr. Mao is right. Our infrastructure department goes to dozens of large construction companies across the country to count the number of machinery and equipment every year."

"Mao Mr. Mao's second construction company is definitely among the top in terms of the number of construction machinery."

After gently rubbing the temples, Director Wang continued: "But Researcher Zhao, you should know that our country's lifting machinery manufacturing industry is just starting out. There is no way to guarantee the production capacity and product quality."

"Even the best in the same industry in China, such as Pengcheng Engineering Machinery Group, May Day Heavy Industry, Zoomlion Heavy Industry, etc., they still do not have the ability to mass produce large-scale lifting machinery..."

Hearing this, Mao Feiming echoed: "Yes, there are only a few domestic companies that are capable of producing lifting machinery and equipment, and each company has a full order."

"Sometimes, our company's purchasing staff went to several major machinery companies to beg for grandpa, and the grandma took a month to wait before they could barely get the order of four or five units."

"There is no way, everyone has to eat, the equipment is too short of serious!"

The narrative between Mao Feiming and Wang Shouyi was not beyond Zhao Guoyang's expectations.

In fact, he has a very clear understanding of the technical level of domestic engineering machinery.

It’s a good idea to say that excavation machinery is very difficult to solve the technical problems of large lifting machinery.

Even the best heavy engineering machinery companies in China, it is not easy to make breakthroughs in the short term.

When it comes to the pain, Bao Feiming couldn't stop.

The person continued to complain: "The production capacity of domestic lifting machinery and equipment is limited, and it is not technically reassuring enough. However, foreign products are too expensive and require foreign exchange, which is unacceptable."

He looked up at Zhao Guoyang, and Bao Feiming smiled bitterly: "Researcher Zhao, you should have seen it just now. There are very few construction machinery and equipment on our construction site, mainly because of price issues!"

After hearing what Mr. Mao said, Zhao Guoyang nodded silently.

Indeed, he also knew that it was quite difficult for domestic crane manufacturing to gradually develop from scratch under the technological blockade of Western countries.

It is really hard to catch up with the advanced level of foreign countries.

Just as Zhao Guoyang was thinking about it secretly, Wang Shouyi asked Mao Feiming: "Mr. Mao, what is the level of our domestic lifting machinery manufacturing industry than foreign countries? Why can't this problem of mass production be solved?"

"This..." After hearing the questions of the supervisor, Mao Feiming felt a little embarrassed.

He covered his mouth with his hands and coughed: "Director Wang, you probably have to ask the Ministry of Mechanical and Electronics Industry and the leader in the engineering machinery industry. I really don't know much about it..."

After hearing this, Wang Shou's eyes lit up.
Chapter completed!