Rebirth 1975: Tore up the call-back order at the beginning

"cough!"

A slight cough broke the silence in the office. Just when Zhou Yang was about to get up to refill his water, Minister He spoke: "Comrade Zhou Yang, I have read your revision opinions and I can see that you really put your heart into it. There are a total of 13 opinions, and each one is meaningful and will be of great benefit to our semiconductor industry development plan."

"However, there are a few opinions that I don't quite understand, and I hope you can discuss them in more detail!"

"No problem. Leader, do you have any doubts about that place?" Zhou Yang asked with a smile.

"I see that your first few comments all emphasize that the ministry should take charge of the entire plan. It seems that you have been emphasizing the issue of leadership. I wonder what is going on?" Minister He said.

Zhou Yang nodded and said: "In addition, you are right. I am indeed emphasizing that the ministry should grasp the leadership and command authority."

"What do you mean, you are worried that the ministry will lose leadership of the entire plan one day?" Minister He said with a frown.

"Correct!"

Then Zhou Yang explained: "Leader, you know the current domestic financial situation better than I do. Even the development funds for large-scale armament projects led by the military are being reduced. You can imagine the situation of other units."

"Under such circumstances, if these scientific research institutes and electronics factories under the Fourth Ministry of Machinery want to survive and even develop, they will definitely not be able to rely solely on the funding from above. The final result will inevitably be to go to the market and find resources by themselves. Money to survive, once such a pattern is formed, the ministry will inevitably lose control of the entire plan!"

"That's not necessarily the case. Even if the ministry doesn't allocate funds to them, we are still in charge of those units. Can they still dissatisfy our management?" Minister He said with confidence.

"Boss, if you have milk, you are a mother. If we don't even give milk to others, how can we manage them?" Zhou Yang said with a little helplessness.

The reason why he emphasizes the issue of leadership so much is because the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics in the previous life... No, it should be the Ministry of Electronics Industry because it lost leadership of the entire semiconductor development plan, which ultimately led to the complete failure of the entire plan.

In order to comprehensively implement the semiconductor development plan, the Ministry of Electronics Industry was established in 1982 to take charge of the national electronics industry.

This department has inherited more than 2500 scientific research institutes and electronic factories across the country, with a total of more than 100 million employees. It mainly develops communications, radar, television, computers, radios, components and other equipment.The completeness of the industrial structure is only comparable to that of the Thief Eagle and Mao Xiong Alliance.

Not to mention anything else, there are hundreds of professional electronics research institutes under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Electronics Industry. If these resources are integrated and development routes are reasonably planned, the development of our semiconductor industry will not be too bad.

However, in the early 80s, due to the complete cessation of investment in the electronics industry, various electronics companies had to go to the market to find resources on their own.As a result, the technological upgrading of the electronics industry came to a complete halt, and the technological gap with major foreign semiconductor developing countries rapidly widened.

More importantly, because the Ministry of Electronics Industry has no money, it is forced to hand over the management of most state-owned electronics companies to provincial and municipal governments. The so-called national game of chess has completely lost its meaning.

As a result, from 1984 to 1990, state-owned enterprises and universities in various places introduced obsolete backward wafer production lines from abroad, totaling 33 lines before and after, spending huge amounts of money.

However, most of these wafer production lines have no commercial value at all. The semiconductor industry, which was already stretched and lacked development funds, was even worse. It was completely surpassed by the Japanese, Bangzi, etc.

Therefore, in Zhou Yang's view, if the semiconductor industry wants to stop its decline and get back on its feet, it must have a strong department to plan and develop in a unified manner.

Whether it is the current Ministry of Machinery or the Ministry of Electronics Industry in the future, leadership of the entire plan must be firmly controlled, and there must be no amateurs leading experts.

Minister He thought for a while and said: "I understand what you mean. This is also the fundamental reason why you proposed to integrate resources and focus on developing electronic factories with potential!"

Zhou Yang nodded and said: "Yes, we don't have that much money to support the development of all electronic factories, so we have to make choices."

"Those factories that have no technology, no resources, and backward products will be closed down when they need to be closed, and merged when they need to be merged. Even if half of the factories are closed, even if they are sold out, a number of internationally competitive semiconductor companies will be created."

"Shut down half the factory?"

Hearing this, Minister He shuddered all over, this kid is really crazy!

You must know that there are thousands of factories across the country, employing as many as 100 million people. What will happen to those workers after half of the factories are closed?

Zhou Yang knew what Minister He was worried about and immediately said: "Leader, the semiconductor industry itself is a high-input and high-output industry. It is unrealistic for it to flourish everywhere when there is insufficient funds. Since we want to let go and work hard, we will Face reality head-on and leave no illusions behind!”

"But there are thousands of electronics factories. If they are shut down, it would really be..."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhou Yang said again: "It's not necessarily necessary to shut down all the factories. We can also merge those uncompetitive factories into large factories. In a word, we need to integrate resources first."

The plan proposed by Zhou Yang, or this model, has been verified by the market. Back then, Samsung Electronics and several large semiconductor companies were all supported by their governments.

After several years of chaos, my country's electronics industry also learned its lesson and proposed the "86 Strategy" in 531.

The so-called "531 strategy" refers to the popularization of 5 micron technology, research and development of 3 micron technology, research on 1 micron technology, and the implementation of two microelectronics bases in the north and south.The south is concentrated in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and the north is concentrated in the capital.

From 1988 to 1995, with policy support, five large-scale state-owned semiconductor companies were born in China: Wuxi Huajing Electronics (the original 742 Factory merged with Yongchuan Semiconductor Research Institute), Shaoxing Huayue Microelectronics, Hucheng Belling Microelectronics, Hucheng Philips Semiconductor, and Beijing Shougang NEC.

Unfortunately, it was too late when we realized it. After wasting 15 years, semiconductor technology at this time had undergone qualitative changes, and it was already very difficult to catch up.

But Zhou Yang believes that if we follow the correct path at this time, the effect will definitely be different.

Now let’s see if the higher-ups have such courage. After all, if we do this, it will destroy the jobs of hundreds of thousands of people.

Minister He was silent for a moment, and then said: "Comrade Zhou Yang, your ideas have a wide range of implications. I need to report to the superiors before I can give you an answer!"

"understand!"

At this time, Zhou Yang handed over another plan in his hand, and then said: "Leader, this is our institute's preliminary plan for the development of the semiconductor industry. You can take a look!"

Minister He took over the plan and read it again.

After a while, he raised his head and asked: "You want to build an integrated circuit clean workshop, and a very large workshop of [-] square meters?"

"Yes, building an integrated circuit workshop is just the beginning. Next, we will build a wafer factory and a semiconductor research institute!" Zhou Yang said.

In fact, there is no such plan of the Fourth Machinery Department. In Zhou Yang's plan, the No. 18 Research Institute is also preparing to build an integrated circuit workshop.

After all, many equipment of the No. 18 Research Institute use integrated circuits, such as airborne radar, artillery sighting radar, early warning aircraft avionics equipment, etc.

Previously, they could not produce these parts themselves and had to be processed by electronics factories in Beijing, Qin Province and other places. The yield rate was not high, and the supply was often cut off!

Now that the higher authorities are preparing to vigorously develop the semiconductor industry, this is a rare opportunity for No. 18 Research Institute. Taking advantage of this opportunity to put forward the idea of ​​building integrated circuits, it can get some support.

"The idea is great, but do you know how much investment it takes to build a [-]-square-meter integrated circuit clean workshop?" Minister He asked with a wry smile.

"Thirty million yuan!"

"Well, it seems like you haven't done enough homework yet. It's a conservative estimate of 3000 million yuan!"

Then Minister He said again: "For such a large sum of money, even if I want to support you, it's hard to approve it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Yang grinned and said, "Boss, we can figure out the money ourselves, we just need the ministry to help us with one thing!"

Hearing this, Minister He couldn't help but feel something in his heart. The way this kid looked at him wasn't quite right...

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