The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

The pressure is placed on the heads of each group!

One year!

Liu Tao gave them a year!

If they fail to achieve results in deepening internal reforms over the next year, they will proceed with the divestiture as proposed in the first draft.

This puts the heads of major groups under tremendous pressure.

Whether to peel off or not is not the goal, but only a means to solve the problem!

If the problem can be solved through in-depth internal reforms, then there is no problem with not separating it.

As for financial reform, etc., it can also be solved through other means.

To be honest, big company disease is very common both at home and abroad, and it begins to appear when a company develops to a certain size.

Among the companies suffering from big enterprise disease are many that have been established for decades or even hundreds of years.

Some large enterprises are gradually dragged down and weakened due to big enterprise disease, and eventually go bankrupt.

Some large enterprises, in order to solve their big enterprise problems, have invested heavily, taken drastic measures, and scraped bones to heal their wounds. Ultimately, the enterprises have come back to life, broken down and rebuilt themselves, creating new glory.

As the largest state-owned enterprise in the country, Panshan Group owns thousands of companies, and the current listed companies are only a small part of the companies owned by Panshan Group.

In addition to financing from the IPO, a very important reason for the listing that year was to ensure that the mainland stock market had sufficient ballast, and at the same time to share the dividends of corporate development with shareholders, rather than shareholders simply becoming leeks of the stock market and being harvested again and again.

If we were to ask which listed companies are the most standardized, they would undoubtedly be those under Panshan Group.

As for other listed companies, many are eager to sell their companies to shareholders, take the money and live a carefree life. As for development and growth, it does not exist at all.

China still has many problems to solve in the financial field. That is why one of the focuses of discussion at the meeting a few days ago was financial reform.

At the mid-year party group meeting, Liu Tao sounded the alarm for everyone.

At the same time, for a period of one year, Liu Tao gave greater power to a few departments such as the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group.

Liu Tao used his actions to tell everyone that it is impossible to rest on the laurels of the past.

Either correct your attitude, apply for early retirement, or retreat to the second line, where the mediocre will be demoted and the capable will be promoted!

Some departments will be cut.

The phenomenon of holding multiple positions must also be drastically reduced.

When taking the group commemorative photo, few people had a smile on their face, but everyone had a solemn look on their face.

Deepen reform, these four short words mean that we need to take drastic measures to heal the wounds and to strike a decisive blow to stubborn diseases.

This is an offensive thing!

It is even conceivable that some resentful employees will cause all kinds of trouble.

Many of them are former leaders.

But Liu Tao's attitude was already clear; they could retire but they couldn't be polite.

Dandelion headquarters building, restaurant garden on the rooftop.

Liu Tao, Liu Ziyu and Chen Nianzhen were eating.

Liu Ziyu and Chen Nianzhen were explaining to Liu Tao how the company could solve the problems of large enterprises.

Dandelion is a global Internet technology giant with a large number of employees, which naturally leads to big company problems.

Their approach is simple and crude, which is to lay off a group of people and recruit a new group of people to keep the flow of fresh blood at all times.

The shares held by the two are definitely enough to firmly control the company.

Naturally, their behavior caused them a lot of criticism, such as abusing meritorious officials, being heartless and disloyal, etc. However, both of them were very open-minded and did not care about these criticisms at all.

They fully trust and empower the selected CEOs and other senior executives.

After all, neither of them is an outstanding management talent, and in recent years they have focused part of their energy on their family.

The reason why Liu Tao brought up the issue of big enterprise disease at this party group meeting was that he wanted to solve it while he had prestige and energy.

Otherwise, when he retires, his successor will certainly not have his prestige, and no matter how capable he is, it will be difficult to solve this stubborn problem.

Of course, given his current situation, he will have no problem taking the helm of Panshan Group for at least another 20 years.

As we chatted, we talked about this year's Fields Medal.

This year's Fields Medal, breaking the rule of only awarding it to those aged 40 and below, was awarded to Liu Tao and Yang Zhenning in recognition of their solution to the Yang-Mills equation.

Of course, Liu Tao did not attend the award ceremony, but asked someone to receive the award on his behalf.

Now this award is insignificant to him.

Liu Ziyu and Chen Nianzhen were full of admiration. You know how difficult it is to recruit mathematical talents, and they have a say.

Every year they recruit a group of mathematical talents. Behind the rapid development of the company is the fact that they have recruited a group of mathematicians.

But these mathematicians are not as good as Liu Tao.

They all felt that if the company had someone like Liu Tao, artificial intelligence would definitely develop faster.

Artificial intelligence is regarded as one of the hallmarks of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Its importance is self-evident and it is also an area in which Dandelion has invested heavily.

In current research, there is a saying that mankind has experienced three industrial revolutions, namely the steam technology revolution, the electric power technology revolution, and the computer and information technology revolution.

Their research on China's extremely rapid development over the past thirty years shows that China has simultaneously completed the steam technology revolution, the electric power technology revolution, and the computer and information technology revolution during these thirty years.

In particular, the revolution in computer and information technology has brought about a technological explosion in China, which has enabled it to leap from a poor and backward developing country to become the leading country it is today.

Now major countries around the world are focusing on the next industrial revolution, the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The world has a certain consensus on this issue, that is, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an industrial revolution with artificial intelligence, new materials technology, molecular engineering, graphene, virtual reality, quantum information technology, controlled nuclear fusion, clean energy and biotechnology as technological breakthroughs.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is based on the emergence of cyber-physical systems, which combine digital technologies of communication with software, sensors and nanotechnology. At the same time, the fusion of biological, physical and digital technologies will change the world as we know it today.

Liu Ziyu, Chen Nianzhen and others have focused their company's attention on three areas: artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and quantum information technology.

In these three aspects, more or less achievements have been made.

However, there is still a long way to go before commercial application.

Panshan Group Headquarters, underground laboratory.

Liu Tao is assembling parts.

As the parts were assembled, a dog-shaped robot gradually took shape.

If there are drones in the sky, there must naturally be robots on the ground.

Modern warfare is a high-tech war, and this is not just talk!

For example, unmanned warfare is an area in which major military powers have invested heavily in research.

This is reflected in the application of drones in the military field.

On the battlefield, drones have been put into use, including reconnaissance drones, reconnaissance and strike drones, communication drones, target drones, and so on.

And this is just the unmanned military application in the sky. Robots on the ground will also be the focus of research.

In modern warfare, once there are large-scale casualties, the war will be under tremendous pressure.

But it would be much better if it were a robot.

Many highly threatening military tasks can be handed over to robots.

At most the robot will be destroyed, and how much does a robot cost?

The dog-shaped robot that Liu Tao is working on is a type of robot that is specially used to carry automatic rifles, machine guns, small mortars, etc., and can also be used to transport supplies.

The battery installed in the entire dog-shaped robot is a solid-state battery.

Existing lithium batteries are not sufficient to support the use of this robot on the battlefield.

Solid-state batteries are different. They generally have lower power density and higher energy density. Because of their high power-to-weight ratio, solid-state batteries are also considered ideal batteries for electric vehicles.

Of course, due to problems in the industrial chain, solid-state batteries are still laboratory products and cannot even be considered small-scale production, and their prices remain high.

Compared with lithium batteries, solid-state batteries have many advantages, such as high energy density, small size, flexibility, and greater safety. These are very suitable batteries for drones and robots.

After it is ready, charge the battery.

Liu Tao turned on his laptop and opened a program.

This program was written by Liu Tao himself. After being imported into the robot, it can easily control 100 robots, which is almost a company of robots.

Even different combat applications can be made based on the planned application prospects.

This dog-shaped robot looks like it's just a pile of steel, but it actually uses a lot of high-tech.

For example, battlefield perception, battlefield friend or foe identification, etc.

The driving speed on the road can even reach 90 km/h, and even on mountain roads, the speed can reach 40 km/h.

It also has super flexibility and can adapt to most battlefield environments.

For example, it can adapt to mountain warfare, forest warfare, rainforest warfare, desert warfare, plain warfare, warfare in areas with dense river networks, etc.

This is still in the military field, and it also has huge application prospects in the civilian field, including food delivery, express delivery, etc.

Of course, Liu Tao pays more attention to the application of this robot on the battlefield, using this weapon to enrich the army's tactics, reduce casualties and enhance combat effectiveness.

As for the civilian field, there are naturally other companies to carry out the work.

Leave professional matters to professionals.

After Liu Tao left the laboratory with the robot, he called the project leader and asked him to produce another 100 robots of this type for military testing.

The application of a new weapon cannot be completed in a short period of time. It may take three to four years, or even ten years.

Because a weapon, especially a new weapon, needs to be tested under different warfare modes, and it is necessary to explore and cultivate talents in this process.

Just like drones, the drones equipped in the Chinese army have only truly formed combat effectiveness after years of exploration, making drones a multiplier of the army's combat effectiveness.

At the beginning, there was a lack of technical talent to operate drones.

The same principle applies to this robot.

For example, this robot can carry automatic rifles, submachine guns, machine guns, small mortars and other weapons. How to use different weapons, under what conditions to use them, how to cooperate, etc., all these need to be explored by military commanders and fighters.

Liu Tao is just a scientific researcher. He is not a military commander and does not understand war.

As for the exploration and application in the civilian field, including applications in scenarios such as autonomous driving, there are naturally special teams to do it, and then a special production company will be established.

Liu Tao came to Panshan Machinery Factory. Even after so many years, it is still operating normally and holds an extremely important position in Panshan Group.

The number of people who served as directors of Panshan Machinery Factory and eventually became members of the Party Leadership Group of Panshan Group could not be counted on one hand.

At a weapons testing field, dozens of drones were seen forming a drone formation under the operation of technicians.

These drones include reconnaissance drones, reconnaissance and strike drones, attack drones specifically used to carry missiles for strikes, bombing drones that carry bombs for bombing, and many drones that are equipped with machine guns, rifles, submachine guns or carry bombs.

What's worse, there are drones that carry nothing. These drones are very cheap and are suicide drones that launch suicide attacks on enemy soldiers on the battlefield.

On the other side, technicians were conducting anti-drone experiments.

You need both a sharp spear and a solid shield.

China has strong capabilities in drone development and drone defense.

In China, drones are now not only used for military purposes, but also for civilian purposes.

For example, it is used in traffic control, scenic area patrol, fire fighting, sports and media industries, etc.

The number of military and civilian drones is increasing rapidly.

As overseas wars continue to break out, the demand for drones is increasing at a considerable rate.

After all, the role played by drones on the battlefield cannot be underestimated.

Liu Tao came here this time because the technical staff here will go to Khalistan to conduct performance testing at the front line.

After all, these are China's own versions. Only personal testing can tell how well they can perform in subtropical and tropical environments.

As the war in Australia subsides, the only places where wars still exist are South Asia, West Asia, and Africa.

In West Asia, both sides of the Turkmenistan War were originally close to the Americans and did not have much intersection with the Panshan Group. It was not easy to conduct tests on the spot in the Turkmenistan War, and it was also necessary to prevent leaks.

As for Africa, Panshan Group has been conducting weapons testing.

However, the overall intensity of the war in Africa and the performance of the weapons used are relatively low, unlike the war in South Asia, which has most modern weapons and equipment.

Various third-generation aircraft were present in the South Asian war, and various third-generation tanks were also put into large-scale use in the South Asian war.

Even more, the South Asian war involves the three services of army, navy and air force, rather than just one or two types of arms.

The Turkic-Kurdish War attracted the most attention in the world, but the Turkic-Kurdish War was limited to the air forces and armies of both sides.

Because the Kurds have no navy! (End of this chapter)