Rebirth: Let's Talk About 1984

According to reports, this story begins at an entirely unscientific moment: Zhou Ziye, a designer who rose from creating counterfeit mobile phones, suddenly time-traveled back to the year 1984.

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Chapter 192 Arrival in Nandu

The students were not yet used to Xing Baohua's self-aggrandizing speaking style.

The scene was somewhat quiet. Xing Baohua was afraid that if he talked too much, he would scare the group away. What if someone came out and said, "If you're so great, why did you need them to come?"

He then wrote several numbers on the blackboard and said, "I will sign a labor contract with each of you to protect your interests while you are here."

To be honest, the private sector model has limited our current development. We can't ask our superiors for help; we can only rely on ourselves.

Therefore, I will arrange for your arrival to follow the model of a public institution. You will have housing and various benefits.

Leaving aside distant examples, let's talk about recent ones: whoever publishes a paper at the provincial level or above will receive a reward of one hundred yuan from the factory.

A paper published in a national-level journal will be awarded 300 yuan.

The reward for a national-level patent paper is 5,000 yuan. The reward for an international-level patent paper is 10,000 yuan.

If the patent is put into production, there will be a patent licensing fee of 0.5%. If it is your patented product and the profit is 100 million yuan, congratulations, you can get 500,000 yuan.

I want to emphasize here that as long as you are employed and working at the factory, the patents for the products you develop belong to the factory. The factory will allocate bonuses to you based on profits, and there is no room for negotiation on this point.

Okay, finally, there's a non-compete agreement to sign. You'll know about this when you join the company. From the moment you entered this factory, I haven't treated you as interns; I will train you to be key engineers for the factory.

I won't go into any more grand pronouncements, but the factory is indeed well-funded now. The blueprints for the largest research laboratory in central Shandong have been completed, and it will be built soon. I hope you can develop even more scientific and advanced technologies there.”

After saying this, Xing Baohua gave a slight bow.

The chief engineers from factories A and B, who were in a distant corner, exchanged glances. One of them asked, "Old Li, what do you think?"

"Haha, he sounds like a big talker. Old Pan, what do you think of what he said?" Old Li said softly.

"It feels like they're trying to win over these students with material things; their methods are still a bit naive!" said the man called Lao Pan.

Old Li also said softly, "Just learn the skills, don't worry about or ask about anything else."

“I don’t think he’ll be very easy to learn unless he releases all the blueprints and data,” Lao Pan said.

"The factory managers from both of our factories have been here for a while now. I'll ask them about it tonight. I heard they're keeping the core components at the factory to produce themselves?" Old Li asked.

"Are you judging others by your own petty standards?"

After the meeting with the students, I had my secretary lead them to rest and take a look at the soon-to-be-built staff building. I told them to let me know in advance which one they liked so that I could arrange it for them.

They will be temporarily housed in the single dormitories. They will move in once the actual staff buildings are completed.

I'll be working overtime these next couple of days to finalize the contract templates. I need to get the students' contracts ready before I go to Southern Metropolis Daily. That way, I can leave with peace of mind.

Now only people from factories A and B remain in the conference room.

Since they've sent us to learn, we should teach them properly! After all, they're making OEM products for us. We need to not only teach them, but teach them well.

Unfold the blueprints on your phone and show them to the other party's chief engineer. Ask questions if you don't understand.

A dozen or so people were huddled around two blueprints, studying them. Some were taking notes, others were copying them down. Everyone was busy.

Actually, circuit diagrams don't require much study; they're quite easy to understand at a glance. Everyone starts talking like they're doing hindsight, explaining the function of each component.

Xing Baohua sat to one side, smoking and drinking tea, watching them discuss.

So what if we have a discussion?

The key question is whether it can be designed.

Stop copying others. Follow their path!

Even if you've thoroughly researched it and can produce it independently, do you only then claim to have all the intellectual property rights?

This is a joke; the road is still someone else's model. For civilian applications, it's either imported or copied.

It won't be until two thousand years from now that we break free from this vicious cycle.

How many of the products we have—mobile phones, computers, cars, and even airplanes—are independently developed? They are all products of continuous learning, accumulation, and more learning.

Once we've built a solid foundation, that's when we can take off. It's not that we don't want to forge our own path.

Rather, the foundation is simply too weak to build upon.

If he made money with his phone, Xing Baohua moved on to a more high-end project: laptops.

Why did they dare to skip such a large project? Because they have a ministry backing them.

Even if there's not much support now, when I become a behemoth, I'll be able to provide this country with what it needs most, and that will be enough.

Chief Engineers Lao Li and Lao Pan carefully reviewed all the circuit diagrams, exchanged glances, and Lao Pan whispered, "Isn't the crucial core component there?"

"We'll have to figure it out ourselves. If we can't get first place, we have to get second or third!" Old Li asked softly.

"Will he stop me?" Old Pan asked.

"He's nothing!"

After that, Xing Baohua led a team to produce a batch of mobile phones for teaching purposes.

They taught each thing one by one, very carefully.

As for those students, aren't they here for internships? They should start by learning through practice, spending a month online as "donkeys" to get a feel for it.

Spending some time with those technicians who have switched careers might provide some inspiration.

As for the chief engineers and their technical staff at factories A and B, they have already begun hands-on practice.

They're learning really fast; they can already do it independently.

It seems that both factories A and B have transferred all their top players here.

That's good too, it's faster and production is faster, anyway it's a rice brand.

Let's take a look at the orders from this Canton Fair.

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