On April 1, 2001, pilot Wang Wei risked his young life to defend the motherland's territorial integrity by colliding with a U.S. reconnaissance plane that had invaded our airspace over the South China Sea.
Although the US reconnaissance plane was large and strong, it suffered fatal damage after the collision. It was impossible for it to return smoothly via Kadena Island in Okinawa or Guam, so it had to land at Lingshui Airport in Hainan without authorization.
Because the crew landed without permission from the Chinese side, they were immediately taken into custody.
The plane stayed at Lingshui Airport for a few days, and no one knew what happened during that time.
Anyway, from that day on, China's electronic reconnaissance and electronic interference levels made a qualitative leap, instantly closing the gap of more than ten years.
Gu Hongzhong also went to Hainan, but no one knew what he was doing there.
At this time, Gu Hongzhong was no longer an employee of Nanwan Group. He and his family had all moved to a mysterious place.
Even Wan Feng can't contact him now.
Wan Feng had no right to know what happened on the US reconnaissance plane, and he was powerless to do anything about the pilot's sacrifice. All he could do now was to entrust Zhu Guoxiong to send one million anonymously to Wang Wei's family.
The heroic souls of the martyrs are destined to guard the blue sky of the motherland forever. Wan Feng hopes that his family can live a comfortable life in the years to come.
Another important event happened in the communications field in April.
On April 16, the world's first 3G call was made via Vodafone's network in England, heralding the imminent arrival of 3G calls.
At the 18th meeting of ITU TG8/1 held in Helsinki, Finland in late October 1999, the TD-SCDMA technology proposed by Datang Telecom Technology Industry Group on behalf of China passed the conference's review and was adopted as one of the world's third-generation mobile communications radio interface technical specification recommendations.
In May 2000, the ITU Wireless Conference officially listed TD-SCDMA, the WCDMA scheme proposed by Europe, and the CDMA2000 scheme proposed by the United States and other countries as the transmission standards for 3G mobile communications.
The success of TD-SCDMA ended China's blank history in the field of telecommunications standards.
The third generation of mobile communications is an intelligent, broadband, and global roaming mobile communication system that enables users to conduct high-speed data communications with anyone at any time and any place.
It is an advanced mobile communication technology developed on the basis of second-generation technologies such as GSM and CDMA. This technology will realize the true personalization of communication to a great extent.
Although this plan was proposed by Datang, Huawei also contributed a lot behind the scenes.
When Datang took the lead in researching this standard, no Chinese telecommunications company was enthusiastic about participating.
Warwick's participation was also related to Wan Feng's appearance. He knew that this standard would definitely be passed, so of course he would let Warwick participate.
This is a huge piece of the pie.
With the approval of the TD-SCDMA standard, Datang and Huawei became the biggest winners, and of course Huaguang was also one of the winners.
Datang and Huawei were contracted to build communication base stations, while Huaguang was responsible for the research and development of 3G mobile phones.
However, the success of the standard is only the first step. Next, a practical system must be launched quickly and preparations must be made in terms of capital, production, manpower, etc. for the future expansion of the industry.
In the previous life, Datang Group carried out comprehensive cooperation with Siemens and jointly established development teams in China, Germany, Audi and Italy.
In terms of terminals, Datang Group is cooperating with foreign mobile phone manufacturers.
At that time, they jointly established a company called Tianci Technology Co., Ltd. with Sansheng and Feilipu to carry out the research and development of terminal mobile phones.
Of course, with the existence of Warwick and Huaguang in this life, we can actually save ourselves the trouble of those foreigners.
However, due to some exchange reasons, Siemens still got involved and participated in the development of practical systems.
This is related to China's accession to the WTO. As the bridgehead of the European economy at that time, although China was in a mess militarily, it still had a lot of say in the economy.
It is normal to set some exchange conditions when joining the WTO.
The communications industry is one such area where quid pro quo exists.
Huaguang is directly involved in the design of systems and terminals. No one in China's mobile field can surpass Huaguang Communications.
No other company except Huaguang dares to take the lead in both systems and terminals.
After obtaining the TD-SCDMA standard, Huaguang not only started developing practical systems with Siemens Datang Huawei, but also began developing 3G mobile phone hardware.
When it comes to systems, Siemens is an obstacle that cannot be avoided, but when it comes to hardware, you three just have to stand aside.
Siemens is a US-based company backed by the European Union, and who are you, a cold country? Who can you represent?
Therefore, in this life, there is no such thing as Sansheng in terms of terminal hardware.
In terms of R&D, the development progress is basically proceeding as planned, and computer simulation and supporting tests have been successfully completed.
The overall design plan, including detailed analysis and verification, is now essentially complete. Software and hardware development based on this plan is now underway. It is expected that by mid-2002, development of base stations and terminal equipment will be complete and put into trial operation.
The task of developing mobile phone chips that meet the TD-SCDMA standard has been assigned to the Huaguang Chip Department. Cheng Gong handed it over to He Bo, who was in charge of the development of this task.
So far, it has been under development for half a year.
Wan Feng is very confident about the success of this chip. Huaguang chip, a much more advanced chip than it, has been developed, so there is no reason why it will not be successful.
And it’s not too late, it should appear next spring.
Although China's research and development progress has not yet reached the level where Yingguo can broadcast 3G calls, as long as He Bo's chip is successful, Huaguang will be able to broadcast 3G calls.
However, after joining the WTO, it is almost impossible for Huaguang to monopolize China's mobile phone market. Companies like Nuojiya, Ailixin, Motorola, Suoni and Sansheng will all come to China to share a piece of the pie.
Both Huaguang and the newly established domestic mobile phone manufacturers will face a challenge.
In a blink of an eye, May Day 2001 arrived.
Three days after May Day, Wan Feng and Zhang Xuan quietly went through the divorce procedures, and a week later he and Luan Feng remarried just as quietly.
Except for the management staff of the Wulu Township Civil Affairs Bureau, almost no one knew that Wan Feng's marriage certificate had been quietly replaced with another person's name.
The change of names on the marriage certificate did not affect the lives of the three people. Zhang Xuan and Luan Feng still lived in Wan Feng's house.
After so many years, the Jiangwei people seem to think that this is normal and there is nothing wrong with it.
After May Day, the prototype of Huaguang's new Great Wall car has been produced.
This time, there is no need to conduct other tests. After a 100,000-kilometer endurance test, it can be officially mass-produced.
It is expected that the new Great Wall will be launched in October.
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