Li Nanxing continued proudly, "I was the one who took the lead in donating. Because of my donation, my father even held a charity auction in Hong Kong, and all the proceeds were donated to mainland China! If it weren't for me taking the lead in donating supplies, there wouldn't be these millions in donations later! Isn't my contribution huge!"
Your contribution is enormous!
As early as when Zhang Luyao heard that a Hong Kong businessman donated a batch of computers, he guessed that it was Li Nanxing.
After all, in this era, computers were still exclusive products of Europe and the United States. Hong Kong and Taiwan did not have the ability to produce computers, let alone such a large number of computers.
Especially when I learned that the name of the company that donated the computers was "Fanxing", I became even more certain!
Zhang Luyao also had to say that Li Nanxing’s contribution this time was very great!
If Li Nanxing had not unexpectedly donated such a large number of computers to the country, how could Chinese college students have had access to such advanced high-tech products in the poor and backward 1970s?
This was the 70s!
Many people in China have never even seen a TV!
Not to mention high-tech products like electronic computers!
It can even be said that many places in China at this time still do not have electricity!
Even basic electronic products such as electric lights, watches, and radios are luxury goods for many people. Most people have no chance to use them, or have never even seen them. To be honest, many places are still using kerosene lamps!
Take Shanghe Village, for example, where Li Nanxing and his colleagues went to work in the countryside!
There is no electricity in the village at all, and everyone in the village is still using kerosene lamps. In order to save kerosene, many families go to bed early at night and dare not light the kerosene lamps for even a little longer!
People are reluctant to use soap to wash clothes, reluctant to use tractors to farm the fields, and even the production of chemical fertilizers is insufficient. Many villages cannot get any chemical fertilizers at all, and most of them can only continue to use farmyard manure to fertilize the fields!
Developed countries have developed industries, and all people enjoy the benefits brought by the industrial age. Almost every household has cars, refrigerators, televisions, watches, radios and other electronic products used in daily life. They also save a sum of money every year for the whole family to travel, either by car, by plane, or by party at home. This is the current situation in developed countries.
However, the country is still in this agricultural era, which is a microcosm of the current situation in rural areas.
Given the current situation of poverty and backwardness, being able to have access to high-tech products like computers is truly too advanced!
You know, under normal circumstances, the latest high-tech products like computers can only be produced by developed countries like the United States and Europe.
At this time, even Japan and South Korea probably do not have the ability to produce computers, so if China wants to buy technological products such as computers, it can only spend US dollars to buy them in Europe and the United States.
This is the problem. China's foreign exchange reserves are very tight. After experiencing ten years of catastrophe, the net value of China's foreign exchange reserves is only 167 million US dollars.
Not only do many state-owned enterprises need to import a large number of machinery and equipment from abroad, but also a large number of parts and other products produced abroad.
Let’s say that China can now independently produce televisions, but many of the components needed to produce televisions must be imported from abroad, especially many components must be imported from Japan, which cannot be produced domestically.
This is just one of them. There is also urea needed for agriculture, which cannot be produced domestically and can only be imported from Japan!
All of these require foreign exchange!
At the same time, the country still has to send thousands of students abroad, which is very difficult to spend from the very limited national foreign exchange.
Therefore, the batch of computers donated by Li Nanxing shortened the time for Chinese students by ten or twenty years, allowing them to come into contact with such advanced technological products in advance.
It was basically not until the 1990s that computers were imported into China, and schools began to arrange computer classes and teach students how to use computers in class.
It was also in the 1990s that computers gradually entered ordinary people's homes.
The role of computers was truly utilized by the Chinese people in this era, and began to help scientific researchers conduct more in-depth research.
It can be said that future development is a technological competition, and computers are essential for technological development. Only by understanding and mastering computers can we greatly shorten the gap with foreign technological development!
With the advent of computers, domestic students have the opportunity to catch up with foreign students in advance!
In particular, it stores a large amount of learning materials from various foreign countries, especially all the textbook contents from elementary school, junior high school, high school and even university in various developed countries.
At that time, many people in the Ministry of Education were studying the textbooks used in these developed countries and found that they were much better than the textbooks used in our country. After all, our country’s textbooks were compiled in the 1950s and had not been changed for decades, not to mention the turbulent ten years before that. Students had no intention of studying at all and all went to participate in sports, which completely disconnected them from learning.
It just so happened that the leaders above waved their hands and decided to immediately start compiling our own latest textbooks based on the current foreign textbooks!
Before Zhang Luyao went abroad, there was news that the new versions of textbooks for all age groups had been almost compiled and were expected to be officially distributed to students for use in the new school year!
Zhang Luyao praised sincerely, "The computers you sent are really useful for students back home! The students are very curious about these new things from abroad, and they are very excited to learn about computers. The teachers are also very grateful to you, the donor, when they talk about these computers! They also said that if the country had these computers back then, not too many, just one, we would have developed the two bombs and one satellite years earlier! You really did a great job this time!"
"Hehe! I told you I did a great job!" Li Nanxing couldn't help but say proudly.
When she saw Zhang Luyao again, Li Nanxing still treated her as an older sister in her heart, and just like before, she couldn't help wanting to hear her praise!
Li Nanxing thought of something and continued, "Oh! By the way, I've already reunited with my biological father in Hong Kong. It's the one I told you about before, that tortuous and complicated life story! So now I've taken my father's last name, Li. Remember to call me Li Nanxing from now on!"
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