Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

Fukang Agricultural Machinery Company.

Yue An'an personally handed a cup of tea to Li Weidong, and then said, "I heard that the students from the technical school were all taken to Fukang Engineering next door for internships before they graduated, and they had to stay in the factory directly after the internship!

In fact, there is a shortage of skilled workers here. If everyone goes to Fukang Engineering, what will we do here? We also recruit a group of skilled workers every year! Chairman, you can’t favor one over another! "

"Don't worry, it won't delay your recruitment." Li Weidong continued: "I just received a large order from an international exhibition recently. The production capacity of Fukang Engineering is somewhat insufficient, so I temporarily transferred it from the technical school. Some students went to help.

When this batch of orders is completed, students will go back to school. Given the scale of Fukang Engineering, it still cannot handle so many workers. I can't afford to support so many workers either. Of course, some of them will also stay and work in the factory. "

"Doesn't that mean that all the skilled workers were picked away by the Fukang factory?" Yue An'an said with some dissatisfaction.

Li Weidong answered, "The person is an intern at Fukang Engineering. During this process, Fukang Engineering invested corresponding resources and let them give priority to selecting people. It is understandable! But you can discuss it with Ding Youliang later and let him Choose some of the better ones and give them to you.”

"It's not like others picked the rest!" Yue An'an pouted.

"My Mr. Yue, just be content. These students have gone through internships in Fukang Engineering and have spent some time in the workshop. Are they technically more skilled than the newbies? You are getting something for nothing!"

Li Weidong smiled and continued, "If you can take a big order and the factory's production capacity cannot keep up, then I will also transfer students from the technical school to come here for internship! You can choose people first."

"It's so easy to find big orders! Our country is still based on a small farmer economy, and agricultural machinery is sold piecemeal. It's rare to get large orders of tens of millions or hundreds of millions. As for overseas, those are from developed countries. The market is not our turn yet." Yue Ping An sighed helplessly.

Li Weidong comforted him: "Actually, you don't have to worry about recruiting. I predict that in the next few years, technical schools will usher in a wave of enrollment, and many people will choose technical jobs.

From the 1980s until last year, the number of new births in our country exceeded 20 million every year. Especially from 1985 to 1990, it was the years with the largest number of births in our country.

Now that this generation is about to complete nine-year compulsory education, our country will also usher in a wave of demographic dividend. By then, there will definitely be no fewer people entering performance-based learning. As the number of students increases, there will always be more outstanding technicians. "

"It's not necessary to study mechanics. I heard that chefs, pastry chefs, and beauty salons have always been popular majors." Yue Ping'an said.

"In the next ten years, the income of the service industry will still be lower than that of the manufacturing industry. And after this time, going to Fukang Engineering for an internship will give you the opportunity to directly work in the factory. This should attract many people to come to technical schools to sign up for majors such as electrical welding and machine tools."

Li Weidong paused and then said: "After all, the purpose of studying technology is to find a job. As long as the employment prospects are good, there is no need to worry about not having students. I heard that the admissions office at the technical school is almost crowded."

There were seven or eight people queuing in front of the public phone booth, and Li Tieniu was one of them.

After waiting for a long time, it was finally Li Tieniu's turn. He took out his phone card, entered the card number and password, and then made a call.

Most people born in 2000 have never had direct contact with a public phone. These days, public phone booths can only be seen in places like international airports.

Public telephones are still relatively common overseas. Not to mention places that have not updated their infrastructure for decades, even in countries with relatively developed mobile communications such as Japan and South Korea, public telephone booths can still be seen on the roadside or in some public facilities.

The most important thing is that some public phones also support mobile payment, which is quite awesome. I hold a smartphone, find a phone booth to make a call to a public phone, and after that, I can scan the QR code to pay the phone bill. It is a genius design!

Many public phones abroad are coin-operated. Although domestic public phones can also be coin-operated, most of them still use phone cards.

There are also many types of phone cards, such as magnetic cards and IC cards. This kind of card can be used directly by inserting it into a public phone.

There are also those that require you to enter your account and password, similar to later mobile phone recharge cards. You must insert the card before use, remember your account and password, and enter your account and password before making a call.

At that time, the price of mobile phones was still relatively expensive, and even though the prices of mobile phones began to drop later, the cost of mobile phone calls was relatively high for a long time.

The most annoying thing is that with mobile phones at that time, not only did it cost money to make a call, but the party who answered the call also had to pay money. It was a real two-way charge. When a person who was short of money answered the phone, he had to urge the other party to keep the conversation short. If the other party said something "It's a long story," then hang up the phone quickly.

So there was a very strange phenomenon at that time. After the phone rang, the person would take out the phone and say, "I'll call you back." Then he would hang up the phone, pick up the landline, call the other person back, and the two would talk again. matter.

In that era, if someone said to you, "I'll get back to you," it wasn't because they were busy and didn't have time to answer the phone, but because they didn't want to pay to answer the phone. If the other party says, "I'll get back to you later," he's definitely looking for a landline.

Ordinary working-class people are obviously reluctant to pay this high cost. As a result, various public phone booths have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. The relatively low price is widely welcomed by the public and the middle class, and it is more convenient and faster to communicate with family members.

In that era, every time after get off work, working people would rush to public phone booths, eager to call their families. Queuing was a common occurrence.

Especially in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions, there are relatively large concentrations of migrant workers. Since everyone has similar work and rest hours, they all gather together to make phone calls. When there are many people, it is noisy and difficult to hear clearly. Talking is basically done by shouting. , one phone call consumes an average of half a box of lozenges.

Li Tieniu's home did not have a telephone, so his call went directly to the village committee.

After a while, the village committee's loudspeaker shouted from the receiver: "Li Dashan, Li Dashan, your Li Tieniu is calling!"

After waiting for a long time, my father Li Dashan's voice finally came through the phone.

"Dad, I made money!" Li Tieniu said excitedly.

"Earn money? What kind of money do you make? Aren't you asked to learn a craft? If you can't learn the craft, how can you make money!" Li Dashan said.

"Dad, I earn money from my crafts. Didn't I go to Fukang Engineering for an internship two days ago? I told you on the phone before. Now that the internship is over, the internship salary has been paid, and there are still hundreds of dollars! Li Tieniu said.

"Didn't you learn a craft from a master during your internship? Why did you go to learn a craft from someone, and they gave you money instead?" Li Dashan asked in confusion.

"Dad, the boss of Fukang Engineering Factory is a nice guy. He pays wages even when he is an apprentice." Li Tieniu said.

"Is it true? Is there such a good thing? Are you being deceived?" Li Dashan asked suspiciously.

"Dad, don't worry, I haven't been cheated. I have already got the money." Li Tieniu said.

"Then this factory is good. Even the apprentices are paid, so there will definitely be no arrears in wages! Tieniu, let me tell you, you should work in a place where wages are not in arrears. Don't be like your uncle. Yes, if you go out to work and meet an unscrupulous boss who delays the New Year and doesn’t pay wages, that year’s work will be in vain!” Li Dashan warned.

Li Tieniu said: "Dad, let me tell you another piece of good news. The factory where I am interning thinks that I have done a good job and has decided to hire me. The contract has been signed, and I will be a worker from now on!"

"Really?" Li Dashan was also surprised, and then asked, "When I went to that technical school to study, didn't I say that I would only teach techniques and not assign any assignments? Why did you become a worker?"

"I don't know either. Those who went with me and did well became workers. There were also many people who went to another factory nearby and became workers. I think it's just like assigning work!" Li Tieniu said.

The news that Li Tieniu became a worker in the city soon spread in the village.

At the same time, another piece of news was spread, that is, going to a technical school will give you a job!

As soon as the news came out, the village exploded.

Around 2000, urban household registration no longer had any advantages, but for most rural people, they still aspired to work and live in cities and become "urbanites."

Being a worker in a factory, in the eyes of ordinary rural people, is a symbol of becoming a city person. Zhao Tieniu, a native rural boy, was assigned a job after attending a technical school and became a "city person" in the eyes of the villagers. , is to reach the sky in one step!

The next day, Zhao Dashan's home became lively, and there was an endless stream of people visiting, not only from his own village, but also from the neighboring village. Everyone came to inquire about how to go to the technical school and what methods should be used to get it. Their own children also became workers.

At the same time, the number of people enrolling in technical schools has also increased several times. Everyone goes there for the “assignment of work”.

At that time, even college students were not assigned jobs. Coupled with the wave of layoffs in the late 1990s, it also affected the employment situation of young people.

Now a school suddenly appeared that could assign jobs, and it was a technical school that anyone with money could attend. Naturally, it attracted many people to sign up.

Moreover, these applicants all chose manufacturing-related technical majors such as electrical welding and lathes, making it clear that they hoped to work as workers in Fukang Engineering or Fukang Agricultural Machinery in the future.

Even though people from the school's admissions office have repeatedly emphasized that the so-called "assigned jobs" are actually only part of the job, and only relatively outstanding students have a chance to be retained by Fukang Engineering. Others still need to find jobs on their own, but those who signed up are still It’s an endless stream.

Almost everyone thinks that they are one of the "better students" and will definitely be selected by the factory to become a good worker.

People always have expectations for the future. The longer the expectations, the more unrealistic they are.

For example, if you ask junior high school students, all of them will say that they will go to Tsinghua University and Peking University in the future; when they reach the first grade of high school, their goals become 985 and 211; Thank God for being admitted to the undergraduate program!

Bangalore, India, is the third largest city in India and a place boasted by Indians as the "Silicon Valley of India".

When India first became independent, Nehru, India's founding Prime Minister, selected Bangalore as India's high-tech development base. Because the climate here is relatively pleasant and the environment is very good, suitable for human habitation and the development of precision manufacturing.

The Indian government has also moved many state-owned scientific research institutions to Bangalore, such as the Defense Research and Development Organization responsible for rocket and satellite space research, the Indian Scientific Research Organization, the National Aeronautical Laboratory, etc.

In the 1970s, India began to carry out educational reforms and moved many universities to Bangalore. Famous Indian universities such as the Indian Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Management, and the Indian Institute of Information Technology were all gathered here.

In the 1980s, Bangalore began to attract the attention of international high-tech companies. At that time, many international high-tech companies entered Bangalore in order to enter the Indian market.

For example, Texas Instruments entered Bangalore in 1987, IBM in 1991, and General Electric also set up an R\u0026D center in Bangalore. At that time, Bangalore was really poised to become the technology hub of Asia.

Entering the 21st century, India has finally become the world's largest "IT wage earner". Especially after the Internet bubble burst, many American companies outsourced their software business to India in order to reduce costs. At its peak, nearly 50% of the output value of the world's software industry came from India.

In fact, the work that India is responsible for hardly involves core research and development. It mainly provides software outsourcing services. This is the same logic as the transfer of labor-intensive industries from Europe and the United States to developing countries. They are just clothes and shoes, turned into software. Serve.

For example, if you complain to an Internet company in the United States, the person who receives you is not an American, but the customer service staff in India. The person who solves your problem is not an American, but an Indian company outsourced by the United States.

It is precisely because it does not involve core research and development that a world-class technology company has never emerged in India. India, the so-called "software power", has not been able to produce a world-renowned application.

Many "Indians" in later generations talk about how powerful India's IT industry is every day. In fact, as early as 2018, the IT output value of a city in Shenzhen exceeded that of the entire India. In the following years, the gap continued to widen.

India's software outsourcing services actually rely on having enough coders. However, with the development of science and technology today, software automation, robot consulting technology, and big data analysis have become increasingly mature, which has greatly reduced the demand for "software coolies".

To give a simple example, in the past, the customer service of many large companies was still manual, but now they all use intelligent AI services. Even many online stores have AI customer service, and there is no need for manual work at all.

The development of software automation, AI functions and big data analysis is obviously a fatal blow to India's IT industry. India lacks core technology research and development, and if it only provides outsourcing services, the IT industry in the future will only decline.

However, in 2000, India's software services industry was still very strong. Bangalore gathered the largest number of "software coolies" in the world to provide services to European and American countries.

Therefore, Bangalore is undergoing extensive construction at this time, building various buildings and infrastructure to meet the needs of the development of the IT industry.

On a construction site, an Indian driver was sitting in the cab of an excavator, fiddling with the operating lever gracefully.

The excavator driven by the driver was produced by Fukang Engineering.

Not far away, several young children picking up garbage were staring at the excavator with curious faces.

The driver looked at the children and yelled: "Get out of here, is this a place where you can come?"

Several children were so frightened that they ran away quickly.

These children are the "untouchables" of India.

The caste system in India divides Indians into four levels, from high to low: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Sudras. In addition, there is also an "untouchable", which is commonly known as "untouchable".

Untouchables have a very low social status in Indian society, and can even be said to have no status, and can only do the most menial jobs.

It may be difficult for foreigners to distinguish Indian castes, but Indians can distinguish them at a glance.

Although the driver was not of a high caste, he looked down on the untouchables. Being surrounded by untouchable children made the driver very unhappy. He felt that untouchables were not qualified to watch him work, so he scolded those children away.

The children of untouchables also know that they are as low as ants and have been scolded by caste people, so they can only leave quickly.

After driving the child away, the driver continued to perform stunts. The driver dug a few more shovels, and then the shovel stopped digging. The engine started to smoke, and then it simply shut down.

"This excavator is broken!" Not only was the driver not in a hurry, he actually had a smile on his face.

The excavator is broken, so he can have a rest today, and he will get a good salary!

"The imported excavator this time is really good. If it breaks down every three days, I can rest with it!" the driver said to himself.

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