During the weekend when Cheng Ran was preparing for the transfer exam, he was actually not idle. Sometimes he would sit in front of the TV and watch the news.
In fact, Cheng Ran has often watched the news broadcast since the beginning of this semester. In the past, his family strictly controlled Cheng Ran's TV watching during school hours, but this year, because of Cheng Ran's changes, Xu Lan and Cheng Feiyang gradually stopped caring about Cheng Ran's personal behavior. It turns out that good grades are the truth of everything. Cheng Ran is fully capable of managing his own life, but Xu Lan finds it strange that Cheng Ran doesn't watch any TV series or movies. At most, Cheng Ran would watch the popular dramas with them while eating fruit snacks. This is completely different from Cheng Ran's life before junior high school. In the end, Xu Lan could only attribute it to the fact that he had become sensible after entering high school.
But Cheng Ran watched the news, and she also read Cheng Feiyang's newspaper that her family subscribed to every day. Often, she was watching TV while Cheng Feiyang was reviewing various company reports next to her. After reading it, Cheng Ran would go back to her room to do her homework as if she had completed some work.
Sometimes Cheng Feiyang would also make praise for this situation, "Analyzing current events in newspapers and news broadcasts helps to exercise thinking and see society and the world clearly. This is also a kind of exercise."
In fact, Cheng Ran was just concerned about the developments of major events in 1998.
In 1998, the Ninth National People's Congress was held in March. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the Ministry of Electronics Industry became a thing of the past, and their functions were taken over by the newly established Ministry of Information Industry and the State Post Bureau. At the subsequent Ministry of Information Industry meeting, Cheng Feiyang announced Fulong's active calling system and its application prospects at a department-level meeting in Beijing.
At the end of last year, when Fulong was studying the direction of future projects, Cheng Ran had proposed the construction of this system. At that time, Cheng Feiyang said that it could be done, but who should do it
Chief engineers like Bao Yinong and Zheng Jianfeng were all busy with big projects and naturally had no way to get away, so the project was assigned to Cheng Feiyang's apprentice, Li Mingshi, who was still planning a new project for the new year.
The internal R&D atmosphere of Fulong, which is built on the Fulong Basic Law, is very relaxed. Even grassroots researchers can have new ideas, report them upwards, and then organize their own product projects to implement them.
Cheng Ran's idea coincided with that of Li Mingshi, who was researching signaling systems at the time.
So Li Mingshi spent three months leading the development of this system, whose full name is "FL-12121 Signaling 120-channel System".
The Ministry of Information Industry was established in March, and Fulun presented this system to the ministry as a gift.
However, when this system came out, the giants in this field did not pay much attention to it at all.
After all, Fulun is just an outstanding company in a corner of the southwest. Compared with the telecom equipment giants with annual sales of tens of billions or even hundreds of billions, it is just a small reptile. Even Zhonghai Beituo has a thorn in its side for this company that has risen in the southwest, because they have already felt the threat to the Chengdu market. However, these may not really cause such a large company to respond. In fact, it is not easy to respond. How can one fist hit a mosquito
More importantly, the top management of Beituo did not regard Fulong as a threat at all. They just thought that they only needed to improve their services and upgrade their equipment to squeeze this small company that intended to enter the market out of the door.
So when Fulong showed their active calling system in a presentation to the leaders, it seemed a bit "insignificant" to the telecom giants. After all, it was not mainstream. Telecom equipment vendors also looked down on this market that relied on small software and hardware. Compared with their astronomical revenue in the country, these companies could earn hundreds of thousands of dollars from a set of equipment. It turned out that only small companies could do it.
In the telecommunications industry, this kind of small information platform that cooperates with telecommunications may not be worthy of attention. However, according to Cheng Ran's plan, the birth of this system was not originally intended to serve the telecommunications industry. With the help of Xie Houming's connections in Beijing and the help of matchmakers, this system platform was placed in the office of the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters.
Chen Wenyi, deputy commander-in-chief of the General National Defense, is an old classmate of Xie Houming and the person Xie Houming visits every year in Beijing. This time, with the help of Xie Houming, Chen Wenyi and Cheng Feiyang had a dinner in Beijing. During the dinner, Cheng Feiyang demonstrated this system. Chen Wenyi was very interested in it and asked Cheng Feiyang to leave the system developed by Fulong at the General National Defense for discussion and research.
At this time, the system has been optimized and renamed from the general name "active calling system" displayed at the Ministry of Information Industry meeting to...
“Disaster Prevention and Early Warning System”.
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Then in early April, * chaired the first plenary meeting of the State Flood Control Headquarters in 1998. This meeting analyzed the national drought and flood trends in 1998, established the forecast of the two rainy belts in the Yangtze River and northern China, and determined the possible flood disasters in the Yangtze River. The meeting deployed the national flood control and drought relief work.
And it was at this meeting that the early warning system that Cheng Feiyang presented to Chen Wenyi in March came into the view of all parties at the meeting.
In fact, as early as May 1997, the month when Cheng Ran was reborn, the strongest El Niño event of this century occurred, that is, the water temperature near the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean increased abnormally.
According to national meteorological monitoring over the years, in the second year after each El Niño event, two rainy belts appeared in my country in the summer, one located in the Yangtze River and its south, and the other in the north.
This century's strongest El Niño event directly led to abnormal climate in the Yangtze River Basin.
It never rains but it pours.
The continuous destruction of forests, reclamation of lakes and encroachment on rivers, the heavy snow on the plateau in the winter of 1997, the abnormal subtropical high pressure in the western Pacific in mid-1998, and the abnormal mid-latitude circulation in Asia, this series of abnormal climate events had actually foreshadowed the shadow of the last great flood at the end of the century.
People at that time had foreseen the coming of the flood, and even conducted intensive inspections of flood emergency projects and dangerous projects in advance. All flood prevention work was carried out in an orderly manner, but it was still... too optimistic.
What no one expected was that, under the pressure of a series of factors, the flood came so swiftly and violently that decades later, people still remember the flood caused by natural and man-made disasters so vividly and are still terrified.
Cheng Ran certainly didn't think that he would have any chance of resisting or reversing such a mighty natural force.
In the face of such an irresistible force, every person is as small as dust.
But if he leaves it alone, will he regret one day in the future that he knew it all but did nothing
Some things could have been saved, so don't lose them in this life.
How about another chapter later