On Sunday night, Cheng Feiyang received a call from Xie Houming at home.
Not long after, Xie Houming's car entered the compound and stopped directly under the apartment building. Xie Houming rushed in, "Old Cheng! Chen Wenyi has replied to me. The General Defense Department has approved the purchase of your disaster warning and response system. You will be officially notified tomorrow. He asked me to give you a heads up in advance so that you can be prepared! What are you still standing there for? Go open the wine for me. This news is worth a few bottles of Moutai, right?"
Cheng Feiyang quickly let Xie Houming in, Xu Lan hurried to the kitchen to cook some snacks, and Cheng Feiyang made several phone calls, but in the end he did not call Chen Wenyi. Chen Wenyi notified Xie Houming at this moment, which was in itself to inform him, and on the other hand, it also avoided certain taboos in his position. After all, this matter still involved business dealings.
Not long after, Li Mingshi came. Xie Houming wanted to see with his own eyes the hero who built this system. Zheng Jianfeng also came, Tian Feng came, Sun Guangzhen, and Bao Yinong also came one after another.
Among the "Eight Vajras" of Fulong, except Luo Yongchun, Liu Bo, and Yang Du who are out of town, the other senior executives gathered together today and squeezed into the seven-square-meter restaurant of Cheng Ran's house.
The lights were bright. Xu Lan cooked a few dishes and fried a plate of crispy peanuts. Tian Feng kept calling out, "Sister-in-law, stop cooking, stop cooking. Just make some peanuts for us to drink with! Let's have a few drinks with Mr. Xie and Lao Cheng! We are so happy today!"
The senior executives of Fulong sat around a round table, each of them had a two-liang wine glass in front of them. Cheng Feiyang contributed several bottles of Moutai and Wuliangye, and there were two bottles of Snow Beer in the corner of the restaurant all year round.
Under the reflection of the warm lights, golden light ripples in the air.
In this situation, Cheng Ran, who was in his bedroom next to the restaurant, could not be quiet, so he moved a bench and sat in the corner of the restaurant. Looking at the group of Fulong heroes in front of him, he always felt like he was in history.
Xie Houming directly asked Li Mingshi, the hero, to talk about the original intention of developing the entire system.
Li Mingshi also said openly, "At that time, we were at Master's house. Master asked each of us to write a project plan for the new year. I was still struggling with no plan, so I went to discuss it with him. Cheng Ran told me that he had been talking about abolishing the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. There will definitely be big moves at next year's National People's Congress. Next year is a critical year for Fulong's development. What we have to strive for now is reputation, or in other words, fame. Only with fame can a brand stand up. How to establish a brand? One way is to strive for it in the market. In this regard, there are too many giants, not to mention multinational giants, "Da, Xing, Nan, Bei", which one is a vegetarian? If you want to establish a brand by competing for the market, time is running out. Then you can only take another path, take a different approach, and establish a reputation in a roundabout way!"
Everyone was listening. Bao Yinong and Zheng Jianfeng stared at Li Mingshi. After getting the news, the first thing they did was to sigh that this kid was so damn lucky. But there was nothing they could do since it was his fault. Naturally, they also wanted to know how he came up with this idea.
"Cheng Ran asked me to do some research. In 1997, the largest El Nino event of the century occurred. In the second year after each El Nino event, my country's summer rainfall would obviously increase. I later looked up relevant information and made a chart. It was really like this... Every time at this time, it was the time when the country was most stringent in preventing geological disasters. However, despite all the precautions, humans have entered the information technology age, but no one has thought of using computers and our convenient information communication technology to reduce the harm of such disasters."
A large group of people, with faces that had deep nasolabial folds, weathered looks, wise looks, and vigorous looks, all turned their heads at the same time, their eyes all directed towards Cheng Ran in the corner.
Cheng Ran was also a little amused. He originally thought that Li Mingshi was mostly focusing on boasting about his achievements, but he didn't expect this guy to be so honest and repeat every word of what he had tricked him with.
In fact, this is also the advantage that Cheng Ran has as a reborn person. Looking at the geological disasters before the beginning of the 20th century, the imperfect development of domestic infrastructure is certainly a major reason, but another aspect is that there is no real information system for disaster prevention and reduction.
Although there were people who tried in this regard, they were limited by the times and made little progress.
It would take five or six years before some so-called disaster management information system construction and application seminars were held. The progress has been extremely slow and bumpy.
It was not until more than a decade later, after experiencing numerous disasters both large and small, that this disaster prevention information system gradually accumulated experience and lessons.
Because of his change of trajectory, Cheng Feiyang founded Fulong, and Fulong happened to have technical research resources in related fields. So in Cheng Ran's view, this is the time for him to do something.
At the table, Li Mingshi had already had a drink, and his voice became louder and louder. "But I am confused. We are in the communications industry, and everyone knows the usefulness of information in the face of disasters. Is it useful? When a disaster occurs, especially a geological disaster, the circuit is cut off, the communication is interrupted, and there are no large machines. Repairs cannot keep up, and even if you are Sun Wukong, you can't do anything! However, Cheng Ran proposed an idea. Although there is no way without electricity, can we give early warning before the disaster strikes?"
"Later, I studied it and found that it is feasible as long as there is cooperation from the meteorological department, flood control, geology and other departments! Because every year, the meteorological and geological departments closely monitor and collect data from various flood control areas. There are data on how much rainfall a dam can withstand, when the reservoir capacity is exceeded, and the bearing capacity of the flood discharge area. As long as there is cooperation from the meteorological department, we can write the data into the simulation software and derive the affected area and scope caused by the disaster after exceeding the critical point. Then, as long as the people in these areas can be notified in advance through the telecommunications platform, a large number of casualties and loss of life can be avoided!"
"Based on this, our team has developed a 120-channel signaling system. This system has large capacity, fast connection, and multiple functions. It can proactively call back fixed-line phones to reach user terminals and use synthetic sounds to play warning information issued by the meteorological department. Each 120-channel platform can notify more than 10,000 users per hour. If you want to cover a larger area and be more efficient, it is enough to build a sufficient number of hardware platforms at the base."
"In this way, even if the local telecommunications facilities are destroyed afterwards, it does not matter, because the warning information has been issued before that, achieving the function of early warning. If this system continues to be improved, it will play a huge role in responding to droughts, forest fires, geological flash floods, and rainstorms and floods in the future."
During the conversation, Xie Houming shouted "good!" several times, and raised his glass excitedly, "Do you know why I helped you, Old Cheng, to make connections and run around for you? It's Fulong's sentiment! Technology will definitely change our lives, and even change our lives... and even save lives!"
A group of people raised their glasses together, and the strong liquor kept flowing down their throats, feeling infinitely happy.
Putting down the cups, all the senior leaders of Fulong looked at Cheng Ran with a special kind of enthusiasm.
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On May 15, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters approved the plan to adopt Fulong's "Disaster Prevention and Early Warning System" and began to urgently deploy this system in the Yangtze River flood control area together with the National Meteorological Administration and telecommunications platforms.
Of course, the purchase and deployment of the entire system was only carried out within the scope of flood prevention work. At this time, no one knew the name of the company that provided the hardware and software equipment for this system. No one combined all of this with the "little trick" demonstrated by the company called Fulong at the Ministry of Information Industry in March.
The entire system was gradually set up in cities and counties in key flood prevention areas, driven by unified flood prevention efforts.
Time is passing by bit by bit...
At the beginning of June, the French World Cup opened. At the same time, as the only website in the world reporting on the French World Cup, Sohu.com only had a 14% market share before the World Cup began. Two days after the special coverage of the World Cup, the market share reached 30%.
This number soared to 60 percent just one week later.
Internet users across the ocean and abroad have found a platform to vent and discuss together.
Through this World Cup, Sitong Online is about to create the highest record of Chinese visits in the world at that time.
It was also during this period that torrential rains poured down in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China.
The joy of this world continues.
And beneath those dark and unending clouds, the great floods at the end of the century, stirred up by a series of factors, are flowing over those dams, showing their natural power to the earth in front of them in a magnificent manner.
The memory of the greatest fear of nature at the end of the century has arrived.
Please give me a ticket!