After the meeting with Tang Shaoping of China Pension Company, the only one left was China Education Company, which is also the most important company in the national welfare plan.
According to the Chinese concept, no matter how poor you are, you can't afford education. Although this company is purely consumptive and will not bring any direct benefits to Zhao Yi, he values this company the most.
This is not only a practical need for economic development, but also the result of our country's traditional concepts. It is also an important basis for our country to stand out from other civilizations around the world.
The first is the need for economic development. This is the urgent reason for Zhao Yi to suddenly launch free compulsory education. If the development speed of the previous life is followed, low-tech, labor-intensive industries will need to continue to develop for 20 to 30 years.
This period of time is relatively long, and the urgency for education is not as strong as it is now. Even if the high-tech industry makes great progress in the future, industries at the low end of the industrial chain will still be an important foundation for my country's economic development.
This provides ample employment opportunities for low-educated people. Although they earn meager salaries and perform high-intensity labor, they can at least earn enough to support their families.
Although it sounds sad, it is a great blessing in sorrow. It is much happier than those who are struggling to survive. In other words, compared with those who "want to be slaves but cannot get it" , be luckier.
It’s just that this is not what Zhao Yi wants to see, nor is our country’s hope, but the actual development needs of the time. We cannot obtain windfalls through war, we can only gain capital accumulation by paying our own blood and sweat to complete the catch-up of industrialization.
This is the naked and cruel reality. Without these workers who work day and night on dirty and messy production lines, there would be no modernization construction in our country, and there would be no capital accumulation for high-tech development.
If China wants to complete industrial accumulation from the reality of poverty, it must sacrifice the interests of some people, because we have no choice but to do this.
This is the real problem faced by our country in the first few decades of reform and opening up in the previous life. It cannot be solved by a few people standing up and shouting that we must develop high technology and stop these sweatshops.
Because they never cost anything when speaking, and they don’t need to consider reality. They only need two pieces of skin to do it, because this way they can get more approval from others and get more attention.
But the so-called solution they propose is Western-style democracy. It seems that as long as Western-style democracy is carried out, a developed country will naturally become a developed country. Such people are either really stupid or bad.
It seems that the democratic system is a panacea. No matter what difficulties or practical problems there are, it can be installed to solve all problems. However, it ignores that democracy is just a phenomenon after industrialization. This is a deliberate inversion of cause and effect.
Fortunately, this is just a scene from the previous life. In this life, because of Zhao Yi, domestic industrialization has developed very smoothly. All industries involved in Zhao Yi have achieved very high modern production methods, and there is no need to rely on hard work to earn a meager income. Benefit.
And because Zhao Yi's companies have accumulated a large amount of capital for the country in international trade, and these capitals are used to develop domestic industry, this has brought great progress in industrial strength.
Although this may take some time, the time spent will be greatly reduced, directly stepping from a primary industrialized country to an advanced industrialized country.
This requires more high-quality industrial workers and a larger scale of professional engineers. Only if these talents can keep up can our country's foundation for entering a high-end industrialized country be more solid.
This is why Zhao Yi must insist on launching free compulsory education. Only in this way can it be promoted effectively and feasibly, and can it definitely bring a large number of high-quality talents to the country in the future.
Not only that, Zhao Yi also specially developed a heaven-defying intelligence potion, but he also despised the fact that these people were not good enough when they grew up. He hoped that they would be better and provide a more favorable guarantee for our country's industrial development to surpass that of Western developed countries.
In the future, labor-intensive industries will slowly disappear and low-tech jobs will become fewer and fewer. Mechanical automation and intelligence will inevitably become the standard for development in the post-industrial era.
The role of manpower is getting smaller and smaller, and the role of intellectual superiority is getting bigger and bigger. In the future, the competition between countries will be the competition of intellectual strength, rather than the cheap manpower working diligently on the production line.
This is a real problem faced in the near future, so Zhao Yi must improve the quality of this generation, reduce the number of people entering labor-intensive industries, and increase the number of people in high-intelligence industries.
Take Zhao Yi's Hualong Clothing Company as an example. In fact, Tiangong Precision Instrument Company has already had a fully automated production line, and the labor used is one-tenth of the current production line.
If the primary artificial intelligence developed by Zhao Yi during this period is used for management, it can even achieve unmanned production. From this, we can see the future industry trends.
It’s just that the knowledge level of most people in our country is still limited. This cannot be changed in a short time. If you want to fully automate and unmanned production, you will have to wait until at least this generation retires before you can consider it.
There’s too much going on here, let’s get down to business.
At the meeting, according to a report by Wang Huaijun, President of China Education Corporation, the current progress of the school buildings built by China Education Corporation across the country is very good, and the construction work can be completed as planned.
In fact, Zhao Yi doesn't have to worry about the work of China Education Company. Our country has been born with a certain talent for construction since ancient times. Coupled with the current surplus of labor, if we want to speed up the progress, we only need to continue to increase manpower.
In addition to the construction of school buildings, another item is the supporting teachers and equipment. According to Wang Huaijun’s report, China Education Corporation has now completed the registration of teachers across the country.
Teachers are now being deployed uniformly. In order to reduce teachers' resistance, the principle of proximity will be followed as much as possible. At the same time, the deployed teachers will also be given relatively high salaries and free housing.
In other words, Chinese education companies try their best to allow the deployed teachers to take root in the local area, rather than just treating them as short-term teaching exchanges.
Because the lack of teachers in our country will be a long-term problem in the future and cannot be solved in one or two years.
In the future, universities will expand their enrollment, but other walks of life in the country are also severely short of people, and it is impossible to provide too much teacher education. Therefore, these teachers who are deployed need to be mentally prepared to stay for a long time.
There are many teachers from cities who will be dispatched to teach in rural areas. This is definitely unacceptable to the teachers who are selected. Therefore, Chinese education companies must provide sufficient support in terms of remuneration.
Although it costs more money, there is no solution. This dilemma only needs to last for about ten years, and the situation will get better. By then, there will be enough talents to fill the gap. It's vacant.
Of course, not all teachers feel aggrieved. Nowadays, there are not a large number of teachers with formalities. Most of them are still concentrated in cities. There are even more teachers in factories and rural teachers without any establishment.
Just like when Zhao Yi was in elementary school, only the principal in the school had an establishment and could receive a pension, while other teachers without establishment could only receive a meager salary.
In order to support the family, they even had to work in the fields themselves, so when I was a child, the primary school teachers would teach one class in the morning and one class in the afternoon, so that the teachers of the two classes could be staggered to carry out agricultural farming.
But things are different now. Teachers across the country will be included in China Education Company. From now on, there will no longer be a so-called staffing issue, only the status of employees of China Education Company.
In China Education Company, there is no distinction in terms of status, and everyone is treated equally in terms of salary. According to the salary package provided by China Education Company, the salary received by rural teachers in the future will be enough to support a family.
Again, the Chinese education company feels that it can afford these expenses. Even if it is not enough, Zhao Yi will pay for subsidies out of his own pocket to completely eliminate this unfair phenomenon.
Why is there such a big gap in teaching and educating people, and the difference in status? In Zhao Yi's opinion, this is quite strange, and it is a situation that he will not allow to occur.
Some readers may have discovered that although Zhao Yi is the leading rich man in China, he rarely makes charitable donations. That is because Zhao Yi feels that such donations cannot solve fundamental problems.
Now Zhao Yilai is contracting the country's three welfare services, which has completely solved these problems. In the future, no students will drop out of school due to poverty, nor will they be unable to afford treatment due to lack of money, nor will they live in desolation in their later years. Tragic situation.
This is the great kindness in Zhao Yi's heart. Only by solving the fundamental problems can we completely prevent the occurrence of bad cases, and there will be no more educational charity, medical charity, etc. in the future.
If those wealthy people want to donate money in the future, they can donate it to Chinese education companies, or donate directly to various universities, because universities are not compulsory education, and part of their funds need to be raised by themselves.
As for the issue of school teaching equipment, Polaris Company is mainly responsible for research and development. Since Zhao Yi provided complete technical information, the research and development work is a very simple matter for Polaris Company.
Then there is the issue of production. This will take a certain amount of time to expand production, and this is without the construction of new factories.
Because this kind of electronic blackboard for teaching has a very limited market in the future. Currently, only a Chinese education company has placed orders. After these orders are completed, the market will shrink rapidly, and the loss of building a factory specifically will outweigh the gains.
This kind of electronic equipment factory is not an ordinary clothing factory. It can be done by just recruiting a few people and buying a few sewing machines. The investment scale will be very large. If the utilization rate is not high in the future, the cost will be very high.
Therefore, Polaris Company is now using existing production lines to produce this kind of electronic blackboard equipment. Fortunately, the number of their existing production lines is also very large, which is enough to complete orders from Chinese education companies.
As for other cameras, loudspeakers, sound collection devices and other equipment, Polaris Company has them all ready-made and does not require special research and development. Chinese education companies can provide as many products as they want.
"Mr. Zhao, when I visited China Medical Company, I found that they issued personal PDAs to their doctors for personalized training. I think this kind of equipment is very good. Can one be given to students across the country
This is more beneficial to students' personalized learning, and can also provide targeted training according to each student's own strength, making our education more reasonable. Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude is the best education method. "Wang Huaijun said.
After hearing Wang Huaijun's words, Zhao Yi couldn't help but touch his forehead. Didn't Zhao Yi know the benefits of this thing, but the cost of it was gone.
According to the shipping price of Polaris Company, the price of each personal handheld computer is 1,000 yuan. This is already discounted for the sake of brother companies. If you buy it outside, it will cost at least 1,500 yuan per day.
Because now only Polaris Company can produce such useful personal handheld computers, it is a monopoly operation, and the profit margin will definitely be very high. Even if it is 1,000 yuan per unit, their profit will be very high.
But Zhao Yi is not prepared to let Polaris Company lower the price and sell it to a brother company. Not to mention that the brothers will settle the accounts. Even these costs must be seen by the National Welfare Fund. Don't think that the cost is really that high.
Otherwise, if relevant discussions are held during the annual audit and next year's planning, China Medical Company will definitely suffer a loss, and ultimately harm Zhao Yi's interests.
Therefore, Zhao Yi's principle is that certain discounts can be given, but basic business rules should be followed.
Even if China Medical Company suffers massive losses in the future and Zhao Yi takes out the money to subsidize it, the people at the National Welfare Fund must know that it is him, Zhao Yi, who has borne part of the losses.
Wang Huaijun only saw the benefits and ignored the costs, or he felt that Zhao Yi could bear the costs, so he raised this issue.
There are more than 300 million school-age students in compulsory education across the country. If each student was equipped with a personal PDAs, more than 300 billion yuan would be spent in an instant.
It is impossible for students to buy it. Not only does it violate Zhao Yi's original intention of free compulsory education, even this cost is something that few student families can afford, which increases educational inequality.
This era is not that of later generations. A family basically has more than three children. Although the national wage level has indeed improved in recent years, there are really not many families who can spare more than 3,000 yuan.
Therefore, Zhao Yi ultimately has to bear this part of the cost himself, but now his fixed investment in school buildings and other facilities is already very high. According to the latest accounts, it must have reached 400 billion yuan.
If the more than 300 billion yuan is added to this, it will be even more difficult to recover the cost. It is not that Zhao Yi feels sorry for this money, otherwise he would not be involved in the construction of the national welfare system.
Rather, he was considering whether this was necessary. If it were in the past, without intelligence potions, there might really be some people whose intelligence could not keep up with their learning progress.
However, after the improvement of intelligence potion, there is basically no problem of intellectual deficiency. As long as students with normal intelligence are improved, they are already at the level of little geniuses. This kind of learning intensity has no problem at all for them. .
If there are really students who can't keep up with the learning progress, they are probably just having fun. If such students are given personal PDAs, they will most likely not study hard.
This is why Zhao Yi has never planned to provide such personal handheld computers to every student in the compulsory education stage, because the necessity of such a thing is very low.
Of course, this is under the condition of normal teaching content. The course content is all regular content, and there will be no tricky content or advanced learning content.
But if the content really needs to be customized according to the learning progress of each student, then for most students, the teaching content learned in the classroom will not be able to keep up with their pace.
From this perspective, it is indeed a bit of a waste of talent, and when the country is recruiting people, if these students are particularly top-notch in their studies, there is no need to follow the pace of the public and advance to higher education. They can learn advanced content and then skip a grade.
From this perspective, personal PDAs can still play a greater role, at least to select top students so that they can contribute to national construction as soon as possible.
Previously, Zhao Yiyi considered the issue of universal compulsory education. In his plan, these students only need to complete the courses step by step, and with the assistance of intelligence medicine, it is a high probability that they will become talents in the future.
But after all, education is actually a process of selecting talents. Even with the help of intelligence potions, there is still a difference between geniuses and ordinary talents.
It is indeed a waste of resources to let those geniuses and ordinary talents study in the same steps. Perhaps these genius students can play a greater role in the country if they enter higher-level studies as soon as possible.
Of course, Zhao Yi could also issue personal PDAs to these top students, which would reduce the cost, but doing so would not overcome Zhao Yi's heart.
Moreover, some people with poor academic performance are not because of intellectual problems, but because they have not devoted their energy to studying for the time being. Once their attitudes change, they may also be talents.
In such a short period of time, Zhao Yi thought about so much, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Then give each student a free personal PDAs, but this is only loaned to them by the school, and they still need to return it to the school after graduation. "
In fact, what I say is that if a student loses or breaks it, do they really have to pay for it? They can’t afford to pay. The final loss is still borne by the school, and ultimately by him. To bear.
Moreover, a simple personal handheld computer is not capable of installing a smart teacher, because their hardware configuration cannot be used at all. In the end, remote data transmission is carried out through the smart teacher in the background.
Then we face a problem, that is, although the school has a network and even a wireless network, it is basically impossible for these students to have it at home, because the cost of fiber optics is not low.
Therefore, Zhao Yi still needs to do two things. One is to let China Telecom companies reduce the cost of fiber optics to the home. Basically, it needs to be affordable for most families, otherwise it will be completely meaningless.
And for some really poor families, if they have children in school, we can provide zero-interest loans for fiber-optic home access. Although they may not have money now, it does not mean that they will still be so poor in the future.
The reason why Zhao Yi does not allow China Telecom to provide free optical fiber to poor families is that it is a commercial act, not a charitable act, and the second is to make the children of these families cherish such opportunities more and study harder.
Of course, if China Telecom lowers the home price so much, it will definitely take longer to recover the cost, but it will promote the development of the domestic Internet. By then, Polaris' computers may be sold better in the country.
Zhao Yi's companies that rely on the Internet for development will develop even faster in the future. This is really "everything has a reason after careful consideration." Zhao Yi's losses in this aspect may be made up for in other aspects.
In addition to reducing the cost of optical fiber to the home, Zhao Yi also needs to ask Polaris to reduce the cost of personal handheld computers, because the current configuration of personal handheld computers is still a bit high for a simple teaching terminal.
Therefore, Zhao Yi is planning to ask Polaris Company to lower the price of personal handheld computer terminals distributed to students to 500 yuan, or even lower.
Because these teaching terminals only need to display the data passed by the background intelligent teacher, they do not require high logic computing capabilities, but they still require certain requirements for multimedia chips.
According to Zhao Yi's mental calculation, it is feasible to reduce the issuance price to 500 yuan. Polaris Company still has a net profit of about 10%. Although it is lower than the overall net profit margin of Polaris, it sells a very large number and still has a huge profit. Profitable.
If each student in compulsory education is given one, Polaris will be able to obtain a turnover of more than 160 billion from this business alone, which accounts for a large proportion of Polaris' business.
Of course, this business will not be so big every year. If there are no accidents along the way, there is basically no problem in using a terminal for more than 10 years.
However, through this large-scale production of personal computer terminals, Polaris' hardware investment costs are shared. After these orders are completed, they can use these production lines to produce higher-end personal handheld computers.
Then these high-end products will be exported. The future market is still very exciting. If you imagine the annual sales of IPAD in the previous life, you can foresee that Polaris personal handheld computers will sell a lot.
Of course, if you want to achieve the performance of the previous iPad, the cost is very high. It is estimated that the selling price will reach about 4,000 yuan. Compared with the current Polestar company's handheld computers, there is still a slight gap.
However, due to the previous mass production of low-end personal handheld computers, this cost will be lowered. Therefore, on high-end products, Polaris may earn a net profit margin of more than 40%.
In other words, overall, the profits earned by Polaris Company are more generous, and it also makes up for some of Zhao Yi's losses in this regard.
In addition to teachers and equipment, the last item for China Education Company is course preparation. In fact, this work was all completed by Zhao Yilai, with very little participation from China Education Company.
However, when the intelligent teacher education courses provided by Zhao Yi were submitted to the Ministry of Education for review, they encountered some problems, which required Zhao Yi to deal with personally. (End of chapter)