For such a large domestic economy, it can still achieve economic growth of several dozen percent, which can be described as quite successful. It can even be described as unprecedented.
After last year's development, our country's economy can be said to have completely digested the impact of the financial expansion of the year before. The original situation of rising labor costs that made business operations more difficult has been greatly alleviated.
And due to the increase in residents' income, companies generally felt that business was easier to do last year than in previous years, and sales scale achieved substantial growth.
Although the profit margin may not have increased significantly, the total profit has achieved a relatively large increase, which has made many companies breathe a sigh of relief.
Especially the companies that survived in the previous year either had a solid financial situation or their products were highly competitive. After surviving, they faced a blue sky.
Due to the rapid increase in labor costs in the year before last, many companies that did not have much competitiveness have stopped production and closed down, leaving enough market space for competitive companies.
It was also after the situation last year that domestic companies discovered that they would not be able to gain a competitive advantage in the future market simply by relying on labor cost advantages.
Therefore, since last year, although the profit scale of many companies has greatly increased, they have not blindly expanded production. Instead, they have used more profits for technology research and development and product design innovation.
Although the effect is not particularly obvious at present, they are not Zhao Yi. They can bring out any technology they want at any time. They need a long-term accumulation process, and there will be more significant effects in the next one or two years.
Of course, Zhao Yi does not expect these companies to develop cross-generational technologies. It is enough that they can work hard on product innovation or improved innovation.
General revolutionary technologies cannot be produced by ordinary enterprises. They neither have such huge funds to support nor such strong technical strength. Most of them can only carry out micro-innovation.
Real technological breakthroughs and revolutions still need to be carried out by companies under his subsidiaries or state-owned enterprises. They can bear greater risks and are important participants in my country's technological innovation and reform.
Speaking of product innovation, Zhao Yi remembered the innovation workshop of Xuantian Technology Company. It has been about 5 months since the innovation workshop was established.
However, in these five months, intermediate artificial intelligence has provided a total of more than 10,000 innovative products. The number seems to be very large. In fact, this has not fully utilized the potential of intermediate artificial intelligence.
On the one hand, it is impossible for intermediate artificial intelligence to use all its computing power for a single task, because they have other tasks to perform and can only allocate a small part for this work.
On the other hand, there are too many innovative products provided in a short period of time, which cannot be digested immediately. It requires a longer process to transform these into real commodities and circulate them to the market.
Moreover, not all innovative products can be recognized by the market. Before being put into production, manual review is required to identify products with market development potential before entering the production process.
However, regarding this point, as time goes by, the data mastered by intermediate artificial intelligence will become larger and larger, and it will gradually surpass humans' grasp of the market. By then, this link can basically be cancelled.
Therefore, of the more than 10,000 innovative products, only about 500 have actually entered the production process. Just these 500, and the production process is not particularly smooth.
The main production tasks of the Innovation Workshop are handed over to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company. Although they have the most advanced production and manufacturing equipment at home and abroad, they are indeed unable to complete the production tasks of so many types of products in such a short period of time. .
Because as far as the current manufacturing equipment is concerned, the production process of each product actually requires a new production line. Although the equipment used may be the same, the organization of production methods is vastly different.
Moreover, the prices of the products of the Innovation Workshop are not cheap. We don’t know the size of the market, so the first manufacturing orders placed are not many. In the future, manufacturing orders will be gradually increased based on market response.
Just doing this is very unfriendly to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company and leads to high production costs. In order to solve this problem, the Innovation Workshop can only select products with greater market potential to enter the actual production stage.
In order to cope with this ever-changing manufacturing demand, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company is also investing a lot of money and energy to study how to solve these problems, so as to achieve rapid response manufacturing needs in the shortest time and at the lowest cost.
To this end, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company has developed a smart factory, which combines all their manufacturing equipment with artificial intelligence. Each manufacturing component can be freely configured.
Then, through the super-intelligent virtual factory system, all intelligent manufacturing equipment in the intelligent project can be combined at will, and the production line assembly of new products can be realized at a faster speed.
In other words, after Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company obtains the products it needs to produce, if the client has its own production process plan, it only needs to import it into the super-intelligent virtual factory system to change the production process of the production line.
In this way, the assembly time of the production line can be greatly reduced, and all aspects of the entire production process can be simulated in the virtual system, allowing for more accurate predictions of problems that may arise in the actual production process.
In order to allow employees to adapt to this ever-changing manufacturing demand, they gradually began to train independent equipment operators, so that each employee is only familiar with a certain piece of manufacturing machinery and equipment.
In this way, it is possible to remain unchanged in response to changes. No matter what the production line process is, every employee only needs to use the same skills for a certain manufacturing equipment. Even if there are changes, they only need to explain can.
Another time-consuming aspect of the manufacturing industry is the preparation of raw materials. Especially for such uncertain manufacturing tasks, which are often sudden, it is even less possible to prepare raw materials in advance.
In response to this problem, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company needs to sign relevant pre-purchase agreements with conventional raw material companies in advance. They even have to organize the production of some raw materials themselves.
Although this inevitably increases their capital backlog rate and increases their workload, it can effectively reduce the preparation time in the manufacturing cycle.
Fortunately, Innovation Workshop and Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company are brother companies and will not cancel manufacturing orders at will. Their business can remain relatively stable, so the risk is not actually very high.
And in order to allow Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company to deal with this aspect of manufacturing business more calmly, the Innovation Workshop will send all products to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company after review and let it decide whether to produce them.
This gives Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company greater freedom to complete product manufacturing tasks according to its own plans. To this extent, in fact, the innovation workshop is actually providing product creativity and design, regardless of other things.
Not only did they not care about the manufacturing process, they even entrusted the product pricing strategy to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company, allowing it to determine the selling price of the products based on changes in market demand and manufacturing costs.
Because according to the relevant cooperation agreement, the products produced by Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company have a fixed production price, and in addition, there is also a market commission price.
The former is to ensure that Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company has a basic profit and will not suffer losses due to poor market performance. However, this profit rate is very low, and it is basically impossible for the company to develop greatly by relying solely on this.
Therefore, what Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company really cares about is the market commission price. If the products sell better and the profit margin is higher, the more revenue they will get.
In doing so, although it may seem that the Innovation Workshop is at a disadvantage, it can save them a lot of trouble, and at the same time, it can also prompt Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company to truly consider their common interests.
In order to facilitate the actions of Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company, even the work of publicity and finding market channels was entrusted to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company, which is equivalent to handing over all subsequent links to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company.
The reason why they did this was that apart from the fact that they were brotherly companies and trusted each other, the main purpose was to encourage Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company to establish a large manufacturing industry chain.
If their large-scale manufacturing industry chain is established, in the future, companies will only need to develop product design and product manufacturing processes, and all other aspects of work can be handed over to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company.
This can reduce the costs of upstream design companies, and at the same time provide more sources of profit for Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company, instead of simply taking dead wages.
Because at this level, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company no longer simply provides product processing, but provides a full set of services to upstream companies, and the profit margin is naturally much higher.
For example, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company received product designs for more than 20 types of balancing vehicles from the Innovation Workshop, including manufacturing process design. All subsequent work has little to do with the Innovation Workshop.
Even the manufacturing process design does not need to be provided by upstream companies. Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company completes the product manufacturing process design by itself, because this aspect of the work also requires considerable professional knowledge and is not something that can be done casually.
This is like the difference between laboratory products and mass-produced products. Many products are manufactured in the laboratory, but the mass production process is not particularly smooth.
In this case, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company can earn another manufacturing process design service fee, which will range from several million to hundreds of millions of yuan depending on the difficulty, which is still very considerable.
In the later stages, apart from having the right to supervise and inspect, the upstream companies basically have nothing to do with them. They just need to wait until the goods are finally sold and get money according to the share.
In this way, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company can only get a dozen yuan in manufacturing costs for a product that originally cost a few hundred yuan. After this operation, it can get hundreds of yuan or even more.
Take Innovation Workshop's balancing car as an example. The market price ranges from 1,000 yuan to several thousand yuan. Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company can generally obtain a gross profit of more than 10% of the total sales price, while Innovation Workshop can at most Only 50% of the gross profit can be obtained.
The rest are manufacturing costs, advertising and marketing expenses, and channel expenses, which are much more profitable than earning tens of dollars and can bring higher income to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company.
Moreover, as the large-scale manufacturing industry gradually matures, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company will earn higher and higher profits, provide better and better services to upstream enterprises, and its position in the manufacturing field will become more and more stable.
Everyone knows that the innovation part is the most uncertain. Every designer has his own unique way of thinking, and there is no fixed paradigm that can be copied on a large scale.
Therefore, this link requires the participation of a large number of companies and individuals to provide a large number of creative product designs for the entire production and manufacturing. Not one company can handle them all.
Of course, the innovation workshop is an open one and is not within the normal scope and is not considered a common phenomenon. In other words, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company seems to only need to complete the product innovation part to become a full industry chain.
It's not that they don't want to do it, but they really can't do it. Even with the help of intermediate artificial intelligence, it's impossible to complete all the ideas. After all, human thinking is sometimes incomparable to artificial intelligence.
In view of this characteristic, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Co., Ltd. only needs to focus on the field of manufacturing, tap into the manufacturing potential and manufacturing technology, and provide complete follow-up services. This is enough, and it is also something that a company can do.
Moreover, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company has truly achieved the position of a super manufacturing enterprise. It will have a significant impact on the manufacturing structure of the entire society in the future, and can also cooperate with Zhao Yi to complete his strategic layout.
At present, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company only accepts product manufacturing from brother companies. In the future, they will become the center of the entire domestic manufacturing industry, the backbone of the domestic manufacturing industry, and an indispensable link.
We have mentioned building a knowledge society before, but there is no precedent for how a knowledge society works, and there is not even a unified concept. Even Zhao Yi only perfected the idea in his mind based on his own understanding.
No matter what the state of a knowledge-based society is, it is certain that every citizen in the society is a high-level intellectual and can provide innovative thinking and knowledge to the society.
It is not so easy to transform this knowledge into real productivity in the current social structure, otherwise there would not be so many doctoral students working for capitalists.
If Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company can afford his expectations, then every citizen will be able to easily transform their knowledge into real products, make their own contribution to society, and at the same time be able to Create abundant wealth.
Even then, they will not even need to provide initial capital. They only need to hand over their knowledge product design to relevant financial institutions. After passing the review, they can get an initial capital.
Then use this initial capital to entrust Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company to realize their ideas, so that their knowledge can be transformed into products on the market in the shortest possible time.
Think about what this will be like. In the future, at least the living space of small businesses will be greatly reduced, and every knowledge owner will be a small business himself.
If extended, future companies will not stay in small office rooms like they do now, or stay in laboratories day and night doing experiments, and employees may have very free working hours.
The employee's salary will be composed of two parts. One part is the fixed salary, which can also be called the intellectual property purchase fee. The other part is the commission salary for knowledge contribution, which is an intellectual value-added fee.
At that time, employees may have a good idea on a whim while on vacation, and then design it and hand it over to the company.
Then the company can review the idea, and after passing it, it can be sent to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company to help it realize it. Even from publicity, sales, payment collection, etc., the company only needs to collect part of its own income in accordance with regulations.
This is the knowledge-based society envisioned by Zhao Yi. Every citizen is an independent individual. They rely on their own mental work to make a living. They do not need to work a nine-to-five job and can give full play to their infinite creativity.
Moreover, future manufacturing will not require human participation. Whether it is intelligent mechanical equipment or the use of intelligent robots to replace manual labor, replacement will be very convenient.
Not to mention the future, it is now. If Zhao Yi really wants to do it, he can achieve zero manual participation in manufacturing. However, at present, he still has many concerns that prevent him from making up his mind.
Because the current social situation in our country is still far away from the knowledge-based society in his mind. At least the proportion of our country’s senior intellectuals in the total population is not high.
It can be seen from this that he fully supports compulsory education for all. Even now, not only compulsory education, but also higher education is free.
Last year, we also made a decision to conduct college admissions based on fixed score lines, significantly increasing the proportion of college admissions from the original fixed 40% to 70%.
According to statistics from China Education Corporation after last year's college entrance examination, the number of students who achieved an average score of 90 in each subject accounted for 70% of the total number of candidates. This is already a remarkable achievement.
You must know that since the introduction of Intelligent Milk, it has only been about 3 years, and 70% of students have achieved an average score of 90 points in various subjects, which is already very scary.
In the previous life, basically everyone could go to 895 universities with this score, so this score line is not loose, but much stricter than the fixed admission rate of 40%.
But having intelligence milk is like cheating, and students' IQs have generally improved a lot. Learning in the compulsory education stage is not as difficult as imagined for most students, unless they don't pay attention.
According to predictions by China Education Corporation, this qualifying rate will become higher and higher, and may reach more than 95% in the future. By then, higher education expenditure will become the largest education expenditure item in our country.
In order to cope with this situation, he did not hesitate to choose to promote artificial intelligence teachers in colleges and universities, and then let the schools spend their main energy on school practical courses, cultivate students' hands-on practical abilities, and hand over the teaching of theoretical knowledge to artificial intelligence.
This can greatly reduce the problem of insufficient teachers in higher education, and at the same time reduce the cost of higher education to a certain extent, allowing limited funds to be spent on experimental practice.
Although this will inevitably require continued increases in higher education funding in the future, he feels it is worthwhile because such highly intelligent students are the solid foundation for a future knowledge-based society.
And in order to avoid wasting the talents of students who have not been admitted to higher education institutions, Chinese education companies have decided to transform the originally paid-for-all education program into free online education, providing another way for students who have no chance to enter higher education institutions.
As mentioned before, these students who have not entered colleges and universities do not mean that there is any problem with their intelligence. If they are placed in developed countries in Europe and the United States, they are all high-IQ groups. It is just that most of them are unstable and have no intelligence. Focusing their attention on studies has caused them to miss out on higher education.
But if students with such high IQs lose the opportunity to continue learning, it will be a huge waste of intellectual resources and run counter to the knowledge-based society he wants to create.
Perhaps these students who did not originally devote their attention to learning, as they grow older and are severely beaten by society, gradually mature, they may be willing to continue on this path of learning.
Although they have fewer practical opportunities than students studying in colleges and universities, their theoretical knowledge is definitely not much different from college students. Chinese education companies treat everyone equally in this regard.
His ideal, of course, is to train young people in the new era to become 100% high-level intellectual talents. Even if they cannot all obtain high-level or important positions, their contribution will definitely be much higher than that of low-level intellectual talents. .
As for whether there will be involution, Zhao Yi is not particularly worried about this, because artificial social stratification actually does not make much sense in the future.
As mentioned before, artificial intelligence technology is actually very advanced, but it has not yet been introduced. Ordinary labor opportunities will become fewer and fewer in the future, and may even disappear.
In the future, people will receive a social support fund, which is enough for them to live a more comfortable life. If they want to gain a higher social status and be admired by people, they need to stand out from the many talents.
At that time, society will be divided into two major categories, one is talents who have already contributed to society, and the other is social reserve talents. They have not made outstanding contributions currently, but they may be able to make outstanding contributions in the future.
Regardless of these two types of talents, they must be high-level intellectual talents. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to make their own contributions, and they will have to accept social support for their entire lives.
Because there will be no opportunities for ordinary labor at that time. If you want to make a contribution, you must innovate at the knowledge level, whether it is technical, scientific or theoretical, or even literary and artistic.
As long as it enriches the social knowledge system and produces positive social influence, it can be regarded as making its own contribution to society. There is no unified standard. (End of chapter)