Rewrite the Technological Landscape

"Okay, don't play tricks." Liang Zhiguo on the side yelled at Ding Mingyuan, "Why do you still have such a bad temper at a young age?"

Ding Mingyuan rolled his eyes at Liang Zhiguo, then turned his head to look at Meng Qian again, "Xiao Meng, do you know the future development direction of our country's science and technology field?"

Ding Mingyuan's question was a bit big, Meng Qian didn't know where to start, so he shook his head.

"Two points." Ding Mingyuan held up two fingers, "Marketization, comprehensive construction."

After Ding Mingyuan gave the answer, Meng Qian immediately understood.

The road to scientific research in China has gone through four stages, which have been explained in detail in the journal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The first stage is the golden period of China’s scientific research that Meng Qian has been aiming for. From the 1950s to the 1970s, the biggest feature of China’s scientific research at that time was the formation of a scientific research atmosphere that was exactly the opposite of that of later generations. At that time, it was advocated that buying is not as good as making.

During that time, we chanted slogans such as self-reliance, comprehensive independence, and hard research and development. At that time, there were many products in the Soviet Union that were willing to sell to us, but we just didn’t buy them.

However, there was also a problem at that stage, that is, scientific research was entirely dependent on state funding. Later, with the development of science and technology, the cost of scientific research increased, and it was not an option to keep funding like this.

This is the new stage after the 1980s, marketization of scientific research, advocating a healthy combination of scientific research and the market, scientific research promotes economic development, and the economy feeds back to scientific research development, and then everyone knows what happened.

However, everything has two sides, and the marketization of scientific research is still beneficial, that is, the expanded scope of Huaxia's scientific research, which also laid the foundation for Huaxia's later all-round rise.

After the 21st century, only two countries in the world have implemented the strategy of investing in research and development in all fields of science and technology. These two countries are the United States and China.

To put it simply, in other countries, I am good at which field I am, and I will invest in that field, the so-called focus, or I suddenly feel that which field is more needed, I will invest in that field. Some fields will be ignored directly.

Only the United States and China, although there will definitely be investment in different fields, but almost no one field is ignored, and they are all doing it.

Therefore, 2001 can be regarded as a special year for China's scientific research. The scientific and technological foundation was established, and China's economy was about to enter a period of rapid growth, but it became more popular to buy than to make.

However, although Meng Qian probably understood Ding Mingyuan's words, he was looking at the problem from the perspective of 2019 after all. He was still very curious about how people in this era would look at these problems, so he said modestly, "Teacher Ding can speak more clearly." Some?"

"You know how to show off in front of the juniors!" Liang Zhiguo scolded Ding Mingyuan again, and it was obvious that the two had a very good relationship before, "Hurry up."

Ding Mingyuan ignored Liang Zhiguo, but his words became less closed-minded afterwards, "Xiao Meng, you can actually regard Huaxia as a huge company now.

You run a company yourself, so you should be able to understand that in such a large company, it is impossible for the boss or even the executives to personally participate in the work of each department. The boss mainly needs to set the direction, set policies, and handle upstream relationships.

However, now the company has thousands of scientific research centers, and the company’s money is limited. Some scientific research centers will provide a large amount of blood supply because of the company’s general policy, and some scientific research centers will not have such a big need for the time being. , do not get much company support.

But if you want to do scientific research in every scientific research center of the company, you must need money, what should you do? There are two ways, first, to make money by yourself, and second, to actively apply for funding from the company.

So as a company, seeing the applications of various scientific research centers, what kind of scientific research centers will it give priority to in funding? "

Ding Mingyuan looked at Meng Qian and motioned for Meng Qian to answer. His habit of asking questions came back again, probably subconsciously.

Meng Qian answered, "It's valuable."

"Hey, it's the boss. It's clear. The company has so many scientific research centers. Except for those that have been paid more attention, which one is important? In fact, all of them are important. Everyone will say that they are important when they apply, so There has to be a standard for judging.

You can't just say that you are important, you have to let the company see your value and the ratio of input to output. "

When Ding Mingyuan said this, he moved the cup in front of him aside, feeling a little excited, "Now we return to the field of industrial software. Is industrial software a key training object of the country? No.

Do you know how much research funding this field can apply for from the country every year? "

After Ding Mingyuan asked, he seemed to realize that he had made a mistake again, and then raised a finger.

"One hundred million?" Meng Qian responded.

Meng Qian's answer aroused everyone's laughter, and Ding Mingyuan shook his head helplessly, "Xiao Meng is worthy of being engaged in semiconductors, but he is rich and powerful, and it is 10 million yuan. However, the R\u0026D investment of CAN, a single foreign company, is 300 million yuan. This is a company that is 30 times our national R\u0026D investment.

So if we use this little money to develop 3D industrial software, what problems will we encounter? "

"It will be over in minutes." Knowing that Ding Mingyuan likes to ask questions, Meng Qian simply cooperates with him, so that the chat can be smoother.

"Right. So people like us, of course we know the existing problems in this industry, but the bigger problem is, who will develop 3D technology? Is there talent? Is there money? Nothing.

We can't raise funds ourselves, can we?

So the significance of allowing the market to develop at the current pace is that, although fundamentally speaking, this direction of development is wrong, but this direction of development can be exchanged for the market and money. The development has been realized successfully.

After cashing out, if you have money yourself, the country will think you are more valuable and will be willing to allocate more funds. As for where does the technology to improve it come from?

It is to slowly develop in the wealth created by a seemingly wrong way.

So it is meaningless for us to point out the problems in this industry now. After pointing out, what then? Without it, the country's money is limited, and it is impossible to burn it like a bottomless pit in all fields.

If you stop the current development direction, not only will it not help the development of 3D industrial software, but it may also destroy the development of 2D industrial software. What's more, there is nothing wrong with 2D industrial software itself, it is just backward.

So looking at the development of this industry now, is it really wrong? To be precise, it is just developing in a backward way under the premise of being backward. "

Meng Qian carefully comprehended Ding Mingyuan's words, and suddenly asked, "Several teachers, I would like to ask a question. In your mind, in the field of semiconductors, is industrial software or lithography machine more important?"

"That must be a lithography machine." Ding Mingyuan affirmed, and several other people also nodded in approval.

Sure enough, people without God's perspective cannot see the future, which is an objective phenomenon.

Because of the ZTE incident in later generations, everyone knows how important industrial software is, and began to blame the country for not paying attention to it. But at this moment, chip technology is not as high-precision as later generations, and 3D industrial software has just started and there is no gap yet. In addition, the market for industrial software itself is small, and it has not reached the market of tens of billions in 2019.

Lithography machines and chips are both hundreds of billions of market, a whole order of magnitude difference.

Therefore, it is not without reason that people in this era despise industrial software. Normal people cannot see the future.

However, what Ding Mingyuan said really gave Meng Qian a new understanding of the development of national scientific research in this era. Liang Zhiguo had analyzed the semiconductor industry for himself before. Is semiconductor an area that the country attaches great importance to?

Of course it belongs, so the problem Liang Zhiguo shared is more about the poverty of the country itself and the lack of private companies willing to enter the market. Although I am willing to burn money, I only have so much money.

Today, Ding Mingyuan let Meng Qian understand the difficulties encountered in areas that are not valued. The problems that are not valued are not endless poverty, because even if they become rich, there will not be much change unless the country is rich enough to carry out a bottomless pit. Fully developed, but that's impossible.

Regardless of whether it is an industry that is valued or not, Meng Qian found that private companies have great existence value. The state does not pay attention to them, but private companies can pay attention to them. The state does not burn money, but private companies can burn money.

But the problem is that so many fields are not taken seriously, Meng Qian can't take care of everything, the country can't take care of things, how can he take care of himself?

Meng Qian must face the reality. What he can do now is to do something in some areas that he thinks are more important based on the experience of later generations. To a certain extent, he is also ignoring some other areas, and those he ignored It may become a field that is stuck in Huaxia's neck by 2029.

Therefore, it still depends on more companies to pay attention to scientific research.

Today's dialogue had a profound meaning for Meng Qian, and it also affected some of his subsequent actions.

But at this moment, he is more concerned about the industrial software itself, because when thinking of the semiconductor industry, Meng Qian suddenly thought of something, and this thing made him think of a possibility, "Several teachers, if there is a company in China Enterprises can design 3D industrial software that is comparable to world-class enterprises, at least not so far behind, and get a certain market response.

So does this count as a manifestation of value? "

"Theoretically, yes." Ding Mingyuan thought for a while, "The so-called value means that you make people think you are important, or you make people see the future.

If someone can design industrial software comparable to the world's first-class level, it is definitely a prospect. "

"Then if you use this software to apply for the country's scientific research investment in this field, can you also apply for more?" Meng Qian asked.

"It's hard to say whether it will affect the entire industry, but at least if the company itself wants to apply for scientific research funding, there should be no problem." Ding Mingyuan responded after looking at the people around him.

"Then I take the liberty to ask the last question. If there is such a company now, would people in the industry like you teachers be willing to work with this company and do something for the development of this industry?"

Ding Mingyuan couldn't help laughing, "If there is such a company, I can resign from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and work with him."

"Okay!" Meng Qian smiled charmingly, "Just follow what Teacher Ding said, I will take this job!"