Chapter 390 Huge surprise, national recognition
After sending Liu Tianwu away, Jiang Hui's work schedule was interrupted by a sudden phone call.
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Hui hadn't fully reacted yet.
Inform yourself to attend the National Science and Technology Progress Award Ceremony held at the end of the month?
As a foreign-funded enterprise, BMW Group has never applied for this award.
After all, under normal circumstances, this kind of award has not been awarded to any foreign-funded enterprise in the past many years, not even private enterprises.
"Jiang Hui, put on this suit and give it a try. I asked my father. There are very high-level leaders attending this conference."
After returning home and telling Zhu Lin about the situation, she started making arrangements for the award ceremony.
For this reason, she made a special trip to Hong Kong City and brought back a tailor to make a suit for Jiang Hui.
With her current position in the Hong Kong City business district, this is not a particularly difficult matter.
Before Jiang Hui went to the capital, all these clothes had been rushed out.
Zhu Ling must personally check which set has the best effect.
"It is estimated that many people attending the meeting will be wearing relatively simple clothes. Wouldn't it be too high-profile for me to buy a custom-made suit?"
Although he didn't know which project of the BMW Group won what award, Jiang Hui was still very excited.
This represents the above endorsement of the BMW Group.
In the future turbulence, as long as the BMW Group does not seek death, there is basically no need to worry about encountering resistance from relevant departments in its development in China.
This is really important to the development of an enterprise.
Especially in 1986, the situation in all aspects was far from as clear as it was after 1992.
Even in the Special Administrative Region, it's the same.
"Aren't your thoughts a bit behind the pace of development?"
“Nowadays, in some important occasions, leaders have begun to wear suits and leather shoes.”
"Besides, you are now the person in charge of a foreign company, so it is normal to wear a suit."
In Zhu Ling's opinion, these customized suits are undoubtedly more suitable for Jiang Hui.
In this regard, Jiang Hui did not intend to struggle.
As long as your wife likes it, nothing else matters.
"I also think Dad looks better in this."
Jiang Yuxuan, who was about to turn six years old, came with an assist from the side.
"Okay, let's wear this suit."
"Dad will come back to collect a big prize then."
Jiang Hui picked up Jiang Yuxuan and kissed her chubby little face.
"I won't accompany you back to the capital this time. Remember to visit your parents then."
Zhu Ling touched her belly, which was not yet obvious, and decided to stay in Shenzhen to raise the baby.
Three months into her pregnancy, Jiang Yuxuan will soon have a younger brother.
Although there is family planning in the country, Zhu Ling is from Hong Kong, so naturally she can have as many children as she wants.
"I will definitely stay at home when I return to the capital. I will have a lot of things to talk about with my father then."
Jiang Hui has been helping Zhu Jiansheng in the past year to run the affairs of academic committee members. However, the current academic committee selection process is not like the academician selection process in later generations. There is already a fixed process.
In 1985, no academic members were added, so even if Jiang Hui wanted to promote Zhu Jiansheng, he lacked a chance.
After all, this kind of evaluation cannot be carried out specifically for a certain person.
Therefore, even if Zhu Jiansheng's current results meet the qualifications for academic department membership, he still has to wait a little longer.
……
January 28, 1986.
Jiang Hui arrived in the capital two days early to avoid any accidents and delay the National Science and Technology Progress Award ceremony, which would be a pity.
"Xiao Jiang, I asked about it. Your winning project this time is the Mercedes-Benz car project."
"This car uses an advanced 2.5L naturally aspirated engine and a 5MT manual transmission, and its exterior design is also very classic."
"It has brought a warm wave to the domestic passenger car industry."
"It is said that the First Machinery Department originally wanted to apply for your engine, gearbox and vehicle separately."
"However, considering that you are a foreign-funded enterprise after all, the final compromise is to apply for the Mercedes-Benz sedan project."
It has to be said that it is easy to do things when there are people in the court.
Jiang Hui didn't need to say anything as his father-in-law went out to find out the matter in person.
As the president of Capital University of Technology, Zhu Jiansheng has a very wide network of contacts.
Not to mention other things, the alumni resources in various ministries and commissions alone are not comparable to ordinary people.
No matter how messed up the situation is, if the principal of the alma mater contacts you in person, the alumni will take it seriously.
Those with lower levels may even feel flattered.
So as long as the request is not too excessive, I will agree to help.
What's more, this time Zhu Jiansheng was just asking about BMW Group's award-winning projects.
These are all things that will be announced soon, there is nothing to hide.
After all, notifying Jiang Hui to come and present awards means that one of their projects has won an award.
“If the Mercedes-Benz sedan project can win awards, wouldn’t it be possible that our Land Rover pickup truck and Land Rover off-road vehicle projects will also win awards in the future?”
Jiang Hui was not particularly surprised that the Mercedes-Benz car won the award.
After all, this product has now become an important product for China to export and earn foreign exchange.
It indeed represents the highest level of the domestic automobile industry.
"Judging from the design of your Land Rover pickup trucks and Land Rover off-road vehicles as well as the equipment of engines and gearboxes, they are indeed no less significant than Mercedes-Benz cars."
"But you just won the award this year. It is not certain that a similar project will win the award directly next year."
"When the time comes, the 4AT automatic transmission or 3.5L naturally aspirated engine project may bring you unexpected surprises."
I have to say that people within the system still need to know their own thoughts best.
In Zhu Jiansheng's view, even if Land Rover off-road vehicles and Land Rover pickup trucks have very good performance, it is not easy to win awards.
"It doesn't matter. These awards only represent recognition from our superiors. They will have a very limited impact on our export market."
"Now I know the attitude of the superior department towards our company. Awards and other awards are the best, and I can accept them if they don't."
This is really Jiang Hui's true mentality.
As long as relevant departments strongly support the development of the BMW Group, Jiang Hui will be satisfied.
Especially since the BMW Group is about to make efforts in the international market, it cannot start a fire in the backyard.
In the next day, Jiang Hui did not just hang out in the courtyard, but went to visit the leaders of the First Machinery Department and other departments.
Relationships must be maintained to last forever, otherwise they will eventually be affected to a certain extent.
On January 30, Jiang Hui came to the square early to wait as required, and entered the venue under the command of the staff. At nine o'clock in the morning, the award ceremony officially began.
As expected, the level of attendance was through the roof.
This kind of conference has a fixed process, and speeches by leaders at all levels are naturally essential.
The third prize was announced first.
When all the lists were announced, Jiang Hui was relieved not to hear the name of BMW Group.
Since you come to the conference, you will definitely get a prize.
If there is no share of the third prize, it means that the BMW Group has at least won the second prize.
After all the third prize winners received their awards from the stage, it was time to announce the second prize.
Jiang Hui straightened up, feeling that he might hear a familiar name here.
But until the end, I didn’t hear the words from the leaders of the BMW Group.
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Could it be that he won the first prize?
Jiang Hui couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
The first prize has a very different meaning.
Compared with the number of third prizes, the number of first prizes is much less, and the gold content is also very high.
Sure enough, as one project after another that he knew would have a major impact on national defense technology came out of the leader's mouth, Jiang Hui finally heard the name of the BMW Group's Mercedes-Benz sedan project.
This is the first time in Chinese history that a car has won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, which is of great significance.
"Director, the higher-ups are too biased."
"Since the establishment of FAW, we have made a lot of contributions to the development of China's automobile industry."
"Why have we never been given such a high honor?"
As the director and deputy director of FAW, Geng Weidong and Zhao Guangming also attended the conference today.
In 1984, the first two-wheel prototype vehicle was trial-produced using a self-designed flat cab, and various experiments on the entire vehicle were conducted.
Last year, they applied for this project to see if there was any chance of receiving an award.
However, when the first prizes were announced, their names were not heard.
The special prize was naturally unthinkable.
Forget it if the automobile industry loses revenue, both Geng Weidong and Zhao Guangming can accept this result.
After all, FAW's flat-head truck only produced a prototype, and there is still a long way to go before large-scale mass production.
However, BMW's Mercedes-Benz sedan project won the first prize, and the nature of this matter is different.
"After the meeting, I'll talk to the ministry. We can't give Mercedes-Benz such a high honor just because it can be exported to earn foreign exchange."
"In terms of promoting the country's economic development, I think trucks are of greater significance."
Geng Weidong was also very unhappy about this matter.
He doesn't know if it's true, but he feels that after the BMW Group won the award, the people around him looked at him a bit wrong.
Of course, in fact, he is completely selfish.
The people attending the conference today come from all walks of life. In fact, there are only a few people who really know him as the director of FAW.
After all, it is not like in future generations, everyone has a mobile phone and can know a lot of information at a glance from Baidu.
Some celebrities today, even if they are very well-known, few people know you when you walk on the street.
"Yes, no state-owned automobile manufacturer in China has ever received such a high honor, but a foreign-funded enterprise like BMW has."
"This will give everyone a very bad misleading."
Zhao Guangming and Geng Weidong kept complaining, but it did not bring any changes to the Mercedes-Benz sedan project's winning.
Jiang Hui came on stage happily and received the medal, shaking hands with the leader in the process.
It is estimated that he will have a chance to appear on the news broadcast tonight for a second or two.
……
"Director Hou, our Mercedes-Benz sedan project won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award."
Just after the award ceremony ended, Chen Chenxing got the news.
The BMW Group also immediately began arranging for people to make banners to celebrate such a major good news.
"Great, this is the greatest recognition of our efforts from our superiors."
"It seems that our other projects will also have the opportunity to participate in various award ceremonies in the future."
Hou Guoming has been in the system for most of his life. Although he has now come to the BMW Group, he still attaches great importance to the honor of winning awards.
The entire BMW development team generally has a similar mentality.
Therefore, this award has a very different meaning to the BMW Group.
"With this award, it should be smoother for us to find supporting factories to cooperate with in the future."
"It will be much easier for the HR department to recruit people from other factories."
Chen Chenxing got to the point right away.
These two benefits should be very direct consequences of the first prize.
At this special time in 1986, the superiors' recognition of BMW was far more important than many people in later generations imagined.
While Hou Guoming and Chen Chenxing were discussing this topic, Liu Tianwu also quickly obtained information.
"Leadership, the BMW Group's Mercedes-Benz sedan project won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award."
"This is the first project in Shenzhen to win the National Science and Technology Progress Award in so many years, and it is also the first prize."
Yao Yiming reported the good news to Liu Tianwu with great excitement.
There is no doubt that this is another important achievement in their district, which can be well publicized in the next few years.
"Director Jiang went to the capital on a business trip to attend this award ceremony?"
Combined with Jiang Hui's itinerary, Liu Tianwu knew it at once.
"Yes, I contacted BMW at that time, and they said that Director Jiang went to the capital to attend the award ceremony."
"I thought it was just an ordinary award, but I didn't expect to come back with such an important award."
Shencheng was the first to win the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and no other company will be able to break it for many years to come.
The significance of this cannot be overstated.
After all, there are not many key projects related to national defense in Shencheng, so it is still very difficult to win an award of this level.
"Go and investigate and see what supporting policies are available for this kind of thing in various places."
"I plan to discuss how to provide some additional support policies to the BMW Group at the next meeting in the district."
When it comes time to provide policy support, Liu Tianwu is not stingy at all.
The better the BMW Group develops, the more exciting his career will be.
(End of chapter)