Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 248 City Council Meeting
"Thank you secretary for reminding me." Duan Yun nodded.

"Then go back and do your work first." Zhao Dongsheng smiled and signaled to Duan Yun that he could leave.

After leaving the secretary's office, Duan Yun thought about it.

For Duan Yun, this seems to be an opportunity. If he can work as an interpreter in the Bureau of Light Industry, he will definitely deal with foreign businessmen in the future, and he will also have the opportunity to meet more leaders and foreign experts. Country gate!
But at present, Duan Yun still doesn't know what they are going to translate when they are summoned by the bureau, so Duan Yun will have to look at the specific situation at the meeting in the afternoon.

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After one o'clock in the afternoon, Duan Yun, Cheng Qingyan and other factory leaders rode bicycles to the urban area.

It is hard for people in the future to imagine that in a large state-owned factory with more than 2000 employees, the factory leader does not have a special car, but in the current domestic situation, this is still a very normal thing.

Cars were still relatively rare in the 80s. Only large units like the Mining Bureau and 616 had cars dedicated to leaders.

At that time, the most domestically produced cars in China were Shanghai brand cars. The annual output of this car was very small, and the shells were basically hand-made by workers. The engine was Jinfeng 685Q, which consumed a lot of fuel. It was definitely not an ordinary person who could drive this kind of car in that era.

The Light Industry Bureau of Daxing City is located opposite the city government. When Duan Yun and his party arrived here, hundreds of bicycles had already been neatly parked at the gate.

This is the first time Duan Yun has participated in such a meeting, and he is still a little excited.

There are many units under the Daxing Light Industry Bureau. In the 80s, Daxing Light Industry was quite developed. In terms of people's livelihood, there were sugar factories, meat factories, textile factories, pharmaceutical factories and so on.

In addition, Daxing Industry in this era also has scale and depth, and many brands have a certain reputation throughout the country.

The Daxing brand was the most reassuring and favorite product of Daxing people back then.At that time, Daxing was one of the cities with relatively developed manufacturing industries in China, and it was also an industrial city with a relatively high level of modernization in China.

It’s just that due to the policy and the inaction of several generations of Daxing city leaders in later generations, many enterprises in Daxing faced cruel competition in the market and lacked policy support. In the end, they went bankrupt and died one by one, leaving only coal as the only pillar industry. There's a lot to think about in this.

The meeting was held in the auditorium of the Light Industry Bureau, and it was Ruiyang, the director of Daxing Light Industry Bureau, who presided over the meeting.

The leading cadres who participated in this meeting were basically the first and second leaders of each unit. Duan Yun and Cheng Qingyan sat together, but they basically didn't talk on this occasion, after all, the factory director and secretary were right next to them.

What surprised Duan Yun and Cheng Qingyan was that they saw a few students from the Ye University at the meeting venue. They were also brought by their respective unit leaders this time, and they probably also came to participate in this translation work. .

It may seem inconceivable to future generations that the Municipal Bureau unit should send so many highly educated talents to the city’s subordinate units to translate things. However, this also reflects the serious shortage of domestic talents at the beginning of the reform and opening up.

After the meeting started, the deputy director first read and conveyed several new documents issued by the Ministry of Light Industry, including some matters on strengthening the management of state-owned enterprises and introducing technology.

Subsequently, Director Ruiyang also began to speak.

Ruiyang's speech is very long, but basically he doesn't read it very much, and his eloquence is quite good.

Duan Yun could tell that Ruiyang was indeed a very talented person who wanted to make a big difference. He listened to the speech very passionately, and many of the things he said were common problems in state-owned enterprises.

However, in Duan Yun’s view, many state-owned enterprises are still a pool of stagnant water, and many of Ruiyang’s ideas are actually unable to cure the chronic diseases of state-owned enterprises. The main reason is that many state-owned enterprises currently have no sense of crisis and competition awareness, and would rather not act , and will not take the risk of making any reforms to the enterprise.

Lack of competition awareness is a fatal flaw of state-owned enterprises. If the system is not reformed, no matter how ambitious and determined Ruiyang is, it will be difficult to turn the tide.

The meeting lasted for three hours, and after the meeting ended, Duan Yuncheng Qingyan and the people brought by other units were invited by the staff to the meeting room of the Bureau of Light Industry.

This time, there were more than 100 English talents brought by each unit, and when they entered the meeting room, they were stunned by the scene before them.

It turned out that on the desk in the meeting room at this time, there were three large cartons of drawings and documents, all of which were written and marked in English, so densely packed that it made one's scalp tingle.

Seeing this scene, Duan Yun immediately understood why the Bureau of Light Industry called so many English-speaking people to the meeting.

The translation of mechanical drawings and related technical materials is very difficult. Some of the mechanical terms and vocabulary are difficult to translate even for foreigners who understand Chinese. Many of them are quite uncommon words. At the same time, it is necessary to have an understanding of the relevant equipment technology in order to complete and accurately translate a qualified translation.

In addition, with so many blueprints and documents, the workload is quite terrifying. If one or two people translate, it may take half a year to finish the translation. That's why the Bureau of Light Industry will mobilize English-speaking talents from all subordinate units this time.

"Everyone is here."

At this time, Director Ruiyang walked into the conference room, smiled and waved to greet everyone, and walked in front of the pile of documents.

"Director Rui, all the drawings and documents of the automobile factory's production line are here." A staff member next to him said to Ruiyang.

"En." Ruiyang nodded, then lightly patted the box of foreign language drawings in front of him with his hand, and said to everyone: "Everyone is a foreign language talent in each unit, so I will make a long story short here. Copies of the blueprints and documents of the automobile production line imported from West Germany. Although the equipment is an obsolete technology abroad, it is still very advanced in China, and it is worth learning and learning from. I call everyone here today, and I hope you can help carry out the process. Translation, because the foreign personnel are still waiting for the reply from the bureau, so the time is limited. Each unit is responsible for one translation. I hope everyone can pay attention to it. The deadline is one week. After everyone completes the translation, it will be directly sent to the file in the bureau. Ko, do you have any questions?"

Ruiyang obviously wants to distribute the translation of these blueprints. Although there will inevitably be errors in the translation due to uneven levels of translation due to the large number of people, but in the current situation of extreme lack of professional translation talents, it is also a kind of Helpless move.

(End of this chapter)