Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 791 Homemade Walkman

On May [-] Labor Day, at the Daxing City Workers’ Club, Duan Yun stepped onto the front desk of the auditorium. Under the warm applause and flashing camera spotlights, Duan Yun took over the honor of the city’s model workers from senior city officials. Awards and certificates of honor.

This is the first time that Duan Yun has won the title of a city-level model worker. Although those material rewards are not worth mentioning to Duan Yun, he still attaches great importance to this award, and as a representative of Daxing City's model worker, he made a public statement. An impassioned speech.

For Duan Yun, the significance of being awarded the municipal model worker this time is still very great. He had expected his identity to be sensitive before. Although the Red Star Gear Factory recommended him as a key candidate, he still felt that he could win the award. The hope is not great, after all, now everyone in the city knows that he also runs an electronics factory.

And this time Duan Yun successfully obtained the municipal model worker, which shows that the municipal government has reached an agreement on Duan Yun's issue. On the one hand, it affirms him, and on the other hand, it shows the attitude of the Daxing Municipal Government. An encouragement to private enterprise.Especially in the current domestic policy downturn, as far as the current leadership team of the municipal government is concerned, it is impossible to slap itself in the face easily, and it may protect and support it when necessary.

After Duan Yun won the honor of the city-level model worker, he was notified only a week later that the Daxing Municipal Government had reported his deeds to the provincial party committee, and Duan Yun would be a candidate to participate in this year's The province's model worker selection.

As Duan Yun became a city-level model worker, he once again became the focus of some local and provincial media in Daxing City. TV and radio interviews, news interviews and other things continued to flow, and this time the news reports about him also appeared on the It made the headlines on the front pages of several important newspapers and periodicals in the provinces and cities.

In the final analysis, the key reason why Duan Yun has such a big media popularity this time is because he is the manager of a state-owned enterprise and is also in charge of managing a private electronics factory, so there is a lot of controversy about him in the society, and the discussion of public opinion mainly focuses on In terms of whether Duan Yun is an excellent leader of a state-owned enterprise or an excellent private entrepreneur.

These two kinds of voices come from time to time among the people. One thinks that Duan Yun, as a management cadre of a state-owned enterprise, also manages a private company. Behaviors that lead to abuse of power and harm public interests are naked capitalist roaders.

On the other hand, there are also many people who believe that Duan Yun is a "pioneer of reform" with a very distinctive personality. The country is currently on the road of reform and opening up. Duan Yun can learn from foreign experience and technology to improve the quality of our products. Selling products abroad is a very proud thing in itself, and it can be regarded as winning glory for the country. Such talents should be encouraged and supported.

People are afraid of famous pigs.

Duan Yun was in the midst of the storm in the province, and he also had his own worries. After all, if there was too much public opinion about him in the society, he might cause trouble for himself, so Duan Yun accepted some After being interviewed by major provincial and municipal media, Yan declined other interview requests and devoted himself to his work wholeheartedly.

Throughout May, Duan Yun was very busy. He had to produce in the workshop during the day, and after returning home for dinner at night, except for attending classes at night and occasional appointments, he would operate the computer at home to design new product drawings.

At present, the sales volume of speakers as the main product has always been considerable, but Duan Yun also knows that as an electronic fast-moving consumer product, if the product is not upgraded and new products are not developed, then the profit cannot be sustained, so he must engage in new product research and development.

In addition to planning to upgrade the technology of his subwoofer speaker, Duan Yun has already aimed at another electronic product, that is the Walkman.

Since the launch of Sony TPS-L1979, the first Walkman in history, in July 7, this portable and reliable product quickly became popular all over the world.

However, although Duan Yun knows the design principle of the Walkman, it is still very difficult to produce this kind of product in China. At present, only the Japanese manufacturer Sony and its subsidiary Aihua Electronics can produce high-quality products in the world. Quality Walkman.

Compared with Sony, the Walkman products produced by Aihua are more famous in Southeast Asian countries and China, and it is also the most familiar and familiar Walkman brand for Chinese people.

Duan Yun wants to produce this kind of Walkman in China. The technical obstacles he has to face are very large. It is far from being comparable to the subwoofer speakers he designed. In addition to design, some key components cannot be produced domestically, and even if some can There is also a big gap in quality between the replacement domestic parts and foreign parts.

In fact, there were no real domestic tape players until the 90s in China, but this kind of Walkman was useless in terms of workmanship, materials, sound quality and life, and it was also very power-hungry. Two AA batteries can It is good enough to listen for 5 hours, and the Japanese Walkman can listen for dozens of hours on a 10th battery, but the domestic Walkman has only one advantage, that is, it is cheap, very cheap.

If Duan Yun wants to produce this kind of Walkman in China, he obviously cannot take the high-end route, and if the price is too high, it does not conform to the national conditions.

In the past, the raw materials and components used in domestic tape recorders were the cheapest. Many Japanese Walkmans had metal casings with exquisite workmanship, while most of the domestic ones were made of plastic casings, which can greatly save costs.

It is a very big challenge for Duan Yun to design and produce a Walkman product that can sell well in China. Duan Yun plans to build a Walkman production line at the Shenzhen Electronics Branch Factory in the future. As for the equipment of the production line, it can Duan Yun is also willing to invest huge sums of money to introduce it, but if it cannot be introduced due to technological blockade, Duan Yun can only develop it independently.

In this era of domestic development of this product, Duan Yun's technical strength alone is far from enough. In the next step, he plans to hire some domestic electronics experts with high salaries, as well as the United Nations domestic scientific research units and colleges, to conduct research on key technologies. It is a very challenging plan to gradually tackle key problems and realize the mass production of domestic tape players in about a year...

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