Chapter 258: A move to remove the firewood from under the cauldron

"America has found itself unable to defeat China in the past decade, so it doesn't matter. Extending the battle line will be advantageous to America.

If the battle line is prolonged, America's biggest advantage is its population structure. Not only is America's population structure very healthy, but if its allies are included, they will continuously inject fresh blood into America.

Although we all make fun of Indians for their various shortcomings, those Indians who can go to America through formal channels are at least much better than illegal immigrants.

Now that America has officially opened the floodgates, allowing the Chinese to enter the federal population sequence, the impact will be limited in the short term, but in the long term, the Chinese population will face an unprecedented crisis.

There is a very real possibility that we will not be able to maintain our current manufacturing scale in ten years.

In the future, the industrial transfer to Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa will only get faster and faster. Under the direct influence of an aging population, we may very likely have to follow the old path of America and Japan - industrial hollowing out.

Therefore, America's move is very powerful, almost a move to cut off the source of the problem, but it is also a good thing for everyone.

Now, referees do not simply stand by and watch in conflicts between labor and capital, but let capital face the conflicts directly, and then take sides and stand on the side of capital. After serious conflicts arise between the two sides, public opinion has always been directed at capital without discussing the real responsibility of the target.

Domestic labor-capital issues are actually secondary. Everyone complains about why the domestic working environment is so bad. It’s not that domestic labor cannot or does not want to fight, but that in the face of a referee that is extremely biased towards capital, you have no way to fight.

Labor in developed countries abroad fought for their rights and interests by themselves. They also did not know how to fight at the beginning, and they gained experience through struggle slowly. Labor in our country does not even have the right to fight.

However, I believe that with the unprecedented move by America, the domestic labor-capital conflict will usher in a new situation, and the labor environment will be corrected to a certain extent.”

The American decree has made both the pros and cons win in China's public opinion field.

For Shen Shen, America has used its ultimate move. People with insight will legalize America, and China is finished.

For the rabbits, China has pushed America to this point. America is doomed and has been forced into a panic.

Most days people weigh the pros and cons.

Especially young people who may run to America.

There is a clause in the bill passed by America that allows people to first sign a contract with an American company, then apply for training at a university, and then officially start work after the training.

This clause is aimed at industries such as semiconductors, photovoltaics, aerospace and artificial intelligence.

These are almost all industries where China and America have faced the most intense competition in recent years.

After the bill was passed, companies such as Nvidia, Intel, and AMD began recruiting people in China, and clearly stated that the recruits would work in America.

The green light is given to engineers with experience in working with new topological semimetal chips. As long as you have more than one year of relevant work experience, you will be hired without a doubt.

SpaceX has begun to try to recruit Chinese people on a small scale in Shenhai. Guangjia Aerospace knew that it could not recruit them because of the strict confidentiality agreement, so they tried to recruit Chinese graduates.

Of course, SpaceX's requirements are very high. The lowest level is Shanghai Jiao Tong University. SpaceX has found Stanford and MIT to do joint training. The recruits first go to one of these two top universities to take a one-year course, and then join SpaceX after obtaining their diploma.

The prices offered by top companies like American are not low, and the threshold is not low either, and they all require top talent.

But there are more than just these companies in America. Some leaders in specific fields have also come to China to recruit people. For a while, the most common question on Zhihu was, I have an offer from such and such, should I go, is it better to go here or there.

China is very troubled by this situation because America has strictly restricted work visas for Chinese students.

The proportion of Chinese students who obtain work visas in the Americas is only one-sixth of that in the United States, which is equivalent to America forcing Chinese students to return to China to work.

Now, anyone can stay. It is not enough to adopt such a strategy for Chinese students who take the initiative to go to America. Large American companies even take the initiative to come to China to recruit people.

Originally, companies like BYD and CATL could easily recruit students from Peking University and Tsinghua University, but facing the poaching of American University, they may only be able to recruit students from 985 universities in three years.

It is said that places like England, the Maple Leaf Country, and the Kangaroo Country are also going to relax restrictions on Chinese students majoring in science and engineering. By that time, they may not be able to recruit students from 985 universities, and will have to recruit students from 211 universities.

This is a huge blow to the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry.

Faced with this top-level conspiracy, the Chinese have almost no way out.

Because once you strictly constrain companies and force them to comply with labor laws, the competitiveness of Chinese companies will be reduced to the same level as most foreign companies.

Once it involves improving the rights and interests of workers, it is impossible to improve them in a targeted manner, and it will definitely affect all workers. No one knows what the consequences of taking this step will be, and whether it will cause large-scale bankruptcies of private enterprises.

No one dares to make such a decision.

For some manufacturing industries with a profit margin of only 2 percentage points or even lower, if they are required to strictly abide by the law in their workers' requirements, they may simply sell their factories and close down.

This type of enterprise is very common in China. The collapse of a large number of similar enterprises will affect employment and in turn affect social stability.

The top management is having a heated discussion.

All we can say is that there is nothing new under the sun. China finally decided to use public opinion propaganda to strengthen the nationalist narrative in an attempt to make Chinese students choose to give up their green cards and return home.

As for whether the rights and interests of workers will be fully protected, we can only wait and see, postpone it, and take it one step at a time based on the situation.

The logic behind this is the same as that of fully liberalizing birth control. People will only choose to relax birth control when the data is appalling.

In short, don't turn back until you hit the wall. Of course, after hitting the wall, you will quickly turn 180 degrees.

Another hotly discussed issue in China is Chen Yuanguang's overall control over China's aerospace industry. It is generally believed that this was the biggest incentive for the federal government to pass an unprecedented green card issuance.

However, Chen Yuanguang, who was at the center of the incident, did not know about it. "Ah, I don't know. The authorities have not talked to me about this matter.

I don't know. Foreign media can't report news faster than me, right?" Chen Yuanguang said helplessly after listening to Lin Jia's talk.

He saw countless private messages on his Weibo, some asking if this was true, some congratulating him, and some hoping that he could achieve something successful.

In short, there is all kinds of content.

“Sometimes it is possible that foreign media news is faster than the news of you. I often saw reports about the central bank’s reserve requirement cut in foreign media before domestic financial media reported it.

Foreign media news can be one day to a week ahead of the times.

Their sources of information are so wide." Lin Jia said on the phone that she remembered the news from the financial sector. Many official macro operations were first reported by foreign media, not just the reserve requirement ratio cut.

Among them, the South China Morning Post was the most informed. "So, Yuan Guang, if Yanjing really invites you to take charge of China Aerospace, will you go?" Lin Jia asked.

"No, why go? All kinds of relationships are intertwined there. I won't go there." Chen Yuanguang said decisively.

He had heard a lot of gossip about China's aerospace industry from Guangjia Aerospace employees. The aerospace industry had similar problems as other areas in China. They were all old systems that had bred a large number of complicated relationships within them.

Chen Yuanguang didn't want to muddy the waters.

In recent years, he has become increasingly aware that he is not a good leader. Taking Malaysia's Alpha Technologies as an example, the management of artificial intelligence is much better than he can manage it personally.

He can't even manage a wholly-owned subsidiary like Alpha Technologies, let alone an organization like China Aerospace that involves research institutes, state-owned enterprises, and social organizations.

"I always feel that this wind is blowing so strong that Yanjing will have to talk to you sooner or later." Lin Jia said.

She was right. Just a few days after the federal bill was passed, Director Zhao rushed to Mianyang.

"Yuan Guang, have you read the recent news?"

Chen Yuanguang knew what Lao Zhao was talking about. "I see, you guys don't really want me to take charge of China's aerospace industry, do you?"

Director Zhao nodded: "That's right, it depends on your opinion.

If you wish, you can take office after we complete the process."

Chen Yuanguang was still a little surprised: "The Space Administration should be at the ministerial level? Why did they give me this administrative level directly?"

Director Zhao said: "You are an academician of the two academies, and your salary is equivalent to that of a vice-ministerial level academician.

Of course, if you are willing to take over China's aerospace industry, you must start as the general manager of China Aerospace Corporation.

You have to work in this position for about five years, and then depending on your performance, you can be transferred from the state-owned enterprise to the space agency."

Transitioning from a state-owned enterprise to a civil servant is a common route for the talented people in China.

Chen Yuanguang asked curiously: "What level is the China Aerospace Corporation?"

“Deputy ministerial level, but you are treated as a special case. You enjoy treatment without administrative level in the first two years, and you are assigned administrative level and included in the list in the next three years.

This is also for your own good, and even if special matters are handled specially, the necessary procedures must be followed." Director Zhao said.

Chen Yuanguang thought about it and said, "This can be regarded as a kind of academic excellence leading to officialdom in a sense."

Director Zhao laughed: "That's right, you are enjoying the same level of treatment as Mr. Qian."

Chen Yuanguang thought for a while and said, "Forget it. Director Zhao, please help me thank everyone in Yanjing for their trust and support. I really don't want to get involved. China's aerospace industry is developing very well, and we can cooperate with each other.

But if you ask me to take care of this matter, I really don't have the ability to do so.

I would rather stay in my own little corner and accomplish my goals.”

The reason why Chen Yuanguang refused was very simple, because he was not interested. China's aerospace projects were fixed, and his participation would not completely overturn them. It would only be a matter of advancing past projects step by step.

This was not attractive to him. As for the issue of administrative level, at his level, it was more of a constraint than power. Chen Yuanguang didn't care about it at all.

It’s like when Sun Wukong went to work in Heaven. It does seem like a great experience, but it’s far less comfortable than being in the Flower-Fruit Mountain.

"Are you really not going?" Director Zhao asked.

Chen Yuanguang nodded: "I really won't go. You should know that I have never been interested in these things."

"Okay, then don't go if you don't want to go. Just tell your leader yourself and I won't relay your message to avoid misunderstandings between you due to errors in relaying," said Director Zhao.

After that, he continued, "Regarding your suggestion that China Aerospace needs to help train astronauts, there is no problem, but we will have to conduct an examination when the time comes, and not everyone can go up.

Anyway, you can recruit people first, recruit 100 people, then screen out some of them, screen out some more during the training process, and finally do a round of psychological tests before going up, and only the best performers will go up." Director Zhao said.

That’s right, if the space station is scheduled to be launched in two years, it would be just right for Guangjia Aerospace to start training astronauts now.

Chen Yuanguang said in a Weibo post more than a year ago that they were recruiting astronauts. At that time, many resumes were sent to the official HR mailbox of Guangjia Aerospace, including a lot of photos of muscular men under his Weibo post about recruiting astronauts.

The style of the comments section under that Weibo post is the same as the style under the Weibo post about saving older 2D characters.

"Okay, it just so happens that SpaceX is recruiting people in China during this period. We can also recruit astronauts and compete head-on with SpaceX." Chen Yuanguang said with a smile.

He thought it would be interesting.

"I have not received any news about Mr. Chen Yuanguang joining the China National Space Administration. This news is completely hyped by foreign media."

After the news fermented for several days, the Chinese government came out at a press conference to refute the news about Chen Yuanguang taking over China Aerospace.

NASA breathed a sigh of relief after the news came out.

They really couldn't imagine how they would compete with China Aerospace if Chen Yuanguang was in charge of China Aerospace.

As for the achievements of Light Armor Aerospace, when facing congressional inquiries, the bosses at NASA will say that this is China's commercial aerospace agency, and that they are benchmarking against CNSA rather than Light Armor Aerospace. You should benchmark against Light Armor Aerospace with SpaceX.

Chinese netizens who like to watch the fun are very disappointed. They were all happy to see the God of Light take over China's aerospace industry.

"Well, if you ask me, Guang Shen will definitely have a different look if he goes to work for China Aerospace."

"I wanted to see what the God of Light could do on a bigger stage, but this is boring."

"I advise the God of Heaven to shake himself up and send down talents regardless of their background. Are you afraid that the God of Light will come and kill all those who do nothing?"

Netizens focused their attention on China Aerospace, so much so that Chen Yuanguang himself was embarrassed to post a microblog:

"I was invited by the government to work at China Aerospace, but after careful consideration, I felt that I was not capable enough, so I declined."

(End of this chapter)