Chapter 43 Education System
Inside a brick building, a group of researchers were studying some technologies on documents. In front of the door of the building was a sign with the words "Meihua Company Scientific Research Institute" written in Chinese and English.

"This hydropower station requires three units and can generate about 3 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year," said a white researcher.

The Chinese guy next to him quickly used a pen to write down the data he had just mentioned.

Due to the construction of the factory, the development of electricity is imminent. Currently, resources such as coal here can only be imported from abroad, and the cost is too high.

However, Madagascar has many rivers, a well-developed water system and abundant hydropower resources, so the Meihua Company has vigorously developed hydropower. However, because it takes a long time from site selection to construction of a hydropower station, the power required by factories now basically relies on steam engines.

In another room, several white people and two Chinese student assistants were doing experiments.

"Putting cans filled with food into a sealed sterilization chamber and then heating them to raise the temperature inside the can to 120 degrees should kill most bacteria. This temperature is most suitable for industrial production based on current experimental data," said a middle-aged white researcher.

"Well, now we need to experiment how long this temperature should last, and then design a set of standard processes, which can be delivered to the Meihua Food Processing Factory." Another white man nodded in agreement.

"Haha, the prize money this time is as much as 1000 US dollars. Let's start the next experiment. Wang Tianfeng, clean the laboratory table and arrange the new experimental materials." The third white man said with a smile.

1000 US dollars is already a lot. Their experiment is relatively simple and can be completed in just over 10 days. Each person can get about 200 US dollars. This can be regarded as a respect for scientific researchers. Moreover, these white people have come here from afar, far away from America, so they still need financial appeasement.

In fact, US dollars are basically not used in Zhangjiacheng, because marketization has not yet been realized here, and everything is rationed. After all, the development time of the Meihua Company is still too short, and the population is too large, and materials are extremely scarce.

The researchers in the American-Chinese Company's Technology Research Institute are basically white people, with a small number of Chinese. These Chinese are students who have learned English in American-Chinese schools in the past few months. Those who can quickly learn a foreign language are rare and talented.

The current job of the white researcher is to thoroughly study the technology obtained from the Folklore Survey Office, and then hand it over to the Meihua Company for subsequent production applications. However, most of the technology may not be used in the short term. After all, the development of Zhangjiacheng is not that fast.

The Chinese worked as assistants to the white people. In addition to the necessary studies, they also had to learn how to conduct scientific research and do experiments.

In addition to academic and theoretical research institutions such as the Science Research Institute and basic schools, the Meihua Company is also establishing a complete vocational education system aimed at training skilled workers and junior technicians. Its specific form is the vocational schools established in various factories and mines.

The vocational schools currently under preparation include the Meihua Raytheon Arsenal Vocational and Technical School and the Meihua Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Vocational and Technical School. Other factories are not yet qualified because they do not need more professional employees.

However, as the American-Chinese company develops, more and more factories will be opened in the future, and the technology will become more and more advanced. At that time, many vocational schools will be recommended.

The teachers in these vocational schools are generally engineers or senior technicians from the various factories. Sometimes experts from the American Chinese Science Institute will also come to these factory-run schools to give lectures.

The students come from the original low-level technical workers in the factories or the children who cannot get into basic schools after learning to read.

Basic schools are now undergoing reform as many suitable educators have arrived from America.

After the reform, schools will be divided into primary and junior high schools. The contents of textbooks are carefully selected and bilingual teaching will still be adopted, Chinese and English, both languages ​​are very important.

The Chinese content is mainly literary, including culture and literature, world history, geography, politics, etc.

The English content is basically some common sense knowledge, as well as relatively superficial knowledge of physics, chemistry and mathematics.

Students who graduate from such an education system have a good foundation whether they enter factory vocational schools or high schools.

After entering a vocational school and undergoing vocational education and job training, students will be able to easily handle most of the current jobs.

Every child needs to go to primary school, but every year a group of students who are not good at studying will be eliminated. The fate of these students is to do farm work for the rest of their lives. After three years of study, those who pass the test will be promoted to junior high school.

Every year, junior high schools will remove a small number of students with particularly poor academic performance. They will be assigned to various factories as ordinary employees based on their abilities, and will work as screwdrivers in the factories for the rest of their lives. Those with average academic performance will enter vocational schools after graduation, or directly go to factories to work as technicians.

Students who have outstanding academic performance in high school will be recommended by the school to study in the affiliated high school sponsored by the American Chinese Science Institute.

The courses in senior high school are more in-depth, whether it is mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, or some courses such as politics and economics. The students in senior high school are selected from thousands of people, and they are all qualified to enter the American Chinese Science and Technology Research Institute to work as assistants for internships.

However, most of the time they still need to continue studying in high school, and after graduation, those with the best academic performance will be arranged to continue their studies at universities in the United States or Europe.

The best ones will enter the Meihua Company's Technology Research Institute, and will most likely become a formal researcher or gradually become a senior executive of Meihua Company.

Those who are average will stay in schools as teachers, or enter factories as engineers or managers, and will have the opportunity to join the headquarters of the Chinese American branch in the future.

As for those who are worse off, they basically cannot graduate and will be assigned to various factories for pre-job training and then become senior technicians.

This is the educational plan that Zhang Feng implemented for the Meihua Company. He did not want to spend a lot of manpower and material resources and end up training a large number of worker college students who know nothing.

After all, education nowadays cannot make money. The students are all poor and cannot be used to make any money. Moreover, he needs to train a group of talents as soon as possible to achieve rapid development.

Even in the later period, he would not change his educational direction. He did not need to make money through such means to empty the savings of ordinary people. It made no sense.

He will transfer money from ordinary people through consumption, so that his company can develop more sustainably and ordinary people can have a higher quality of life.

His company cannot make money through land, houses, education and other things that have no technological content. All the money has been earned by these junk industries. Not many people can afford the products produced by the technology company, so how can it develop?

Just like cars and houses, many people can't afford either one, and even if they do, they will choose one of the two. If they buy a house, they have no money to buy a car. If they take out a loan, the pressure of the mortgage and car loan will be too great to talk about happiness.

Zhang Feng would rather his employees use all their future earnings to buy cars, and then use the remaining money to buy other technologies or daily necessities. This would be a win-win situation.

Companies need to make money through technology - improve technological content through research and development - produce better products - and push high-tech development forward. This is the right path.

Of course, the learning content of these schools also includes content that promotes loyalty to Zhang Feng.

"Ignite!" a Chinese manager shouted loudly, and then workers came forward to operate the machine.

There were a few white engineers nearby discussing something around a steel furnace. Today was the day when the Meihua Steel Plant started operations.

The annual designed output of this steel plant is 1 tons. It has a total of three small steelmaking furnaces. This output can basically meet the needs of Meihua Company in the next few years.

This is just an experiment. The Meihua Company's Technology Research Institute is designing a larger steelmaking furnace with higher output and quality, but it will probably be a few years before construction officially starts.

Inside the Raytheon military factory of the Meihua Company, workers are producing gun parts one by one on the assembly line and finally assembling them into a gun. Currently, one assembly line of the Raytheon military factory produces 2000 rifles per month, and once the skilled workers become proficient, the monthly output can reach 3000.

In another workshop, several workers were pouring molten steel into the barrel of a cannon. The factory's monthly output is now 20 cannons.

The workers in the factory were working hard. Several white engineers came over from time to time to inspect them and give guidance from time to time.

Thick smoke was emitting from an earthen kiln far away from Zhangjiacheng. The red brick factory, cement factory and lime factory of Meihua Company were all located nearby. This was a relatively high hillside with a lot of stones, which were limestones used as raw materials. There was also a small iron mine not far away. These companies had a large number of employees and required a large amount of manpower for production.

As the development of the American-Chinese company enters a period of rapid development, this model of collective living and production will gradually come to an end. When these building materials are produced in large quantities to meet the needs of factory construction and infrastructure construction, some of the materials will also be used to build separate houses for immigrants, allowing their points to come in handy.

There are still too few talents coming from America, and the time is too short. It will take some time to accumulate, but it can be predicted that the entire Zhangjia City will be prosperous in the near future.

However, with the increasing number of immigrants, there is also a huge crisis that is about to erupt in the near future.

(End of this chapter)