There's a book called Thank You for Torturers.
The book contains hundreds of examples of people who have been tortured by fate, and who have been strong in torture, struggled in torture, and become extraordinary people in torture. Yes, throughout the ages, those who can become great tools, I am afraid that no one can escape the ironclad law of fate "torture" - Han Xin is humiliated by the crotch, and he commands millions of soldiers; Sima suffered the scourge of corruption, and the immortal "Shiji" illustrates this truth.
It was an autumn night with cold wind and fallen leaves.
In fact, for a long time, Zhou Xinghe has forgotten day and night, forgetting spring or autumn, which is really a bit like the situation in Mr. Lu Xun's "Self-Mockery" poem "hiding in a small building and becoming a unity, and managing his winter, summer and spring and autumn".
Spring cultivation will surely bring autumn harvest. In the dark, when Zhou Xinghe walked through countless such days and nights, the new building materials he studied and invented had faintly seen a ray of light.
"For the mountain he is based on a thousand cliffs; The sinker starts from three inches to the depth of ten thousand. This famous saying of the ancients speaks of the inevitable law of the development of things. The famous mathematician Chen Jingrun, under extremely difficult and difficult circumstances, only relied on a pen, with a draft calculation of 24 sacks, to overcome the Goldbach conjecture, which the whole world considered insurmountable, and picked the glorious jewel in the crown of mathematics. Zhou Xinghe has been inventing and experimenting day and night for several years, he seeks change in the law of things, seeks the law of things in change, and finally slowly sees results. One night, when Zhou Xinghe tested the tested products again, he was pleasantly surprised: after thousands of repeated tests on the formula, using straw and other crops as raw materials to replace new materials for house decoration such as gypsum, it is incredible that in the four major technical problems of anti-halogen, condensation, deformation and cracks, they have been gradually overcome by Zhou Xinghe and made breakthroughs!
At the beginning, even Zhou Xinghe did not dare to confirm the results of the product inspection.
Immediately afterwards, in order to further verify the results of the experiment, Zhou Xinghe repeated many tests according to the new formula, and it turned out that the basic problems of the new material have indeed been solved, and the remaining technical defects are only further improved.
Facing the results of the test, Zhou Xinghe did not cheer, let alone ecstatic, he held the test result record sheet, but his hands were trembling slightly with excitement, and then he fell on the bench, let out a long breath, and wanted to sleep it for three days and three nights - however, where can he sleep, he knows that even if he completes all the tests and obtains all the test data, this is just a long journey to complete a mileage, and what awaits him behind is the improvement of data, material preparation, patent application, authority confirmation, government approval, Marketing, practical testing, value evaluation... It's a long, long way to go.
Zhou Xinghe with employees when he established Galaxy Building Materials Company in Mianyang
In order to protect his invention achievements, Zhou Xinghe prepared materials in a timely manner and applied to the State Patent Office for invention patents such as luxurious relief lamp plates using straw as raw materials, realistic artistic human bodies, and Roman cylinders, square columns, and rolling dragon pillars. Because of the unique and unique products he invented, he was unanimously praised by experts from the State Patent Office. At the end of 1994, his invention patent obtained a patent certificate and won the gold medal at the China Patent Technology Expo; Immediately afterwards, in the spring of 1995, his invention patent won the second prize of Mianyang Science and Technology Progress Award!
At this time, Zhou Xinghe cooperated with national expert Tu Pingtao to write and publicly publish the paper "The essence of magnesium oxychloride cementitious material products≠ halogen, frost and deformation". The article thoroughly and forcefully demonstrates the advantages, essence, properties, processes, tests, determinations, changes in various situations, and physical and mechanical effects achieved by magnesium chloride cementitious material products, which has caused a sensation at home and abroad.
The paper wrote: "The mainland has abundant magnesium chloride material resources, of which the proven magnesite reserves are nearly 3 billion tons, magnesium chloride throughout the coastal salt mines, plus magnesium oxychloride material is a kind of aerorigid cementitious material, the production of products with low energy consumption, products with energy-saving, wood replacement, soil saving, water saving, low production costs and other characteristics and functions, in the building materials industry has a high development and use value." For decades, the development and production of magnesium oxychloride products in China has been up and down, and it has never stopped. During the Sixth Five-Year Plan period, the state has spent tens of millions of yuan on development and utilization. Now, after thousands of tests and tests by Zhou Xinghe, it has laid a theoretical and practical foundation for the development and utilization of magnesium oxychloride products..."
Thanks to poverty, poverty makes people think about it; Be thankful for suffering, which strengthens people's will; Thanks to the cynicism of the people, it makes people ashamed to look back and only go forward.
At this moment, Zhou Xinghe once again faced a major choice.
"Mr. Zhou, we have reported to the government many times about the situation of you and your enterprise, and we are officially inviting you to us for the third time on behalf of all the villagers." The person who said this was Zhang Xianquan, secretary of the party branch and head of a village in a certain township in Jinniu District, Chengdu.
In recent years, although Zhou Xinghe has struggled in difficulties, his use of straw as building materials and obtaining invention patents, as well as his story of hard work and entrepreneurship with a bit of legend, have gradually spread in society. The speaker has no intention, and the listener has intention, which has aroused Zhang Xianquan's great attention. Since 1993, Zhang Xianquan has repeatedly visited Yanting and Mianyang to invite Zhou Xinghe to Chengdu for inspection and development.
"Secretary Zhang, I understand your kindness." Zhou Xinghe said to Zhang Xianquan, "If an enterprise wants to relocate, it is not a one-time thing!" In addition to policy, environment, but also factory site, equipment, personnel, raw material sources, sales channels and other aspects of the problem, I have to consider everything! ”
"Although the current economic situation of your company is not ideal, we are optimistic about your future development prospects." Zhang Xianquan said, "We guarantee to provide you with the most favorable investment environment and the most favorable policy conditions." ”
"Let's think about this matter in the long run."
On the afternoon of October 12, 1994, with the big leader and his party coming to Sichuan, inspecting Huangzhong Village in Jinniu District, and shaking hands cordially with Zhang Xianquan and talking carefully, Zhou Xinghe became very interested in the local investment environment and prompted him to make up his mind to invest and build a factory in Chengdu. At the beginning of 1995, with the strong support of Zhang Xianquan and other leaders, Zhou Xinghe resolutely gave up the hundreds of thousands of assets he had invested in Mianyang, and together with his wife Xiaoshen, with only a few patent certificates and award certificates, he relocated the company to Huangzhong Village, Jinniu District, Chengdu, where he began to start a new business.
It was early spring 1995.
Huangzhong Village was on the outskirts of Chengdu, where Zhou Xinghe built the factory, which was still a farmland at that time. Of course, with the expansion of the city, it is now located on the side of the bustling Second Ring Road. Although the local cadres religiously invited Zhou Xinghe to come here, the forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds - those who deliberately make things difficult with a little power in their hands, corrupt elements who take the opportunity to ask for bribes and money, local villagers who take the opportunity to ask for sky-high prices, underworld ruffians who extort money, and those who are jealous within their own companies and want to share the pie... These people treated Zhou Xinghe as a piece of fat meat that was brought to their mouths, and everyone thought of him to nibble on it.
"Remembering the situation now makes people feel both angry and bitter. At that time, in order to protect his basic right to survival, he fought with local corrupt elements, with hooligans, and with villains within his company..." After many years, Zhou Xinghe recalled the situation at that time, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, even his eyes were a little damp, "At that time, I don't know how many times I fought with people, and my son and daughter were also beaten on the head and bleeding. I went to work at that time, and I had sticks, lime and other self-defense weapons in my office, ready to deal with sudden attacks - all this is also thanks to the leadership of Huang Zhongcun for their support and help to us, otherwise we would have been eaten in internal and external difficulties. ”
"When Mr. Zhou and they built a factory in this place, it was too difficult." Xia Yong, the driver of the company, told the author, "The local gangsters have come to the door many times to threaten and provoke trouble, forcibly collecting 'protection fees', and at first Mr. Zhou gave them some money to send them, but later these people's appetite became more and more and more numerous, and they even invited people to enter the factory to smash and rob without giving them money." In the end, Mr. Zhou became angry and couldn't bear it, and he organized the workers to protect the factory. But these people did not know how to be evil, arrogant and vicious, and estimated to eat bullies, and General Manager Zhou sacrificed his life to organize workers to protect the factory, and beat these people to the ground several times. Under the questioning of the local leaders, the situation was better later..."
On September 5, 2021, the "Voice of the People" column on page 38 of the fourth issue of "Clean Government Internal Reference" published the headline "A Subversive Revolution in the Field of Mainland Architecture and Building Materials", in which the third section (page 42) of the subtitle "May the great invention of Xinghe new materials be vigorously promoted by the state and benefit mankind": "In today's China, there are two people and two projects to use the high-tech achievements developed by themselves to go to the world: one is Mr. Yuan Longping and his hybrid rice, which are solving people's feeding problems; One is Mr. Zhou Xinghe and his straw building materials, which are solving people's housing problems." In line with the great strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and technology.
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