Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Chen Liang
Intern Fang He
Correspondent Chen Shaoxu Lu Di
"College is an important milestone in life, we must learn the basics well, in order to talk about innovation, and then talk about entrepreneurship." On the eve of National Day, at the alumni sharing meeting of the School of Materials and Energy of Guangdong University of Technology, Sun Xiong, chairman of Shenzhen South China Testing Technology Center and Jiangsu Huajue Testing Co., Ltd., showed his long-yellowed university homework - a mechanical design drawing carefully depicted in one stroke and one painting, encouraging everyone to cherish the learning time and lay a solid foundation of knowledge.
In 1982, Sun Xiong graduated from Guanggong, worked in a state-owned enterprise for several years and started his own business, aiming at the national shortage of optical fiber communication industry, and later entered the field of measurement and testing. Over the years, he has always kept in mind the motto of Guanggong School of "Unity, Diligence, Truth-seeking, Innovation", competed for the frontier of science and technology to serve the country with industry, and won the honorary title of "Shenzhen Top Ten Outstanding Young Entrepreneurs".
Thinking about the life of Guanggong
Take the dream as the horse and the diligent as the path, and create conditions for immersion in learning
In 1978, the second year of the resumption of the college entrance examination, more than 500 people applied for the Zhiqing Farm where Sun Xiong was located, and only 5 people were admitted in the end, and Sun Xiong was one of the breakouts. At that time, the realization of the "four modernizations" was the main theme of the times, and industrial modernization was the top priority. Sun Xiong, who has worked in an automobile manufacturing plant, deeply feels that China's industrial technology needs to be improved urgently, "Our car cab is knocked out by hand, and the engine block is scrapped in large quantities due to casting technology." Sun Xiong, full of enthusiasm, held the lofty ideal of transforming Guangdong machinery casting technology and helping the country realize industrial modernization, and entered the Guangdong Mechanical Institute (the predecessor of Guanggong) to study casting.
At that time, the school conditions were still very difficult, the library was not large, and Sun Xiong lived a two-point and one-line life of "dormitory-classroom". "Create conditions without conditions!" At that time, there was a room for ten people in the dormitory, and we took a wooden shelf in the middle of the bed to make a bookshelf, and at night, after the lights went out, we flashlighted and read books. The students also pooled their money to buy scissors and combs, and cut each other's hair to solve the 'head problem'. ”
"After ten years of turmoil, we all cherish the hard-won learning opportunities, and the teachers are eager to teach their knowledge, and the learning atmosphere in the school is very strong." Sun Xiong told reporters that the cultivation of sage teachers has enabled him to grow rapidly, students live in two points and one line, and teachers often "lai" in the classroom and do not go, with extra time to answer questions for everyone. "I still remember The teacher Chen Pingdi, who taught physical chemistry, has a strong logical reasoning ability and a very organized board book, even if this course is difficult, excellent teachers can always make students fall in love with learning."
Affected by the turmoil of the times, the young people at that time studied intermittently at the secondary school level, and the foundation of mathematics, physics and chemistry was not solid. In order to adapt to the requirements of the university curriculum, Sun Xiong used the only rest day of the week to go to Xinhua Bookstore to buy books, or to "visit" other colleges and universities to borrow books, "I want to seize the time to study on my own and make up for this decade." It is precisely with this spirit of curiosity that his professional foundation is more and more solid, his graduation thesis was selected as an excellent work of the college for public defense, and the cupola furnace he designed fully adapted to the characteristics of Guangdong casting technology, and later transformed the results in Shaoguan and obtained a lot of profits.
Talk about the experience of the group
The "main backbone" in the hearts of students, the "jack-of-all-trades" in the eyes of leaders
To this day, in the eyes of many students, Sun Xiong is still the "big brother" who commands Ruoding and helps everyone solve their worries and difficulties. Originally, he served as the class president and deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee (student representative) of the college, and in the process of holding activities, arranging internships and coordinating affairs, he exercised and demonstrated outstanding organizational and management skills.
During his time at university, he and his classmates in the student union were responsible for organizing theatrical performances. "At that time, the age span of students at the same level was large, from teenagers to their thirties, and 'old, middle-aged and young' had different preferences, and how to select and present 'young and old' sports and performance projects became the primary problem." To this end, he learned to select and employ people and market research, excavate the excellent qualities of his classmates, provide opportunities to show in line with the characteristics of each person, fully mobilize and inspire the team, and continuously polish the program in combination with the publicity theme and the taste of the audience.
In the senior year, the school arranged for students to go to the Second Automobile Manufacturing Plant (the predecessor of Dongfeng Motor Company) in Shiyan, Hubei Province. During this period, Sun Xiong co-manages the daily affairs with the foreman teacher, and he solves problems for the students like a big brother. Guangdong people are not accustomed to the big bathhouse, so he negotiated with the automobile factory, proposed to bathe everyone with bucket water, and strive to issue a bath ticket for two days; everyone is not used to eating in the mountains, he organized the exchange of food stamps for chickens to improve the food for everyone; the topic was arranged, he reasonably assigned different cooperation groups according to the ability level of the students, so that the latecomers could also be pulled, and gradually established a higher prestige among the students.
"In the process of being a student cadre, I improved my communication and coordination skills, management skills, and problem-solving skills, which were all of great use in the future work." When he first entered the workplace, he once needed to go to the government department every week to find a leader to sign and approve documents, he always arrived early "one step faster" to wait, and each time he could complete it efficiently; in the subsequent career, he learned to "use small money to do big things" within the limited budget to show the best results; when the enterprise urgently needed to employ people, he could also know how to use people well... From "single knife debut" to practicing the "eighteen martial arts" in the eyes of leaders, he has successively served as secretary, minister of personnel, Chinese manager of the joint venture company, general manager of the second-level company, and group executive, and his courage and comprehensive ability have been appreciated, and his career has also flourished.
Nearly 40 years after graduating from university, he has served as the president of the Shenzhen Alumni Association of Guanggong with nearly 7,000 members with his ability and social responsibility, and holds nearly 100 economic, technical and artistic forums every year to provide intimate services for the majority of alumni.
Review the entrepreneurial path
Bravely shoulder the burden in times of crisis, "take Made in China out"
In 1982, Sun Xiong came to Shenzhen to work after graduation, and since then, the profound "internal skills" of practicing in the university have always helped him cut through thorns and open up the situation. His state-owned enterprise once faced an economic dispute case, he stepped forward at a critical moment, used the knowledge he learned to fight on the basis of reason, recovered huge economic losses for the enterprise and the country, and then led the company to quickly turn losses into profits, and thus won the honorary title of "Shenzhen Top Ten Outstanding Young Entrepreneurs". "The basic knowledge of mechanics and mechanics of materials that I learned has cultivated my problem-solving thinking ability and played an important role in my subsequent business activities."
In 1992, Sun Xiong took advantage of the opportunity to visit the manufacturing plant in Japan to inspect construction machinery, and he paid attention to the fact that Japan had realized the automatic production of ceramic inserts in optical fiber active connectors, "and at that time, all the domestic cables were used for telecommunications transmission, and communications were quite backward, so optical fiber communications must be a key industry introduced by the state." The seeds of innovation slowly sprouted in his heart, and he was determined to introduce production lines from core processing, detection and assembly of the whole industry, changing the situation that the domestic high-level transmission network was all imported.
In 1997, Sun Xiong, who was in his prime, resigned from the senior management position of a state-owned enterprise and bravely "went to the sea" to establish a communication technology company to specialize in optical fiber connector production projects. "I want to serve the society on the basis of realizing personal value, and the career I am engaged in is filling the gap in the field of national optical fiber communications to a certain extent." Sun Xiong said that once the product was launched, it quickly occupied the market and successfully entered the national mobile network, telecommunications network and television transmission network, providing advanced and high-quality product support for the construction of the national modern optical fiber communication network. It is worth mentioning that the products are also exported to Hong Kong and Macao, exported to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, becoming a famous local brand, realizing his ambition to "bring Chinese manufacturing out".
In 2014, with the gradual opening of technical service policies, Sun Xiong decided to enter the high-threshold quality inspection field, and successively set up testing laboratories and companies in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta to provide high-quality measurement calibration, inspection and testing services for the local area. In 2020, the company established radio 5G technology metrology calibration, 5G inspection and testing laboratory, and created a development model and competitive advantage of the whole industry chain laboratory (hardware) + testing automation platform (software). Shenzhen South China Testing Center and Nanjing Huajue Testing Company are rated as national high-tech enterprises, which are authorized by the Jiangsu Provincial Government as provincial electronic public testing platforms. Sun Xiong believes: "Every product, like the laws of the economy, has to go through innovation, development and decline. Therefore, we must have a crisis mentality, review and adjust strategic goals every ten years to better adapt to the new development trend of national modernization and digitalization. ”
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What abilities do you think should be cultivated as an undergraduate?
Sun Xiong: The foundation is very important, only if the foundation is solid, can individuals gain the initiative in work or innovation and entrepreneurship. The way of thinking is equally important, it can help us find the right direction and avoid going with the flow. At the same time, it is recommended that engineering students read more economic theory and have a more accurate grasp of inputs and outputs in their work.
What is your message to your teachers and sisters?
Sun Xiong: The biggest difference between people is not birth, ability, money and power, but a way of thinking, to dare to break the traditional thinking, and correct thinking first requires insight and vision. Everyone should pay more attention to domestic and foreign news, insist on learning, communicate with experts, expand ideas, and use strategic thinking to make decisions about whether to start a business or not.
Guangdong University of Technology majored in material forming and control engineering
The material forming and control engineering major belongs to the mechanical major, involving metal and plastic material forming process and equipment and control, mold design and manufacturing, product innovation design and computer application, etc., is the cross-combination of mechanical engineering, material science, control engineering and other disciplines, is the basic core major of advanced manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing technology.
In 1978, he founded casting, in 1982 he founded metal materials and heat treatment, in 1988 he founded molds, and in 1998, the above majors were merged to enroll students by material forming and control engineering. In 2005, it obtained the provincial famous brand professional. From the creation of the profession to the acquisition of the provincial famous brand major, a fruitful professional talent training system has been initially formed. Relying on the doctoral program of the first-level discipline of materials science and engineering and the doctoral program of the second-level discipline of materials processing engineering, a complete academic education system covering "undergraduate-master-doctoral" has been formed. In 2009, it was awarded the national and Guangdong Province characteristic professional construction points, and in 2014, it was awarded the pilot major of Guangdong Province's comprehensive professional reform, and the quality and level of professional education were continuously improved.
In the construction of key disciplines of high-level universities, facing the major needs of intelligent manufacturing in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Guangdong Province, with innovative school-enterprise cooperation, informatization, modular teaching and other modes, special teaching such as comprehensive experiments in mold professions and laboratory informatization teaching systems have been formed; the application for engineering education professional certification in 2019 was accepted; and in 2021, it was approved as a national-level first-class professional construction site.
Based on the manufacturing industry of Guangdong Province, rooted in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, this major cultivates application-oriented, innovative high-quality engineering and technical personnel with international vision, cooperation and communication capabilities in the fields of metal and plastics, such as forming processes and equipment and control, mold design and manufacturing, product innovation design and computer application, etc., which meet the needs of modern manufacturing industry and guangdong economic construction, have a sense of social responsibility, good professional ethics and humanities and social science literacy, and can engage in metal and plastics and other materials.
The core courses of this major mainly include: Theoretical Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Fundamentals of Mechanical Design, Electrical and Electronic Technology, Fundamentals of Mechanical Manufacturing, Thermal Fluids, Fundamentals of Testing Technology and Control Engineering, Material Forming Process and Equipment, Fundamentals of Material Science, Calculation Methods, Metal Materials and Heat Treatment, Principle of Material Forming, Mold Manufacturing Process, Material Forming Process and Mold Design, Numerical Simulation of Material Forming, Material Forming Equipment and Control Technology, etc. The practical courses of this major mainly include: engineering training, electrical and electronic technology training, understanding practice, production practice, mechanical design basic course design, mold professional comprehensive experiments, stamping process and mold design, plastic molding process and mold design, graduation design, etc.
There are 14 full-time teachers in this major, including 3 professors and 5 associate professors, and doctoral degrees account for more than 85%. In the past five years, it has introduced 1 young "100 people" in the school, 4 doctoral talents in A and B categories, and the reserve force for professional development has been strongly guaranteed, forming a professional teaching team with doctoral degrees and overseas research experience for all teachers under the age of 40; a professional teaching team with a ratio of about 1:1:2 between the old, middle and young people; 3 provincial famous teachers, 6 professional teachers have won 6 school-level teaching reform projects, and all new young teachers have been supported by education reform projects.
Guangdong Province is a large manufacturing province, mold is the basic molding process equipment of industrial manufacturing, also known as the "mother of industry", material molding processing, control and mold design talents are a large number of urgently needed and long-term professional and technical personnel in the manufacturing industry in Guangdong Province and even the whole country. This major combines the development characteristics of Guangdong Province's innovation-driven development strategy and industrial upgrading, adapts to the development trend of intelligent manufacturing industry, actively promotes the construction of new engineering, and in accordance with the training principle of "thick foundation, wide caliber, and heavy practice", takes the mold as the main line, the molding process and computer application and attaches equal importance to the development of professional teaching. Through the intersection of materials, machinery, control and information courses, a scientific and reasonable discipline structure is established, and the distinctive characteristics of material forming and control engineering for Guangdong manufacturing industry are formed.
This major has established Guangdong Provincial Metal Forming and Mold New Technology Engineering Technology Research Center, National Material Processing and Energy Engineering Practice Education Center, Material Forming Manufacturing and Advanced Mold Technology Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, etc. With Guangdong Forging Machine Tool Factory Co., Ltd. jointly established the Guangdong Province "Key Laboratory of Forming Equipment", with Guangdong Dengyun Auto Parts Co., Ltd. jointly established the Guangdong Province "Automotive Key Components Engineering Technology Research Center", and with Guangzhou Meiya Co., Ltd. jointly established the "Guangdong Province Intelligent Stainless Steel Pipeline Engineering Technology Research Center". With a number of well-known enterprises in the province such as Hisense Kelong, Zhigao Air Conditioning, Dongjiang Group, Guangdong Hongtu, etc. to establish a demonstration base for the combination of production, education and research, forming a stable and good scientific research cooperation relationship.
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