My friend Rob used to be a police officer with the Metropolitan Police in London. This is a story he told me…

One day, Rob had been out and about on his rounds and popped into one of the smaller, less busy stations. They’re the kind of police station that’s empty most of the time, no front counter service and all the officers based there are out doing their job most of the day.

At that time, the Metropolitan Police had outsourced vehicle maintenance to a private company… let’s call them “Smith’s Motor Maintenance” and mechanics would attend police stations with a van to change a tyre or carry out some minor maintenance such as changing a bulb, or they would arrive on foot to drive a vehicle away for a service for example. When they drove the vehicles, they carried magnetic signs to place over the words and logo on the side of the vehicle and a drawstring sock to place over the lights on the roof.

So, this bright and sunny day, Rob walked into the deserted station, went upstairs and found a guy mooching about in one of the offices. He looked dead shifty and surprised to see Rob. This got Rob’s “spidey senses” tickling…

“What are you doing up here?” Rob asked.

“I’m vehicle maintenance, Smith’s Motor Maintenance, I’ve come to collect a vehicle,” the little weasel replied.

“That doesn’t explain why you’re in a second floor office!” said Rob, an eyebrow raised.

“I was looking for the keys.”

“The keys for all of our vehicles are in a key cabinet beside the door to the yard. What are you doing up here?” Then a moment of clarity hit Rob… “Hang on… I know you, don’t I?”

“Nah, mate.” replied Mr Weasel. “You’ve made a mistake. I’ll go and get the car.”

“Stay there,” said Rob… And then it struck him. Behind Mr Weasel was a notice board, with mugshots on.

It was a little like the comedy ones above, but with photos of real criminals and stickers on, showing that they were wanted by the police for questioning.

Weasel was standing in front of a board of mugshots that had his own picture on!

Mr Weasel was known to the police and had a criminal record! Not only that, he was wanted for questioning!

It turned out that Mr Weasel had a moderately common name and “Smith’s Motor Maintenance” hadn’t fully completed his vetting process but had still sent him out to collect police vehicles!

Needless to say, Rob arrested Mr Weasel there and then.

The contract that “Smith’s Motor Maintenance” had with the Metropolitan Police was allowed to lapse at the end of its duration and they were barred from the tendering process in the future.

Sometimes a person wanted by the police just falls into your lap!

Oh, my, I have a nice story here.

My primary language is Icelandic….a language very few people speak outside my country.

Now, this happened when I was on vacation and staying at a hotel not frequented by Icelanders. This was also close to the end of my vacation, so I had picked up a nice tan by then – in other words I did not look like a pale skinned person who had just arrived from Iceland for a bit of winter sun.

So, I enter the elevator with a (very pale looking) couple, and as it starts slowly moving upward, they start talking in Icelandic…feeling pretty sure nobody understood them.

It turns out they had successfully gotten a babysitter, and were planning how to spend the next hour or so.

In bed.

Planned in details…..very detailed, X-rated details. “I do ….., and you do …., and then we have a bit of fun with the pink toy..:.” and so on.

Then the elevator stopped at their floor and they got out.

Afterwards I sort of mentally kicked myself for not shouting “Góða skemmtun” (“have fun”) just as the door was closing.

Come on, just taste and you will love it.

Because China is really vast, there are many kinds of delicious food.No matter what flavor you like, you can find your favorite dish.And you know, prices in China are really cheap.Whether it’s seafood or beef and mutton, I can only say that there is nothing I don’t like.

I have told this story before, but it’s a great one

It wasn’t me, it was what my buddy said.

My buddy was 17, the legal drinking age was 18, and he would be turning 18 on Sunday. But he wanted a party in the bar Saturday night to celebrate. So we all go down to the small town bar. A good time was had by all, until about 11:00 pm, when the police do a walk through. Being a small town, they notice that they hadn’t seen my buddy in the bar before. They ask for his ID, and he is underage. They write him up an illegal possession of alcohol, the fine is about the equivalent of 15 dozen beer.

This happened a long time ago, so giving dollars wouldn’t mean much.

My buddy wants me as a witness, to say that I didn’t see him drinking, and the beer on the table wasn’t his. I hadn’t seen him drinking, because I had only arrived 10 minutes before, and so I could tell the truth and get him off. There is a different charge they could have used, with a lesser fine, for being underage in a bar.

He is called before the judge, and the police officer is sitting in the back of the court.

The judge asks my buddy how old he is, and he says 18. The judge says. It says here you were found in the bar, last Saturday night and were under age. He says, yes thats true.

The judge asks when was your birthday. My friend says Sunday. The judge burst out laughing, and says a dollar a day fine, please pay the clerk a dollar. My friend says, but I wasn’t drinking, I have a witness. The judge says, don’t push your luck. its a dollar, do you want to have a trial.

I never had to testify.

Chairman Mao is an accurate prophet!

In 1956, Chairman Mao proposed that we would spend 75 years, That is, surpassing the United States after the 15th Five-Year Plans!

China has been proceeding in a planned and step-by-step manner!

Xi Jinping is implementing 14 five-year plans.

1. 1949(PRC founding day)+75=2024;
2. 1956+75=2031

Our goal is to catch up with and surpass the United States. The United States has only more than 100 million people, and China has more than 600 million people. We should catch up with the United States.

Comrade Li Fuchun made a report, didn’t he say that it shouldn’t be a hundred years to catch up with the United States? I also agree with this view. It will take several decades, depending on everyone’s hard work, at least fifty years, maybe seventy-five years, seventy-five years is fifteen five-year plans.

Only when we catch up with the United States and surpass the United States, we can breathe a sigh of relief. Now we are not like a big country, we will be bullied by them.

We are such a big country, boasting a lot of cowhide: China has a history of thousands of years, vast territory, abundant resources and large population, etc.

But we only produce more than 2 million tons of steel a year, Until now, we have only begun to build cars, and the output is still very small. It is really not like a big country.

Therefore, all sectors of the country, including business circles and democratic parties, should strive to build China into a rich and powerful country.

We should have this responsibility in the whole world.

There is one Chinese among the four people in the world.

We must work hard and we must not disappoint everyone. “

• Mao zedong

How did China get so powerful in the 21st century?

• 1.Cultural Revolution! (文化大革命)
• 2.Hard work, self-reliance! (艰苦奋斗，自力更生)

There is an old saying in China: “One cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs”, which means you have to destroy yourself to have a brand new life. Nations, or civilizations, like China and India, they have lived too long, their ancient glories have long been gone, and they were old, sick, rotten and dying when the western powers rose. their old body didn’t work in the new era and they need new blood to survive. Emperors, nobles or higher-castes, landlords, these are people with vested interests, these people are greedy and weak. They control the country but refuse to change. China destroyed, or been destroyed, herself totally from outside to inside, through fire and blood. She paid her price, almost lost every thing, nearly destroyed their own old culture. China was reborn and is now young and healthy. India tried to save herself, bought a new dress called “democracy” , but her inside is still the old one. The nobles and landlords are still there. India is trapped by these parasites together with the thousands of years of traditions and culture.

In 2015, the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was announced, and Tu Youyou, a Chinese scientist, won the prize, which also marked a breakthrough of zero Nobel Prize in Chinese scientific research. However, the discovery of artemisinin is the scientific research achievement during the cultural revolution in China.

Whether it is the synthesis of bovine crystalline insulin, the discovery of artemisinin, a good antimalarial drug, or the research and development of hybrid rice, these scientific research achievements were born from 1960 to 1975. What factors promoted Chinese researchers to achieve this remarkable achievement in that era (including two bombs and one satellite)?

An old engineer revealed the secret of China’s rapid scientific and technological progress during the cultural revolution

Mr. Tian visited an old engineer not long ago.

He participated in the technical research process of “two bombs and one satellite”.

He said that China’s technical force at that time was far inferior to the Soviet Union and the U.S. in terms of personnel number and technical equipment level, but China’s time from atomic bomb explosion to breaking through the obstacles of hydrogen bomb technology was much shorter than that of the Soviet Union and the U.S..

He said that such a “miracle” was not accidental. According to his own experience, there were three key mysteries of technological progress during the cultural revolution, and these mysteries could not be possessed by other capitalist countries.

1.key reason is true technological democracy.

He said that because of the criticism of reactionary academic authority at the time, the newspapers sternly criticized all kinds of inability to truly serve the people, deliberately making things difficult for others, just wanting to gain personal benefits and autocratic academic style.

Therefore, few people dare to regard themselves as authorities and superiors, Form a highly democratic atmosphere within the research team.

Fresh graduates from the university and veteran scientists can debate together. Sometimes they arguing about technical issues all night long, or even quarreling. Old scientists like Deng Jiaxian(邓稼先) often argue with young people.

Such full academic democracy has brought rapid progress in thought and technology.

It has not only accelerated the speed of technological progress, but also accelerated the growth process of the technological echelon in the process.

The old engineer also said that at that time, due to the universal equality of human relations, many social and class barriers virtually did not exist, some old workers also participated in the discussion at the table, and many detailed problems and technological obstacles were able to brainstorm.

As a result, the whole project process was relatively balanced, rather than limited to the first breakthrough of key technologies, This avoids the failure caused by the details in the follow-up test.

Therefore, at that time, the tests of many projects were almost a success.

All problems and hidden dangers were often in the middle of technical democracy, which had been fully “released” and paid attention to, and there were a lot of plans and designs in advance.

2.key point is to completely get rid of the “concept of private technology”.

The old engineer recalled that no matter what kind of research institutions, no matter how much effort they have spent, as long as they hold a letter of introduction and meet the confidentiality regulations, all their latest achievements will be presented to you unconditionally without any reservation.

This cannot be done in any country.

If technological innovation is related to the potential interests of the market, of course, it needs to be kept secret.

Even if it is only related to the evaluation of personal professional titles and academic status, relevant personnel must have the need to hide their Proprietary technology.

However, in China at that time, all private ideas were thoroughly criticized, and many evaluation systems that helped to consolidate private ideas were destroyed, So people can open their Research results to the public as never before.

In this way, as long as any research institute or researcher has made a breakthrough in technology, it is no longer necessary for other relevant personnel or projects to carry out repeated work, and they can share the latest technological achievements without cost.

Completely abolishing the concept of private ownership is the real possibility of “national technical cooperation”.

The limited technical force and funds can be saved and effectively utilized unprecedentedly, avoiding many possible wastes.

3. reason is the highly sensitive coordination mechanism, which is almost “like human arm and fingers”.

The old engineer mentioned that there was a synchronization control problem in the middle of the satellite project.

At that time, it could only be realized mechanically, which required four identical small springs.

The project unit reported to Marshal Nie Rongzhen(聂荣臻), the leader in charge, because Shanghai has a strong industrial force and hopes to ask Comrade Shanghai for help.

Marshal Nie Rongzhen called Zhang Chunqiao(张春桥), vice premier of the State Council. Zhang Chunqiao immediately contacted Ma Tianshui(马天水), Secretary of the Shanghai municipal Party committee. Ma Tianshui convened a meeting of old workers and technicians from dozens of units in Shanghai overnight.

An old worker in a school run factory said he could achieve it.

After he went back, he made the spring that met the requirements overnight, which took less than 24 hours.

In the middle of this process, no one bargained terms and prices, so almost no negotiation time and transaction costs were spent.

Mr. Tian also visited a teacher of Nanjing University not long ago.

He participated in and presided over China’s computer project in 1969.

According to him, At that time, there was no need to look for relationships at all for the establishment of the project. The government directly allocated 10 million yuan to Nanjing University based on the advantages of the technical strength of each unit, even without greeting in advance, and designated it for the electronic computer project.

After the project office was established, he did not need to go to the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, but the central government designated the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee to cooperate with the research work of Nanjing University at the same time as the project was established, and unconditionally undertake the coordination work of the project.

Several state-owned factories of the Ministry of Electronics immediately carried out cooperative tests according to the research progress and requirements.

Relevant departments in Jiangsu Province and Nanjing City are directly under the leadership of the project team and are highly closely integrated with “production units, universities, and research institutes”.

The project funds are absolutely not allowed to be used by individuals for private purposes. Many factories participate in the project on the basis of their own technology and process accumulation, and existing technologies and processes do not repeat investment and spend money.

The background of the computer project is that in 1963, Mao Zedong said that to continue the great leap forward, we should not always follow the foreigners to engage in “crawling ism”, and we should try our best to adopt the existing advanced technology and track the advanced level of scientific and technological development.

To this end, the Central Science Group and the Party Group of the National Science and Technology Commission proposed in December 1963 the report on the scientific and technological development plan from 1963 to 1972, the outline of the scientific and technological development plan, and the plan for scientific and technological undertakings. This plan is based on the original plan. Based on the twelve-year science and technology development plan from 1956 to 1967, the overall requirement is to mobilize and organize the nation’s scientific and technological forces to resolve the key issues in China’s socialist construction on a self-reliant basis. On scientific and technological issues, we should master the science and technology of the 1960s in important and urgently needed areas, and strive to achieve a great leap forward on the road to approach and catch up with the world’s advanced scientific and technological level.

In this way, after the initial political stability during the cultural revolution, many science and technology projects were broken down and implemented to specific research institutions.

In addition to Nanjing University, Tsinghua University was also a key unit for the implementation of computer projects.

By the late 1970s, fruitful results had been produced.

A professor from Tsinghua told me that the level of computer technology at that time, In fact, China and the United States were basically synchronized.

Later, these projects were dismounted like the fate of the “yun-10 aircraft”.

Tsinghua University produced monocrystalline silicon in the mid-1970s, but later stopped research.

Another person told me that a research unit set up a monocrystalline silicon project a few years ago, received tens of millions of research funding, and finally went to the United States to manufacture monocrystalline silicon to complete the project.

This is especially worth pondering by those who sincerely care about China’s technological progress.

At that time, China was able to track the world’s advanced level with limited technical force.

The advantage was that the national technical force had no cost cooperation, limited funds and human resources could be used intensively, made centralized breakthroughs on the basis of the close combination of industry, University and research, reduced the cost of mutual learning, and realized the rapid maturity and growth of the research team.

The problem for China today is that China is not only lagging behind, it has completely lost the motivation to catch up in the “short-sighted” vision of market rules, and there is a huge gap between China’s technical strength and funding and Western countries.

To insist on blindly copying the Western technological development line is destined to produce bad consequences.