According to Hu Weidong's estimates, if the huge industrial capacity increased by this introduction can be fully digested, China's industrial strength will likely reach the level of the new China that completed the first five years in 1957, and the industrial labor productivity in 1939 will certainly not be comparable with the post-war level, so there will only be more workers needed, and the "rapid method of skilled workers" that has made great achievements before it But its limitations are increasingly exposed

Although the rapid training of technicians can quickly allow a student with no work experience to obtain the ability to work equivalent to qualified jishu workers through division of labor and cooperation within 3 months to 1 year, but not everyone can be trained by surprise, the key is the level of education, generally speaking, high school graduates can be trained within half a year, and the proportion of junior high school graduates who can be trained within 1 year is only six or seven percent, as for primary school graduates, it has to be very smart. And the training time is generally much longer, and if you haven't graduated from primary school, unless you are a genius like Wu Yunduo, it is better to continue studying in advanced schools

Compared with the new China after the liberation of history, the total population of the major border areas under the banner of the Red Party is more than 100 million, and most of them are still relatively backward areas, even if many patriotic young people and even experts and scholars have overcome all difficulties and come to invest from the occupied areas and the nationalized areas, but when converted, it is at most equivalent to the level of one-quarter of the new China at the time of liberation in history, and in addition, the establishment of the border areas has not been long ago, most of the land has just been recovered, and the work of popularizing education has just begun. Where are so many educated teenagers? Especially now Hu Weidong is still working hard to implement the six-year compulsory education in the Central Plains border area, which requires a large number of teachers, and at the same time, in order to win the war of resistance as soon as possible. The 15 th Group Army and other units under the Red Party are also constantly expanding their troops, which in turn requires a large number of young intellectuals to compete for people from three sides. There is an even greater shortage of knowledgeable youth, who are already insufficient

In order to solve this problem, Hu Weidong can be said to be a three-pronged approach, one is to promote advanced management methods and improve the work efficiency of each worker. Naturally, the number of workers needed is relatively small; Second, we call on the vast number of young people to study hard and encourage self-education and skipping grades, so as to shorten the education period as much as possible. Although Hu Weidong knows that there will be a lot of disadvantages in doing so, he has no more choices at present; These three were the idea of hundreds of thousands of Japanese prisoners of war

Since the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government has placed great emphasis on education, and over the decades it has achieved good results, and as a result, Japanese officers and soldiers generally have a high level of education, although Japan is less industrialized than other powers. The cultural quality of the Japanese officers and soldiers is still some distance from that of the soldiers of advanced countries such as Germany and the United States, but it is much stronger than that of the Chinese soldiers and the Soviet Union, which is also a backward industrial country. As for the officers, even the lowest-ranking military cao (the "Wu Chang" similar to the Chinese squad leader is not considered an officer), they often have a high school degree or higher.

With a higher level of education as a foundation, the difficulty of training Japanese prisoners of war into technicians is naturally much lower, but Japan is an enemy country after all, so at first Hu Weidong did not have this idea, but made good use of those who were originally jishu workers among the Japanese prisoners of war, and later because of the great increase in the demand for senior technicians due to the relationship of Soviet aid, Hu Weidong began to consider training his guys with a high degree of Chinese (at least high school graduation) into senior technicians. It was not until this large-scale introduction led to a shortage of ordinary technicians that Hu Weidong decided to start a comprehensive training for Japanese prisoners of war to temporarily fill this gap, and let them go to the factory for labor reform, which was much more affordable economically than working as a coolie, although the conditions in the factory were much better than the construction site, but they worked more than 12 hours a day, and they had to ensure the quality of the products, which was also not easy.

The language barrier was a problem, but some of the Japanese prisoners of war were already proficient in Chinese, and the problem was solved by letting them work as administrators or teaching jishu, and the Japanese learned Chinese at least much faster than those in the West. Although the rebellion of the devil when he was first captured was still quite strong, as long as he was defeated at that time, he was all obedient and obedient, and even the Chinese workers who worked for their motherland felt ashamed when they saw it

The Japanese prisoners of war were only the beginning, and many more foreigners came to work in China (see more on this later), which on the one hand helped China cope with the emergency, and on the other hand, it inadvertently solved one of the hidden worries that Hu Weidong had been worried about before was unexpectedly solved in advance, and the problem had to start with industrialization itself

As a traverser and military industry expert, it can be said that there is no second Shijie like Hu Weidong who knows how difficult it is for an agricultural country to achieve industrialization. The first problem to be solved is machinery and equipment, without a sufficient number and complete categories of machinery and equipment (small countries are not necessary), industrialization is impossible to talk about, and for agricultural countries, if you want to quickly achieve industrialization without being pulled further and further away by advanced countries, you can not just develop yourself, but must introduce a large number of jishu and equipment from abroad, if you are lucky enough to have foreign aid, then this problem is naturally relatively simple to solve, In fact, almost all of the backward countries in history have received foreign aid or disguised aid to a greater or lesser extent, such as Japan, which received British aid after the Meiji Restoration, and South Korea, which received US aid after the war, while the Soviet Union took advantage of the economic crisis in 1929 and secretly cooperated with Germany, which was demilitarized after World War I, as for the historical New China, although the equipment aided by the Soviet Union had to be purchased at its own expense, and the price was high, but just because it was complete, it should be recognized as "aid" Rather than the usual foreign procurement. In contrast, China in this time and space has undoubtedly solved this problem more satisfactorily

However, it is impossible to complete industrialization with machinery and equipment alone, because machines still need qualified workers to operate, and those jobs that do not have much jishu content are fine, but for the manufacturing industry, after all, there are still many positions that require workers with sufficient professional skills (to be continued. )

PS: Running naked this week, desperately looking for a recommendation ticket T-T