Chapter 639: Culture and Education
For example, in history, China's silk was originally extremely tight in the European market, and the price was quite high, and it was even considered a luxury item, and Western consumers flocked to it out of the consumption psychology of "only buying expensive and not buying the right", but later because of the malicious competition between domestic manufacturers, the export price of silk plummeted, and the mentality of Western consumers also changed rapidly, and they no longer regarded silk as a high-end product, and their desire to buy was not as good as before, and it was no longer the grand occasion of the beginning. The same is true for imports, only if Chinese companies unify their pace, can they keep the purchase price as low as possible, and Hu Weidong will not let the lessons of Chinese steel companies buying iron ore being slaughtered again and again in this time and space
To put it simply, for China's first successful semiconductor radio (historically it was not invented until 1946, but since China developed the transistor in advance, this is not difficult. ), tape recorders (Note 1), microwave ovens (a by-product of the progress of radar jishu), and other products without competitors, the production and sales of which were temporarily monopolized by state-owned enterprises; For products such as air conditioners, fluorescent lamps, televisions, and washing machines, which face fierce competition in the international market, China's private enterprises can receive government assistance at low prices or even free of charge, so that they can better serve the domestic people and even enter the international market to get a piece of the pie
Relatively speaking, relatively few major scientific and technological achievements were made in 1941, but the launch of two Nanchang-class cruisers, and the second aircraft carrier "Peter. The completion of the "Strasser" marks a new level in China's shipbuilding capabilities. Although the construction of these three warships was inseparable from the help of German Jishu personnel, and even more than 20% of the workers were Germans, being able to participate in the construction of these large warships with Shijie's advanced level was already a good opportunity that China had never encountered in history, even if the Chinese workers could only follow it at the beginning, the improvement gained from it was immeasurable
Compared with the progress of cutting-edge science and technology, the cultural education of New China in 1941 was more eye-catching, and on the basis of the improved simplified character scheme, a large number of important books were published one after another, in addition to the basic reference books such as the "Xinhua Dictionary", under the appeal of Hu Weidong, popular science reading materials were highly valued by the central government. Among them, the most far-reaching influence is "100,000 Weishenme".
There have been N versions of "One Hundred Thousand Weishenme" in history. In Hu Weidong's memory, the one with the highest level and the closest integration with practice is the worker-peasant-soldier version, but the problem with that series of books is also very serious, it is too difficult and lacks interest, which makes it detached from the original intention of popular science. So in fact it is the most failed version. The real most successful should be the change of the original set of "100,000 Weishenme". But. Although the Worker, Peasant and Soldier version is so difficult that many college students can't understand it, because it is very closely integrated with production practice, if you can really understand it. However, it is very helpful for the work, so it is not appropriate to simply deny it altogether.
In the end, Hu Weidong's instructions were to simply compile three versions of "One Hundred Thousand Weishenme": a purely popular science version for children, a juvenile version that combines science and practice, and an adult version that focused on practice. Among them, the difficulty of the adult version is even greater than that of the historical version of workers, peasants and soldiers, but because the majors are relatively clear, readers only need to selectively choose to read according to their majors and job positions. Because of this, although the total sales of the adult version are not as good as the other two versions, it has greatly promoted the construction of China's culture, education, industry and agriculture, and even national defense (the adult version has a military fascicle).
However, compared with the publication of these books, one of the more significant things in 1941 has to be regarded as the establishment of the college entrance examination system in New China, although there are various drawbacks in examination-oriented education, but it does have irreplaceable advantages in fairness, and as long as the content of the examination is well written, its defects can also be made up to the greatest extent, so Hu Weidong still voted in favor of the national unified examination. However, Hu Weidong also put forward two important opinions, one is that the examination should not only test book knowledge, but also examine students' ability to combine knowledge with practice, or hands-on and adaptability.
On the one hand, it is necessary to work hard on the examination questions, more related to the examples in production and life, and on the other hand, it is necessary to add practical assessments in addition to the written examination, Hu Weidong suggested that it can account for 20% of the total score, so as to eliminate a small number of "nerds" with high scores and low ability; Hu Weidong believes that the adult college entrance examination should not only get an undergraduate diploma, but must enjoy the same treatment as ordinary college students, and can not live together, but the classes must be taken together, and after graduation, they cannot be labeled as "teaching" and other discriminatory labels
Taizu and other central leaders attached great importance to Hu Weidong's opinions, and most of them felt that Hu Weidong's words were very reasonable, but due to the current situation in China, not every proposal could be implemented. For example, with the size of China and the number of students, the cost of investment is unimaginable, and the number of university students in China is still not large, and the government may be able to do it with some efforts, but in the future, the number of university students will definitely increase by dozens of times or even more than now, and how to solve the problem at that time? The college entrance examination system is a matter of national foundation, and it cannot be solved by saying "change it when the time comes".
In the end, after some discussion, the central government decided to hand over this power to each specific department of the major universities, and they will conduct targeted assessments of the candidates' practical ability according to the different requirements of their respective majors. The specific implementation of this assessment system is to determine the pitch line according to 110% of the number of jihua, and then conduct an interview with the candidates within the pitch line, with a full score of 100 points, after the interview, the interview score will be added with the college entrance examination score (Note 2) as the final ranking basis, and the excess number with a lower total score will be eliminated, that is to say, there will be an elimination rate of about 9%.
Note 1: The tape recording jishu was invented in Germany, but because the mustache was already focused on the war, he only used it to serve military purposes, and after Hu Weidong introduced the jishu in China, he specifically instructed to carry out research on "miniaturization" and "household use", and finally succeeded after several years.
Note 2: Chinese and mathematics are required, physics, chemistry, and biology are selected according to the different majors reported, with a full score of 150 for each subject and a total score of 600, which means that the influencing factor of the interview is one-seventh.
PS: The unified examination part of the college entrance examination does not test foreign languages (mainly because there is a serious shortage of foreign language teachers, and it is not guaranteed to be assigned to all high schools for the time being. As for whether to take the test or not, which of the four foreign languages is English, Russian, German, and Japanese, it is up to each department according to its own actual situation (for example, whether there are foreign teachers in the department, and if so, which country is more, etc.). Dependent. (To be continued......)