Rebirth 2002: Nano Life

In June 2007, the Longgang High-tech Industrial Park was officially completed, and supporting enterprises settled in one after another.

In September, the electronic paper production line of Xiameng Factory located in the Olive Park of the Industrial Park also ushered in the third-generation transformation and upgrading.

In 2005, the electronic paper has been upgraded to the 2.5th generation. From the numbers, we know that the 2.5th generation is actually not too technically improved compared to the second generation of electronic paper, but the refresh rate is further improved, barely. To catch up with the refresh rate of LCD and plasma displays that are basically every year.

The third-generation e-paper production line, built by Italy and Germany, applies the world's most advanced evaporation process, and adopts automatic cutting and packaging technology. In addition to improving a lot in color and pixels, the most important thing is is to further compress in thickness.

This third-generation e-paper production line mainly produces display products such as TVs and large-screen monitors. After the project is put into production, 420,000 third-generation substrates will be invested annually, and the annual output value is expected to exceed 30 billion yuan.

In addition, Xiameng Group announced an additional investment of 10 billion yuan after the third-generation electronic paper production line was put into operation, while the Longgang government announced to expand the area of ​​the industrial park, and the area of ​​the industrial park was further encircled by 260,000 square meters. The 4th generation electronic paper production line will be built on this land.

This fourth-generation factory has a construction area of ​​370,000 square meters, and the main factory covers an area of ​​70,000 square meters, which is equivalent to 9 standard football fields.

This fourth-generation factory mainly produces high-resolution touch displays for mobile terminal products and new wearable smart devices. In fact, to put it bluntly, Xia Meng is preparing for the smartphone launched in 2008.

In October, the Materials Laboratory developed an ultrathin film that absorbs solar energy, a new type of graphene-based material with unique properties and great potential for solar thermal phones.

And the material is only 90 nanometers in size, 1,000 times thinner than a human hair, and can rapidly heat up to 160 degrees in an open environment under natural light.

This material has a variety of uses. If it is matched with the filter element, it can be directly used for solar seawater desalination and filtration.

At the end of December 2007, after an evaluation report from the Xiameng Food Evaluation Laboratory came out, the person in charge of the laboratory notified Chen Yizhe and Xia Yi, because the results of this report involved most of the large domestic dairy companies! Among them, there is a big-name enterprise - Sanlu Group!

In August 2005, the "Sanlu" brand was rated as one of the 500 most valuable brands in China by the World Brand Lab.

In 2006, "Forbes" selected "Top 100 Chinese Top Enterprises" in the dairy industry. As assessed by the China Brand Equity Evaluation Center, the Sanlu brand is worth 14.907 billion yuan.

This year, it was rated as the most competitive brand in the market by the Ministry of Commerce.

If the food evaluation lab on Xia Meng's side throws out negative results for Sanlu products at this time, wouldn't that be a blow to the Ministry of Commerce?

Regarding the concerns of the head of the laboratory, Chen Yizhe resolutely said, "The face is given by yourself, how many infants and young children in China are eating Sanlu's milk powder, as the head of this non-profit organization, you only need to be 'real' I am responsible for the rest."

According to the test, the content of melamine in Sanlu brand infant formula milk powder and this chemical raw material that cannot appear in food is the culprit that causes babies to suffer from kidney and urinary tract stones

This time, the laboratory investigated more than 100 enterprises in the country, and inspected 500 batches of products from these enterprises.

The inspection results showed that 70 batches of products from 25 infant milk powder manufacturers detected melamine with different contents.

Sanlu's melamine dosage reached 2563 mg per kilogram, which is 4 times that of Shanghai Panda Dairy's Kebao brand infant formula, and 17 times that of Shengyuan infant milk powder. Ten thousand times.

Back home, Xia Yi asked worriedly, "What is this melamine? Will the consequences be serious?"

"Melamine is an important chemical raw material used in plastic coatings and so on. It actually has a very loud nickname: protein essence. It seems that it can be eaten by listening to this nickname, but in fact it must not appear in food. Because it is very likely to suffer from kidney and urinary tract stones after eating, it is more harmful to babies whose organs are not yet mature." Chen Yizhe explained.

The monitoring agency did not put melamine into the monitoring standards before, because this thing is basically harmless to the human body, and the cost of monitoring melamine is relatively high. Only then did a major incident such as Sanlu milk powder occur. To put it bluntly, this matter also has the responsibility of the government in supervision.

"Why does it feel the same as the hydrolyzed protein incident a few years ago?" Xia Yi recalled the leather hydrolyzed protein incident in 2003.

"Well, both leather hydrolyzed eggs and melamine are artificial proteins. Let me tell you a joke first. One day someone ordered milk and received a bottle of water, so he called the milkman angrily, and the milkman was on the other end of the phone. He apologized quickly: I'm sorry, I was so busy that I forgot to pour milk into the water!"

Seeing Xia Yi's puzzled face, Chen Yizhe continued, "Milk mixing with water is an extremely common phenomenon. After milk is mixed with water, it can become 12 liters, or even 15 liters, and it will be 12 liters when sold. The price of 15 liters.”

"People who collect milk are not stupid. I know you add water, but don't overdo it. What is the concentration of this batch of milk you gave me, so how to judge the concentration of this milk needs to choose a measurable standard. And this standard is the protein content. That is, when the dairy factory purchases milk, in addition to specifying how much the purchase price is per liter, it will also agree on a standard that the protein content must be above the level, otherwise it will not be charged.”

Xia Yi suddenly realized, "Does that mean adding melamine can increase the protein content?"

Chen Yizhe nodded.

What is the difference between protein and water? Protein has three elements, N, H, and O, and water only has HO. To measure the protein content, just measure the N content in the milk liquid!

It is precisely because of this that people add nitrogen to the milk, and then the nitrogen content of the milk will increase, and the protein content will increase when measured, so that you can justifiably add water. Then there will be a cycle of more nitrogen, more water, more nitrogen, and more water.

Chen Yizhe sighed and said, "If mixing milk with water is an unspoken rule in the milk industry, then the second unspoken rule is adding nitrogen to milk. In fact, the second rule is to better play the first rule. Earlier, the method of adding nitrogen to milk was relatively low-level, that is, adding urea to it, because normal milk will also have urea, and it is normal for cows to shudder occasionally when they are milked.”

"Urea also contains nitrogen, which can deceive the monitoring of the instrument, but adding too much urea will cause problems. After this urea-containing milk is heated, the urea will volatilize, it will have a smell, and it is easy to be found. Collect cow urine at the same time. It's not easy either, and the milk collection station started to check the urea content, so this road is blocked, so you can't add a lot of water. What to do?"

Chen Yizhe shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, "The ingenuity of working people is limitless. At this time, melamine will appear."

"In fact, the problem of melamine has already appeared in China earlier, but it should not have appeared in milk at that time. Do you remember the incident of pet cats and dogs dying from kidney stones in various parts of the United States at the end of last year?"

After Chen Yizhe asked, he continued to answer, "The reason is almost the same. Melamine is mixed in pet food to increase the protein content. The survey results of the United States in April, but it went to China, they said that it was exported from China. U.S. pet feed ingredients, wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate contain melamine.”

"Some news media reports in the United States also suspect that China's grain warehouses are not carefully guarded, causing rat poison contamination." Chen Yizhe shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Xia Yi asked, "That's why you insist on cooking for Ziqi instead of buying dog food for Ziqi?"

Chen Yizhe nodded and said, "It can be said responsibly that more than 99% of the dog food produced in China will definitely contain melamine!"

Why do domestic food products have frequent problems?

Very simple, the profit is too large, the price is too low!

In Chen Yizhe's view, the most important thing in food safety is not the end product, but controlling the source! For this, the construction of China's food safety system still has a long way to go, and the only thing Chen Yizhe can do is to be a supervisor and guardian on the terminal.

On January 8, 2008, in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council grandly held the National Science and Technology Awards Conference.

The 20-year absence of the National Science and Technology Award in China's dairy industry has finally been broken - Sanlu Group won the National Science and Technology Progress Award for "a new generation of infant formula milk powder research and its supporting technology innovation and integration project".

The irony is that on the second day after Sanlu Group won the award, major portals announced Xia Meng's latest food safety report, which was nominated on the Sanlu Group version and was greatly nominated.

For several years, Xia Meng's food testing laboratory has adhered to the "truth" principle, which has convinced the general public more than the Food and Drug Administration.

Development to today, basically, any manufacturer's product has a problem on the report, and the consequence is that the product of this manufacturer will be unsalable immediately, and its credibility is evident.

However, this also brought a lot of trouble to Xia Meng. After all, many foods are actually local protection industries, and a word in the laboratory is likely to cause many local people to lose their jobs.

So in the past two years, there has been a saying in Tianya: How many people like Xia Meng, how many people hate Xia Meng.

Today's melamine incident is estimated to have added tens of thousands of black fans to Xia Meng.

As soon as the milk powder report of Xia Meng Food Laboratory came out, the effect was immediately visible, and it immediately caused an uproar in the whole society.

Some leaders in Hebei went directly to the leaders of Pengcheng and asked for an explanation.

And the deputy director of the State Food Safety Administration called Chen Yizhe to ask whether Xia Meng wanted to cause a major social incident? Even if there is a problem with dairy products, the state department should be notified as soon as possible, rather than causing social panic.

With the current strength of Xia Meng, Chen Yizhe would not worry about the other party's questioning. For him, the earlier the truth was announced, the earlier the tens of thousands of babies in China could be kept away from melamine.

Two days later, a reporter from Nanfang Daily published a report of his one-week unannounced visit to the milk station.

The overall situation of China's dairy industry consists of farmers who raise cows, dairy companies that receive milk, and dairy stations that connect the two.

In the reporter's report, the occurrence of melamine in dairy products this time is likely to come from this link of domestic dairy farmers and dairy stations.

For farmers in many places, the income from milk is all its income.

The milk stations are actually small independent workshops, usually run by relatives of the village cadres. Not part of the state nor part of the dairy business. There are several pumping machines, which can be called a milk station if someone takes care of them. Farmers take their cows to the milk station to produce milk, or the milk station has a car to go down to collect it.

During the unannounced visit, the reporter found that both dairy farmers and dairy stations had mixed melamine in the process.

After the incident was exposed, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China finally released the results of the test. Basically, all large domestic dairy companies have also published the results, which are similar to Xia Meng's results.

The Sanlu milk powder incident was exposed earlier than Chen Yizhe’s previous life, so the impact was not as huge as in the previous life, and only a few thousand infants and young children were injured, but even so, the domestic milk powder lost the trust of the people .

And there was even a post on Tianya that directly called for Xiameng Group to enter the dairy industry, which also won the approval of many netizens.

"Although it's a bit unfair to be a referee and play football at the same time, but if the protagonist is Xia Meng, I think it's good!"

"Although it is an illusion, among the domestic enterprises, the one I trust most is Xia Meng. A few years ago, my family bought the filter pot of its subsidiary company. It has been used today, and its filtering effect is much stronger than that of foreign products. ."

"I agree. I heard that Xia Meng bought a farm in Huicheng last year. I don't know if she wants to enter the agricultural product industry! If Xia Meng wants to enter the agricultural product industry, why not enter dairy products?"

"How disappointed it must be to let other companies across the mountain enter the dairy industry!"

"It's not disappointment, it's actually despair, and it's also despair for the State Administration of Supervision. If there is still hope, it is Xia Meng's food evaluation laboratory, which is indeed a protective barrier for the domestic people!"

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At the beginning of 2008, Xia Meng dropped a bomb in China. However, this year was an eventful year for China. After the end of Sanlu, many unforgettable things will happen one after another in this year!