The Start and Growth of China’s Semiconductor Industry Technology (1949—1978)

Abstract

: The period from 1949 to 1978 was the initial growth stage of semiconductor technology in New China, and its development context can be combed from four dimensions: politics, enterprises, education and research. From the Telecommunications Industry Bureau to the Fourth Ministry of Machinery Industry, “156 project” to the third line construction, college education to staff education, the birth of the first domestic germanium transistor to the formation of the “south germanium and north silicon” route, we can find that national support is the key to the growth of science and technology, and independent innovation is the only way for the growth of a national industry. Civil market is a source of vitality for technological innovation, and self-organization mechanisms are the key to the iteration of industrial technology advancements.