Chapter 2000: Pie in the Sky

Vice Mayor Sun looked at Liu Jizhong looking at him and said to himself, did you think of me just now?

Ah, the locust tree outside the window seems to have sprouted a few new buds. It is so green and beautiful!

He gently turned his face at an angle, and when Liu Jizhong needed him, he didn't give him any response and looked out the window.

What do you do as mayor of this city?

Fortunately, Liu Jizhong, who really grew up with the reform and opening up, has a strong ability to withstand stress. Especially for a person like him who has been playing with ten bottles and six caps, he feels like heaven in one second and hell in the next. He has been through too much.

Because this question was difficult to answer, he also understood the importance of this question.

"I think the most important thing is that as a local businessman, I am more confident in the future development of our province, and I am also more confident in the future development of the aviation industry in our province," he said clearly. .

The secretary nodded slightly again.

Vice Mayor Sun couldn't help but turn his face back, oh, what he said is really good!

Under normal circumstances, when private entrepreneurs face such problems, the first thing they talk about is the various shortcomings and scum of state-owned enterprises.

But the person who asked the question can actually be said to be the boss of many state-owned enterprises. If you say something like this in front of him, the consequences, even if they are not too ugly, will not be too good to think about.

"I went from being a child of an ordinary working-class family to becoming a somewhat promising person like I am today. I have experienced too much along the way,"

Therefore, Liu Jizhong at this time is not immodest, but it depends on who he is dealing with.

"I have also deeply realized the economic vitality our province contains among the people, our government agencies, their determination to improve the economy, and various powerful and targeted measures,"

"I have always insisted that in the future, our province will lead the central region in terms of economic development and be on par with the developed provinces on the southern coast,"

Although there are elements of flattery and exaggeration in these words, from the perspective of a businessman, it is quite appropriate to say such words.

Didn't he look at the secretary and nodded again?

“Because I have been involved in the travel industry for a long time, according to our experience, the demand for charter flights has been increasing in recent years. Therefore, although the passenger flow at our province’s airports has not increased significantly in the past two years, But that is the result of the combined impact of various reasons, including the previous SARS,"

This is a fact. A few years ago, the province’s air passenger throughput ranked among the top ten in the country, but in the past two years, it has fallen outside the top ten.

“I think our province’s air passenger traffic will grow significantly this year,”

"Because from a macro perspective, last year, despite rising oil prices, rising costs in all aspects of the aviation industry, and generally rising air ticket prices, our entire civil aviation industry transported 120 million passengers throughout the year, and the entire civil aviation industry's profits reached 8.69 billion. Yuan, which is equivalent to the total profit of the entire civil aviation industry in the past ten years,”

"From a global perspective, the United States has more than 200 million people and now has more than 5,000 airplanes, while our country of 1.3 billion people currently has less than 800 airplanes,"

“Under such a general trend, as the economic center and transportation hub of the central region, as a strong province in higher education in the country, and as a strong province with rich tourism resources, I think the development of our province’s aviation industry in the next few years will , will definitely exceed everyone’s expectations,”

"In fact, there is no precedent for this. The current annual air passenger throughput of the two provincial capital cities in the west has exceeded 10 million,"

"So, I think in the future, the biggest problem facing our province's aviation industry will not be the increase in passenger throughput, but the same problem as Beijing and Shanghai. The airport will soon be insufficient,"

"Haha," the secretary laughed.

Perhaps encouraged by his smile, Liu Jizhong added, "I think those short-sighted state-owned airlines will soon pay a heavy price for their short-sightedness and arrogance."

Vice Mayor Sun turned his head to the side again, "Okay, this is very Liu Jizhong. Give him a little sunshine and he will be bright, give him a smile and he will be sullen, and he will be swollen with some achievements."

"Of course, we at Dongcheng will be very grateful to them for giving us such a good opportunity,"

It's superfluous, it's superfluous. Vice Mayor Sun wanted to shake his head. The previous sentence was fine, but is it necessary to say these two sentences? Why are you talking about this when reporting here?

The secretary always had that kind of attitude and was quite kind, "We also know that several private airlines in China have recently been approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China and were allowed to formally prepare for establishment. Compared with those few, your Dongcheng... What are the advantages?”

Such a question made Liu Jizhong quickly calm down, "First of all, they don't have the advantage like me. I am very lucky to have a market with strong strength and huge potential like our province,"

"Secondly, I have also learned about the backgrounds of those airlines. Compared with us, they lack the support of a corporate group with certain strength like Dongcheng,"

"We must foresee some characteristics of the aviation industry. In the first few years of the company's establishment, it is inevitable to burn money, but Dongcheng's current annual profits give us enough confidence that we have done well in the first two years. Be prepared to burn money all the time,”

If his brother Liu Jishan heard what his younger brother said, he would definitely ask, "Second brother, do you feel guilty for saying such a thing?"

The company's situation still allows us to keep burning money, but we are always raising money everywhere like our butt is on fire, okay?

But at least in the eyes of outsiders, Dongcheng's development in the past two years is indeed quite good. You can see their restaurants when eating, and you can see the real estate developed by them when buying a house. Not to mention, you can often see them on the road. The travel agency's car, this Dongcheng, is really quite capable.

"This leads to another advantage that I have compared with them. The few private airlines that have been approved to establish are all taking very small steps. They all rent one or two aircraft for operation, and they are all old aircraft."

"Our plan is to increase the fleet size to ten in the first three years, and they will all be new aircraft. After five years, we will purchase another twenty aircraft, bringing our entire company's fleet size to thirty aircraft,"

"In any industry, scale will definitely bring advantages in many aspects,"

"Dongcheng has another advantage, which is the advantage of the industrial chain. With airlines, we can build a tourism industry chain integrating aviation, travel agencies, fleets, and scenic spots on the original basis,"

"So our comprehensive competitiveness and profitability are stronger than those companies,"

I have to say that what he described is really good, except for one thing: the huge gap in funding.

The secretary's next question was about funding. "With such a large fleet, the funds required may be tens of billions. How are you going to solve this problem?"

"Leaders, please rest assured that in this regard, our financial department has already had a very thorough budget,"

"In the first three years, we leased aircraft, and it was a plan of 4, 3, and 3 aircraft. According to the current international standards, the annual rent for a large aircraft like the Airbus 320 is only more than 3 million US dollars. We can definitely afford such expenses without the support of banks,"

"We have also made a budget like this. The annual rent of an aircraft is about 30 million yuan, and operating expenses and other expenses are about 30 million yuan each. Added together, it is only 100 million yuan,"

"According to the data we obtained from relevant management agencies, last year, for example, China Southern Airlines in our province only had 10 aircraft, but its revenue exceeded 1.5 billion. Calculated in this way, the average annual revenue of one aircraft is Collected, it has exceeded 100 million,"

"As a company that has just entered this industry, we predict that even with relatively large investments in space and aviation materials in the past few years, we can fully guarantee that we will remain stable in three years and make profits in five years,"

"Of course, when we purchase new aircraft in five years, we still hope to get support from our financial department to provide guarantees or financing. Of course, all this will be done in accordance with business principles. Our financial institutions can look at At that time, the operating conditions of Dongcheng Airlines will be used to make corresponding decisions.”

"...In short, we in Dongcheng hope to help the economic development of our province. We hope that with our own efforts, we can build our province into a major aviation province before the Olympics..."

Seeing the secretary and secretary walking in, Liu Jizhong sped up his statement.

"I still have a meeting," the secretary stood up, and Liu Jizhong also stood up quickly.

"Mr. Liu, goodbye," he shook hands with Liu Jizhong and said goodbye without expressing his position.

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"Today's report was quite effective," Vice Mayor Sun said on the way out.

"That's right," Liu Jizhong patted him twice on the shoulder, "Haha, look at the smile on the leader's face,"

Vice Mayor Sun slowed down and patted me on the shoulder?

If Feng Yiping wanted to pat him on the shoulder, Vice Mayor Sun would be happy to send it over.

But unfortunately, Vice Mayor Sun knew that Feng Yiping would never do such a thing to any official.

But you Liu Jizhong? Next, are you going to put your arm around my shoulders and walk forward side by side?

"What's wrong, Mayor Sun?" Liu Jizhong, with a smug look on his face, noticed that his old friend was lagging behind.

"Let me tell you, we are currently designing the appearance of Dongcheng Airlines aircraft. I think the aircraft of domestic airlines are too boring. Why do they have to be painted white every time?"

"Mayor Sun, what do you think about this? What color do you think will make Dongcheng's thirty aircraft flying in the sky the best in the future?"

Vice Mayor Sun shook his head, "I don't understand this aspect,"

The key is, looking at you now, I just told you my plan, can you follow it?

Liu Jizhong originally did not expect Deputy Mayor Sun to give any answer. In fact, he regretted it after asking this question. If Deputy Mayor Sun really gave a plan, what should he do?

Naturally, you can't do what he says.

fine!

"I think domestic airlines, whether they are domestic routes or international routes, need to improve in many other aspects. I fly more than 200 times a year,"

When Deputy Mayor Sun heard this, he really wanted to refute. You take more than 200 flights a year. Do you think you are like Feng Yiping, with business all over the world? As a businessman whose main business is concentrated in one province , you fly more than 200 times a year? I do not know how?

You must have flown more than two hundred times in total!

"When I was on the plane, the stewardesses I met were either old or ugly. Not only did they look average, but the design of their uniforms was also very average and stereotyped. They all wore a shirt with a vest, a hat, and a silk scarf around their necks. Can't there be some innovation?"

"That's a stewardess, a profession that carries so many beautiful imaginations,"

"Mayor Sun, you..." He remembered that it would be best not to ask for his opinion on this matter. "We have designed several sets of clothes for our stewardesses, including European court clothes and cheongsams. We will also let stewardesses choose the color of their favorite clothes,"

"Stewardesses should show beauty to passengers and let passengers spend a few hours happily in excitement and happiness,"

"And the catering, I just can't understand, such a big airline, how can the food be so bad? In the future, I must make sure that my passengers can eat as well as they can in my restaurant on the plane,"

Deputy Mayor Sun looked at this old friend who felt increasingly unfamiliar to him, chattering excitedly on the side, and was very sure of one thing, that his old friend was really going to heaven.

But the wind is strong in the sky.