Chapter 841 The Tempting Big Cake

The conversation between the father and son of the Fan family made the cadres and workers of the Lingxi Aircraft Manufacturing Plant feel very excited. If it is really as they said, then the domestic aviation industry is about to usher in a new development opportunity.

Under the current conditions, it is obviously difficult to get on the large aircraft project, but in other words, if there are no difficulties, then when do we have to wait? If we just kill time in waiting, then China's own large aircraft project will always remain on paper.

"We had nothing back then, but we were able to develop two bombs and one satellite. Now we are at least much better than that time, right? At least the Chinese people's backbone cannot be thrown into the Pacific Ocean. It's time to come up with something decent." Fan Wubing said so.

The transport aircraft of that year was the first sprint of my country's aircraft design from ten tons to one hundred tons. This kind of enlargement and jump in magnitude will have a scale effect, and it is necessary to find a new solution. Many structures and systems, even concepts and methods, have posed many new challenges.

At that time, the world's jet aviation technology had been born for about fifteen years, and various related technologies fell into the vision of designers. The flight time of the designed aircraft is mostly in the high subsonic region, while only the former Soviet Union's Tu-4, the British Trident and the American Boeing aircraft could reach this speed. China put all three design plans on the table, discussed with each other, compared and analyzed, integrated the strengths of hundreds of schools, integrated innovation, and formed its own overall plan. Select appropriate means from the aviation technology library, and independently carry out new engineering synthesis to form its own design. In this way, after ten years, there was a large jet airliner with complete intellectual property rights. At that time, it was still in Tibet, which was called an air restricted area and a death route. Seven consecutive test flights were successful, which can be said to be quite inspiring.

In fact, the significance of developing its own large aircraft project is not only to localize large aircraft, but also to bring huge business opportunities to the country. In the next ten years, the domestic and foreign civil aviation industries will have great development, especially the domestic business volume will increase greatly. If there is no large aircraft manufacturing industry of its own, it will be very passive in the entire international competition.

At the same time, the large passenger aircraft project is also a concentrated reflection of a country's industrial, scientific and technological level and comprehensive strength. The aviation industry has a long industrial chain, a wide radiation area, and a strong linkage effect. It plays an important role in the development of the national economy and the progress of science and technology. The development of large aircraft projects can drive the breakthrough of key technologies in new materials, modern manufacturing, advanced power, electronic information, automatic control, computers and other fields, and can drive the development of many high-tech industries. It will also drive major progress in many basic disciplines such as fluid mechanics and solid mechanics, and will comprehensively and significantly improve the domestic scientific and technological level.

In addition, the development of large aircraft projects can not only provide a breakthrough and new growth point for the development of the aviation industry, but also help improve the manufacturing capacity and management level of China's aviation industry, and ultimately form a strong aviation industry.

Now, taking the current Fan Airlines as an example, the large and small passenger aircraft purchased are all from Airbus or Boeing.

The amount of money used for the purchase and maintenance of passenger aircraft each year is an astronomical figure. If all of this can be localized, then the funds saved can buy many aircraft.

Not to mention so many domestic airlines, the annual purchase orders can make all international aviation manufacturing giants salivate.

Normally, for an aircraft with 150 seats, the break-even point is about 300 aircraft. According to the preliminary budget of Fan Wubing's subordinates, the domestic demand for aircraft of this level will be about 3,000 in the future. This estimate is based on the expected living standards and increased travel in the future. The global demand for aircraft of this level will exceed 20,000. As long as more than half of the domestic market can be occupied and some more in foreign countries, it will be relatively easy to sell about 2,000 passenger aircraft.

In fact, this estimate is still relatively conservative. It is well known that the domestic manufacturing cost will be lower, so the economic cost of manufacturing large aircraft will be relatively low, which is far beyond the reach of foreign aviation manufacturing giants. In addition, with the huge influence of Fan Airlines on the entire domestic shipping industry, once it is completely replaced with domestic large aircraft, it will have a great impact on the domestic shipping industry. If other airlines do not use domestic aircraft at that time, they will not be able to compete with them at all.

In fact, Fan Wubing can still guess some reasons for the aborted large aircraft project. Under those historical conditions, it is obvious that only by purchasing foreign passenger aircraft can the relevant parties make greater profits. If these passenger aircraft are all domestically produced, the operating space will be relatively small.

Take the corruption case of the Taiwan military purchasing the La Fayette frigate from France as an example. The profit here is staggering, not to mention the passenger aircraft procurement projects in China over the years. The profit here can be said to be astronomical. Dozens of Bill Gates can be cultivated.

"China's aviation industry is actually buried in foreign procurement." Fan Wubing said to his father Fan Heng, "When certain interest groups are accustomed to obtaining huge profits and kickbacks from international procurement, they will spare no effort to prevent the development of the domestic aviation industry."

"This statement can actually be reflected in other aspects. It is not that the country will destroy its future, but that the domestic comprador groups and external forces have come together because of their common interests and jointly killed many people who should have entered the international leadership long ago. A horizontal national cause," Fan Heng said with a wave of his hand.

The Lingxi Provincial Aircraft Manufacturing Factory is an enterprise that Fan and his son focused on inspecting. In addition to them, they also continuously inspected pharmaceutical companies, textile companies in Lingxi, and the mining industry that has a great impact on the economy of Lingxi Province.

Through the three-day inspection, we also gained a more intuitive understanding of the current industrial exhibition situation in Lingxi Province. Generally speaking, the industrial exhibition in Lingxi Province is still at a relatively low level. Although the mining industry is relatively large-scale, It is large, but the degree of deepening and refinement is seriously insufficient. It is just a rough process, which not only brings great pollution to the environment, but also causes a great waste of resources. As for the scale of pharmaceutical companies and textile companies, they are relatively small. Moreover, it is scattered and scattered, far from forming a group enterprise with sustainable development or strong competitiveness.

Regarding this point, Fan Wubing did come up with a good solution. One is to establish a large-scale engine production enterprise in Lingxi Province in a targeted manner, and then rely on this to form a series of marginal enterprises in the automobile manufacturing industry. To make use of mineral resources, on the other hand, it is to establish a large-scale wool textile enterprise in Lingxi Province to digest the wool obtained from New Zealand here.

Fan Wubing has already thought clearly about this. No matter which enterprise he establishes, it will be affected by the relatively low labor costs in Lingxi Province, which will greatly reduce production costs. The automobile manufacturing industry and the wool textile industry are both considered It is a personnel-intensive enterprise. While reducing its own production costs, it can also create many jobs for Lingxi Province.

In fact, the talent reserve in Lingxi Province is quite good. Several large universities in Lingxi bring hundreds of thousands of outstanding graduates from various industries to the northwest every year. If these people can be well utilized, they will definitely bring great benefits to Lingxi Province. The exhibition has made a great contribution. It is a pity that now, except for some of these people who have stayed and been digested by local enterprises and institutions, most of them have been lost. They have become part of the skilled workers who have gone to the southeastern coastal areas, which is really a bit sad.

On the one hand, there are outstanding graduates trained by the whole province, and on the other hand, the lack of development environment leads to the continuous loss of talents. This is the current situation of higher education in Lingxi Province. If we can provide them with a sustainable development environment, With a better environment, I believe more people hope to stay in their hometowns and make their own contributions to the development of their hometowns.

They were inspecting work in Lingxi Province, and the reporters accompanying them kept reporting what they saw and heard back to the CCTV headquarters in the form of pictures and texts. For the past few days, the TV news has basically been about Comrade Fan Heng’s visit to Lingxi Province. Various reports related to the inspection immediately made some people with a keen sense of smell realize that the country's slogan of vigorously opening up the western region seemed to be no longer just a slogan. This time there should be some more practical actions.

Especially when people noticed that Fan Wubing, the boss of Fan Investment Group, also participated in this inspection in a relatively low-key manner, more people believed that the clarion call to march to the west would soon sound. It means that huge business opportunities will appear in front of everyone.

In the northwest, there is actually a large market that has not yet been opened, and the saying "first come first, first served" is obviously not just talk. Whoever captures this market first will receive huge rewards. In the past, no one was willing to run to the northwest, simply because of the inconvenient transportation and economic backwardness. However, in the eyes of Fan Wubing, these two conditions are actually the main signs that there are great opportunities, whether it is to develop transportation undertakings. Whether it is establishing a large market in the northwest, it is a profitable business. What's more, the resources in the northwest are relatively abundant. Once it is opened, whether it is oil and gas resources or agricultural and sideline product resources, the market prospects are very broad.

However, just after they traveled for three days, when they returned to Ning City, they encountered something so unexpected that the person who accompanied Fan Heng on his inspection work, as well as Fan Heng and Fan Wubing's father and son, were both arrested. Embarrassed.