Chapter 228 The Organization Is Testing Me! (2-in-1)

That evening, the European delegations reported the situation to their superiors.

Chang Haonan and Schneider's feelings were not wrong.

Since all parties involved got what they wanted, they quickly gained a higher level of empowerment this time around.

As a result, in the fourth round of negotiations that followed the next day, China and Europe finally reached an agreement on the basic content of the agreement.

However, this kind of thing involving more than a dozen countries and several very large international companies is not like going to the wet market to buy vegetables.

Even with Chang Haonan's efforts (and of course deception), the two parties are generally in a state of meeting each other halfway, but it involves the formulation of new standards, the selection of new suppliers and even the formation of new business alliances. The legal and technical details are overwhelming and far beyond the scope of the current two delegations.

So all they can do now is to reach an "intent agreement" similar to project planning or research outline, and first tie the partners together with a piece of paper. As for the subsequent details, naturally professionals in various fields will be responsible for completing them. .

As it happens, the "professionals" related to icing and anti-icing research are Chang Haonan and Lin Guofan.

And this is also the most urgent matter at the moment——

Once such a high-profile multi-party cooperation officially begins, it is impossible and unnecessary to keep it as airtight as during the negotiations. Therefore, before the FAA reacts, they must counterattack in the aviation safety field where they think they have the advantage. An army.

So Chang Haonan's work in Haojing is not over yet.

However, unlike the previous situation where he had to take on the main role, in the follow-up negotiations, he only had to sit on the scene and be a mascot of the town. To a certain extent, it was a short vacation, which made up for the lack of Spring Festival. After that, the rest time was wasted by being taken out of the house.

At the same time, due to Chang Haonan's operation, many contents were added to this agreement that did not exist in the original plan.

For example, Airbus will select some Chinese companies as suppliers of its subsystems.

In subsequent contacts with Airbus executives, the latter even stated that as long as China can provide enough orders, they can consider building the planned "Airbus Asia Final Assembly Center" in China.

If combined with Chang Haonan's idea of ​​a "large aircraft industrial park", the whole thing would be considered a commendable event in the entire 1990s.

Therefore, the levels of representatives from both sides who came to Haojing were getting higher and higher.

The previous head of the delegation was only Huai Guomo, deputy director of the Science and Technology Commission, but now even some leaders of ministries and commissions came as ordinary members.

Just like Ding Gaoheng.

Chang Haonan was enjoying his leisure time during this period, and he didn't pay any specific attention to the long list of new delegations. Therefore, when he heard someone calling his name while driving on the street after dinner one day, he couldn't even pass the sound immediately. Identify the other person’s identity.

"Director Ding?"

Chang Haonan turned around. Because his brain had just been in a state of relaxation, he hesitated for about half a second before recognizing that the man in casual clothes in front of him was Ding Gaoheng.

"What a coincidence, you also eat after meals?"

The latter's tone was relaxed, as if it was a casual chat after an encounter.

"Uh... Director Ding, do you have something to do with me?"

Chang Haonan was 100% sure that today's meeting was no accident.

Because Hou Ding Gaoheng was accompanied by another person who looked about the same age as him, but his clothes were not casual at all.

Although the identity of this person cannot be recognized, from the temperament point of view, he is a big man who has dual identities of scholar and leader.

Obviously he came prepared.

"It's true that something happened, but I'm not the only one looking for you."

Ding Gaoheng was not surprised when Chang Haonan revealed the purpose of his trip. He just turned his head slightly and introduced to the person next to him who had never spoken before:

"This is the one you've always wanted to meet, Lao Du's student, Chang Haonan."

"Hello, Comrade Xiao Chang, my name is Song Jian."

The other party came forward, took the initiative to shake hands with Chang Haonan, and said in a slightly funny tone:

"I heard your name from Director Ding and Academician Du many times before, and I always wanted to meet you. But I heard that you are a busy man. You are almost absent from the capital from the second half of last year until now, so I had to come to Haojing in person."

Song Jian might have really just been joking when he said this, but for Chang Haonan, it was not easy to accept.

But before he could speak, Ding Gaoheng next to him patted the former on the shoulder:

"Hey, Old Song, you are not being honest. I have told you several times before about Xiao Chang's return to the capital. It was obviously because you had something to do and you couldn't come to our Science and Technology Committee. How could you pass the responsibility on to this young comrade? Where is it on you?"

Ding Gaoheng and Song Jian were born in the same year and went to study in the Soviet Union at the same time. After returning to China, they both worked at the Second Branch of the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, my country's first missile research institute. They had known each other for a long time and had a good relationship. After the latter was exposed, he just waved his hands cheerfully:

"Well...it's hard for me, the director of the National Science and Technology Commission, to make a special trip to your Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense to meet with someone..."

Anyway, after exchanging pleasantries, the three of them started walking across the road together.

"Comrade Xiao Chang, I heard from Lao Ding in the past two days that it was you who came up with the idea of ​​building a large aircraft industrial park during negotiations with the European side?"

After chatting for a few words, Song Jian went straight to the topic.

"Yes, my idea is to rely on Airbus and the more orders from Party A that may be obtained in the future, to focus on developing a group of companies that have the ability, or at least the potential to become upstream suppliers in the aviation field, and pool their strength into Together, we will focus on key technologies and create a demonstration industrial cluster that can achieve large-scale effects!"

Chang Haonan nodded and directly moved out the report about a certain aviation industrial park that he remembered from his previous life.

As someone who has experienced the 2020s, even if he has never been involved in a publicity position, the Internet slang in his mind is enough to cope with some scene talk:

"On the one hand, this is to prepare some technical and industrial development for our own large aircraft manufacturing, and on the other hand, we also want to cut a piece of the big cake of civil air transportation!"

These words would not be considered pretty in future generations, but Song Jian nodded repeatedly. After all, in the 1990s, industrial clusters were still a new concept in the world:

"Exemplary industrial cluster...not bad...it is indeed a jack of all trades. It seems that if our Comrade Xiao Chang reaches the propaganda position one day, he will also be able to play a big role!"

This was originally just an unintentional emotion, but Ding Gaoheng next to him seemed to suddenly remember something:

"Don't say anything, Lao Song."

"Last year I accidentally read a commentator's article titled How to Allow the Air Force to Achieve Freedom of Intercepting Beyond Visual Range. It seems to have been inspired by Comrade Xiao Chang."

…

Regarding the matter of the Large Aircraft Industrial Park, the three of them had been talking from the roadside of Factory 172 to a conference room, and the time continued until that night.

"Comrade Xiao Chang, I am very surprised that someone can come up with such a grand and industrially guiding idea."

Song Jian, who was sitting on a sofa and holding a tea cup, sighed:

"But I never expected that the person who proposed this idea was actually you."

This sentence really made Chang Haonan a little confused:

"Director Song, where do we start with this?"

"The first time I heard your name was from Lao Ding at a high-level discussion on the development direction of the civil aviation industry."

When Song Jian said this, he took a tactical drink of water and paused:

"Old Ding's... Oh, actually, it may be that your idea seemed very radical at the time. Although it was put more euphemistically, it was essentially equivalent to overthrowing various standards accumulated from the MD82 to MD90 projects in the past ten years. Come, so there’s a lot of resistance.”

“It wasn’t until the end of last year, when McDonnell Douglas was suddenly acquired by Boeing, that the resistance it encountered finally became smaller.”

"After such a process, many people, including me, believed that you would be opposed to the plan to introduce the Airbus assembly line. But later we found out that it was you who proposed the whole thing. .”

After hearing this, Chang Haonan suddenly realized.

This is "taking sides".

It's just that because the Science and Technology Commission behind him has been smooth sailing during this period and has almost completely captured the entire aviation industry system, he has no perception of it.

After all, he is surrounded by his own people.

If Chang Haonan plans to shine in the aviation industry his whole life, there is nothing wrong with it.

But not long ago, he was still thinking about how to promote the scientific research results he has produced now and the various scientific research results derived from them to more fields.

If they were labeled without any explanation, it would be very detrimental to future plans.

"Director Song, this large aircraft industrial park is completely different from previous McDonnell Douglas cooperation projects, including Airbus's AE100 project that has no sincerity at all."

Chang Haonan knew not to express his position in a hurry at this time.

On the one hand, the Science and Technology Commission is indeed the most solid backing for him to exert his influence. In the presence of Ding Gaoheng, only a fool would choose to draw a clear line.

On the other hand, although he had no impression of Song Jian, the director of the National Science and Technology Commission, since Ding Gaoheng was able to bring him out alone to meet him, it meant that the two people should at least have the same attitude on core issues.

So he still chose to discuss the matter from a technical perspective:

"Whether it is the domestic MD90 or the AE100, a big premise is that for this model we must switch the development of the entire aviation industry, at least the civil aviation industry, to other people's tracks and become a member of other people's systems. This means We have to lose our autonomy to a considerable extent. For example, when McDonnell Douglas cooperated with us, they directly asked us to renovate the factory buildings and production lines in Shanghai, and directly wiped out everything we accumulated during the Yunnan 10 period, so don't say this If the two projects cannot be implemented, even if they can be implemented, it will be a loss-making business in the long run.”

"But this time, Airbus did not specify what we are going to do. According to the supply agreement, as long as the quality of the parts we provide meets the standards, they will agree to use them on passenger aircraft sold to our country. We and the Europeans are in a reciprocal exchange. , It’s just a business deal, and it will not damage the development of our own aviation industry, so I naturally have no objections.”

In fact, this has also been Chang Haonan’s attitude all along:

Technology itself has no origin.

In any case, there is certainly nothing wrong with moving the passenger aircraft final assembly process that was originally conducted abroad to China.

The problem lies in the fact that some people are trying to take advantage of foreign countries and take advantage of the opportunity of producing foreign models to completely strangle the independent aviation industry.

After all, China's civil aviation industry, at least for a long period of time in the future, will inevitably rely on foreign models as its main aircraft.

And even if the country’s passenger aircraft series develops in the future, it does not mean that it must use a 100% domestically produced fleet——

Although a single model has benefits such as security and convenience, it also means that risks cannot be shared, which is equivalent to putting eggs in one basket.

For example, in the previous life, after the Boeing 737MAX was grounded due to structural risks related to flight safety, companies such as Ludao Airlines that use an all-Boeing fleet were caught off guard and had to urgently purchase Airbus A320neo. To train and recruit relevant engineering and technical personnel, it is better to use both models from the beginning.

Don’t you think that airlines in the United States and Europe will also buy models produced by each other (of course there are also airlines like Alaska Airlines that are pure Boeing).

In this case, it is better to keep part of the profits in the country.

Assembling airplanes is better than making shirts and socks, right?

In the future, China will even be able to provide various subsystems and components to North American OEMs that use imperial specifications. Now, no matter what, Europeans still use metric units...

Sure enough, after hearing Chang Haonan's explanation, both Song Jian and Ding Gaoheng relaxed a lot.

"Xiao Chang, regarding this large aircraft industrial park, where do you personally think it is more suitable to place it? Shengjing? Haojing? Rongcheng? Or somewhere else?"

Ding Gaoheng changed the subject and brought the chat directly to the site selection for the industrial park.

Chang Haonan shook his head decisively:

"Considering that the messy cooperation between Hufei and McDonnell Douglas has not yet been cleared up, in order to avoid unnecessary associations among people, and of course to avoid some people who want to hide the truth and occupy the magpie's nest, I personally I believe that this industrial park should not be placed in these core cities where we have our own model layout.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Song Jian seemed to have been waiting for this answer, and almost immediately said:

"In that case, in which city does Comrade Xiao Chang think this aviation industrial park should be placed?"

This question made Chang Haonan stunned.

He looked at Ding Gaoheng next to him and found that the other person was also looking at him with very interested eyes.

He even added fuel to the fire:

"As the proposer of the entire plan, Comrade Xiao Chang, your opinion is also very important."

Chang Haonan can't be punished directly.

First of all, he really has not considered the location of the project, because from a technical perspective, it is not important, even if it is located in Tongliao.

Secondly, he never thought that the two people in front of him would ask him this question.

Because if you think about it carefully, on a non-technical level, the impact of this answer may be too great.

This is the aviation industry.

Even in the initial stage, we can only do some non-core or even sideline businesses, but that is still the aviation industry.

In the 1990s, even companies such as daily chemicals, textiles, and electronics factories were prime targets for attracting investment.

Many state-owned enterprises that are in good operating condition and can actually sustain themselves have been given away as trading chips in this process.

Various localities even have to specifically guarantee the rate of return for these investors in agreements. If the rate of return does not meet the standards, they must use finance to make up for it.

Now, a large aircraft industrial park is in front of us.

How many jobs can this thing bring, how much economy can it stimulate, how many talents can it attract, and how much consumption can these talents promote...

Chang Haonan didn't know, but there must be many.

There were so many that he didn't dare to just name a few cities casually.

Although the final decision-making power certainly does not fall to him, or even to Ding Gaoheng and Song Jian.

But the sentence just now made it almost clear that his opinions would be reflected on it.

This is no longer the era of two bombs and one satellite.

Even if Chang Haonan wanted to learn from his predecessors and remain anonymous, he would not be able to do so.

Not to mention anything else, all the honors he received outside school were listed under the Xinzhou 60 project.

The main reason is that at the beginning, no one thought that such a small twin-engine propeller regional aircraft could involve so much follow-up, so Chang Haonan himself, Du Yishan, and Ding Gaoheng all used the MA60 as their actual work The shield comes.

Therefore, this matter must be known sooner or later, at least by some people.

Naturally, there is no need to mention the importance of the four words "Shangda Tian Ting".

…

"The organization is testing me..."

Chang Haonan thought to himself as he looked at the two old foxes smiling brightly in front of him.