The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 823 They are all competitors
"Now, Dassault is our competitor!"

Huang Yi pointed at the Dassault aircraft and said.

"To be precise, it is the French fighters, as well as all European and American fighters, that are our competitors!" Yang Ming corrected, "But I have confidence in our aircraft, and our aircraft will definitely be favored by the market!"

Compared with aircraft of the same performance in Europe and the United States, China's aircraft are really cost-effective.

For example, China's second-generation aircraft are priced at less than half of those of European and American aircraft.

This has great appeal to third world countries.

The vast majority of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America are poor and weak. They simply do not have enough money to buy expensive advanced fighter jets from Europe and the United States. What they want is to buy what they want with the least amount of money.

The target customer group of the Chinese delegation to the exhibition is not European and American countries, but the vast Asian, African and Latin American countries.

This has invisibly created a competitive relationship with all European and American countries.

Huang Yi and Yang Ming walked around the venue and interacted with their peers.

They don't speak English or French, but there are translators to help them translate.

Finally, the time came for the opening ceremony of the Farnborough Air Show.

Many important British figures came to attend the opening ceremony, making it a very grand occasion.

The air show was extremely lively.

Europe's aviation industry is very developed, and that has a foundation, which is the large number of aviation enthusiasts.

Add to that aviation enthusiasts, military fans and tourists coming from all over the world, and the venue will be packed.

The most important thing for everyone to come here is to be able to see those world-famous fighter planes and watch the wonderful flight shows.

Air show and flight performance are the most attractive!

As for some air shows, they are called air shows, but in fact they should be called model shows.

The audience poured in in large numbers, and everywhere from the venue to the outdoor exhibition area was packed with spectators.

The Farnborough Air Show attracted tens of thousands of people.

Of course, if it is held indoors, you can only see models, promotional videos, and some missile weapons.

As for airplanes and other items, they are all on display in the outdoor area.

Huaxia's booth also welcomed many visitors.

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Delegations from many countries came to consult.

Obviously, this piqued their interest.

The staff is very enthusiastic to introduce the service to those who come for consultation.

Here, there are mainly some video materials of various types of aircraft, as well as brochures.

There is a computer in front of each aircraft, which is used to play video materials, and there are also some brochures.

Some of the staff can speak English, some can speak French, some can speak Spanish, Italian and Arabic.

Since the reform and opening up, with the country's increasing investment in education and the annual dispatch of overseas students at public expense, a group of talents have been trained, and there is no longer as much talent shortage as it was ten years ago.

Of course, it would be impossible to reach a purchase agreement today.

Because buying a fighter jet is not like buying cabbage in the market, where you can decide to buy it after just one look. When buying an airplane, you can't just buy one, and a small purchase will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. So even if a country is interested in a certain Chinese airplane, it will definitely make a decision after a comprehensive inspection.

But whenever they compare prices from different manufacturers, they will find that China's fighter jets have the best price/performance ratio.

The third brother looked at it and showed a look of pain.

Logically speaking, for India, which is currently short of funds, the best thing to buy is Chinese aircraft.

However, after looking at its own situation and the root cause, it does not allow India to buy Chinese aircraft.

Otherwise, they would be drowned in saliva.

What makes the third brother most painful is that the Chinese people get almost no kickbacks.

In this regard, it is far inferior to France.

The situation of Sri Lanka is not very good now. Since the India-Pakistan conflict broke out and Sri Lanka was defeated, Sri Lanka has fallen into a big dilemma.

There are enemy countries all around. Although there has been no war in recent years, small conflicts on the border have never stopped.

The long border of up to 5000 kilometers requires India to maintain an army of over one million to maintain border security. Although the Soviet Union also provided aid to India, with the outbreak of the Gulf War, oil prices were suppressed, Soviet oil revenues dropped sharply, and the landlords had no surplus food, so they reduced their aid to India.

The third brother’s life became difficult.

It is no exaggeration to say that there are internal and external troubles.

Looking at my former neighbors in the north, who are living a prosperous life, it is impossible not to feel jealous.

Obviously, China had a much better starting point than its northern neighbor, but in less than half a century, the situations of the two sides have become worlds apart.

Third brother is not the only one with complicated thoughts.

People in Japan and South Korea are also very complicated.

Japan rushed to establish diplomatic relations with China before the United States did. Japan was also very eyeing the Chinese market. After all, China has the largest population in the world.

But Japan did not expect that China's development would be so rapid.

That does not mean developing low-end manufacturing first, then developing mid-end manufacturing, and finally developing high-end manufacturing.

After China's reform and opening up, low-, medium- and high-end manufacturing industries developed together, and the development was very rapid.

Originally, Japan thought that it was about to open up the Chinese automobile market, but the Chinese Automobile Group suddenly emerged and firmly occupied the market with its excellent performance and suitability for Chinese people. Japanese cars are imported cars and have tariffs, which makes it even more difficult for them to compete with the Chinese Automobile Group without cost-effectiveness. Chinese Automobile even exports cars to compete with Japanese car companies.

China Motorcycle Group has defeated Japanese motorcycle groups to become the world's largest motorcycle company. In the competition in overseas markets, Japanese motorcycles did not gain any advantage and lost a large market share.

Japan has not exported many machine tools to China. Instead, Chinese machine tools are going global and seizing market share from Japanese machine tool companies.

Not to mention Kinglong Computer, which is currently the best-selling computer brand in the Japanese computer market.

In the field of aerospace, Japan is severely restricted by the Americans in this regard.

Coupled with the bursting of the Japanese stock and property bubbles, the Japanese economy was hit hard. Although its GDP is still ranked second in the world, only the Japanese can feel that life is not easy.

The Japanese even discovered that the market share of the shipbuilding industry, which they had long dominated, was constantly being lost to China.

If this continues, it won't be many years before China's shipbuilding industry surpasses Japan and leaves the Japanese shipbuilding industry far behind.

The wages of Chinese workers are far lower than those of Japanese workers. In terms of cost-effectiveness, China has a great advantage.

Even Japanese companies have to set up factories in China in order to develop, reduce costs and improve their competitiveness.

(End of this chapter)