Reborn: Billionaire in College

After returning to the hotel, Chen Pingjiang fell into deep thought while leaning against the head of the bed and smoking, remembering what the leader said before leaving the dinner.

"The commercial aerospace industry is definitely a commercial industry."

"If the space agency is still allowed to invest a lot of resources, then why would it let you do it? Just hand it over to the state-owned assets department."

"It is because the space agencies of various countries organize, set goals, allocate funds, find suppliers, produce, assemble and launch. This traditional aerospace model has many disadvantages. With the example of SpaceX, countries want to take a new approach."

"There is only so much funding each year, and scientific research is limited. The entire industry chain would have starved to death with this little money. Secondly, the output is very limited, and it is impossible to complete product iteration and more testing. Without mass production, the cost is ridiculously high. I hope Xiao Chen can find a different path for us aerospace people."

The leader's words gave Chen Pingjiang a great shock.

In the era of the stars and the sea, traditional aerospace, which is only led by the government, cannot compete with commercial aerospace of private enterprises in many dimensions. However, traditional aerospace must be better at exploring the frontier, because private enterprises are unwilling to do it because of the low short-term returns.

Chen Pingjiang is rich and ambitious, and is willing to be the first to try something new.

only……

The document has been issued now, but it only opens a loophole and there is no other support.

Just like what the leader said, don’t even think about funds, orders, technology, and personnel.

Due to different national conditions, the paths that Chen Pingjiang and Minister Ma will take are naturally different.

NASA has been weak in recent years, and just when SpaceX was rising, it just happened to give the order to SpaceX.

But China's space industry has made quite a splash. With the successful launch of the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft in the middle of last year, the Chinese space station is now just around the corner.

Although Chen Pingjiang had no plans to build a cargo spacecraft, he still had to have goods delivered to him.

"The main focus is on studying how to reduce the cost of space launches, such as reusable rockets and small satellites, and doing a good job of assisting the national team to expand the research direction of the domestic aerospace field. The domestic version of Starlink should also be the only one."

"Once we have developed enough, we will take on some space missions and research missions."

Ultimately, the aerospace market is still too small. From a national perspective, the demand is not urgent and it is not worth investing heavily in.

Moreover, there are currently few countries in the world that invest heavily in this thing.

Compared with the frequent actions of the country to establish chip funds, there is almost no support for aerospace in China.

This is not wrong, on the contrary it is correct.

From a personal perspective, or even a corporate perspective, aerospace is indeed a hot spot and a blue ocean market, but the industry with the greatest demand and the fastest growth in today's human society is not aerospace, but the electronic information industry.

How many giants has the electronic information industry nurtured since its birth? Just to name a few, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Google, Apple, Qualcomm, Huawei, these are just the ones that can be thought of in the short term, and there are many more companies besides.

And what about aerospace?

SpaceX alone can take up 90% of the global market.

Once Chen Pingjiang gets involved in private aerospace, he will be in real competition with SpaceX.

To put it bluntly, the electronic information industry can penetrate into every corner of human society, but aerospace cannot do so, at least not in the next fifty years.

It's very simple. Everyone needs electronic products and information services, but it is impossible for everyone to have their own satellite, and it is impossible for everyone to regard space tourism as a normal consumption, because the cost of space travel can never be this low.

After all, there are still many poor people in this world.

Doing business only for the rich can allow a company to live comfortably enough, but the industries that can profoundly change human society are always those that serve the majority of people.

This is why almost all emerging giant companies in modern society are engaged in consumer business.

Because a very counterintuitive fact is that it is easier to make money from poor people than from rich people.

Chen Pingjiang never thought that the aerospace industry could be compared with the electronic information industry. This track is destined to be lonely and long.

DJI can still create a drone consumer market through its own independence, but it is really impossible in the aerospace sector.

Perhaps when the electronic information industry is saturated in the future and new growth points are needed, and science and technology are also changing with each passing day, it will be time for aerospace to make efforts. Before that, what Chen Pingjiang needs to do is not to fall behind. At this time, after all, there are more important things to do.

After deciding on the development path, Chen Pingjiang laughed easily. I don't know if Lao Ma would be offended after knowing this.

Because Chen Pingjiang's plan is to completely destroy SpaceX by developing low-cost recyclable technology.

Of course, this does not mean that there is no potential for development in domestic private aerospace. In fact, there are still many things that can be done.

Even though the national team is the best, it does not mean that it can meet all the basic scientific research and product application needs in the country.

On the contrary, sometimes the needs of the country and the public for aerospace are two different things. Whose needs should the national team prioritize when it has limited energy? In addition, even the national team often needs assistance from enterprises and universities.

If you let the space agency carry out commercial launches and send rich people into space for a spin or for tourism, the spit of the people across the country will drown them.

But Chen Pingjiang had no burden in doing it.

Chen Pingjiang felt a little overwhelmed about how to get this new company started.

This is different from other industries, the boundaries of talent are very clear.

There are only people outside the circle and people inside the circle. People inside the circle are all trained by major universities and sent to the country. It is not easy for Chen Pingjiang to poach people directly.

"It seems that I still need to find someone, otherwise I won't be able to get started." Fortunately, Chen Pingjiang had done his homework before and had some people's contact information.

Before that, Chen Pingjiang felt that he should still say hello to avoid making things look awkward.

Since the government has already made a breakthrough, the problem won't be that big.

The SpaceX+NASA model is so successful and has such a great demonstration effect.

A country as pragmatic as the University of Tokyo will surely learn from it and reach new heights in this field.

Chen Pingjiang can solve the financial issue himself, but he has to find some talented people for me, right?

Given his status, it is difficult for him to do anything too sensitive, and it is even more impossible for him to poach Zhang Xiaoping like some private enterprises did in his previous life, which was exposed by the self-media and caused an uproar.

In the previous life, Blue Arrow Aerospace poached Zhang Xiaoping, deputy chief designer of the XX Aerospace Propulsion Institute, and labeled him as "to some extent affecting the demonstration and planning of my country's major strategic plan for manned lunar landing". It caused a lot of uproar and was even on the hot search.

The article also implied that he resigned due to low salary and lack of attention, but after joining a private aerospace company, he was offered an annual salary of one million. It directly pointed out the inefficiency of the talent mechanism of state-owned enterprise research institutes, and criticized the problems with the talent incentive mechanism within state-owned aerospace enterprises, which led to the resignation of "indispensable" technical backbones.

A whole day after the incident of Zhang Xiaoping's resignation fermented, the XX Aerospace Propulsion Institute issued a statement saying that "Zhang Xiaoping is an important national confidential personnel. According to the confidentiality law and relevant regulations of the unit, he must be declassified in a non-confidential position within the institute before leaving."

This kind of thing is easy for other private aerospace companies to do, but it is not easy for Chen Pingjiang.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to ask for people in a high-profile manner.

After all, since the beginning of military-civilian integration, personnel loss in state-owned enterprises is inevitable.

These talents have been trained almost completely in state-owned enterprises and have mastered certain technologies, platforms and resources. If they leave, they can get higher salaries and can get started quickly and have projects to work on.

In that case, who wants to be trapped?

In fact, in the following years, the loss of talent in aerospace state-owned enterprises was indeed quite serious, and it was mainly concentrated in the middle-aged and young backbone groups under the age of 35. Among them, the loss of young and middle-aged backbones in the process and skilled talent teams was particularly prominent.

Even if Chen Pingjiang doesn't want them, other companies will, and these talents will eventually flow overseas.

The salary gap is one of the very important reasons why the above-mentioned people change jobs.

Chen Pingjiang clearly remembers that article saying, "In a certain aerospace-related institute, more than 20 people left one division last year. All of them went to private enterprises, where their salaries doubled or tripled. The average salary of a chief engineer of a small project in a state-owned enterprise is about 30 to 50 yuan. If he moves to a private enterprise, he can get at least to yuan. It is not uncommon for a deputy chief engineer to earn more than yuan in a state-owned enterprise and earn millions of yuan in a private enterprise."

Thinking of this, Chen Pingjiang plans to meet with the leader of the Space Administration tomorrow to feel out the situation.

This move is an open and aboveboard strategy. As long as it can attract people, they will at least be high-level talents.

This type of talent is usually involved in confidential information, so even if they want to resign, it will take several years just to declassify it.

Time is the most precious thing. (End of this chapter)