Reborn: Billionaire in College

In comparison, Chen Pingjiang's advantage over Minister Ma may simply be that he knows how aerospace technology will develop in the future.

Although Minister Ma has just completed the launch of the Falcon 9, he is still working on the rocket recovery project. Even he himself does not dare to say that this path is % correct.

But Chen Pingjiang knew that this was feasible.

In 2024, domestic private aerospace has made certain progress. Rockets with various names such as "Suzaku-", "Ceres-", and "Hyperbola-" have been launched into space one after another, but there is still a long way to go to catch up with its predecessor SpaceX.

Chen Pingjiang will undoubtedly move forward as quickly as possible to shorten the technological gap with SpaceX.

The aerospace industry is a long-term, high-risk, high-investment adventure. Even if it is put into ten years, domestic commercial aerospace companies have their own development ideas and technologies, and it is far from the time when the superiority is obvious.

The dispute over routes is particularly critical in the field of space travel.

Solid vs. liquid: which satellite should be developed first, high-orbit or low-orbit?

These problems will plague the start-up of a new company.

Commercial aerospace is still in its infancy before it achieves a closed commercial loop and matures its products, which requires Chen Pingjiang to continue to spend money to fill this bottomless pit.

Chen Pingjiang has plenty of money, so it doesn't matter if he can spend some money to get things done.

I’m afraid that even if I spend money, it won’t make any splash.

Chen Pingjiang smiled bitterly: "My current knowledge of aerospace projects is only that of a three or five-year-old child, but I have to be a good leader. It's really difficult for me."

The last project he led, about which he knew nothing, was a wafer fab.

But the wafer factory was different. Although he knew nothing, he had found two old men, Liang and Zhang, and the market was mature.

But who to look for this time?
With this question, Chen Pingjiang couldn't sleep well all night.

In his dream, he dreamed that he was wearing a space suit and went to the moon to inspect the lunar branch...

The next day, Chen Pingjiang got up early, but still felt groggy and unwell.

I had a lot of absurd and weird dreams last night and couldn't get into a deep sleep at all.

"Mr. Chen, are you up?"

While Chen Pingjiang was washing up, there was a knock on the door accompanied by Xu Rui's voice.

After Chen Pingjiang opened the door, he turned back and continued brushing his teeth.

Following Xu Rui, two waiters pushed a food cart into the suite.

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Three days later at ten o'clock in the morning, Chen Pingjiang's special car arrived at Rocket Street in Yizhuang, Beijing, which is Ronghua South Road.

Of course, Rocket Street is a later name, because the rocket companies that were established later all placed their headquarters in this area.

Dongda’s aerospace has always followed the rule of “Southern Arrow to Northern Star”.

State-owned satellite institutions are located in the north of the capital, while rocket institutions such as the Launch Vehicle Technology Research Institute are located in the Donggaodi Street area in the south of the city.

Yizhuang is only 6 kilometers away from the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, making it easier to poach talent from within the system.

Therefore, everyone unanimously placed their headquarters here.

Chen Pingjiang came here today to meet two people.

In the past three days, Chen Pingjiang has visited all the departments in charge and finally got the "imperial sword" after a lot of effort, and obtained the approval of some leaders.

Apart from meeting people, Chen Pingjiang spent the rest of his time writing and painting in the hotel, not going anywhere. In order to develop commercial aerospace, Chen Pingjiang inevitably had to poach talents from the national team. Now that he had the approval of his leaders, he no longer had to worry about what he was doing.

Several research institutes around Yizhuang were Chen Pingjiang’s first target.

Because it’s readily available!
If you recruit people from universities, you have to train them and provide them with a platform, which is not only troublesome but also costly. However, the people poached from state-owned enterprises are already trained. It is very cost-effective for private enterprises to do this, saving a lot of costs, and the poached people can directly win the project.

As for whether it would succeed, Chen Pingjiang was not worried at all. He felt that as long as he personally took action, it would be a sure thing.

In terms of remuneration alone, what Chen Pingjiang offers far exceeds what these talents' original units received.

State-owned aerospace units do not have a project-based profit sharing system. They all share the same pot. If a project earns 100 million yuan, and there are 10 members on the project team, each person will receive 10 yuan. Of course, this is not allowed by national policy. On this basis, a difference is that the excellent people get more, and the inferior ones get less. The gap will not be too big. They will not give a lot of money to the subordinates just because they have made a big project and made a lot of profit.

But private enterprises have no such concerns.

After Chen Pingjiang found a coffee shop on Ronghua South Road and sat down, he quietly read some information while waiting for someone.

About ten minutes later, the wind chimes at the door of the cafe vibrated. Looking up, two middle-aged men dressed elegantly walked in.

As soon as they entered the coffee shop, the two men looked around and saw Chen Pingjiang waving at them. They hesitated for a moment before walking over.

The main reason is that Chen Pingjiang and his group are too eye-catching.

In addition to Chen Pingjiang, there were several young men in suits and ties at the table next to him, and it was obvious that they were not simple men.

The middle-aged man with glasses at the head was a little surprised when he saw Chen Pingjiang. "Mr. Chen Pingjiang? Lao Li said he would introduce two people to me. I didn't expect it to be you. Is Lao Li not here yet?"

Old Li was the secretary of the leader of the China National Space Administration, and it was he who introduced Peng Xiaobo and He Guanghui.

When Chen Pingjiang heard the names of these two people, he felt that they sounded familiar. Now looking at them, isn’t this a coincidence?
Weren’t these two people the famous Chairman and CEO of Star Glory later on?

"Engineer Peng and Engineer He, please sit down first. Would you like some coffee? Director Li had a meeting in the morning and couldn't make it, so I came here by myself." Chen Pingjiang smiled and waved to Xu Rui beside him, indicating Xu Rui to order coffee.

Peng and He did not dare to be arrogant in front of Chen Pingjiang, and waved their hands repeatedly: "No, I just drank tea when I got to the office this morning, and I'm not thirsty now. I wonder if Mr. Chen has anything to talk to us about?"

Peng Xiaobo and He Guanghui looked at each other and saw a flash of light in each other's eyes.

We are not fools. Considering the previous notice below GWY and Chen Pingjiang's identity, the purpose is obvious.

If Chen Pingjiang was not interested in commercial spaceflight, why would he come to Yizhuang to find them?
Even so, they were flattered.

After the country announced that it would allow private capital to participate in the aerospace industry, Peng Xiaobo and his colleague He Guanghui were both optimistic about this emerging "industry", but although they were excited, they could not bear to leave the jobs they had held for twenty years.

Chen Pingjiang smiled and said, "We are all smart people. Let's be frank. Are you interested in switching jobs and contributing to the development of my country's aerospace industry from another perspective?"

Be straightforward and don't drag your feet.

He now has many people to choose from, and Peng Xiaobo may not be the final candidate.

I thought I would just go through the motions and say some polite words, but after hearing Chen Pingjiang's directness, Peng Xiaobo thought for a moment before saying, "It would be a lie to say I'm not moved. To be honest, Lao He and I have also talked about this, but we've been thinking about two issues recently."

"First, will this policy be reversed? If we leave the system and rely on social forces, do we have the production capacity to build rockets?"

After hearing the question, Chen Pingjiang nodded and smiled.

Sure enough, there was a reason why these two people later changed jobs and started their own businesses.

According to normal trajectory, Peng Xiaobo and He Guanghui would resign in 2016 and start their own business, founding Star Glory on this street.

Even in 2024, Interstellar Glory will still be one of the top three domestic commercial aerospace companies. Its most famous product is naturally the "Hyperbola Rocket", among which the "Hyperbola-" created the record of the first successful orbital entry of a private commercial aerospace company in my country. (End of this chapter)