Smart Industrial Empire

Only exporting to the Chinese, Chinese people who are afraid of trouble will not engage in independent research and development.

Everyone knows this truth, but not many people can do it.It's not that these people don't want to make money from China's domestic market, but that the Chinese people's copycat capabilities are too strong.Once a lot of things are in the hands of the Chinese, it won't take long for the Chinese to figure them out...

"Airplanes are not ordinary equipment. They can only be manufactured by relying on the entire national industrial system. Although the Chinese have a complete industrial system, they have been unable to invest more money in it because of their institutional problems. Carry out independent research and development. But the situation is different now, it is not their country that China wants to build large aircraft, but private investors..." Enfit sees these things more clearly than anyone else.

The more we stop the Chinese, the more likely Chinese talents will be able to develop these technologies themselves.

The Chinese are the smartest people in the world, but they are also the most troublesome people in the world.Perhaps it is their nature, so when there is no external pressure, most of the Chinese people's energy is put on internal fighting.

"That's true. This time, we just banned the export of engines to China's Xianglong Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing Company. In order to prevent the Chinese from engaging in this project, I submitted a report to our group company on the establishment of a joint venture specifically for the Chinese market. A joint venture, to cooperate with the Chinese government to produce the large passenger aircraft they need..." Jon's words surprised Enfit.

It's no wonder that when the company's board of directors sent him to the United States, he also asked the company's vice president, Portia Kelund, to come here as well.

Although the competition between the two sides is fierce.But the interests in China are absolutely the same.

"Will the Chinese agree to this cooperation plan?" In just a moment, Enfit smiled, and there was a stronger sense of ridicule in this smile.

After all, civil aviation airliners are not those top-level strategic equipment. Although aircraft are very important to modern national defense security, transport aircraft are not bombers after all.But there are many technologies that are common.

If China can produce large passenger aircraft, it can use these technologies to produce strategic bombers.

The Chinese will never foolishly agree to their cooperation plan. This plan is nothing but wishful thinking of the Americans.

They were fooled by the Americans once.From China's reform and opening up in the 80s to the present.The Chinese have paid tens of billions of dollars to purchase foreign civil aviation airliners, but they can only assemble McDonnell Douglas aircraft, and at the same time produce some parts of Boeing aircraft such as aircraft tails and fairings.

Now is the critical period of the regime change of the Chinese government. Can those guys whose status is not stable in their country have the courage to do this for personal benefit?

"If there is no cooperation, can they have aircraft? The Chinese have always hoped to take the imported technology. Then make it domestically. Finally, the road of independent innovation. After all, for them, this is the most cost-effective thing..." Jon think.The Chinese will definitely cooperate with them.

Before that, he also had contact with some officials in China. These officials did not want the young private boss in their country to engage in this project, and Jon knew it very well.

What's more, in the area of ​​independent research and development, tens of billions of dollars are poured into it, and it may not be possible to see a splash.

Enfit disagreed with Jon's self-confidence.He is a Frenchman. Napoleon, their most powerful emperor, once said that China is a sleeping lion. Once she wakes up, the whole world will tremble.

Because of Boeing's manipulation of the Chinese market, the Chinese have now launched their own large aircraft project.And the [-]-ton large press supporting this project is the most powerful super-heavy equipment on the entire planet!

As long as the Chinese make a lot of publicity, there will often be no results in the end.

But this time the Chinese engaged in the [-]-ton large press project, but did not make any publicity at all, which shows that the Chinese care about this project far beyond the imagination of the outside world.More importantly, this project is not led by the Chinese government, but jointly developed by China's Jiuyi Heavy Industry, China Second Heavy Industry Group and China North Heavy Industry Group.

Jiuyi Heavy Industry Group, which has no technology in this regard, contributed money, and two huge heavy industry groups in China contributed technology and production strength.

This project is a supporting project for China's large aircraft project.

Yunfei, a private owner, has already started working on this project. Although the Chinese government has not given great support, but there are two huge state-owned factories involved in this matter, so it is not a joke...

"The Chinese will never agree to such a cooperation request. Moreover, we have to be the controlling shareholder. They only occupy a small part of the equity. When McDonnell Douglas came to the company, the Chinese were already deeply wary..." For Boeing's proposal, Airbus feels that it is not reliable.

However, the huge market opportunity contained here still makes Airbus very jealous.

For a long time, Boeing has laid various foundations because McDonnell Douglas has been in China for ten years, and most of the Chinese market is dominated by Boeing.This time, Boeing proposed that the market profits be shared equally by them.

This has to make Airbus, which has not gained much market share in China, tempted.

But Portia has a lot of views on this method.The Chinese are not fools, and it is impossible for them to be fooled by the Americans once and fall for the same trick a second time.Especially at this time, the Chinese themselves have started research on large aircraft projects.

Costolo shook his head, "Their government has no intention of engaging in this project that requires continuous investment. After all, they have no foundation, and everything has to start from the most basic place..."

"Didn't they make big planes before? Besides, they have been producing and assembling McDonnell Douglas' big planes these years, so it wouldn't require too much investment, right?" Portia didn't know much about the situation in China. It is believed that the Chinese have these basic production capabilities.

After all, the Chinese Yun-300 project was carried out at the same time as their a300. The a200 spent more than 150 billion US dollars in total, while the Chinese Yun-[-] project has gone through more than [-] hours of flight tests. The total funds spent are less than [-] million soft sister coins.

How the Chinese came up with this project with such little research funding, no one knows except the Chinese themselves.

If the cost can be controlled like the Chinese, the profit of Airbus can definitely be doubled several times.In this way, more research and development funds will be invested in the research of new aircraft, and it is not difficult to surpass Boeing in the field of civil aviation airliners.

"Assembling McDonnell Douglas's aircraft means that it has production capacity? Can the various tests required to develop a new aircraft be consistent with the equipment and testing equipment required to assemble a finished aircraft?" Costolo said with a smile.

McDonnell's plan back then was completely successful.

At least, most of the various test workshops established by the Chinese were abolished, and most of the parts of the two Yun-[-] aircraft in stock in the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Plant were used by McDonnell Douglas technicians to train Chinese The workers practiced the riveting technique with rivet guns.

If China wants to build large aircraft again, most of the equipment will have to be upgraded, and many experimental workshops will have to restart design and production.

After all, many of the equipment of the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory are designed in the 70s, which simply cannot adapt to modern aircraft manufacturing and testing.

"Portia, this matter is completely in our interests. In the Chinese market, our interests are shared equally. For markets outside of China, it depends on the market's choice..." Costolo very much hoped to facilitate this cooperation.

This plan was planned by Jon Carson in order to prevent Boeing from gaining a larger market share in the Chinese market.

Boeing is involved in too many businesses. Although it is the world's number one aircraft manufacturer, it is far from being able to devote all its resources to the research of new aircraft like Airbus, a professional company that only conducts civil aviation aircraft. .

For Costello's proposal, Portia did not express his opinion.

"Enfitt, what do you think about this matter?" Enfitt's ability is obvious to all Airbus companies. Airbus has grabbed a lot of orders from Boeing in recent years, not only because of their excellent technology , but also because of the efforts of the business department.

No matter how good a product is, it needs to be sold before it can be called a commodity.

However, Boeing and Airbus aircraft are basically indistinguishable technically, and market competition often has all aspects of strength, not just because of technology.

Over the years, Boeing has been increasing its research on the Chinese market. Once it opens up the Chinese market, it is very likely to gain more market share than Boeing.

"In the past two years, we withdrew from the Chinese market. Although it had a lot to do with international relations, it was mainly because of Boeing's tricks. If we cooperate with them, let's not talk about whether China will accept the cooperation agreement under the pressure of both of us, but We are the ones who suffer the most. In the European and American markets, the competition between us is becoming more and more fierce. Whoever can get more Chinese market will be able to get more research funding..." Enfit is not optimistic about this cooperation .

"Moreover, even if the Chinese develop a large aircraft project by themselves, it will take at least ten years from the establishment of the project until the aircraft enters the market after various tests. Moreover, it is absolutely impossible for the Chinese to produce [-] seats within these ten years. The capacity of the above airliner, this is our market opportunity..." Enfit said very clearly. (To be continued..)