Chapter 724: COMAC Mission
As an important investor in COMAC, the Ministry of Aviation Engineering still has a lot of say in personnel work. In addition to Chang Chang www.biquge.info, the general manager who is acceptable to all parties, Li Xu, the deputy general manager of the aerospace system, is also an important figure that cannot be underestimated.
In addition to re-establishing the Ministry of Aviation as the leader of China's commercial aircraft market, he also has another important mission.
Hu Wenhai's interest in aviation is well known, but in the past few years, the aviation industry has not benefited much. Compared with the China Shipbuilding Corporation and the Ministry of Railways, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Ministry of Navigation Industry is floating in the hearts of the people.
This situation caused a lot of dissatisfaction within the Ministry of Aviation Engineering, which in turn led to the early birth of COMAC. Using the entire commercial aircraft industry as a sacrifice, the Ministry of Aviation Industry finally cleared all obstacles and got the opportunity to cooperate with Hu Wenhai.
As the new deputy general manager of COMAC and the former assistant minister of the Aviation Industry Department, Li Xu obviously has considerable convenience in contacting Hu Wenhai.
The current shareholding structure of COMAC is that the Magic City Government uses Shanghai Airlines as an investment, and the Ministry of Aviation Industry uses part of the resources of Xifei as the price, and the new technology group holds McDonnell Douglas in its hands, which is even more impossible to ignore.
After careful contact and trial by the three parties, the final result was that Modu City Government occupied 27% of the shares of COMAC, which included the land and buildings of the COMAC assembly base to be built together with McDonnell Douglas Asia Delivery Center, as well as all the assets and technology, talents and other resources that Shanghai Aircraft had previously mastered.
Just the "unlimited" land supply promised by the Modu side south of Pudong Airport, as well as the planning and construction of transportation and logistics, and the welfare policies such as housing, household registration, and family work for the staff of Modu, the 27% stake is already quite restrained.
Needless to say, just solving the problem of the magic capital household registration and family work means that the attraction of the new COMAC to the national aviation technical talents will form a great competitive advantage. After all, compared with the location of other domestic aircraft manufacturing enterprises, the account of the magic capital is too expensive.
The only imperial capital that can compete with the magic capital, but unfortunately there are no decent aircraft manufacturing enterprises. Even graduates of Beihang University who want to engage in the commercial aircraft manufacturing industry can only choose between West, Shaanxi and Commercial Aviation.
Compared with Xifei and Shaanxi, which are located inland, the living environment of the magic capital is too superior. Don't look at just the change of living environment, which often determines the flow of talents. If you look at the changes in a company at the level of a decade, it will end up making a huge difference.
The influence of the Ministry of Aviation Industry should not be underestimated, and the technology and talent advantages of Xifei and other aviation manufacturing enterprises in the country are transferred to build aircraft carriers for domestic commercial aircraft, which is unimaginable without the support of the Ministry of Aviation Industry.
After the establishment of COMAC, the Ministry of Aviation Industry transferred a considerable number of technical personnel from all over the country, and organized and selected a very powerful scientific research team from scientific research institutes across the country to enrich the Modu Aircraft Design and Research Institute of COMAC.
At this point, COMAC can be said to have the foundation for thriving growth, and make up for the congenital poor technical ability of Shangfei.
In addition, the national layout ability of the Ministry of Aviation Engineering is even more impossible to ignore. At the same time as the establishment of COMAC, there are also a series of aviation industry base plans.
For example, Guihang was instructed to allocate considerable resources and began to prepare for the establishment of an aviation industry standard parts company, which is used to overcome the production and research and development of a large number of standard parts, fasteners and small parts in commercial aircraft.
The integrated technology company established by Chengfei will be responsible for the design, development and manufacturing of tooling and tooling in commercial aircraft, as well as the production of integrated numerical control, instrumentation and other related avionics and control systems.
The establishment and joining of AVIC Precision Machinery, AVIC Optoelectronics, AVIC Electronics, Tianma Microelectronics and other enterprises is the key to the real Chinese origin of domestic large aircraft.
It can be said that the importance of the aviation engineering department has incomparable irreplaceability in building the key strategy of the whole industry chain and upstream and downstream management. With such a huge investment, the aviation engineering department has a 33% stake in COMAC.
The remaining 40% of the shares nominally belong to Xinfei Aviation Industry Co., Ltd., which is an aviation enterprise jointly funded by ST Group and Xifei, and shoulders the important mission of blood transfusion for the Tomcat localization project undertaken by Xifei.
It stands to reason that under the cooperation between the Modu Government and the Ministry of Aviation Industry, the level of COMAC is no longer suitable for Xifei to join. On the investor side, as a subsidiary of the Aviation Industry Department, how can a subsidiary become a parallel partner with the parent company?
Therefore, in the first version of the joint venture, the original plan was that COMAC had only three major funders. The Magic City Government, the Ministry of Aviation Industry and the ST Group only need to consider how to distribute their respective shares. However, Hu Wenhai's reaction to this was quite fierce, even to the point that if there was no Xifei among the joint venture partners, he would declare that he would never invest.
The localization of pandas has been the lifeblood of Mr. Hu from beginning to end. This is no longer just a matter of hobbies, but a landmark business card of great significance to Xinke and Hu Wenhai himself.
On the surface, the localization of the F-14 is a military project of the military industrial system, and it has nothing to do with the "masses" Hu Wenhai.
However, everyone knows that the F-14 entry into China is promoted by Hu Wenhai, the localization of the Tomcat is carried out by Hu Wenhai secretly conveying interests, the production tasks undertaken by Xifei, the 100,000-ton hydraulic press under development, and the Air Force contracting TF41 engine upgrade business all over the world, all of which have Hu Wenhai's shadow, and even some of them are simply Xinke shirtless.
When the panda can soar above China's sea and sky, it is the time for Hu Wenhai to get rid of his current embarrassing status as a half-official and half-businessman, and it is the most important cornerstone for Hu Wenhai to establish an unshakable position in China.
Hindering the localization process of pandas is to hinder Mr. Hu from obtaining the original shares of the "party" state, which is absolutely intolerable.
Even in the face of the Ministry of Aviation Industry, even if he risked flipping the table, Hu Wenhai could not back down on this issue.
In this situation, the Ministry of Aviation Industry decisively and quickly came up with a compromise plan. That is, the investor changed from ST Group to SFC Aviation Industry Company. In the end, after adjusting the shareholding structure, Xinfei became the third investor of COMAC.
After adjusting the shareholding structure, Xinfei's shares became 51% of Xinke Group and 49% of Xifei. As for the poor MBB once again became a stepping stone, it was simply swept away. With McDonnell Douglas, who still looks up to MBB?
MPC75, of course, is not as reassuring as MD90 to see and touch.
COMAC's immediate task is to complete the design and production of the MA600 and obtain domestic and international airworthiness certificates. With the full cooperation of Grumman-MacDonald Douglas, the MD90 technology was fully understood and a large proportion of localization was realized. As for the long-term goal, Hu Wenhai rarely mentions it, but in his heart, he has such ambitions.
China's commercial aircraft production system should fully align with the design capabilities of the U.S. aviation industry, and completely overwhelm the living space of the U.S. industrial chain in terms of cost, and there is no obvious gap in quality. In the end, the goal to be achieved is to have the United States to design, China to provide OEM to realize, and finally OEM to the world.
This is Mr. Hu's biggest reliance on controlling Gemai Company, not the so-called shares that can't see the light of day at all. This is by no means Hu Wenhai's wishful thinking, but a real case that has happened countless times in other industries in the future. It may be difficult to "convince" the Americans to give up their aviation production capacity, but he believes that this will be an inevitable choice for the development of history.
The Americans may not want to give up their aviation industry capability, but in the face of the laws of history, what is the role of people's subjective thinking? The Americans and Europeans may not want to give up their own nuclear industry capability, but who else has mastered the production capacity of the fourth-generation nuclear power plant, except for the China National Nuclear Power Plant?
"Lafayette, foreigners are coming to build a nuclear power plant for us!", ordinary people may laugh when they hear it, but the meaning behind this is evocative. As long as China follows its own path, it will often leave others with no way out.
The future of the fourth-generation reactor is not that Europe and the United States do not want to build it, but it can come up with a design plan, but the embarrassment is that no country in the world can build it except for China Nuclear Power. Such an embarrassing situation, Hu Wenhai believes that sooner or later it will also happen in the field of aviation manufacturing.
The establishment of COMAC is by no means an isolated event, it has a strong ability to disrupt the domestic aviation manufacturing industry.
No, with the establishment of COMAC, another project that Hu Wenhai has been promoting has also ushered in the dawn.
Taking advantage of the fact that Hu Wenhai had not been driven back to the underground of the imperial capital Xishan for the time being, a large number of heads of the Ministry of Aviation Engineering gathered towards the demon capital. With Li Xu's line, it is now quite advantageous for the Aviation Engineering Department to contact Mr. Hu.
When Song Wencong, Jiang Hefu and Liu Daxiang were brought in by Li Xu, they looked relieved.
"Hey, I've finally met Mr. Hu!" Jiang Hefu and Hu Wenhai are also relatively familiar, but there is no arrogance in speaking, and he complains: "Hell, we have been looking for you since last year, but the degree of secrecy of your whereabouts is higher than ours!
"You can't say that, what is Jian-10? Mr. Hu's current reputation is louder than my Jian-10 in the world!" Song Wencong sat down on the sofa and said with a smile: "Haven't you heard, the Americans now want us to guarantee that we will not use Hu Wenhai first! Listen, how is this also the treatment of a personal nuclear bomb?"
Among the three people, Liu Daxiang was the only one sitting on the sofa, extinguishing the cigarette in his hand, and was silent and silent.
Hu Wenhai personally poured a glass of chilled lemonade for the three of them, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange. After getting the full set of R35 materials in his hands last time, the first R&D payment promised by Xinke to the Turbo Research Institute has also been delivered on time, looking at the appearance of these three, there are not many happy expressions, which is unexpected.
"Did you encounter any problems?" asked Hu Wenhai softly to Li Xu, who gave him a wry smile.
"Yes, it's not a small problem. Li Xu nodded: "But don't worry, Mr. Hu, you understand the situation first, don't worry." After a while, some leaders of our Aviation Engineering Department, as well as Secretary Huang of the Eighty or Fifty Years Planning Office, will also come over. This time, the country has a good hand, and I hope to make a big move. ”
Speaking of which, Secretary Huang and Hu Wenhai are old friends. When the project of changing aphrodisiacs for tomcats was finalized and returned to China, Secretary Huang acted as a communication channel between him and some of the leaders above. And the leader back then has now risen to the position of vice chairman of the Military Commission and has become a member of the Council of Elders. As his secretary, Secretary Huang is, of course, also a rising tide, and now he is a rising star in the military and political circles.
Since last year, the state has officially launched the Eighth Five-Year Plan. The head of the leading group for the Eighth Five-Year Plan and the 10-year plan for army building was the old leader of those years. The first major event after he took office was to organize the formulation of the "Outline of the Army Building Plan for the Eighth Five-Year Plan Period."
Secretary Huang, who acted as an errand boy in the leading group, immediately turned into a channel that upheld the will of his superiors as soon as he came down below. A group of leaders and brains of the Ministry of Aviation Engineering, as well as scientists such as Song Wencong, Jiang Hefu and Liu Daxiang, all have all kinds of inexplicable expectations for him.
And in order to convince Secretary Huang to make these people's expectations come true, they also need a person with strong persuasive power. And this person is none other than Hu Wenhai. As long as Hu Wenhai can be convinced, the plan of these people in the Ministry of Aviation Industry can be said to be half successful.
"What the hell is going on, can you tell me?" Hu Wenhai sat down in front of the four of them and asked curiously.
On the other side, Liu Daxiang took out the cigarette on his body, stuffed the cigarette back into the cigarette case, waved his hand at Jiang Hefu and said, "Hefu, the trouble is yours, let's talk about it." ”
"Then I'll say. Jiang Hefu nodded neatly, spread his hands and said helplessly: "We have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, there is no way, then I thought of Mr. Hu again." I just took Mr. Hu's money, but I didn't get any results, so I'm really embarrassed to speak. ”
"It's a matter of money? I've made a fortune recently, and I'm a lot more comfortable. Hu Wenhai laughed: "If Mr. Jiang needs it, you can say a number, and I will write you a check." ”
Hu Wenhai does not have too much money at his disposal now, and he can't get insurance claims in Europe, followed by state funds, and he has made hundreds of millions of dollars by hitchhiking, and he has to throw a lot of them into the United States. But there are only three or five billion dollars that can be used in hand, and it is really drizzle to invest a little in Jiang Hefu's place.
"No, it's not money...... Jiang Hefu waved his hand, suddenly paused, and quickly changed his words: "It should be said that it's not just about money." ”
"Hey, let me start at the beginning. ”