165 The dust settled
There is a popular saying among the people, called "the boss is difficult, the boss is difficult, and the boss is not difficult", Chen Wenhao really felt the meaning of this sentence this time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Although his previous predicament was not a big problem, it was really after the boss came out, and all obstacles disappeared.
Overnight, Infinite Future's entry into the aerospace field is no longer a problem, especially the commercialization plan that was the most criticized before. The relevant ministries and commissions promised that once Chen Wenhao submits the corresponding business plan, as long as it does not involve national core secrets, he can be given the green light.
In the next few days, Chen Wenhao still had no time to spare, but he still had to sit down and discuss the details with the representatives of the Central Military Commission and the central ministries and commissions. Only this time, he didn't have to be alone, he could send the company's legal and business personnel to participate together, and the negotiation address was changed back to his own company.
It was only at this time that the company's insiders knew that their boss had accomplished such a feat, not to mention entering the aerospace field, and had also obtained the qualification for commercial operation.
Several executives have long heard Chen Wenhao express that they have the intention of getting involved in the aerospace industry, but they all thought that they were only relying on the advantages of intelligent control program design and drone technology to participate in the supporting services of key projects, but they didn't expect that the boss was so high-energy that he accidentally put a big satellite.
In the past few days, watching the delegation crowd into the company, fill the conference room, and argue with their own boss every day about the details. Several executives were excited but also worried, and in the interval between meals and meetings, they had already knocked on the side of Chen Wenhao several times, but Chen Wenhao replied uniformly, "Don't worry, you will know next".
Even Dai Yuqian, who went to the United States, specially called to inquire. The monopoly litigation case has entered the court trial stage, and the company did not have a legal team in the past, so he went with him, anyway, there is a joint lawyer team in the United States. However, Dai Yuqian said that the company's current legal department can't eat white rice, and strives to lead the team to stare at it. Considering that she was not the target of the attack last time, and this time she asked her mother's connections in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to stay at the local consulate at that time, and finally agreed.
However, Su Jingdong received specific instructions, and the names of several colleges and universities were added to the list of campus roadshows and recruitment: Western University of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beihang University, China Southern Airlines, ......, and graduates of aerospace-related majors are all recruiting targets. Although Chen Wenhao has asked Su Jingdong's side to reduce the momentum as much as possible, only the best talents. However, it is estimated that after this battle, the domestic aerospace system will definitely be touched.
Prior to this, the aerospace field in the country was basically all operating within the system, in terms of the most important establishment in the system, the situation in the aerospace sector was slightly better, but in the aviation sector, the major institutes were already overcrowded, and in principle, only doctoral graduates were recruited. Not only is the threshold high, but also the workload is large, as for the treatment...... Let's talk more about ideals and feelings.
Turning the topic back to the topic, regardless of the excitement or doubts within the company, Chen Wenhao's recent focus is to reach a formal agreement with the delegation. Fortunately, with the approval of the first and second leaders, although there were still disputes, they finally reached a consensus. It took a whole week for an agreement to be officially released, which was approved by both parties, and the main contents included:
Infinity Future has obtained the qualification and certification to enter the field of aviation and aerospace, and the company's business scope will increase aviation and aerospace-related business in the company's industrial and commercial registration information, and on the premise of not divulging state secrets and endangering social security, it is allowed to independently develop aviation and aerospace vehicles and carry out corresponding test operations, and has the right to commercial operation.
The air traffic control department opened a green channel for Infinite Future. In the process of R&D, testing and operation, when the company needs to use airspace, it only needs to apply 4 hours in advance and reply within 1 hour of making the application. Infinite Future's airspace application has priority authority.
At the same time, Infinity Future Company will license high-performance battery technology and new titanium alloy technology to three designated military enterprises for free, but the end products are only allowed to be used in military products and major national engineering projects.
Infinite Future retains the right to produce and sell batteries and titanium alloys, but the sales object needs to report to the competent authority, and if it is to be exported, it must pass additional relevant audits, and the competent department will also send military representatives to the factory for supervision.
Of course, there are more details in the agreement, such as the high-performance batteries sold for export, which are matched with what products and the capacity of each piece are limited, to ensure that they can only be used in civilian electronic products, and will not be modified for military products.
For example, the finished titanium alloy products sold to the outside world are strictly stipulated to be sold only in the form of titanium alloy plates, and the area of each finished product shall not be greater than 2 square meters to ensure that they will not be used for military purposes (the trend of military equipment is to use a whole seamless material). Regarding this point, Chen Wenhao proved with actual operation that once this titanium alloy is re-cast, the performance will drop to the level of ordinary titanium alloy materials, and it has been allowed to be sold. Otherwise, according to the requirements of the military at the beginning, it is absolutely forbidden to sell titanium alloy materials to the outside world.
The day after Chen Wenhao and the delegation signed the agreement, a press release was published in an inconspicuous position in several central official newspapers about Infinite Future's acquisition of commercial operation qualifications in the aerospace field.
In just over 200 words, the report on the matter of facts, except for mentioning the name of Infinite Future Company, did not mention Chen Wenhao, let alone the agreement, and was more like a tofu block article specially used to fill the blank space of the layout.
In the public's field of vision, everything is uneventful, except for a few posts on the Internet mentioning that the company that invented the small card software is going to enter the aerospace industry, wow! What a tall rush! However, there was no follow-up news, and it was quickly forgotten.
Within the aviation and aerospace industry, many people are more aware of this matter for two reasons:
First, because the two technologies in exchange can play a great role in these two fields, and many technical problems will be solved. Naturally, the attention is relatively high.
Second, there were many representatives involved in the negotiations at that time, and the final decision of the two leaders was very talkative, and it had long been passed on to the industry and became a well-known secret.
However, many experts are not optimistic about Infinite Future's move.
Kind-hearted people said regretfully that the two first-class technologies only changed the name of burning money by order, and the Internet was really generous.
The meaner ones make no secret of their poisonous tongues: if you make some money by engaging in software, you don't know how thick the sky is. Do you really think that rockets are iron-clad gunpowder? The space shuttle is an airplane with an extra engine?
Chen Wenhao's original words about the two don'ts have become a common joke in the two systems of aviation and aerospace, one does not want state funds, and the other does not want state orders. And it claims to invest more than 10 billion yuan, in the eyes of people in the industry, this has become a joke told by local tyrants who don't know how to do it.
It is no wonder that no one in the industry is optimistic, in fact, there is a precedent for private capital to register aerospace companies, and in 2014, someone registered the first private aerospace company in China. In the following years, private rockets, private satellites, and private payload companies sprung up.
However, most of these private companies are very small-scale, and after they enter the business, in addition to providing supporting services, the business operated by other companies is mostly in the aerospace field, which is a relatively low-level part of the technical level, and belongs to the part of the national regular army that is unwilling to invest too much energy.
For example, the most private rocket companies and private payload companies develop and manufacture rockets that are not behemoths in TV broadcasts, but basically miniature sounding rockets.
Sounding rockets are petite, usually no more than 10 meters in length, sometimes less than 2 meters high, no more than 0.3 meters in diameter, and no more than 100 kilograms in payload. People who don't understand it will even mistake it for a model rocket.
Its function is to send the instruments it carries to an altitude of tens to hundreds of kilometers for a few minutes of scientific observation, and the flight trajectory is "straight up and down", and it does not need to reach the first cosmic velocity, nor does it need to enter orbit, release satellites and other complex actions. From a technical point of view, it's a very low-level part.
This sounding rocket has a simple structure and has primary machining equipment, so it can try to make its own engine and assemble the rocket body. The structure of a rocket engine is even simpler than that of a car engine, and the material for the rocket body is available on the open market.
Because the price of sounding rockets is low, far less profitable than launching satellites, the national regular army has little interest in these businesses, and there is not much willingness to invest, and the research and development and application of new technologies often lag behind, so it has become an opportunity for private aerospace companies.
However, the profit of this business is not high, and the current cost of launching a sounding rocket in China is between 2.5 million and 3 million yuan, and the unit is RMB. Even if the expenses in the procurement and manufacturing links are well controlled, it is difficult for the net profit to exceed 20%, which is a good income for many companies with only a few members. But for companies that have a certain scale in Infinite Future, it is really a small profit. Needless to say, most of this kind of business comes from the commissions of universities and research institutes, which themselves are naturally inclined to find the national regular army to be responsible for the launch, unless your offer is sincere enough.
Looking at the current domestic aviation and aerospace industry, the existing private capital is basically in this embarrassing situation, and it is difficult to improve in the short term.
Want to do a lucrative part? Money and technology are two formidable obstacles.
Let's talk about funds first, and it is often hundreds of millions of billions of investments. In the country's high-end aviation and aerospace projects, many components are even built at any cost with the strength of national scientific research institutes and key enterprises. R&D and manufacturing costs are high, market demand is scarce, and completely disproportionate. Let's talk about technology. Excellent professionals are basically in the system, and the technical reserves are mostly treasured by the scientific research institutes in the system, often with a level of confidentiality, so don't expect to have technical authorization.
Therefore, using these standards to look at the infinite future company, more than 10 billion sounds like a lot, but for the gold-swallowing giant beast of aviation or aerospace, it really can't support much of a scene. The most important question is, where does the technology and talent come from?
The industry sneered at the attitude, Chen Wenhao also heard some from Dai Junpeng, but he chose to laugh it off and didn't take it to heart, under normal circumstances, of course, this inference is correct, but no one knows, there is also the participation of alien artificial intelligence. For him, the matter has been settled, some gossip just let it go with the wind, at this time it is useless to talk more, everything depends on the final performance.
And his focus has turned to selfie drones. At this time, there are only two days left before the date of the official public sale of unmanned selfies. Although the market response is unprecedentedly enthusiastic from the pre-sale test of the water, as the first physical product of Infinite Future Company aimed at ordinary consumers, the company does not dare to take it lightly. (To be continued.) )