Chapter 228 The organization is testing me! (Two in one)
That evening, the European delegation reported the situation to their respective superiors.
Chang Haonan and Schneider’s feelings were not wrong.
Since all parties involved got what they wanted, this time they quickly gained a higher level of empowerment.
So, in the fourth round of negotiations that followed the next day, China and Europe finally reached an agreement on the basic content of the agreement.
However, this kind of thing involving more than a dozen countries and several very large international companies is not like going to the wet market to buy vegetables.
Even with Chang Haonan's efforts (and of course deception), the two parties are generally in a state of meeting each other halfway, but it involves the formulation of new standards, the selection of new suppliers and even new businesses The formation of an alliance involves a vast array of legal and technical details that are beyond the scope of the current size of the two delegations.
So what they can do at present is to reach an "intent agreement" similar to project planning or research outline. First, tie the partners together with a piece of paper. As for the subsequent details, they naturally have their own differences. Professionals in the field are responsible for completion.
As it happens, the "professionals" related to icing and anti-icing research are Chang Haonan and Lin Guofan.
And this is also the most urgent matter at the moment——
Once such a high-profile multi-party cooperation officially begins, it is impossible and unnecessary to keep it as airtight as during the negotiations. Therefore, before the FAA reacts, they must counterattack in the aviation safety field where they think they have the advantage. An army.
So Chang Haonan’s work in Haojing is not over yet.
However, unlike the previous situation where he had to take on the main role, in the subsequent negotiations, he only had to sit on the scene and be the mascot of the town. To a certain extent, it was considered a short-lived The vacation makes up for the rest time lost by being taken away from home before the Spring Festival.
At the same time, due to Chang Haonan's operation, many contents were added to the agreement that did not exist in the original plan.
For example, Airbus will select some Chinese companies as suppliers of its subsystems.
In subsequent contacts with Airbus executives, the latter even stated that as long as China can provide enough orders, they can consider building the planned "Airbus Asia Final Assembly Center" in China.
If combined with Chang Haonan's idea of the "Large Aircraft Industrial Park", the whole thing would be considered a commendable event in the entire 1990s.
Therefore, the levels of representatives from both sides who came to Haojing were getting higher and higher.
The previous head of the delegation was only Huai Guomo, deputy director of the Science and Technology Commission, but now even some leaders of ministries and commissions came as ordinary members.
Just like Ding Gaoheng.
Chang Haonan was enjoying his leisure time during this period, and he didn't pay any specific attention to the long list of new delegations. Therefore, when he heard someone calling his name while driving on the street after dinner one day, he couldn't even pass the sound immediately. Identify the other person’s identity.
"Director Ding?"
Chang Haonan turned around. Because his brain had just been in a state of emptying, he hesitated for about half a second before recognizing that the person in casual clothes in front of him was Ding Gaoheng. .
"What a coincidence, you also eat after a meal?"
The latter's tone was relaxed, as if it was a casual chat after an encounter.
"Uh... Director Ding, what do you want from me?"
Chang Haonan is 100% sure that today's meeting is no accident.
Because Hou Ding Gaoheng was accompanied by another person who looked about the same age as him, but his clothes were not casual at all.
Although I can’t recognize this person’s identity, judging from his temperament, he is also a big shot with dual identities of scholar and leader.
Obviously he came prepared.
"There is indeed something, but I'm not the only one looking for you."
Ding Gaoheng was not surprised when Chang Haonan pointed out the purpose of this trip. He just turned his head slightly and looked at the person next to him who had never spoken before. Introduction:
“This is the student of Lao Du you have always wanted to meet, Chang Haonan.”
“Hello, Comrade Xiao Chang, my name is Song Jian.”
The other party came forward, took the initiative to shake hands with Chang Haonan, and said in a slightly funny tone:
"I heard your name from Director Ding and Academician Du many times before, and I always wanted to meet you. But I heard that you are a busy man. You are almost absent from the capital from the second half of last year until now, so I had to come to Haojing in person."
Song Jian may have really just been joking when he said this, but for Chang Haonan, it was not easy to accept.
But before he could speak, Ding Gaoheng next to him patted the former on the shoulder:
“Hey, Old Song, you are not being honest, I told you before Several times when Xiao Chang returned to the capital, it was obviously your fault that you couldn’t come to our Science and Technology Committee, so how could you put the responsibility on the young comrade? "
Ding Gaoheng and Song Jian were born in the same year, which is also basically the case. At the same time, they went to study in the Soviet Union, and after returning to China, they worked together at the Second Branch of the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, my country's first missile research institute. They had known each other for a long time and had a good relationship, so the latter was just happy after being exposed. He waved his hand:
"Well... I am the director of the National Science and Technology Commission. It is hard to make a special trip to your Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense to meet with someone..."
After a brief exchange of greetings, the three of them started to walk on the road together.
"Comrade Xiao Chang, I heard from Lao Ding in the past two days that it was you who came up with the idea of building a large aircraft industrial park during the negotiation process with the European side?"
Whatever? After chatting for a few words, Song Jian went straight to the topic.
“Yes, my idea is to rely on Airbus and more orders from Party A that may be obtained in the future to focus on developing a group of companies that have the ability, or at least the potential, to become upstream suppliers in the aviation field. Bring their strengths together, focus on key technologies, and create a demonstration industrial cluster that can achieve large-scale effects! ”
Chang Haonan nodded and directly moved out the report about a certain aviation industrial park that he remembered from his previous life.
As someone who has experienced the 2020s, even if he has never been involved in a publicity position, the Internet slang in his mind is enough to cope with some scene talk:
“On the one hand, this is for our own benefit Large aircraft manufacturing is making some preparations for technological and industrial development. On the other hand, it also wants to cut a piece of the big cake of civil aviation transportation!” Song Jian nodded repeatedly. After all, in the 1990s, industrial clusters were still a new concept in the world:
“Demonstrative industrial clusters... are good... they really know everything. It seems that we, Xiao Chang If comrades one day reach a propaganda position, they can also play a big role!”
This was originally just an unintentional sigh, but Ding Gaoheng next to him seemed to suddenly remember something:
"You really don't say it, Old Song."
"Last year I accidentally read There was a commentator article titled How to Allow the Air Force to Achieve Freedom of Intercepting Beyond Visual Range, which seems to have been inspired by Comrade Xiao Chang. "
...
About the Large Aircraft Industrial Park. The three of them kept talking about the matter from the roadside of Factory 172 to a conference room, and the time lasted until that night.
"Comrade Xiao Chang, I am very surprised that someone can come up with such a grand and industrially guiding idea."
Song Jian, who was sitting on a sofa and holding a tea cup, sighed:
"But I never expected that the person who proposed this idea was actually you."
This sentence really made Chang Haonan a little confused:
"Director Song , where to start?”
"The first time I heard your name was from Lao Ding at a high-level discussion on the development direction of the civil aviation industry."
Song Jian said this and drank tactically He drooled and paused:
"Old Ding's... Oh, actually, it may be that your idea seemed very radical at the time. Although it was put more euphemistically, it was essentially equivalent to putting the past ten years into practice. The various standards accumulated from the MD82 to MD90 projects were overthrown, so the resistance was huge.”
“It was not until the end of last year that McDonnell Douglas was suddenly acquired by Boeing, and the resistance finally became smaller. . ”
“After such a process, many people, including me before, should be opposed to this plan to introduce the Airbus assembly line. As a result, we later found out that the entire You actually brought it up." After hearing this, Chang Haonan suddenly realized.
This is "taking sides".
It's just that because the Science and Technology Commission behind him has been smooth sailing during this period and has almost completely captured the entire aviation industry system, he has no sense of it.
After all, we are surrounded by our own people.
If Chang Haonan plans to shine in the field of aviation industry all his life, there is nothing wrong with it.
But not long ago, he was still thinking about how to promote the scientific research results he has produced now and the various scientific research results derived from them to more fields.
If it is labeled in such a way, it will be very detrimental to future plans.
"Director Song, this large aircraft industrial park is completely different from the previous McDonnell Douglas cooperation projects, including the AE100 project with Airbus that has no sincerity at all"
Chang Haonan I know I can't rush to express my stance at times like this.
On the one hand, the Science and Industry Committee is indeed the most solid backing for him to exert his influence. In the presence of Ding Gaoheng, only a fool would choose to draw a clear line.
On the other hand, although he had no impression of Song Jian, the director of the National Science and Technology Commission, since Ding Gaoheng was able to bring him out alone to meet him, it meant that the two people should at least have the same attitude on core issues.
So he still chose to discuss the matter from a technical perspective:
“Whether it is the domestic MD90 or AE100, a big premise is that we have to take the entire aviation industry, at least, for this model. The development of the civil aviation industry has switched to someone else's track and become a member of someone else's system, which means losing a considerable degree of autonomy. For example, when McDonnell Douglas cooperated with us, they directly requested to renovate the factory in Shanghai. and production lines, directly wiping out everything we accumulated during the Yun 10 period, so don’t say that these two projects can’t be implemented. Even if they can, they will be a loss-making business in the long run.”
“ But this time, Airbus did not specify what we are going to do. According to the supply agreement, as long as the quality of the parts we provide meets the standards, they will agree to use them on passenger aircraft sold to our country. We and the Europeans are in a reciprocal exchange. It’s just business talk and it won’t damage the development of our own aviation industry. Naturally, I have no objection.”
In fact, this has always been Chang Haonan’s attitude:
Technology itself has no origin.
In any case, there is definitely nothing wrong with moving the passenger aircraft final assembly process that was originally done abroad to China.
The problem lies in the fact that some people are trying to take advantage of foreign countries and take advantage of the opportunity of producing foreign models to completely strangle the independent aviation industry.
In the final analysis, China's civil aviation industry, at least for a long time in the future, will inevitably have foreign models as its main aircraft.
And even if the country’s passenger aircraft series develops in the future, it does not mean that it must use a 100% domestically produced fleet——
Although a single model has benefits such as security and convenience, it also means that risks cannot be shared, which is equivalent to putting eggs in one basket.
For example, in the previous life, after the Boeing 737MAX was grounded due to structural risks related to flight safety, companies such as Ludao Airlines that use an all-Boeing fleet were caught off guard and had to go to the emergency To purchase the Airbus A320neo, we have to train and recruit relevant engineering and technical personnel. It is better to use both models from the beginning.
Don’t you think American and European airlines will also buy models produced by each other (of course there are also airlines like Alaska Airlines that are pure Boeing).
In this case, it is better to keep part of the profits in the country.
Assembling airplanes is better than making shirts and socks, right?
In later generations, China can even provide various subsystems and components for North American OEMs that use imperial specifications. Now, no matter what, Europeans still use metric units...
Sure enough, after hearing Chang Haonan After the explanation, both Song Jian and Ding Gaoheng's expressions relaxed a lot.
"Xiao Chang, regarding this large aircraft industrial park, where do you personally think it is more suitable to place it? Shengjing? Haojing? Rongcheng? Or somewhere else?"
Ding Gaoheng's conversation A quick turn brought the chat content directly to the site selection for the industrial park.
Chang Haonan shook his head decisively:
"Considering that the messy cooperation between Hufei and McDonnell Douglas has not yet been cleared up, in order to avoid unnecessary associations among people, and of course to avoid some people who want to hide the truth and occupy the magpie's nest, I personally I believe that this industrial park should not be placed in these core cities where we have our own model layout."
As soon as he finished speaking, Song Jian seemed to have been waiting for this answer, almost immediately. He opened his mouth and said:
"In that case, Comrade Xiao Chang thinks, in which city should this aviation industrial park be placed?"
This question made Chang Haonan stunned.
He looked at Ding Gaoheng next to him and found that the other person was also looking at him with very interested eyes.
He even added fuel to the fire:
"As the proposer of the entire plan, Comrade Xiao Chang, your opinion is also very important."
Just punish Chang Haonan No more.
First of all, he really did not consider the location of the project, because from a technical perspective, it is not important, even if it is located in Tongliao.
Secondly, he never thought that the two people in front of him would ask him this question.
Because if you think about it carefully, on a non-technical level, the impact of this answer may be too great.
This is the aviation industry.
Even in the initial stage, we can only do some non-core or even scrap business, but that is still the aviation industry.
In the 1990s, even companies such as daily chemicals, textiles, and electronics factories were prime targets for attracting investment.
Many state-owned enterprises that are in good operating condition and can actually sustain themselves have been given away as trading chips in this process.
Various localities even have to specifically guarantee the rate of return for these investors in agreements. If the rate of return does not meet the standards, they must use finance to make up for it.
And now, a large aircraft industrial park is in front of us.
How many jobs can this thing bring, how much economy can it stimulate, how many talents can it attract, and how much consumption can these talents promote...
Chang Haonan doesn’t know, but there must be a lot.
So many that he didn’t dare to just name a few cities casually.
Although the final decision-making power certainly does not fall to him, or even to Ding Gaoheng and Song Jian.
But the sentence just now made it almost clear that his opinions will be reflected on it.
Now is no longer the era of two bombs and one satellite.
Even if Chang Haonan wanted to learn from his predecessors and remain anonymous, he would not be able to do so.
Not to mention anything else, all the honors he received outside school were listed under the MA60 project.
The main reason is that at the beginning, no one thought that such a small twin-engine propeller regional aircraft could involve so much follow-up, so Chang Haonan himself, Du Yishan, and Ding Gaoheng all used the MA60 as their actual work The shield comes.
So this matter must be known sooner or later, at least by some people.
The importance of the four words "Shang Da Tian Ting" naturally does not need to be mentioned.
......
"The organization is testing me..."
Chang Haonan thought to himself as he looked at the two old foxes smiling brightly in front of him.
(End of this chapter)