I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 579, Chapter 463-464: The Gaoling Aerospace Framework is Completed! (4000 words)
After Hillhouse Vehicles went public, Gao Huaijun began to actively promote the development of Hillhouse Aerospace.

The private aerospace industry is a new quality productivity project that the Chinese government has recently been promoting. As a leading technology company, Hillhouse Capital naturally has the responsibility to set an example.

Moreover, as a large technology company, Hillhouse's total output value is now close to one trillion yuan, and it is actually slowly approaching a bottleneck.

The core reason is that Gao Huaijun’s golden fingers on Hillhouse Technology and Hillhouse Vehicles have almost been used up!

If the enterprise wants to develop, and to develop rapidly on the basis of such a huge plate, it must do a good job in two directions.

One is what Gao Huaijun said in his listing speech, 'stick to three things'.

Take R&D culture, national banner and profit distribution to the extreme.

Gao Huaijun is not a stingy boss. If he were, even if he had a golden finger, he would not have developed to this level today.

However, this is the right path. There will no longer be Hillhouse Technology and Hillhouse Vehicles, which can achieve explosive performance growth by pointing out a product.

We must rely on engineers to improve the product bit by bit, improve various negative feedback from customers, carefully optimize the product and carry out small iterations, and finally complete a large iteration without the intervention of gold fingers in five to ten years.

The second is out of the box (thinking outside the box, referring to innovative thinking), and through breakthroughs in other pipelines, feeding back to Hillhouse Technology and Hillhouse Vehicles!
Here, Hillhouse Technology’s contribution to Hillhouse Vehicles is an example.

If Hillhouse Technology's engineers with various electronic technology thinking had not come to Hillhouse Vehicle for exchanges and deep integration, it would not have been possible for a company like Hillhouse Vehicle, which is more intelligent than BYD in later generations, to be born so quickly.

In the commercial aerospace sector, the industry itself is not highly profitable, but some industries derived from aerospace are truly highly profitable industries.

The most successful examples in this regard are Southern California and Texas in the United States. The information industry, electronics industry, materials industry, chemical industry, and aircraft manufacturing industry derived from the aerospace industry support half of the economy of the two states.

For Hillhouse, these fields are closely and strongly related to the company.

The materials industry, in particular, is the industry that we are currently focusing on achieving breakthroughs in.

There are hundreds of materials PhDs in Hillhouse Research Institute, but these materials PhDs are actually not of much use to Hillhouse at present, and much of the work is just floating in the air.

After all, whether it is a car or a mobile phone, there is no need to have extremely stringent requirements on materials. The mate 20 can only be regarded as a small test.

The commercial aerospace industry is different.

The relationship between materials and aerospace is still very close.

For example, many advanced materials are used in the core connector components of China's manned spacecraft Shenzhou 1 and Shenzhou 5.

These materials pay special attention to the problem of "signal and current transmission under high and low temperatures".

These advanced materials, in turn, will further deepen Hillhouse's technological barriers.

Moreover, in China, taking Shanghai as an example, the short-term and long-term input-output ratios of the aerospace industry are 1:2.75 and 1:3.58 respectively.

This ratio is generally lower than that of the United States and Europe. One of the reasons is that the connection between my country's aerospace and other civilian industries is in a vacuum state.

Hillhouse can sink and apply some of Hillhouse Aerospace's technologies in the fields of batteries, chips, artificial intelligence, automobiles, electronic technology, etc. As long as several technologies can be embedded in specific products, Hillhouse will actually make money.

So in Gao Huaijun's mind, Hillhouse Aerospace just needs to keep breaking even and there is no specific profit target.

And relying on Hillhouse Aerospace, it is very easy to discover some advanced black technologies!
This out of the box thinking was actually unknown to Gao Huaijun in later generations. A comrade named Trump was facing a national debt problem of more than 30 trillion US dollars.

What ordinary people think of is reducing the trade surplus, eliminating the domestic deficit, and letting the people tighten their belts.

Instead, he overturned the table and wanted to merge Canada and Greenland!

By introducing external elements, the long-dormant cards inside are directly activated, with the blade pointing outward, to alleviate the growing internal pressure of national debt that is about to burst out.

Isn’t the goal to reduce the trade surplus?

The University of California, Irvine exported a huge amount of oil to the University of Western Ontario, and made a lot of money in this field.

Now that I am making cards in the void, if you don’t agree to my harsh conditions, I will not rule out merging you!
Under such extreme pressure, it is really difficult for you not to compromise.

Isn't there benefit in this compromise?

This is an action that is truly terrifying: it is cashing in on his sphere of influence during his hegemony before his decline comes, so as to get himself enough reserves to survive the winter.

"Liaoning Aerospace is really a headache!" Gao Huaijun looked at the densely packed resumes in front of him, took off his gold-rimmed glasses, and sighed.

Now, Hillhouse is going to establish Hillhouse Aerospace, but it also requires careful timing when recruiting people.

If you directly wipe out the First Academy of Aerospace and the Sixth Academy of Aerospace in one fell swoop, you will really be stirring up a hornet's nest.

In the face of national strategy, you are directly undermining the country.

How can that work?
But it won’t work if there are fewer people.

There aren't enough people in China to do this kind of thing.

You can't let people who work on car engines work on aerospace engines, right?
If we start from the beginning, how long will it take?
So now Gao Huaijun is a bit hesitant in dealing with this issue.

"The core of the problem now is the research and development of aircraft engines. Other things are secondary contradictions."

"Some private aerospace companies also have other types of jobs that can make up for it."

His secretary Feng Xiaochen came in and interrupted.

Gao Huaijun couldn't help but nodded after hearing this.

The core of an aviation rocket is the engine and engine-related supporting facilities.

Subsequent rocket recovery technologies are all related to the engine.

Those would require spending money on rocket body experiments.

"Just follow this idea and let the people below carry it out!" Gao Huaijun said with finality.

. . . . . .

A few months later, the R&D personnel recruited by Hillhouse Aerospace began to take root in Hillhouse Technology's R&D branch in the imperial capital.

Since Hillhouse has a very large structure and has corresponding R&D centers in many cities, the placement of personnel will also be carried out according to their characteristics.

The core R&D personnel of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation basically live and work in the imperial capital. If you suddenly ask them to move to the Yangtze River Delta, they will definitely not do it.

Therefore, Gao Huaijun planned to expand the scale of the R&D sub-center in the imperial capital. He planned to acquire a large piece of land near the Tongzhou urban sub-center of the imperial capital to build Hillhouse’s second R&D center with an area of ​​about 50 square meters. Although the scale is not as large as that of the Magic City, it can be regarded as comparable to the Magic City.

Hillhouse Group now rarely parachutes managers and staff from outside, except in special circumstances such as the establishment of a new BU. Now there is just such an opportunity, and Gao Huaijun just wants to expand the scale of the Imperial Capital R&D Center.

The imperial capital has the best educational resources in the whole of China, and is also the place with the best reserves of science and engineering staff.

In the past, due to the limited scale, many job applicants had to go to Shanghai. It was not convenient for some students from the north, and some even resigned and returned to the capital. Gao Huaijun also saw something from the movements of these employees.

So, he decided to expand the R&D center here.

The government leaders of TZ District were naturally overjoyed when they learned of Hillhouse’s decision.

The Shanghai R&D Center has given a good boost to the R&D economy.

There, more than 30 R&D personnel gather there, plus a population of providing services and supporting facilities, it has become a small satellite city of Shanghai.

R&D personnel are originally the highest quality consumer group. Combined with other functional departments and related supporting population, their taxpaying ability is enough to make a city of the size of Suzhou drool.

For the newly established Hillhouse Aerospace, the research and development of its first rocket is also in full swing.

They were used to being tight-fisted, so they were still shocked by Hillhouse's big move.

China's first 1000-ton liquid rocket engine test bench is under construction in full swing in the Taihang Mountains.

This test bench has a total of three workstations: a high- and low-pressure composite test station with a thrust of 3 tons, an engine test station with a thrust of 30 tons, and a dual-use test station with a thrust of 1000 tons that is compatible with the entire rocket power system and engine.

The test bench is compatible with the test needs of liquid oxygen-kerosene and liquid oxygen-methane fuel engines and rocket sub-stage power systems. It can also meet the test requirements of various types of engines with a single thrust of less than 120 tons and rocket sub-stage power systems with a diameter of less than 5.5m and a thrust of less than 1000 tons.

This test bench is the only commercial test bench in China that can meet the testing requirements of both liquid oxygen/kerosene and liquid oxygen/methane engines, and can also meet the testing requirements of engines in different states such as vertical and inclined.

Is this something a private enterprise can do?

Even for the national team, there are not many test benches like this now.

"Isn't this too big of a deal for Gao Ling?"

"It's clear that Mr. Gao and SpaceX's Elon Musk are lifelong enemies!"

"The Long March 2000 test platform is only tons. What is Hillhouse trying to do?"

"Who cares what he wants to do? This kind of work is exciting!"

"President Gao requires us to produce a product comparable to the Falcon 9 within four years. Now we have given him the money, and even the heavy asset test bench, and even applied for the right to use a large wind tunnel. This is the kind of condition that the national team should accept!"

"More than that! If you want to use the test bench, the speed of the national team is not as fast as Hillhouse. According to the iteration speed of private enterprises, it will take less than four years to produce the Falcon 9."

"With the Falcon 9, Hillhouse is truly awesome!"

"It's hard to imagine a private enterprise competing with a national team! The dry mass ratio of the Falcon 16.46 in the PPT is still as high as 23, LEO (satellite orbit several hundred kilometers above the ground) is 1000 tons, GTO (geosynchronous transfer orbit with a perigee below 8.3 kilometers and an apogee at the height of the geosynchronous orbit) is 25 tons; in comparison, the Long March 14's LEO is tons and GTO is tons. They are almost of the same order of magnitude!"

"This is just data from the PPT. As long as we have the ability to shoot rockets, we can slowly iterate later."

"It's really amazing, it's so generous that it makes me dizzy! Throughout my career, I have been stingy everywhere, otherwise the Long March 5 would not have taken so long to develop. Now the financial support is really incomparable between the two national teams."

It is obvious that this new employee of Hillhouse's Aerospace BU is not very adaptable to Hillhouse's style.

At the beginning, there were more than a hundred key personnel and nearly a thousand employees of various other trades.

That’s not all. Now we are directly using the heavy composite test bench that commercial aerospace companies dare not even think about.

Directly benchmarking the national team, NASA, and SPACEX!

The only way to describe Hillhouse Capital is as rich as it is inhumane.

It is also said that a large rocket manufacturing plant has begun to be built near the Yangshan Port in Shanghai, and negotiations are underway with Wenchang for a launch pad.

Under the multi-channel umbrella, this is actually for real.

Some rocket fans were also shocked to see Hillhouse play like this.

The commercial aviation sector lacks large players due to its lack of a profit model.

If you want to make money from this thing, you have to make it scarce.

For example, commercial space station tourism, sub-space tourism, the Starlink project, etc.

Instead of helping this small customer to launch a satellite and helping that small customer to launch a satellite.

This thing is just the leftovers from the national team and can barely cover the considerable research and development budget.

In order to cover the R&D expenses, it requires extremely strong capabilities that can rival SpaceX.

And this returns to the origin of the story.

So the country has proposed commercial private aviation for many years, but the players are almost all small players, cannon fodder companies that cannot even build a rocket that can reach suborbital.

How to play?
So Hillhouse’s entry is much more shocking.

The sea of ​​stars is not just empty talk!
"Now Hillhouse Business has entered the right track, and the backbone talents have been recruited."

"We have also secretly poached several Asian staff members from NASA and SPACEX, and they have come to the capital through secret channels."

Ning Yuan and Gao Huaijun made a special report on the relevant matters.

Gao Huaijun looked at Ning Yuan with some surprise. He didn't expect that this small company could even poach people from NASA and SPACEX.

It seems that the non-compete agreement was simply ignored.

However, he likes it!

This kind of secret laboratory must require people entering to keep it confidential. What if Xida finds out?
They didn't dare to send people to China to investigate.

Besides, Hillhouse is in the process of committing suicide, so why would it be afraid of you?

"We need to speed up the construction of the test bench and rocket construction center, and also hurry up the discussion with Wenchang!"

"Hundreds of billions of yuan have been given to Hillhouse Aerospace, and Hillhouse Academia Sinica and Hillhouse Chip have provided assistance. If you can't come up with anything, you really have no face to see me."

Gao Huaijun said seriously.

(End of this chapter)