The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

End of March 2007.

Liu Tao came to the 011 Aviation Base again.

However, the detailed design work of the domestically produced C929 aircraft has been reviewed by experts.

Liu Tao once again served as the leader of the expert review group and attended this review meeting.

Prior to this, China already had two domestically produced large aircraft in the passenger aircraft field, the Y-10 and the C919.

Among them, the Y-10 is a four-engine large jet airliner. It is also the first large jet airliner designed and manufactured by China with complete independent intellectual property rights.

The successful development of the Y-10 aircraft makes China the fifth country after Britain, the United States, Russia and France to independently develop large jet passenger aircraft.

From its first flight to its delivery and up to now, the Y-10 has achieved great success.

But no matter what, the development team of the Y-10 aircraft originally based it on the Boeing 707. Even though it was later improved based on Chinese technology, it was no longer advanced as a whole.

C919 is a medium-range jet airliner developed by the research and development team based on Chinese technology. It has been independently developed from the beginning in accordance with international airworthiness standards and has independent intellectual property rights. It is designed and positioned in the 150-seat single-aisle narrow-body aircraft market.

It can be said that C919 is excellent and successful.

But its positioning is that of a medium-range trunk passenger aircraft, a single-aisle narrow-body aircraft with 150 seats!
China, of course, cannot be satisfied with just the Y-10 and C919!

So, there was C929!

From the beginning of its design, C929 was positioned as a wide-body medium- and long-range passenger aircraft, that is, a long-range wide-body passenger aircraft between the Boeing 767 semi-wide-body passenger aircraft and the Boeing 787 passenger aircraft.

当初确定的指标便是，最大起飞重量为180吨~230吨，载客数量为200~230座。航程指标为7000~12000公里范围。

This is one-third more than the number of passengers the C919 can carry, and its range has also been greatly improved.

The development indicators of C929 are larger than the current Boeing 767 passenger aircraft, but slightly smaller than the Boeing 787 passenger aircraft currently under development by Boeing.

In terms of technology, the C929 wide-body medium- and long-range passenger aircraft is definitely the most advanced twin-engine long-range wide-body passenger aircraft in the world, and it cannot be compared with either the Airbus A330 or the Boeing 777.

After years of hard work, the C929 wide-body aircraft has finally entered the detailed design review stage.

The country attaches great importance to the C929 wide-body passenger aircraft because it is an aircraft that can carry out intercontinental flights and is a large aircraft that can fly directly from China to the United States, South America or Europe.

From the perspective of national defense and security, this type of air transportation should naturally be firmly controlled by the Chinese. After all, if a secret door is left, the loss of an airplane crash will be very staggering, and the casualties will be very heavy.

To put it in a darker way, an Airbus or Boeing aircraft is no different from a large missile at a critical moment.

To understand how much damage a passenger plane can cause, just look at the losses in the 911/ attacks in the United States.

There is no tall building in the world that can withstand a collision with a passenger plane.

There was no other way before, and China had to purchase Airbus or Boeing aircraft to meet China's growing aviation needs and promote China's civil aviation industry.

Since China developed regional aircraft and mainline aircraft, the number of domestically-produced aircraft in civil aviation has been increasing.

For example, China's regional aircraft are now all Y-13, Y-8, and Y-9 passenger aircraft models, among which the Y-13 is the most numerous. After the successful development of the Y-10, the number of Y-10 aircraft of China Civil Aviation Corporation has been increasing every year.

The same principle also applies to C919.

If domestic passenger planes can be used, they will not purchase the same type of Airbus or Boeing aircraft. On the other hand, this is also a consideration of cost performance. Domestic aircraft of the same model are much cheaper than Boeing and Airbus aircraft.

Of course, there is another very important reason, which is for the development of the aviation industry.

The aviation industry is definitely a high value-added industry with a long industrial chain and high profits. Only when there are more high value-added industries like these can more high-paying jobs be provided.

Japan has never given up on large passenger aircraft, but after investing heavily, there is still no sign of it.

This expert group can be said to be quite large, and the experts in various professions are all top experts in China.

Liu Tao is also very satisfied with the progress of C929. If nothing unexpected happens, C929 will be able to complete its maiden flight and finalize its design during the th Five-Year Plan period, and will be able to go into mass production and delivery during the th Five-Year Plan period.

By then, China's entire aviation industry will be larger and more advanced.

But you must know that C929 is not the end. Once C929 is successfully developed, C939 will definitely be developed.

The C939 project has been approved and is a long-range wide-body passenger aircraft.

As for the C949 developed during the 380th Five-Year Plan, it will be an ultra-large wide-body passenger aircraft, competing with Airbus's A747 and Boeing's .

运10、C919、C929、C939、C949多卖出一架飞机，空客、波音便可以少卖出一架飞机，便可以削弱对方一分。

As one gains strength while the other loses strength, one will eventually win the competition.

Liu Tao is looking forward to it. In a few years, China will be able to manufacture super-large double-decker long-range passenger aircraft like the A380. That will definitely be a matter of great pride.

The detailed design review of the C929 aircraft is expected to last seven days.

This also means that everyone will be busy with review work during the entire three-day New Year's Day holiday.

But no one will complain, after all, this is a good thing.

After the review meeting officially started, Liu Tao made an important speech, expressing his satisfaction with the development of the C929 wide-body long-range passenger aircraft.
In his speech, Liu Tao affirmed the work of the development team, and also asked Guizhou Aircraft Industry Corporation and other units to strengthen marketing and publicity efforts to get more orders for the C929 wide-body aircraft. At the same time, they should do a good job in the production of the prototype of the C929 wide-body aircraft and the construction of the production line.

By now, the production capacity of the C919 passenger aircraft has become very strong.

The production of C919 passenger aircraft has driven considerable industrial chain development and employment opportunities.

By next year, the annual production of C919 passenger aircraft will reach 100, and this production capacity is still increasing.

Although the US subprime mortgage crisis broke out, Europe was also deeply affected by the US subprime mortgage crisis and Japan was also dragged into it. The world seemed to be caught in an economic development crisis, and even China was greatly affected.

But in fact, China's development speed is not slow.

As the country promotes stimulating the mainland consumer market and stimulating the scale of the mainland consumer market, through tax cuts and subsidies and other means, it makes residents more willing to consume, which has led to a lot of production capacity originally used for export being converted to domestic consumption.

All countries are very envious of China. On the one hand, residents' savings are very huge, so huge that it is frightening. China's habit of saving money has not changed until now. On the other hand, China's national debt ratio is very low, the debt is very low, and the financial situation is good. No matter what happens, China will appear calm.

Like now, through macro-control measures to stimulate consumer spending, the impact of the US subprime mortgage crisis can be minimized.

Although there is still some impact, it is no longer relevant to the overall situation. (End of this chapter)