The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Inspecting Shen Fei.

Liu Tao could clearly feel that Shen Fei had developed rapidly in recent years.

Especially after the implementation of the strategy to revitalize the old industrial base in Northeast China, Shenfei has developed very rapidly.

But think about it, Shenfei is located in the Northeast and is an extremely important industrial enterprise in the Northeast. Naturally, it is an object of strong support.

This kind of support includes talent support and financial support!

"Leader, this is the J-31 fighter jet we are developing." Shenyang Aircraft Corporation General Manager Li Fangyong and party official Luo Yang accompanied Liu Tao to inspect Shenyang Aircraft Corporation.

Li Fangyong belongs to the third batch of the college entrance examination after its restoration. He studied at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and was assigned to Shenyang Aircraft Corporation after graduation. He served as a technician and section chief in the Technology Department of Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, deputy director of the Aviation Department of Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, and director of the Technical Office. In 1999, when the emphasis was on promoting young cadres, Li Fangyong was promoted to deputy general manager of Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. He was then promoted step by step and is now the general manager of Shenyang Aircraft Corporation.

Luo Yang also belongs to the third batch of the college entrance examination after the resumption of the college entrance examination. He graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics with a major in aircraft design in 1983 and was assigned to the Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute as a designer. Later, he was promoted to deputy secretary and executive deputy director of the Party Branch of the 1994th Office of the Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute. In , he was promoted to deputy director of the Organization Department of the Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute. One year later, he was promoted again to director of the Organization Department of the Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute. He is currently the chairman of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation and a party official!

Influenced by Panshan Group, almost all state-owned enterprises implement the principle that the top leader is an industry insider.

Of course, it is different from the Panshan Group system, where the general manager is often the top leader, holding great power and concurrently serving as the party group secretary. Other general managers and party committee/party group secretaries are separate.

As for the aircraft models he has seen so far, Liu Tao naturally has an impression of them.

The J-31 fighter jet was submitted for registration by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation last year. The funding came from the self-raised funds of China Aviation Industry Group, rather than from state grants.

The J-31 fighter is positioned as a high-performance multi-purpose fighter with twin engines, a single seat, a fixed inclined vertical tail, no canards, and a DSI air intake. It is intended to be the carrier-based fighter of the Chinese Navy in the early st century.

According to its technical indicators, it has a stealth design, a medium-sized carrier-based aircraft, a maximum take-off weight of 25 tons, a length of 17 meters, a wingspan of 12 meters, a height of 5 meters, an empty weight of 10 tons, a maximum take-off weight of 27 tons (5 auxiliary fuel tanks, and the rest are equipped with ground-to-ground precision-guided bombs), a range of 3000 kilometers, and a ferry range of 5000 kilometers.

It is said to be the navy's carrier-based fighter at the beginning of the new century, but in fact it is intended to be a supplement to the fifth-generation carrier-based fighter and is aimed at export.

The export market is a huge market.

Before this, this area was almost completely monopolized by Panshan Group.

The export rights of both the J-10 and J-11 fighter jets are in the hands of Panshan Group.

They are the J-7 series fighter jets and the J-8 series fighter jets. Except for some models, the export rights of other models are also in the hands of Panshan Group.

Shenfei, or China Aviation Industry Corporation, is quite envious of the overseas market.

They have been working hard over the years.

However, the main purpose is to cooperate with other countries to develop new models and make profits.

The J-31 fighter jet is the ambitious work of Shenyang Aircraft Corporation and China Aviation Industry Corporation.

So far, there are only two fifth-generation fighter jets in the world, one is the United States' F22 fighter jet, and the other is China's J-20 fighter jet.

As for the US F35 stealth fighter, it has not yet been officially put into service and cannot be considered a true fifth-generation fighter. However, so far, there have been a lot of news about the F35 fighter.

According to the information about the F35 fighter jet that has been circulated, it has three models: the F35A stealth fighter, the F35B stealth fighter, and the F35C stealth fighter.

The F35A stealth fighter is mainly used for taking off from conventional runways to perform combat missions, the F35B stealth fighter is suitable for short-range/vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and the F35C stealth fighter is mainly used for carrier-based aircraft on aircraft carriers.

The J-31 fighter jet is targeted at the F35 fighter jet, and the F35 fighter jet is used as a market competitor to compete for international users.

The F22 and J-20 fighters are both twin-engine heavy fighters, while the F35 fighter is a single-engine medium fighter.

This relationship is like that between the F15 fighter and the F16 fighter, and the J-11 fighter and the J-10 fighter, which are high and low configurations.

Twin-engine heavy fighters such as the F22 fighter and the J-20 fighter have powerful combat capabilities, but there is no doubt that their prices are also high. Even for the world's first and second largest economies such as the United States and China, it is still a bit painful to equip them.

Especially the United States, which is a capitalist country that values ​​interests.

Those arms dealers all need huge profits, and the unit price of fighter jets is getting more and more expensive.

Shenfei introduced the J-31 fighter very optimistically and predicted that the design of the J-2015 fighter would be finalized by 31.

After all, Shen Fei does not need to create a lot of technologies from scratch and conquer them one by one.

Of course, brothers should settle accounts clearly. Shen Fei has to pay technology licensing fees for using Guifei's technology.

After inspecting Shenfei, Liu Tao went to inspect FAW.

FAW is a state-owned large-scale automobile manufacturing enterprise. Its foundation was laid in 1953, and it was completed and put into production in 1956. It manufactured the first Jiefang brand truck in the Republic of China, and the first Dongfeng brand car and the first Hongqi brand luxury car in the Republic of China in 1958. The establishment of FAW has created a new history of China's automobile industry, and it is also known as the "eldest son of China's automobile industry"!
However, after the reform and opening up, FAW inevitably appears to be inferior to China Automobile Group.

All core technologies come from China Automobile Group, and the patent fees paid to China Automobile Group every year are a huge sum of money.

So far, the price of cars produced by FAW has not exceeded 20 yuan.

Back then, China Fortune Land Development mainly focused on exports and striving in the international market, giving up part of the domestic automobile market.

But no matter what, FAW is still one of the largest automobile companies in China and one of the Fortune 500 companies!

Last year, FAW achieved sales of 140 million vehicles and sales revenue of over billion yuan.

Accompanying Liu Tao in inspecting FAW was FAW Group Chairman Li Guoqiang, who was a member of the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination. He graduated from Tsinghua University and was assigned to Panshan Group after graduation. He was later transferred to China Automobile Group. He had served as deputy general manager of China Automobile Group and a member of the party group of China Automobile Group. Two years ago, he was transferred to FAW Group as chairman.

Among the 11 members of FAW’s leadership team, five are from the Panshan Group system.

This phenomenon is very common in state-owned enterprises, ministries or local governments.

Although at present, this kind of transfer of government and enterprise personnel is only possible when the level reaches a certain level, this channel has always existed. (End of this chapter)