Article Author: Beifeng Xuelin
On September 29, the large aircraft C919 independently developed and produced by my country obtained the model certificate and took a solid step towards full commercial use.
Therefore, September 29th is a milestone day for both China's manufacturing and "heavy weapons of a big country".
Of course, while C919 has made a major breakthrough, we can also hear some criticism and negative voices.
For example, is this a political achievement project that "regards life safety and market laws"?
For example, core components rely entirely on imports, is it still an assembly machine? Is there any risk of being stunted?
, for example, is C919 a special edition available in China? No other country in the world can like C919?
1, C919 gets the certificate, and the "singing bad" and "wanting to buy" sounded together in the international arena!
From the establishment of the large aircraft project in 2007, to the comprehensive acceleration of the development and production of all parties in C919 in 2014, and then to obtaining the model certificate this year. Although
has always been questioned about "domestic self-satisfaction", in fact, international attention has been paid to C919 at all.
Before my country's large aircraft strategy was fully launched, only Boeing and Airbus were occupied by the international market for large-scale long-range commercial aircraft in the world.
Boeing, the United States has become the "last facade" of the U.S. high-end manufacturing industry with the feedback from military orders.
In Europe, although Airbus is a French company, in fact, Germany, Italy, Spain and other countries are major shareholders of Airbus.
At the same time, some companies in Germany and Spain are also core suppliers of Airbus' large aircraft industry chain. Every year, they can reap extremely high profits of hundreds of millions and billions of euros by relying solely on Airbus orders.
So in the past, there were only two big players in the world, namely the United States and the "EU collective".
This year's six prototypes of C919 have completed several airworthiness test flights. As the German media "Westphalia" published an article: "Chinese large aircraft took off this year, but who will take it?"
The title of German media is not a question, but a rhetorical question. The whole article is full of doubts and contempt for China-made, and it is concluded that "no one will choose to ride".
At almost the same time, similar "singing C919 voices" appeared collectively in France, Spain, and even the American media. The "sneering" of
just shows that we are not "can't do it", but are extremely threatening.
If the large Chinese plane is just a "big bubble" that is unavailable, European and American people and media will choose to ignore it.
European and American media collectively wrote about the rapid rise of C919 with a "sour and belittled writing style", which shows that European and American aviation experts actually "attention or even panic".
Just got the certificate in China C919. While Western media collectively criticized, there was a "very want to buy" purchase voice at the International Civil Aviation Exhibition.
, the country that just obtained the certificate in C919 and proposed the purchase intention is the African country with a large population Nigeria .
On October 1, when domestic people are celebrating National Day, Montreal, Canada is holding the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) conference.
At this meeting, Nigerian Airlines Minister Hadi Srika expressed his hope to purchase C919 as one of the main models of the newly formed airline in Nigeria.
Don’t underestimate Nigeria just because it is a "poor country in Africa". Nigeria has a large population base.
Over the past few decades, a huge population represents unemployment, famine and severe epidemics. But since Nigeria has stepped up cooperation with our country.
my country's infrastructure construction force has laid an industrial foundation before Nigeria and created jobs at the same time.
With the help of my country's energy and infrastructure projects, Nigeria's demographic dividend will be released the most, so it is almost inevitable to surpass South Africa and become Africa's number one economy.
European and American aviation industry has been born for more than a hundred years, from airport construction to aircraft demand and route construction, it has been almost saturated.
The future market in Europe and the United States only has the market share of the renewal of old aircraft.
takes the main increase in the eyeball aviation market, which is in China, India, Southeast Asia, Africa, and these developing countries.
is therefore different from the "sour and arrogant arrogance" of European and American countries. In the future, we will mainly compete for the international new market, namely Asia, Africa and Latin America .
Therefore, the voice of the African power Nigeria "want to buy" is much more real and credible than the empty and humiliating European and American ones.
2, a big plane is both the original intention and the future!
The big aircraft industry has always been called the crown jewel of high-end advanced manufacturing industry, and it also represents the "high-end manufacturing industry chain cluster" of more than a dozen upstream and downstream categories and dozens of industries.
The first generation of my country's leaders saw the strategic significance of the country's independent manufacturing of civil passenger aircraft in the 1960s and 1970s.
At that time, Chairman Mao met with expert representatives of the development of domestic aircraft several times, and Premier Zhou has also been following the development of the first generation of domestic aircraft.
It’s a pity that “big aircraft development” is an industry that takes decades of accumulation and long-term efforts to achieve results.
In the 1980s and 1990s, our country needed many industries to quickly public relations. The reform and opening up at that time also gave our country a friendly atmosphere of "easy to buy Western planes".
People nowadays criticized the wrong trend of "it is better to buy than to make, and it is better to rent than to buy" at that time. They like to criticize this is the perception of individual leaders who slapped their heads.
In fact, everyone asks the elders, or checks the folk atmosphere reflected in the newspapers of that year. This view of "it is better to buy than to make, and it is better to rent than to buy" is almost the cognition of the whole people at that time and is a "broad consensus" of public opinion.
In this way, the "Yun-10" domestic civil aircraft development project, which was launched in the 1970s, was put on hold by facts in the 1980s.
So, the civil aircraft project re-established in 2007 is a regaining the "original intention" of the 1970s.
large aircraft and the huge advanced high-end industrial chain represented by large aircraft is also an "important public relations direction" for my country's future industrial upgrading.
When high-end manufacturing entered the 21st century, especially after entering the mobile Internet era, we found that many "advanced technology products" could be manufactured at the beginning between Europe, America, Japan, South Korea and China.
, but as they were built, European, Japanese and Korean brands quickly lost their "advancedness" and "cost-performance ratio".
Global high-tech products, only the United Nations can build them.
Today, the world's big aircraft market is only two players: Boeing, the United States, good , EU, , Airbus.
In terms of the competitiveness of the aircraft itself, Airbus has many technical advantages.
However, in the process of the US manipulating the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the European government and politicians blindly obeyed. We know that if the US makes up its mind to "dismember Airbus", there will naturally be officials within the European system to handle this matter.
The United States' ambition to hollow out European physical manufacturing by taking advantage of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is well known to everyone. However, the last EU's key industries, such as the EU's last key industries, can last longer.
What we need to do is to complete its own development and growth before European Airbus is completely dismembered and annexed by Boeing in the United States.
Although Nigeria revealed its intention to buy C919 at this international conference, according to the queue, C919 still has to complete 815 domestic orders.
Build large aircraft is not fried dough sticks, it is impossible to quickly start the pot and quickly explode production capacity.
Company will deliver the first C919 by the end of this year. The next step is to expand the production capacity to a few dozen aircraft per year, and then produce more than 100 aircraft per year.
At this speed, 815 existing orders will be scheduled until 2030.
3, how to get rid of the "bottleneck" curse?
The biggest criticism in the development and production process of C919 for more than ten years was the issue of "core components imported from Europe and the United States".
Moreover, the large domestic aircraft was "bottled" by the United States, and cut off the supply of at any time. This is not our "conspiracy theory speculation" or preparation, but the US government has done it in fact!
February 16, 2020 " Wall Street Journal " reported: The Trump administration is discussing the suspension of supplying aircraft engines to China. The U.S. government will cancel the LEAP 1C engine export license to CFM, which is used in the Chinese C919 passenger aircraft .
is the obstruction of the US government, which slightly delayed the cycle of my country's C919 development to pilot test evidence collection.
This is just the "experimental stage". The threat of supply cuts in the United States only affects our experimental progress.
If it is the future stage of explosive production capacity, the United States will occasionally "bottleneck" on core components, and we will face goodwill losses that cannot be delivered on time.
C919's current domestic production rate is 60%. Although the proportion of imports from Europe and the United States is small, it includes multiple core components. The engine of
C919 is now using the LEAP-1C turbofan engine developed jointly by the United States and France.
In addition to this, the lighting systems, fire protection systems, cockpit control systems, power systems, overheating protection systems, hydraulic systems, , deicing systems, windshield wiper systems, fuel systems, and fuel tank inertification systems used on the C919 are all provided by different American companies.
We are certainly not satisfied with the current situation of almost "full import" of core components. But let’s think about how domestic home appliances, domestic mobile phones, and domestic cars have come through in the past few decades?
Almost every large-scale manufacturing industry chain in China migrated from abroad for 20 years, starting from the initial overseas production, domestic assembly, and even just OEM in China.
Then after more than ten years of substitution of the entire domestic industry chain, foreign brands lost their "competitiveness" and were forced to withdraw from the market. The domesticization of large aircraft must also follow this law of industrial chain transfer. Moreover, at this stage, Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea are more vigilant about our country and the blockade is stricter. This transfer process will only be more difficult and time will be longer. Of course, we will not satisfy the current status of most core components imports at this stage. However, the domestic production rate of parts will also be in line with the progress of explosive production capacity.
In this way, all European and American manufacturers can earn is the profit of the initial "small production capacity". When domestic large aircraft "explode production capacity" and core components in the later stage, domestic supporting factories can replace performance after more than ten years of development and experiments.
C919 From project establishment to certificate acquisition, after 15 years of hardship and reaching the present, it has proved that our long-term strategy can withstand the beaten by changes in the international situation. The evidence collection of
C919 is just the "start" of the "heavy weapon of a great power". It flew thousands of miles away and spread all over the world, which is the future of the "heavy weapon of a great power"!
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