The military-industrial scientific research system of the academic master.

After all, the discussion about Embraer was nothing more than an aside, so it didn't take long for the topic between the three of them to return to the large aircraft production line at Hufei.

"No matter what, Hufei's final assembly line and production line must be maintained as much as possible. This is the main tone set by the above."

Ding Gaoheng's words made Du Yishan next to him breathe a sigh of relief.

In the latter's view, if the top management hopes to preserve Hufei's large aircraft production capacity, then at least there should be nothing to worry about in this regard. The most is to continue production at a loss, or to switch to some less advanced models to practice. That’s all.

During the most difficult period of the year, various manufacturing plants in the aviation industry basically survived in this way.

But this is not the case for Chang Haonan, who knows the subsequent plot.

He knows all too well what some people are capable of doing both.

China's civil aviation market has a scale of several thousand mainline aircraft.

And to ensure safety, Chinese airlines, especially passenger routes, will rarely operate old aircraft that are too old.

So this is still a market that is forced to refresh every 8-10 years.

When purchasing aircraft from abroad, whether it is Boeing or Airbus, there is a huge chain of interests hidden behind it.

Not to mention anything else, the public relations expenses spent by these two companies every year amount to ten figures.

Once China is able to manufacture its own passenger aircraft, especially mainline passenger aircraft.

Even if the design of the passenger aircraft is still foreign, and even if the model is not that advanced, China's civil aviation market will definitely use aircraft produced by itself first.

Like those MD82s purchased in the past few years, and the MD90s originally planned for the future.

As a result, there will be less room for "free competition" for other companies.

At the same time, it also means that the "profit space" left for those compradors will become smaller.

And this is what those people don't want to see.

Therefore, internal enemies are even more active than external enemies in disrupting the development of the independent aviation industry.

There is no way they would choose to stop just because of the tone set above.

Sure enough, Ding Gaoheng then said:

"What the Civil Aviation Administration of China means is that if the MD90 project loses its prospects due to Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas, then we can consider the AE100 passenger aircraft solution that Airbus has been recommending to us in the past two years..."

Chang Haonan sneered inwardly after hearing this.

The operation is exactly the same as on the original timeline.

The AE100 project has not even been discussed yet. The reason Airbus approached Hufei was because it was not sure whether a mainline aircraft the size of a regional aircraft would have market prospects, so it wanted to find a partner to share the risk.

Once the project improves, we will definitely find a way to get rid of the latter.

It is true that China and Europe have common interests in the Boeing-McDonnell Douglas merger.

But when it comes to developing an independent aviation industry, it's another story.

What happened in the previous life also proved that this idea was not successful. After abandoning Shanghai Airbus, the A318 passenger aircraft that Airbus took out only sold about 80 aircraft and was hastily discontinued. Airlines that bought this model also quickly chose to sell it. Retired.

In fact, a 100-seat passenger plane is a pure clown for China's passenger flow density, and it is impossible to support the demand for major domestic routes.

Moreover, the take-off weight of the AE100 is only 60 tons, which is overkill for Hufei’s production line.

In short, choosing to find AE100 to inherit the MD90 project can be said to be the worst solution, and it is even worse than biting the bullet and continuing to create a loss-making MD90.

Apart from deliberately destroying China's aviation industry, I can't think of any other reason.

What Ding Gaoheng just said continues:

"As Comrade Xiao Chang said just now, we have no initiative in choosing to cooperate with Airbus. The other party's current upward momentum is very strong, and there is no need to completely produce an aircraft in our country."

"But the only ones I can mobilize currently are the forces related to the Science and Technology Commission system. There is no way to compare with the civil aviation in terms of resources."

Obviously, Ding Gaoheng needs more sufficient reasons to prove to his superiors why the AE100 path is unworkable.

And this is actually a super-topic question for him.

Because in the field of civil aviation industry, especially in terms of development routes that have nothing to do with specific technologies, there is no such thing as the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.

It was entirely because of the aviation industry standards controversy that Chang Haonan caused a few months ago that Ding Gaoheng and the Science and Technology Commission had the opportunity to enter the game in an all-round way.

He himself has a background in aerospace and missiles. There is no chance of buying in these two fields. Obviously there is no room for compradors to survive, and naturally he has never experienced such a scene.

It is not surprising that a foreign aid with a reliable position and excellent professional knowledge is needed.

I'm afraid this is the main purpose of finding Chang Haonan and Du Yishan.

The discussion just now about how to deal with the Boeing-McDonnell Douglas merger should only be regarded as an additional question.

It's just that Chang Haonan failed to answer the additional questions.

Now, he was about to complete the required questions.

"I saw this AE100 solution at the Xiangzhou Air Show this year. I also consulted some Airbus technical staff."

Chang Haonan definitely couldn't directly yell at Ding Gaoheng in Ding Gaoheng's office for comprador harming the country. That would be too obvious and would cause unnecessary trouble to the director of the Science and Industry Commission if heard by outsiders passing by.

But it was impossible for him to directly predict the fate of AE100 without any basis, so he had to start from the air show he just participated in:

"First of all, Airbus has only produced one model, which has not even entered the overall design stage. Judging from my professional perspective, no matter how efficient the engineers are, it will take 2-3 years to complete the process from design to design. The entire process of mass production, so even in terms of project progress alone, it is impossible to follow the MD90 project that may be terminated at any time.”

"Secondly, according to the data given by the other party at the air show, the AE100 only has 100-110 seats, which is about two-thirds of the A320. However, the occupation of airport resources is at the same level as the latter. In terms of operating costs, There is no advantage. There may be demand for some European routes with less passenger traffic, but it will definitely not become mainstream here."

"Finally, it comes back to the issue just mentioned. It is obviously impossible for Airbus to build a new aircraft in accordance with my country's aviation industry standards. This means that if Hufei chooses the AE100 project, it will have to accept another Brand-new manufacturing and assembly standards may not be beneficial to the development of our country’s aviation industry in the long run.”

Ding Gaoheng nodded repeatedly after hearing a few words, obviously quite satisfied with this set of answers.

But Chang Haonan knew that this was still not enough.

When discussing this kind of practical problem, you can't just raise the difficulties without giving solutions.

Therefore, the Science and Technology Commission still needs to come up with a more feasible plan.