When will I have a long tassel?

Beijing, the headquarters of Commercial Machine Tool Group Corporation.

Duan Rufei, assistant to the general manager, led the two guests into Tang Zifeng's office.

"Mr. Tang, Mr. Zhang and the others are here." Duan Rufei reported.

Tang Zifeng, who was busy working on the computer, raised his head and glanced, then stood up and walked out from behind the desk to greet the two guests. He stretched out his hand to the leading guest and greeted with a smile:

"Mr. Zhang is here to welcome you. I apologize for being a little disappointed in greeting you from afar."

The person called Mr. Zhang is Zhang Lingwei, the deputy general manager of Pujiang Aircraft Manufacturing Company, which was established a few years ago. Next to him is his secretary Liao Tong. Seeing Tang Zifeng reaching out to him, Zhang Lingwei took two steps forward, stretched out his hands to hold Tang Zifeng's hand, and said with a smile: "Mr. Tang is too polite, we are uninvited guests, and we are not disturbing Mr. Tang's work, right? "

Tang Zifeng asked Zhang Lingwei and Liao Tong to sit down on the long sofa in the office. He sat on the short sofa next to him, and then said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay. I received your call yesterday and asked the office to collect your information. I was rushing to make up lessons just now. No, Mr. Zhang is here before the lessons are finished. If something comes up later and I can't catch it, Mr. Zhang, please don't deduct points from me."

Zhang Lingwei pretended to be frightened and said: "Mr. Tang's words really frightened us. I was so scared that I wanted to run back with Xiao Liao. Mr. Tang was busy with everything, and he also took precious time to study our information. It's really We feel so flattered.”

Tang Zifeng said: "The ten thousand machines I manage every day are not as good as one of yours. The leader said that large aircraft are the project of the century and a strategic industry related to whether China can stand in the world. Our machine tool industry The large aircraft project must be protected.

"If the Chinese economy is a big drama, you are the protagonists on the stage, and we are the ones who set up the stage and pull the curtain for you. If the Chinese economy is a table of good food, you are the ones cooking the dishes, and we are the ones washing the dishes for you. Those who chop vegetables and prepare seasonings. If China’s economy is a landscape painting, you are the ones splashing ink with a brush, and we are adding water and polishing the ink next to it. If China’s economy is..."

"Stop it, stop it!" Zhang Lingwei raised his hands in a gesture of surrender and said, "Mr. Tang, I'm convinced, I'm convinced. I've long heard that Mr. Tang is very talented and well-spoken. I've seen it today." .If you continue, our small Pufei Company will be blown to the sky by you. That’s all, I won’t be polite to Mr. Tang anymore, let’s talk about business.”

"Yeah, let's get down to business." Tang Zifeng chuckled, and then gestured to Duan Rufei, who was sitting aside, and said, "Xiao Duan, please make a note of Mr. Zhang's instructions. You can’t remember it wrong.”

"This..." Zhang Lingwei didn't know what to say. He sighed and then said: "Mr. Tang, please don't treat us badly. To be honest, we didn't deliberately want to refute Linji Group's face in the past. It was really There are some unspeakable secrets. As for now, alas, there are still some unspeakable secrets, please understand Mr. Tang."

Pujiang Aircraft Manufacturing Company is a large-scale enterprise established only in the new century. It is responsible for the task of developing domestically produced large passenger aircraft. Large aircraft are the crown jewel of industry and represent the highest level of industrial manufacturing.

Previously, although China has always had the dream of developing large aircraft, it has been difficult to implement it. The main reason is that the industrial base is weak and it is difficult to support such a huge system. In addition, the domestic aviation market was not developed at that time, there was little demand for aircraft, and it was difficult to support a truly large aircraft company.

Entering the new millennium, China's industrial manufacturing level has continued to improve, and its aviation market has grown day by day, so it has gradually gained the ability to impact the large aircraft industry. The state promptly proposed a plan to develop large aircraft and established a new enterprise in Pujiang to undertake the task of developing large passenger aircraft. This enterprise was the Pujiang Aircraft Manufacturing Company.

In the past few years, Pufei was mainly engaged in the preliminary design of aircraft and the basic construction of factory areas. It did not take into account the procurement of production equipment, and it did not have much involvement with the machine tool industry. When the factory began to take shape and the design of the aircraft was basically completed, the issue of aircraft manufacturing was put on the agenda. At this time, there was a need to purchase equipment.

At that time, the Business Opportunity Group had not yet been established, and Tang Zifeng was only the general manager of Lingji. He arranged for the temporary technical department and sales company to contact Pu Fei in order to understand the other party's needs, organize R\u0026D and production, and provide equipment for Pu Fei.

Who would have thought that the technical department and the sales company ran into a wall with Pu Fei. The other party claimed that aircraft manufacturing equipment had special requirements and that Pu Fei had no experience in producing such machine tools. Pu Fei shoulders the heavy responsibility assigned by the country and cannot take the responsibility. Use your own production workshop as a temporary experimental field.

If it were another company that dared to barge like this with Tang Zifeng, Tang Zifeng would definitely take action to educate him. But Pu Fei's background was very big, and it was not in the same system as Linji. Tang Zifeng was also somewhat beyond his reach. The other party claimed that it was to be responsible for the national strategy. Tang Zifeng could not bear the charge of "affecting the national strategy", so he held his nose and endured it.

Yesterday, the office of Business Opportunity Group suddenly received a call from Pufei Company, saying that Pufei Company hopes to carry out more in-depth cooperation with Business Opportunity Group. They will send deputy general manager Zhang Lingwei to Business Opportunity Group to discuss cooperation matters. They hope that Business Opportunity Group can arrange it. A leader of sufficient importance received the reception.

The office reported the situation to Tang Zifeng. Tang Zifeng thought for a moment and decided to personally receive Zhang Lingwei and listen to what the other party wanted.

Tang Zifeng was not a person who couldn't understand the importance of things. Naturally, he would not refuse to cooperate with Pu Fei because of Pu Fei's contempt for Ling Ji in the past. However, in the past, Pu Fei suffered humiliation, and now that the other party came to visit, he didn't make some mockery. This was not Tang Zifeng's style. What he did just now was just revenge for the past.

Tang Zifeng was resentful, and Zhang Lingwei knew it. Speaking of which, current business opportunities, as well as opportunities in the past, are all related to large companies with status. Pu Fei didn't give Linji any face, which was indeed quite offending.

In the first few years after Pufei was founded, everyone at Pufei felt very good about themselves. They felt that they were doing something big. Compared with other domestic companies, there were differences in levels. Therefore, when dealing with other companies, they had a certain sense of self-esteem. Got some arrogance. Now it is inevitable to ask others to give you some respect.

"PU Aircraft Company's main production equipment will be imported from abroad. This was decided when the large aircraft project was approved. We do not intend to exclude domestic equipment." Zhang Lingwei explained to Tang Zifeng.

Tang Zifeng didn't say anything, but Duan Rufei asked on his behalf: "What's the reason for this?"

Zhang Lingwei said: "This matter is actually related to the airworthiness certificate."

"Airworthiness certificate?" Duan Rufei frowned. They were separated by a mountain, and he really didn't understand the things in the other industry.

Liao Tong said: "The thing is like this. The large aircraft we want to build will definitely not be limited to domestic flights in the future, but will fly on international routes. Also, in addition to meeting the needs of domestic airlines, our large aircraft In addition, we also hope to develop foreign customers. At the very least, we hope to enter developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

"If you want to fly international routes and develop foreign customers, you must obtain a foreign airworthiness certificate, which means that you must be allowed to fly on their territory. Airworthiness certificates from third world countries are not difficult. But the European Union The airworthiness certificate and the U.S. airworthiness certificate are probably the two obstacles we face."

Zhang Lingwei took over and said: "To be honest, with our country's current industrial level, it is not difficult for us to develop a large passenger aircraft that reaches the internationally advanced level. At the very least, it will not be inferior to the most widely used Boeing 737 and Airbus 320. After all, these two models were produced at least 30 years ago, and our technology will not be worse than theirs."

"I completely believe this." Tang Zifeng said.

Zhang Lingwei continued: "The difficult thing is that Western countries will not easily issue airworthiness certificates to us. There are two reasons for this. One is that they look down on China's industrial level out of their inertia of thinking, and thus do not believe in ours. Aircraft quality.”

"Such a situation does happen." Tang Zifeng said.

He knows this very well. The quality of some of the machine tools produced by Business Opportunities is no less than that of German and Japanese machine tools, but they are still vulnerable to discrimination in foreign markets. Ultimately, it is the mindset of users who always feel that Chinese products are not as good as Western ones.

Zhang Lingwei continued: "The second reason is a profit reason. The United States has Boeing and the European Union has Airbus. They do not want a new competitor to appear in this market. Our purpose of building large aircraft is also very clear. , that is, in the future international civil aircraft market, we will have one-third of the world, which is sharing the cake of the West, and they will definitely not be happy."

"They can't help but be unhappy with this kind of thing, right?" Duan Rufei said, "We have bought Boeing and Airbus, and we have allowed them to fly in China's sky. So, now that we have built the aircraft, why should they? Don’t let our planes fly? If they dare to ban our planes, we will ban their planes. I don’t believe they don’t care about the Chinese market.”

Zhang Lingwei said: "To put it this way, it is still difficult to implement. Of course we will use our airworthiness certificate to compete with the West, but at the same time, we need more weight. Western countries do not They will also find some high-sounding reasons to issue us airworthiness certificates. In fact, we use imported machine tools to silence them. This is a means for us to obtain airworthiness certificates from the United States and Europe."