Chapter 55: Don't change it if you give it to the governor
The construction of the airport in Panshi has received support from the central government. In addition to funds, the central government provides all other resources needed, including design talents, a list of units with relevant construction qualifications, clearance of route management, and coordination issues with surrounding airports, which are very complicated.
The Ministry of Construction also selected some experts to assist the Panshi Municipal Government in handling matters related to airport construction. Of course, the brain-dead who had a dispute was definitely not available. The Civil Aviation Administration also sent an expert team, all of whom had rich experience in airport construction and airport management. They not only had to make detailed revisions to the airport planning, but also examine the local conditions in Panshi to find out how to build a large airport most reasonably.
Since such a large project is needed here, there is a person with a very high administrative level to take charge. Regarding this issue, there are naturally many people who want to obtain this position, with investments of tens of billions of dollars, which has great opportunities and benefits.
However, there is also a very important issue among them, that is, the construction funds were not allocated by the state as before, but were provided entirely by private individuals, so it is difficult to make a choice when it comes to the candidates for commanders. For those outside the system, officials are not very binding. After understanding the whole story, the upper class who knew the inside story felt that the decision-making power of the problem should be returned to the Panshi Municipal Government, that is, Fan Heng would be the commander-in-chief himself.
Of course, a cadre at the department level is not enough to command so many people in all aspects. Therefore, the Organization Department of the Central Committee issued a cadre appointment and removal notice based on the results of the investigation and the opinions of the upper level, adjusting Fan Heng's administrative level directly from the department level to the department level, which is considered an exceptional promotion and appointment. While being responsible for Panshi Daily's work, it also needs to focus on the construction of Panshi Airport. At the same time, it still entrusted him with the deputy secretary of the Wangtian Provincial Party Committee, but it was not in charge of the party affairs work in the province, but focused on the construction of Panshi Airport, which is a very important construction project even in China.
"Oh, I finally became a ministerial-level leader." After hearing his father talk about this, Fan Wubing just nodded and did not react much. "It's just that the ministerial-level leader is still a bit different from what I imagined."
"What else do you want?" Fan Heng asked strangely.
"You are a ministerial-level official, and you are a master of your position. There is no change in your actual position. Therefore, compared with the regular official-level official-level official-level official, of course, it is a bit unreasonable and unsatisfactory." Fan Wubing said to Fan Heng, "But if after the Panshi Airport is built, your ministerial-level official will have real achievements. Even if the average ministerial-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official-level official
When Fan Heng heard his son commenting on his position as if he was discussing buying cabbage, he said with some displeasure, "You kid, you like to compete with him for nothing! You, I am a person, don't you know what kind of person I am? I just want to do something real, to improve the economy of the Rock and to allow the people of Rock to live a good life. This is the greatest comfort to me. As for those who are not at the Minister-level or the Minister-level, it is really meaningless. Do you say that if I don't take this Minister-level or the Minister-level, you won't recognize me as me?"
"Uh, that's not going to happen." Fan Wubing immediately laughed, "Even if you resign, I have nothing to complain about. Your son has money, enough to support you in his old age."
After a while, the father and son laughed and talked about the issue of building an airport.
Up to now, there are about 100 civil airports in China, and some of the large airports are already in overload operation. It is imperative to build new large airports. The most troublesome thing is naturally the source of construction funds. Regarding this point, there are generally three aspects to solve, namely, the local government raises some funds, the central government allocates some funds, and the Civil Aviation Administration allocates some funds.
The part of the funds allocated by the State Administration of Civil Aviation is raised from the airport construction fees collected from the airports currently operating. They are taken from the airport and used for the airport. Based on the current airport construction fee of 15 yuan per passenger, the airport construction fee collected from each airport every year by the State Administration of Civil Aviation is a very considerable number.
According to the joint document of the State Administration of Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Finance, all the income from airport construction fees is entered into the central treasury and returned to the financial departments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government in a certain proportion. It is used specifically for local airport construction and operation subsidies, and the rest is included in the central fiscal budget management to support airport construction. However, in fact, the returned part of the funds did not really make the special funds, but became dividends between the State Administration of Civil Aviation and the airport.
This also leads to passengers not receiving corresponding returns after paying the expensive airport construction fee. Since the airport construction fee is specifically used for airport construction, passengers who spend money should enjoy various low-priced services. However, the current situation is that there are generally high service fees in airports across the country, shopping prices are ridiculously high, and even strange things such as asking for directions. The existence of various unreasonable phenomena certainly makes passengers very dissatisfied with the payment of this fee.
"Take this as an example, I think that even if we build an airport, we need to be different from other state-owned airports in terms of management, otherwise we cannot become large airports that meet or exceed international standards. Things formed under a system such as airport construction fees should be abolished first." Fan Wubing cited this example and explained to his father Fan Heng what the difference between private airports and state-owned airports should be different.
Even if the Panshi Municipal Government controls 51% of the equity of Panshi Airport, if the major shareholders do not cooperate, this matter will not be done. As a practical private airport, the Panshi Municipal Government can only occupy a large proportion of the shares in ownership, and cannot compete with the major shareholders in terms of operating rights. This is also the only way to ensure that Panshi Airport will maintain efficient vitality and development after it is built.
"This matter involves too much. You can come up with a more detailed plan, indicate that it is the capital's request, and then hand it over to give the leaders a headache. Anyway, it is your consumption, so what can't be said?" Fan Heng agreed with this and did not think that this was an unreasonable requirement. "The big tone now is reform and opening up, so you must first liberate your thoughts and keep up with it in your actions. As long as it is beneficial to the local economic development and will not affect the development of the surrounding areas, you will not encounter any major resistance. What's more, this time, Vice Premier Li Jidong is not the only one who cares about the construction of Panshi Airport."
However, although Fan Heng knew that his son was super rich, he still couldn't understand one thing. Although there were no large airports around Panshi, the passenger flow was insufficient. If Fan Wubing set up a small airport, or could ensure profitability to maintain the operation of the airport, wouldn't he really be too ambitious if he had just started such a large airport project at once?
Although he refuted the opinions of the Ministry of Construction experts at the joint office meeting, from the bottom of his heart, he was not sure. God knows whether there will be so much passenger flow after the airport is completed? If no one uses it, he will die tragically!
In terms of the scale of the runway alone, the construction goal of Panshi Airport is very high. You must know that a 2,200-meter-long runway is enough to take off and land large aircraft such as Boeing 767, while Fan Wubing sets the length of the runway to 4,200 meters, which makes people feel that he is burning money.
As for the airport construction requirements of ordinary cities, as long as the 4c ​​runway reaches the 4c ​​runway, it can meet the requirements of lifting Boeing 737 passenger aircraft and below, and the 4d runway can meet the safe take-off and landing of Airbus 300, Boeing 767, McDonnell 82 and below. Therefore, airports in ordinary cities, even if they take into account the needs of urban expansion in the future and the potential upgrade capability requirements for airports, are basically designed according to the 4c ​​runway, and 4d runway upgrade space is reserved.
High-standard construction like Panshi Airport has exceeded the construction requirements of the 4e-level runway. You should know that the runway of the Hong Kong International Airport, which is under construction, is also of the 4e-level runway, with a length of only 3,800 meters and a width of only 60 meters, which is much smaller than the construction requirements of the 4,200-meter-long and 70-meter-wide super runway of Panshi Airport today.
Regarding this, Fan Wubing naturally has his own general plan. Panshi is different from Hong Kong and Shanghai. The largest investment in building an airport here, and the issue of land use fees does not need to be considered separately, because the northern part of Panshi is basically in wasteland, with only sporadic residents, and the cost of relocation is very small and can be ignored. The land cost is indeed calculated into their equity ratio according to municipal investment.
Since there is no need to consider the investment in land, it is always good to occupy a lot of land. When the rock develops in the future, it will be even more difficult to occupy land for free.
Another point is that most of the runways in ordinary urban airports in China are about 45 meters wide, and runways that are 60 meters wide are rare. If large passenger planes like the Airbus a380 appear in the future, such runways will definitely not be able to take off and land unless another parallel runway is built.
The required runway length of the Airbus A380 is about 3,600 meters and the width is 75 meters. The length of the Panshi Airport runway is far beyond this data. Although the width is only 70 meters, the width is 7.5 meters, plus the guide shoulders of 7.5 meters each on both sides, it reaches 85 meters, which is enough to meet the take-off and landing requirements of the Airbus A380.
Fan Wubing means that just a single runway should meet the requirements of take-off and landing of large passenger aircraft, and he made a decision after careful consideration of the size of the airport.
According to what he learned before his rebirth, the operating efficiency of small and medium-sized airports was not very good, and the losses were relatively serious. For example, at that time, the seven airports in Jiangsu Province, except for Nanjing Lukou Airport, which operated with small and small and medium-sized airports, were basically in a tragic fog.
On the one hand, there is a huge investment in airport construction, and on the other hand, there is a reality that small and medium-sized airports are generally losing money. Any new airport launch has to face doubts about its economic benefits. After all, there are many vivid negative teaching materials in reality. For example, Nantong Xingdong Airport is an example that has been repeatedly mentioned.
In the 1980s, the application for the Nantong Municipal Government to build an airport was approved by the State Council. The airport is located in Xingdong Town, Tongzhou City, away from Nantong City, so it is called Xingdong Airport. Construction started in 1990 and its first voyage on New Year's Day in 1990.
After Nantong built the airport, the local area was happy and said that Nantong and Nantong were no longer difficult to access. But in fact, after the Nantong Airport was launched, it has been in a situation of loss, with the airport's cumulative losses of over 100 million yuan.
The reason for the loss is obvious, there are too few routes and flights. The only routes that operate stably are Nantong to Beijing and Guangzhou, which are seven and five flights per week, which are also the lifeline of Nantong Airport. According to the scale of Nantong Airport, 32 flights per week can reach the balance point of profit and loss. However, it is difficult to open a route, especially in the mid-to-late 1990s, when small airports were built, the competition was even more fierce. Under the fierce market competition, whether you can make money is the primary consideration for airlines to open routes and flights. In addition, the competition between Wuxi Shuofang Airport and Changzhou Benniu Airport in the surrounding area also made Xingdong Airport difficult to cope with.
Fan Wubing learned from this and naturally would not repeat the same mistakes. With his strong financial advantages and the inherent advantages of central provinces and regions without large civil airports, he made up his mind to carry out large airport projects. In his words, if you want to play, you have to play big, otherwise where will I spend my money?
For large airports like Pudong Airport, the average daily flights reach about 560. This is the data after being diverted by other airports in Shanghai. Their income is quite considerable, and some attached income is even more profitable. The advantage of Panshi's large airport is far larger than Pudong Airport, and it can basically form a regional monopoly position. Such a good market prospect cannot be let go.
Generally speaking, airport income can be divided into two categories: aviation income and non-air income. The income of domestic airports mainly relies on aviation income, especially take-off and landing fees and passengers' passing fees. In this case, it is obvious that the advantages of large airports are much greater. Not only are there many routes and many flights, but after the large airport is built, there will be no small and medium-sized airports competing with them nearby, which can form a dominant situation. This is also an important reason why Fan Wubing is determined to invest.
The market awareness of domestic airports is weak, mainly in the traditional operation model, and is still very backward in airport commercial development. The reason why there is such a huge gap in non-air business is not the lack of demand in domestic airports. The root cause of the serious backwardness in domestic airport commercial development is that domestic airports have been under strict government control for a long time, not independent business entities, but closer to a government agency. The airport authorities have implemented exclusive monopoly operations for many services, including airport commercials, and have serious lack of service awareness and market awareness.
Even major airports, including the three major hub airports, rely more on regional advantages and extended growth, that is, the increase in aviation traffic, while ignoring the business opportunities brought by airports due to the aggregation of people and logistics.
Therefore, Fan Wubing told his father Fan Heng, "The air traffic volume of major domestic airports has long been among the forefront of the world. The airport has gathered a large number of high-end business travelers and consumers. Driven by consumption upgrading, China will gradually grow into one of the most important luxury consumer countries in the world. In addition to the simple travel demand, airport passengers also have the needs of shopping, catering, business, leisure and other needs in the airport. In addition, the airport also gathers a large number of high-value-added cargo. In order to improve efficiency and save logistics costs, related companies have the need to handle and process goods near the airport, which is also a key issue that our airport needs to consider. Due to the emergence of demands such as take-off and landing of different airlines, aircraft maintenance, air meal distribution and even aircraft cleaning and water removal, it has also become a growth point for airport business."
Fan Wubing also has a deep understanding of this. A friend of his rebirth was cooking seafood. This thing was basically transported by plane. As a result, due to the weather conditions, the plane flight was cancelled. His seafood was dead in a lack of adaptation to the living environment, so he naturally suffered heavy losses. If the airport could meet these requirements at that time, I believe the other party would not care about spending more money.
Only by providing good services to meet the needs of customers can we ensure the stable growth of operating income. Fan Wubing's idea is of course ahead of everyone. He has even considered that the operation and management of ground staff, terminals, food, advertising, buses, property, etc. should be added to the airport's annexes, and the source of non-aerospace business revenue should be increased.
"What are your specific plans? Let me tell you about it?" Fan Heng was obviously very interested. He felt that his son's head was full of fantasy ideas, which was even more wonderful than Aladdin's magic lamp.
Fan Wubing also became interested and told his father, "These are all advanced thinking. I will tell you, "You'd better not tell others first, otherwise our business secrets will be revealed and others will learn it, which will cause great losses!"
"I still know the priorities of this." My father Fan Heng assured with confidence.
"For example, we can build distinctive leisure, shopping and entertainment centers in the airport waiting hall, implement open bidding, and hand over these commercial businesses to institutions with strong brand strength. Starting from price and service, it breaks the traditional idea that domestic tourists are slaughtered when buying things at the airport, and focuses on high-end shopping brands, so that tourists can get a reasonable price and first-class shopping experience here." Fan Wubing waved his arm and said to his father Fan Heng, "We can build car sales, repairs, and rental areas around the airport, and opens a special area for car sales, maintenance, and rentals.
The sales, maintenance and leasing of various brands of cars are not only convenient for tourists, but also increased the airport's revenue. It can also vigorously open up spaces to advertise, advertise on public utensils such as blank spaces on airport walls, trolleys, etc., and establish large-scale advertising rotating media outdoors to increase revenue. It can also imitate the practice of foreign airports, make full use of millions of square meters of open space around the airport, plant soilless lawns and four-season flowers, establish soilless lawn factories and flower industry bases, so that limited land can fully utilize its economic benefits."
"Why don't we do the business of the airport by ourselves? Can we also drive the local economy of Panshi?" Fan Heng agreed in principle about the question mentioned by Fan Wubing. The only thing he was a little puzzled is why he packaged these businesses and handed them over to other companies to operate?
"Dad, you can't make money. If you want to do it well, you must be the most professional!" Fan Wubing expressed his point of view and continued to explain, "We are located in the mainland, so we can also open up air cargo business and transport special products from other places, such as seafood, specialty fruits with short shelf life, electronic and communication products, etc. At the same time, we can also transport local specialty products, such as specialty products with short shelf life, export products with relatively high time requirements. While meeting the increasingly diversified needs of passengers, cargo and aircraft, the airport also has to continuously strengthen this demand, making the airport an aviation city with complete commercial, leisure and business needs."
"After you say this, my blood is boiling!" Fan Heng was extremely longed for by the beautiful prospects portrayed by his son.
Finally, Fan Wubing waved his fist and said, "Our ultimate goal is to build a Panshi Economic Circle with Panshi Airport as the axis. Develop the aviation logistics industry, airport supporting services, airport-oriented high-tech industries, business exhibition industry, ecological health and leisure industry and modern urban agriculture with the airport as the center. Through the above aspects of operation, there is no reason to believe that Panshi Airport can significantly improve its profits. Moreover, this will drive Panshi itself to become an international metropolis in central my country!"
"As you say that, I won't do anything to the governor, I'll just stay in the rock." Fan Heng said with a smile.
Fan Wubing also smiled and said, "If you give it to the Vice Premier, you can still consider it. As for the others, I think it's okay!"
Chapter completed!