Chapter 268: Thousands of Thoughts
After Fan Wubing left the meeting room, he stood outside on the lawn and looked at the dense forest at the foot of the mountain from afar. The red leaves looked like fire, and the amiable white mist was gently floating in the forest, with a breath of fireworks that was not as good as the world.
What I said in the conference room just now was shocking, but I don’t know how much they could listen to?
From the influence of intention, to the change of concepts, to the unity of understanding, and finally to the formation of enforceable policies and regulations, this requires a long process, especially in a political system like China where senior leaders are aging. It is indeed not easy to find a powerful figure with courage, determination and corresponding power to promote social progress and institutional changes.
However, Fan Wubing's trip was not in vain, and it was still very rewarding. The senior executives finally agreed to let Fan Wubing digest these experts and equipment by himself, and only absorb dozens of influential experts into a research institute directly under the Ministry of National Defense to serve. What is left to Fan Wubing is most of the resources.
As for the seven large strategic transport aircraft bought by Fan Wubing, the senior management was still quite excited. However, after all, this was purchased by Fan Wubing privately. They were always embarrassed to benefit from it. Although they also expressed an admiration tone in front of Fan Wubing, Fan Wubing just refused to pay attention to this, so everyone could only be jealous.
In fact, even if the military snatched all these seven transport aircraft, it would not have much improvement to the overall capacity of the Air Force. After all, the domestic aviation manufacturing industry is not enough to manufacture such large transport aircraft. The large aircraft project is not yet mature in China. This is not only in terms of design, but also involves heavy industry and precision processing technology. Even the requirements for synthetic materials are very high. Without a long-term development in any aspect, there is no foundation for realizing the large aircraft project.
However, Fan Wubing also believes that if with his own financial support, through the use of these Ukrainian technical talents and based on them, a large number of excellent technical talents who truly belong to him and form his own precision processing industry, then it will be not far from the domestic military-industrial enterprises entering the world first.
In fact, Fan Wubing's involvement in military-industrial enterprises was just relying on some cash technology of military-industrial enterprises to achieve the dual progress of civilianization and militarization. Simply developing military-industrial products, the market is very narrow. The domestic market is a little better, but the domestic market is limited. China's strategy is defensive and claims to never be dominant. Therefore, it has led to the possibility of China having a large-scale arms consumption market. If it wants to export, it needs to be constrained by Europe, the United States and other countries and is prone to encounter many restrictions.
Just from the so-called intellectual property protection, many technologies of military-industrial enterprises have been stymied by the United States.
Since the 1980s, disputes over high-tech intellectual property protection have increased. Honeywell, the United States accused Japan Minolta of stealing its phase detection technology for the development of automatic focus technology, and the court ordered Minolta to compensate 130 million US dollars. Hughes, the United States sued NASA, accused NASA of stealing its stationary satellite technology, claiming 3.4 billion US dollars. In the end, the U.S. government lost the case and was forced to pay 300 million US dollars in compensation. Lolar Fairyd, the United States sued dozens of major Japanese and South Korean companies, accusing it of stealing its charge-coupled device patents and demanding compensation of 10 billion US dollars. Since 1987, Texas Instruments, the United States used the infringement dispute to claim compensation of more than 900 million US dollars.
If you want to enter the international arms market, you will inevitably encounter problems similar to this.
Moreover, the arms market has also undergone a new transformation, from quantity first to quality first.
Taking Russia as an example alone, the number of weapons to be destroyed in recent years has been very alarming, mainly including 8,000 missiles, 40,000 missile warheads, 100 million artillery shells, 20,000 aviation bombs, 10,000 torpedoes, 8,000 mines, and even fifteen first-generation nuclear reactors.
There are thousands of aircraft in the United States that have never been used once parked in the hangar. Therefore, the US government emphasizes the consideration of military and civilian technologies in one basket to solve the problems of national security and economic competitiveness at the same time. The US Department of Defense requires that civilian prospects and technology transfer should be considered during the project establishment stage of military projects. During the project implementation stage, it emphasizes the use of civilian technologies and commercial components as much as possible.
In view of this, Fan Wubing also hopes to accelerate the transformation of military technology to civilian technology. At the same time, it can also react to the improvement of military technology through the practice and improvement of civilian technology, so as to maintain the sustainable development of domestic independent research and development projects.
And there is another point that Fan Wubing has to face up to it, that is, domestic military-industrial enterprises, the products they produce are sold to the military at cost prices, so there is no profit growth point, which makes them very little investment in R&D. Unless it is a subject established by the state, they rarely have the opportunity to study these things, without the energy, financial resources, and motivation.
Most of the foreign military-industrial enterprises are private enterprises, and the price of selling weapons is relatively high and the sales volume is large. The weapons they sell to the US military are sold at market prices, so the annual income and profits are high. In this way, foreign military-industrial enterprises have sufficient profits to support themselves in research and development, and constantly launch new products to improve their comprehensive competitiveness, maintain their advanced position in the arms market, forming a virtuous cycle.
Therefore, Fan Wubing’s ideal development direction is high-precision precision processing industry and automated control systems. These two items are the basis of military and civil engineering and are indispensable at any time.
After Fan Wubing stood outside for a while, someone came to chat with him.
Although these people are of a relatively high level, the age gap is too big, and most people are not very upright, so Fan Wubing really can't raise much interest to carefully study the details of major policies and economic operations with them, at most they are just polite words.
By the time Fan Wubing was sent back to his sister Fan Ting, it was already evening.
Fan Ting prepared a sumptuous dinner to entertain Fan Wubing, and accompanied her secretary Wang Xuyun, who were three people in total. There were more than a dozen dishes on the table and soup that had been boiled for an afternoon.
"I went back to Russia and Ukraine, how did I get it?" Fan Ting asked while picking up food for Fan Wubing.
Fan Wubing was drinking soup with his head down. Although it was just a pot of tofu soup, the ingredients were all excellent choices, and the heat was sufficient, which made it very comfortable to drink. Fan Wubing was strange. When did the sister's cooking skills improve?
"The gains this time are quite good. The key is to bring back many technical talents and a large number of precision equipment from Ukraine. I plan to take root in China and do some physical things well." Fan Wubing replied.
"How many people are there?" Fan Ting picked up another soft crispy meat stewed with chopsticks for Fan Wubing, and then asked.
"It seems that there are five or six hundred people - but they are all expert-level -" Fan Wubing didn't have a definite number in his heart, so he roughly estimated it.
"Five or six hundred experts?" Fan Ting was shocked and finally realized after a long time, "Brother, what are you going to do?! Have you emptied all the Ukrainian research institutes?!"
"There are many experts!" Fan Wubing felt a little moved when he thought of Ukraine's technical reserves. The kind of research institutes are called research institutes. Thousands of technical talents gathered together. The scientific and effective division of labor and cooperation mechanism was accurate to every part of the large system. It was really amazing. No wonder the Soviet Union was able to lead the United States in high-end military technology at that time. It was really unlucky!
However, after hearing that Fan Wubing bought seven large transport aircraft, Fan Ting asked with great interest to have the opportunity to experience the difference between sitting on a large transport aircraft and looking down at the ground?
"The difference is that it is a bit troublesome when parachuting. You have to open the belly cabin first, otherwise the passengers on it will not jump out. This is quite fatal in critical moments. Think about it, your plane will explode, but the cabin door cannot be opened. Is there any rescue in the people there?" Fan Wubing had personal experience this time, so he naturally had psychological barriers to flying, so he kept persuading the sister to try his best to dispel this unsafe idea.
"By the way, Ouyang Xiaowei went to the military academy. I saw her that day. I will stay in Beijing for a few days. Wouldn't you go and see her?" Fan Ting mentioned Ouyang Xiaowei casually. After all, they had more contact at that time, and Fan Wubing also looked like she was looking for death and fell in love with this girl. Fan Ting naturally paid more attention to Ouyang Xiaowei than others.
"Well, it's a headache! So what if I see it?" Fan Wubing was a little upset when he mentioned this topic.
Feelings are also a very wonderful feeling. They come very suddenly and go there very quickly. Fan Wubing had a very sincere relationship with Ouyang Xiaowei. Even now, he would often think of her. However, Ouyang Xiaowei insisted on going to a military academy according to the arrangements of her family, which made Fan Wubing feel a little uncomfortable.
Does it mean that if you stay by your side, you will not have the opportunity to realize your self-worth? Going to a military academy is naturally a good choice for ordinary people, but what is the significance of Ouyang Xiaowei, a child who is born in a high-ranking family?
Chapter completed!