Chapter 64: Break into the door
In order to take care of the travel fatigue and jet lag of the exchange students, the group activity on the next day did not start until 10 o'clock in the morning local time. The organizer gathered all the exchange students. In addition to visiting some booked attractions, they also had to arrange their living problems in Paris in the next six months.
Fan Wubing left two assistants to negotiate with the organizer about Tong Xiaoyun's problems. He went to the Airbus headquarters to conduct research with other senior officials, accompanied by people sent by Airbus.
Airbus is jointly owned by two of Europe's largest arms suppliers, European Aerospace Defense and British Aerospace Systems, including companies from Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. It is an aviation consortium. It was established itself to deal with the situation where American aircraft unified the world, with the goal of surpassing Boeing and McDonald.
Although Airbus has products that compete with Boeing in other models, it has always been a blank in the market for large-scale long-range civil transport aircraft. Although it has launched the Airbus A340, it still cannot shake the absolute dominance of Boeing 747. Although Airbus's large passenger aircraft project has been launched, at present, large passenger aircraft with seats of about 500 people are still the dominant ones in Boeing. If they want to occupy this part of the market, they will have to wait until the a380 is released before they have this opportunity.
As of now, Airbus is very enthusiastic about developing large civil aviation transport aircraft of 500 to 800 seats, and is trying to seize the large passenger aircraft market controlled by Boeing. At the same time, the company also proposed an inference on the future development of civil aviation, believing that the development of civil aviation transport aircraft in the world will continue to develop towards large-scale development in the future, and thus put forward the concept of hub radiation, that is, passengers gather at the hub airport through branch flights, and then transport them to another hub airport by large transport aircraft, and finally take the branch passenger aircraft to reach the destination.
Although Airbus staff knew that Fan's Investment Group was interested in purchasing its own aircraft, they were not very clear about the specific model and quantity. After all, the source of the news was from the Chinese government. Recently, during negotiations on the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two governments, China has proposed an order of $3 billion in Airbus.
This intention made Airbus very excited. This is not the first time that Chinese airlines have purchased Airbus aircraft.
Since the Civil Aviation Administration of China introduced the first aircraft of Airbus in 1985, the one that purchased the most Airbus aircraft should be China Eastern Airlines. They have ordered fifteen Airbus aircraft one after another. Last year, China Southern Airlines also ordered six A300-600 models.
Although Fan Wubing had seen the landscape of the aircraft production factory on TV before, this time I was there, I still felt a little shocked. No wonder this big guy can be put down here. The factory is so big!
According to the person in charge of the reception, they now have about 40,000 employees, distributed in various factories in four countries. If they can get a large number of new orders this year, they can solve thousands of job opportunities.
"This is the gap-" Fan Wubing said to a staff member around him, "The orders worth billions of dollars are just a few thousand jobs. If it is in our country, how many people will need to complete it?"
Everyone couldn't help but shake their heads. The country can only be a labor-intensive industry now, and there is no competitiveness in these high-tech projects. It is really out of reach to achieve overall development by introducing foreign second- or even third-rate technologies to improve the domestic technical level.
The Frenchman who accompanied them did not understand Chinese, and the translator was brought by Fan Wubing, so he naturally would not reveal the topic of orders worth billions of dollars to him. Otherwise, I believe that the Frenchman who likes to make trouble would definitely open champagne in advance to celebrate.
Europe is now tied together to form alliances to deal with the powerful United States. The Chinese market is the focus they strive for. After all, looking at countries around the world, only this market is basically blank. Once Chinese people get used to buying aircraft produced by Airbus, orders will naturally increase continuously.
People at the headquarters of the French Airbus are really worth discussing when dealing with people. Faced with such a large number of potential customers, they just sent someone to accompany them to visit and invited a working meal at noon.
As for the quality of working meals, Fan Wubing thinks that this is probably the reason why Europeans are becoming more obese. The dietary combination is a bit unreasonable, and it feels like using feed to raise workers in captivity.
After following Fan Wubing for a long time, everyone also learned his stingy appetite, so they felt a little uncomfortable with Airbus’ arrangements. Finally, after returning to the hotel, they made up for another lunch.
Then Fan Wubing found that he encountered another problem, that is, his mobile phone was analog signal, while Europe was already in a digital mode, and the price was relatively not very high. Thinking of contacting here frequently in the future, Fan Wubing asked him to go out and buy dozens of mobile phones to distribute to the staff. During this period of time he was here, he also needed to have communication tools.
"Boss, have you really decided to set up a company branch in France?" asked Duby, another foreign executive of Fan Wubing, with some caution.
"Well, this is natural." Fan Wubing nodded, "The real estate market in Europe has been very sluggish due to the economic downturn. For example, the George V Hotel we stayed at is not very good now. I mean, you stay and take advantage of the British real estate stocks while finding suitable hotels to acquire them in France. If the situation improves in a few years, this part of the investment can be several times."
Only then did Durby understand Fan Wubing's intention. He originally thought that Fan Wubing just wanted to buy a few planes. Now it seems that his appetite is as big as ever. If he invested the same 2 billion US dollars in, it would double in a few years, but he would earn back the money from buying the plane.
What's more, once Fan Wubing decides to invest, it will be worth tens of billions of dollars. Dolby finds that his work in the next few years will be very meaningful.
"Boss, why don't you invest in real estate in the UK? The prices there are lower." An employee asked.
Fan Wubing shook his head and said, "British is a country I don't like. The island country has a serious mentality and has little development potential. It is now in decline. The British real estate market will only be even more sluggish. I would rather choose France, which is more core on the European continent, as a bridgehead for entering the European market."
"Then why not choose Germany? Germany has better economic strength and great development potential." Some employees also asked.
Fan Wubing laughed and said, "This is a discussion of people's personality. Germans have always been known for their rigor. If the German real estate market shows signs of rising, the government will not let it go, so there is little room for growth. The chaos in France is a reason. Their natural enthusiasm that can be easily ignited by any small thing is the biggest advantage we can take advantage of."
In fact, Fan Wubing has not said anything, that is, France is suitable for the development of tourism, both in terms of climate and traditional customs. Therefore, if you seize the opportunity to enter the hotel industry, as long as you are not too stupid and willing to spend some money on decoration, and then hire a few professional hotel managers to manage it, I believe that you will definitely make a fortune in a few years.
Of course, Fan Wubing also said to Dolby that you must choose famous hotels for purchases. Even if the price is slightly higher, don’t choose unfamous hotels. Moreover, the location of the hotel is also very important. It is best to properly acquire the land around the hotel to meet the needs of future expansion.
After everyone had supper, they talked about things for a while and then returned to their own rooms.
When Fan Wubing returned to his kit, he suddenly found that the door could not be opened, so he called the hotel waiter.
The waiter swiped his room card twice, but the door didn't open, and he felt a little strange. He muttered something in the bottom. Fan Wubing didn't understand it. Instead, the translator in the room next to him ran out and explained to Fan Wubing, "He said it seemed that there was a problem with the electronic management system and needed to find a technician to inspect it."
Fan Wubing suddenly felt a little unhappy. He lived in a luxurious suite and could not open the door. So if it was replaced with an ordinary guest room, wouldn’t the problem be even more serious?
No wonder George V Hotel couldn't continue to operate and sold it to Four Seasons Group. It's really a reason!
Fan Wubing was complaining here, but he heard something strange in the room, as if someone was pulling the glass doors and windows. Logically, at this time, it was not the time for cleaning, and no one could stay in the room. How could such a sound be made?
So Fan Wubing felt something was wrong. Could it be that a spy or thief sneaked into his room? Although there were no important documents in the things he brought with him, there were also a lot of cash. If he was stolen like this, wouldn’t he seem too incompetent?
He roared and his body hit the door panel directly. The hard walnut door panel was like a paper-patterned by Fan Wubing, and the wood chips splattered all over the floor.
Chapter completed!