In fact, the storm is faster and faster than Zhuang Jianye imagined!
Just a few days later, Lu Jie called from Shanghai to tell Zhuang Jianye that civil aviation is brewing a major reform, and is ready to phase out the existing backward aircraft models in the next five to ten years, with more advanced equipment and technology, better economy and better safety factor.
This is understandable. After all, most of the domestic civil aviation aircraft are old objects of the 1960s and 1970s. Not only is the fuel consumption high, most of them are close to their service life, with high failure rate and low safety factor. Therefore, frequent flight accidents have occurred in recent years, so it's really time to replace the aircraft.
It is reasonable to say that this reform should be good news for Tengfei factory. After all, the civil aviation needs to change aircraft models, and the supporting training structure needs to be adjusted. Tengfei factory can just fill the market vacancy.
But the reform of civil aviation is not only a technical adjustment, but also a big step in the system, that is decentralization.
It should be noted that the former CAAC was not so much a government agency as a higher-level Ministry of Tengfei factory. It had both administrative power and management power. It was typical that government and enterprise were not separated.
However, it is understandable that the readjusted civil aviation system after the reform and opening up is really difficult to get on the right track without a strong leadership.
However, after several years of development, civil aviation has been gradually on the right track. In addition, this field is newly established, and its internal structure is relatively simple, which is convenient for the implementation of the reform intention of the higher authorities. Therefore, it is used as a pilot to explore the reform practice of separating government from enterprise.
That is to set up a professional aviation operation company to be responsible for the transportation of passengers and freight. To this end, China International Airlines will be set up at the level directly under CAAC, and the capable places can also set up their own airlines.
The right of operation of these airlines belongs to themselves. CAAC is responsible for professional guidance and administrative management, and gradually extricate itself from specific business affairs.
Although this reform has not fundamentally solved the problem of separation of government and enterprise, it has taken a big step on this road. At least, CAAC is more like a government department than the higher ministries and commissions of Tengfei factory.
Such a reform in line with the development of the times should be the trend of the times, but it is not a good thing for Tengfei factory and even the whole domestic aviation manufacturing industry. Before the reform, Tengfei factory was faced with a CAAC. Relying on its own advantages and the background of higher ministries and commissions, even if there was a flurry, it could easily resolve it. After all, ministries and commissions are not good I want to lose the big money owner of civil aviation.
As for civil aviation, because of its support for domestic enterprises and the policy inclination of the higher authorities, it has to give some face to the ministries and commissions. Therefore, domestic aviation enterprises such as Tengfei factory can share the cake of civil aviation.
But now the General Administration of civil aviation decentralizes its power, and all localities set up their own airlines. This raises the difficulty of public relations from ordinary mode to hell mode.
CAAC can give ministries and commissions face, but local airlines may not. After all, local airlines can bring a lot of benefits to the local. Naturally, efficiency should be put in the first place. How dare aviation manufacturers who can't even understand Boeing 737 and McDonnell 80 say their own things are good?
Forget it, you'd better go back and forth. Wash and sleep early.
Local airlines, which do not even pay the bills of the Ministry, are even more ignored by the small role of Tengfei factory.
As a result, not only the Tengfei plant was turned away, but also the Ministry and committee of the people's Republic of China often shut down the local airlines. With the formal implementation of civil aviation reform in early 1986, foreign aviation giants who had been well prepared immediately flocked in, except McDonnell Douglas's joint venture aircraft assembly plant in Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Joint venture aircraft maintenance plants and repair plants can be found everywhere. Almost all of them are supporting new aircraft models of local airlines.
We should know that before the reform, it was all the business in the hands of ministries and commissions. Now, it is almost divided up by foreign aviation giants, which makes it difficult for ministries and commissions.
In desperation, we can only give up some coastal enterprises to set up joint ventures with foreign aviation giants, so that we can barely get a share of the profits.
Even the Ministry of civil aviation has been struggling to support, let alone take-off factory. The 40 million orders of civil aviation have not been cancelled, but there is no follow-up news.
Because according to the reform, the UAV team was kicked out of civil aviation, and the original UAV was assigned to each application unit.
However, due to the original ty-2 UAV platform control technology and other reasons, all units should report to the local civil aviation administration in advance.
So that after the approval of CAAC, the ground guidance transmitter can be set up in the use area of ty-2 UAV platform.
This is no different from limiting the flexibility of each unit in using UAVs. Geological exploration is OK. It doesn't matter. The mineral resources and landforms will be there sooner or later. You can see them at any time.
But the power and forestry departments can't. power failure and forest fire are all emergencies. As a result, you have to report. When you leave the process late, the loss will be great.
As a result, the previous batch of ty-2 UAVs purchased by the Civil Aviation Administration were soon eliminated by the electric power and forest departments. Even if the geological exploration department received one batch, the number was small.The reason for this is very simple. Foreign aviation manufacturing enterprises have long focused on this cake. They rushed in on a large scale at the beginning of civil aviation reform. Before the domestic aviation manufacturing industry reacted, the market has been divided up.
To be honest, how can civil aviation and military aviation be spared?
The major military fire magnates waved their advanced military aircraft, just like the young man who the matchmaker met, and kept on running to the army headquarters in the capital. The leaders of the army were almost dazzled.
Some people even say that they are backward in building their own products, so they simply put all the projects out of business and save money to buy foreign advanced aviation equipment.
Fortunately, the troops don't have much money. They don't have the ability to purchase on a large scale. Otherwise, the sky in China will definitely be the same as the cars on the ground. They are all foreign brands.
Tengfei factory was the first to feel the impact of this great change. Before the implementation of civil aviation reform, Zhuang Jianye made a report entitled "Tengfei factory is in a critical moment of life and death" at the general meeting of cadres and workers of Tengfei factory.
Some countermeasures are put forward.
It's a pity that the size of Tengfei factory is still too small. As the saying goes, if there is no skin, there will be no hair. Under the situation that all ministries and commissions are losing, the subordinate factory of Tengfei factory will inevitably be impacted.
One of the most typical is to close down the yun10 production line and a full set of tooling equipment, as well as some employees and their families, which were eliminated due to the joint venture with McDonnell Douglas.
At that time, the ministries and commissions recruited the heads of enterprises to the capital for a meeting. At the cost of more than 30% of the production tasks, they hoped that the factories would share the burden.
As a result, no one is willing to do it, and there is no way to do it. Today's aviation factories are having a hard time. The Ministry's production task this year will be able to survive if it is increased by 30%. What about next year? What about the next year? You know, the equipment and people we share are not for this year, but for a lifetime.
Seeing that no one answered, the main leaders of the ministries and commissions who presided over the meeting were about to get angry. At this time, Zhuang Jianye, who was sitting in the last row, raised his hand and became the first person to take the initiative to carry the burden.