Chapter 1554: Can't refuse

After finally understanding the meaning of the passage quoted by Tan Zhenhua, JAA officials were deeply impressed by the long-term vision of this internationally renowned young man.
JAA was established in Brussels in 1990, officially translated as "Joint Aviation Authority" in Chinese. His main responsibility is to formulate and improve JAR (Joint Aviation Requirements). Its content involves aircraft design and manufacturing, aircraft operation and maintenance, and personnel licenses in the civil aviation field, and the formulation of related management and technical procedures.
The purpose of the Europeans for this JAA is to ensure cooperation among member states and to promote the level of aviation safety among member states to a higher level. At the same time, another responsibility of JAA is: to communicate and cooperate with the world's influential regional or national aviation authorities in the field of civil aviation, and through the conclusion of international agreements, promote the world-wide civil aviation safety standards and requirements to meet JAA's Safety level.
It can be seen that the exchange and cooperation of technical standards with a major aviation country like China is originally one of JAA’s missions. However, as of today, all the rules established by JAA, that is, all the requirements of JAR, are not yet available to its member states. With legal effect, the aviation regulatory authorities of each European Contracting State will also formulate their own aviation regulations higher or lower according to their own country’s conditions. This has resulted in the de facto inconsistency of aviation regulations and standards among European countries. Each country has its own approval standards for whether it can take off and land at its own airport.
Take the C919 as an example. At the beginning of the development of this passenger plane, due to BAE's decision-making errors, most of the sub-systems for international bidding were taken by the Americans. The Europeans basically did not get any benefits. The aircraft has a clear competitive relationship with the Airbus A320 series, so except for the one in Britain that has won the engine system supply contract, other countries are not very enthusiastic about issuing airworthiness certificates or even some resistance.
From this case, it can be seen that since all countries have their own small abacus, the procedures for a new passenger plane to enter the European market are quite cumbersome, that is, in addition to the local European company Airbus, the real body is sufficient The big competitor is only the Boeing of the United States, and the Americans have a profound historical origin and practical ability to control the entire Europe, so that it can be relatively easy.
This is actually not conducive to the further integrated development of the European region, nor can it meet the future needs of the European aviation sector. Some long-sighted political leaders in Europe and some senior officials of JAA have already seen this. Therefore, they are promoting the establishment of a new organization to replace the functions of JAA. This organization will have greater powers and have more rights to member states. Legally binding, the organization in this vision is called "European Aviation Safety Agency", or EASA for short.
And this Eric in front of me. Tan obviously knows a lot of inside information in this regard. Therefore, after he joined the negotiations, he quickly put forward a series of suggestions, and one of the most attractive is that after the mutual recognition of standards between China and the European Community, each contract was concluded. From the government's point of view, the party shall no longer set other restrictions and entry thresholds for commercial aviation operating companies' passenger aircraft procurement.
Regarding this condition, Europeans welcome them with their hands. Since their Airbus A320 passenger aircraft was put into commercial operation in 1988, more than 300 aircraft have been delivered. The safety record is good, the price is moderate, the operation and maintenance are simple and convenient, and the pilot training Easy, comfortable, environmentally friendly and fuel-efficient. According to Airbus's own statement, it "sets industry standards for comfort and economy on short- and medium-haul routes." They firmly believe that their products can stand the test of time and market. Competitive products. In comparison, although Huaxia’s C919 has already received a large number of domestic orders, it is after all the first passenger aircraft developed by Huaxia and has not been tested for a long time in the market. Even in the eyes of Europeans, This type of aircraft is not so much a self-developed product of China, as a piece of "assembled goods", not to mention economy and comfort, it is still unknown whether the safety alone can satisfy people, airlines of European countries There is no risk of purchasing, but the China market has a strong "imported" plot. Even if Airbus planes are more expensive, there are still many people from airlines to ordinary passengers, so they are confident to compete in a fair market. Win the largest order!
In addition to this very tempting proposal, Tan Zhenhua then put forward another condition that the Europeans could not refuse.
Jointly developed C929.
Yes, it is a joint development!
Although it is generally believed that China has already possessed the technical strength of the self-developed C929 passenger aircraft, Tan Zhenhua unexpectedly upheld an open attitude. He proposed that all companies that intend to become a sub-system supplier of the C929 passenger aircraft, regardless of region , Regardless of the country, anyone can become a bidder, and within the framework of the overall technical requirements put forward by China Commercial Aircraft Corporation, open and fair bidding for sub-systems!
Moreover, the companies participating in the bidding this time do not need to transfer technology to China Xia, but only need to comply with the relevant regulations of the China Aviation Administration and cooperate with the authority to perform the necessary product safety inspections!
This is undoubtedly another very attractive card. Europe has a complete, not losing to the United States’ capabilities in the development of complete civil aircraft and sub-systems. These are products with high technological content, and their value-added profits are huge. It has also caused Europeans to have a long history of losing the C919 project. Now, the new door has been opened, and the conditions this time are better than the last time!
Faced with the temptation of interest, can Europeans remain unmoved?
"This is a shame."
Tan Zhenhua explained to officials from the China Civil Aviation Administration and the Ministry of Aeronautics and Astronautics:
Monopoly will allow companies to obtain excess profits within a certain period of time, but it will also deprive monopoly companies of their basic motivation to pursue progress. So I suggest that our country When the conditions are ripe, the administrative restrictions on foreign companies entering the Chinese market are gradually relaxed. Only in this way can Chinese companies be determined to forge ahead and make continuous progress. Only by facing face-to-face competition with many advanced companies on the international stage Companies that survive and develop are truly good companies. China Commercial Aircraft Corporation is willing to be such a pioneer."
Minister Zhang Jun nodded silently and agreed with Tan Zhenhua’s point of view. After thinking about it, he asked with some worry: "However, the current capabilities of many aviation subsystem research and development companies in our country still have many shortcomings compared with advanced international companies. Let it go now. Their competitiveness is insufficient and survival will be a problem?"
"It depends on how we plan." Tan Zhenhua said with a smile: "Minister Zhang, in fact, I have great hopes for the C929, Minister Zhang, are you free now? Why, listen to my ideas? "