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"Pufei launches global equipment bidding, can domestic machine tools be used?"

"Aviation-specific machine tools, a trillion-level feast"

"The Last Ticket to Enter the Machine Tool Industry: Large Aircraft Machine Tools"

"Realizing a Century-old Aviation Dream Starts with Machine Tools"

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The media never stop making shocking statements, not to mention the emerging self-media. The sensational headlines make even Bao Nana, who has always been a fan of this, feel ashamed.

In order to train new people, Tang Zifeng handed over the task of promoting the research and development of large aircraft machine tools to Duan Rufei and Yu Xiaohui. Yu Xiaohui's task is to cooperate with PAF Aircraft Company engineers to formulate technical standards for large aircraft machine tools, and to be responsible for technical control in machine tool bidding. Duan Rufei's task is to recruit interested companies or individuals across the country to undertake the development of certain machine tools.

To get things done, you must first build momentum. This is the experience Duan Rufei learned from Tang Zifeng. He contacted Deep Blue Focus, which had been providing public relations services to the company for many years, and asked them to organize a batch of articles to hype the concept of large aircraft machine tools in the media.

What Duan Rufei and Bao Nana didn't expect was that just after Deep Blue Focus published a few articles, there was a craze on the Internet discussing large aircraft machine tools. Countless big Vs have become aviation experts and machine tool experts overnight, talking eloquently about the topic of large aircraft machine tools, and their speeches have been used by many self-media to wash out manuscripts and make memes, turning them into articles worth 100,000 +’s hot articles have appeared on the hot search lists of various social networking platforms.

"What is going on?" Duan Rufei was stunned.

"A lot of this is nonsense!" Yu Xiaohui couldn't bear it anymore. Some of the articles were too mysterious, such as how there can only be a deviation of 1 micron within 100 meters, and how a knife head is worth 8 million yuan. Is it all a matter of where?

"At least it can prove one thing, that is, Grandpa Yuan made everyone too full, and everyone had nowhere to vent their energy."

This was Tang Zifeng's comment. When he said this, he had a smile on his face, obviously very satisfied with it.

The first to respond were local governments. After the topic of large aircraft machine tools became a hot topic on the Internet, no less than ten prefecture-level cities sent a sufficient number of officials to Pufei Company to discuss issues related to the establishment of a local R\u0026D and manufacturing base for large aircraft machine tools. They also submitted Planning reports on the construction of "Machine Tool Valley" and "Aviation Bay".

These officials claim that as long as PAF agrees, they are willing to spend as little as tens of millions or as much as hundreds of millions to support the establishment of large aircraft machine tool companies or research centers in their local areas, with three years of rent-free and five years of rent-free. Income tax, etc., the conditions can be said to be more favorable than the other.

In recent years, inter-regional industrial competition has also fallen into involution. In order to compete for high-quality industrial projects, various regions have resorted to all possible means.

In the early years, there was a shortage of domestic capital, and it was very difficult for local governments to attract investment. Who cares what industry investors invest in. As long as someone is willing to invest, local officials will treat them as ancestors.

As domestic capital becomes increasingly abundant and the financial situation of local governments continues to improve, local officials are paying more and more attention to the technical content of investment projects. The industrial land in a place is limited. If some enterprises with large area but low output value are introduced, it will be a loss to the local government.

In addition, to improve a place’s status in the country, it also needs to have high-tech industries as a “city business card.” The companies in your city are all engaged in hardware, plastics, and clothing, so people regard you as a third world company. On the contrary, if you say how many integrated circuit companies or how many aerospace companies you have, people will look at you highly.

Because of this, when the concept of "large aircraft machine tools" became popular on the Internet, local officials everywhere took notice. Whether building large aircraft machine tools can be profitable is not the first question that officials must consider. They can even accept that this industry will suffer continuous losses for a few years. At worst, the government will use some money to subsidize it. What does this mean to a city?

In fact, there is nothing wrong with the local government's thinking. The benefits that cultivating a high-tech industry can bring cannot be reflected by just the profits and losses of several companies. A high-tech industry will produce technology spillovers that benefit other local industries. In addition, if a city has some well-known high-tech enterprises, it will also increase the city's popularity, and the hidden benefits it will bring are also immeasurable.

Large aircraft is a strategic industry determined by the country and has always been considered to embody the highest level of industry. When the country first laid out large-scale aircraft projects, many cities began to compete fiercely, hoping to get a piece of the pie. Now that the large aircraft project has been settled, those cities that have not won the large aircraft project feel that if they can win a project to provide production equipment for large aircraft, they will also look superior. This is why various places are competing to take action.

Compared with local governments that are not short of money, many machine tool companies appear to be more cautious on this issue, and they also appear to be more entangled.

As Tang Zifeng and others have analyzed, large aircraft machine tools are a piece of fat, but it is a piece of fat full of risks. The profits of large aircraft machine tools are so high that every company is salivating, but it is not that easy to win a certain model of machine tools.

You must first have a certain technical foundation, and secondly, you must invest massive R\u0026D funds. Pufei Company has not promised to purchase these machine tools domestically, so if you cannot make a certain machine tool as perfect as possible, it will be difficult to impress Pufei Company’s purchasing department, and thus you will not be able to enter the other party’s purchase list. All investment will be in vain.

Ten years ago, no company would be willing to participate in a project like this. At that time, there were a lot of money-making opportunities in the domestic machine tool market. If you could make a certain product well, you wouldn't have to worry about sales, so why take any risks?

But in recent years, the market situation has changed. The period of rapid growth in the domestic manufacturing industry has passed, and the demand for machine tools has entered a period of calm. The market has shown a tendency of oversupply, especially for machine tools that lack technical content. Even if they can be sold, the profits are pitifully low.

If you want to survive in the machine tool industry, you must take a high-tech route and seize future manufacturing needs. For example, in recent years, mobile phones have become a new hot spot in the manufacturing industry. Those companies that can provide special machine tools for mobile phone manufacturing have made a lot of money. Companies that have not caught up with this train are regretting it.

Large aircraft machine tools are undoubtedly a new opportunity. The media said that the output value of this market is trillions, which is not false. If I miss this bus again, I don’t know when the next opportunity comes.

Besides, the trend of industrial development is there. Large aircraft machine tools are very difficult. If a new field appears in the future, the difficulty will only be greater than large aircraft machine tools. How will you cope with it then?

Brothers Zhao Xinggen and Zhao Xingwang of the Zhao Group are now in such a dilemma, hesitating whether to jump into this pit.

"This time, it is the Business Opportunity Group that is taking the lead. In other words, this matter is promoted by Tang Zifeng. In the past so many years, as long as it is a project that Tang Zifeng has taken a fancy to, no one has gone wrong. If we miss this opportunity, we will I will regret it so much.”

Zhao Xinggen looked at the thick pile of newspapers on the executive desk and said to Zhao Xingwang. Those newspapers were collected by the company's planning department, and they all published articles discussing large aircraft machine tools. Ninety percent of these articles support the project, and less than 10% of the articles talk about risk issues.

"To participate in this project, we do have some advantages. For example, our Xiayi Machine Tool's high-precision gantry coordinate boring is one of the best in the country. This large aircraft machine tool bidding includes gantry coordinate boring, and the price for one unit is US$20 million. , the purchase quantity is calculated based on 10 units. If we can win it, it will be regarded as a leading product in the future." Zhao Xingwang said.

Xia Yi Machine Tool was originally a large state-owned machine tool company. It was acquired by the Zhao brothers more than ten years ago and became a company under the Zhao Group. The Zhao brothers had the confidence to discuss bidding for large aircraft machine tools because they owned such a company.

"Yeah, that's what I think about too." Zhao Xinggen said, "How much money can be earned from a coordinate boring machine is secondary. The most important thing is that if we can take down Pufei's high-precision gantry coordinate boring machine, From now on, we can say that our Zhao Group provides equipment for large aircraft. By then, who will dare to say that we are a small rural enterprise?"

"But..." Zhao Xingwang hesitated for a moment and said: "The one that currently provides gantry coordinate boring to Pufei is Germany's Heimsaert. Its technical level is much higher than ours. We want to get it from it. After grabbing this order, in addition to investing in the research expenses of the machine tool, we also have to comprehensively upgrade the production equipment of Xia Yi Machine Tool. I did a rough calculation and found that at least 200 million will be invested inside and out. This is not a big deal. It’s a small amount of money.”

"It is also good for us to upgrade the equipment. In the future, Xia Yi Machine Tool's products can be upgraded to a higher level." Zhao Xinggen said, "Optimizing the process of gantry coordinate boring can also train the engineers at Xia Yi Machine Tool. .”

Zhao Xingwang asked: "Brother, so you have made up your mind and really want to bid for this bid?"

Zhao Xinggen sighed: "It can only be said that I am tempted. It is not that easy to make up your mind. If 200 million yuan is invested and nothing happens, we will be passive."

At this moment, the phone on the table rang. Zhao Xinggen picked up the phone and heard the front desk report:

"Mr. Zhao, there is a young man who wants to visit you and discuss bidding for large aircraft machine tools with you."

Zhao Xinggen thought about it and asked: "Young man? Has he said who he is?"

"He said his name is Ning Yiming." The front desk replied.