Although China has now become the second largest economy in the world, and its purchasing power exceeds that of the United States, it has kept pace with Europe and the United States in many fields, such as aerospace, deep diving, infrastructure, communications and land transportation. , at least not much difference, and some have even surpassed Europe and America, but we have been faced with the embarrassment of not mastering core technologies and patents in some fields, such as aero-engines, IT operating systems, root servers, etc. In other words, although we can have fun in these fields, we are in danger of being stuck by others at any time. Although this probability is small, it does not mean that it will not happen.
Every year, just the money for purchasing core components and the patent fees paid, we give more than half of the profits created in these fields to others. And many times we are forced to buy the whole machine and the whole system, and the price is even higher. Our current situation in this regard is like asking a doctor to buy medicine after seeing a doctor. People can say whatever they want. Can you, dare you bargain with the doctor? In other words, in these areas, we have been at the low end of the relevant industrial chain, playing the role of sweatshop workers.
Now the flight test of C9 19 is successful, just like having our own child. His surname is Zhong. It's only a matter of time before children grow up. Isn't there a folk proverb, "Don't worry if you are small, but you are afraid of having no dolls"? What we need to do next is to make our big plane bigger and stronger step by step, which takes time and requires constant capital investment and research and development. Through technology accumulation, we will gradually improve the localization of parts and components and gradually complete technological autonomy. Of course, the localization of 100% is completely unnecessary, which will cause serious duplication and waste of manpower, material resources and funds. Abandoning the concept that all platforms require localization, Europe and the United States are the best in this field and make some large aircraft.
The question of "is there" is just a word in terms of concept expression, but this question has been debated for decades from the decision-making level to the ordinary people, especially for us aviation people. Participating in R&D and building large aircraft has experienced difficulties and hardships, which can be described as twists and turns. Today, the space dream of the big plane has finally come true. How many tears and painstaking efforts are involved in this excitement? I'm afraid ordinary people simply can't understand and appreciate it.