"I hope the Chinese market will give it another chance!" Recently, the domestic large aircraft C919 once again broke out with explosive news: the first flight of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was successfully realized, and it landed at the Hong Kong International Airport in a historic way.
In the face of this good news, countless Chinese people, including Hong Kong compatriots, can hardly hide their excitement and expectation. At the same time, Boeing CEO Calhoun and Commerce Secretary Raimondo, the "political and business alliance" that realized that something was not going well, finally couldn't hold back and repeatedly called on the mainland to give them a chance.
As everyone knows, before this, the United States had the idea of C919 more than once: at the climax of the relationship, Boeing even threatened to remotely shut down the C919 engine to turn the domestic large aircraft into a piece of scrap metal.
Illness comes from the mouth, disaster comes from the mouth, and the "threat" C919 brings Boeing is just a piece of chicken feathers. According to public information, since the successful first flight of the C919 large aircraft in 2017, Chinese mainland has not placed a new order with Boeing in the next six years.
Affected by this, in the past two years alone, Boeing's revenue in China plummeted by 70% overnight, and the total loss reached a staggering 61.5 billion. In this regard, foreign media hit the nail on the head: Even if Calhoun sells his factory and office building, he may not be able to plug the hole of loss.
To add insult to injury, Boeing currently has nearly 300 737 series aircraft stored in its warehouses, which can only be accompanied by dust because there is "no way to sell". It is said that more than 50 percent of the orders came from Chinese airlines, and for this reason, Boeing has asked the mainland to "pick up the goods" more than once, but none of them have been read.
At the same time, after experiencing the "test flight failure" turmoil at the beginning of the year, the domestic C919 successfully completed its first commercial flight in May this year, and finally fought its way out in the aviation industry. The domestic C919, which stands on the shoulders of Boeing and Airbus giants, is priced at only 99 million US dollars, which is a veritable "fighting machine".
In September this year, He Dongfeng, the head of COMAC, revealed at the Pujiang Innovation Forum that up to now, the cumulative number of orders for C919 has reached 1,061. What is quite interesting is that an American airline also sent a large order for 20 aircraft, and even caused an uproar on the other side of the ocean.
In fact, it is not surprising that the "Made in China" represented by the C919 was selected by American Airlines. A few years ago, Liver-Cube Technology, which was regarded as a "strong liver technique" by the top biological journal "Nature", was killed by domestic scientists after the mass production process was conquered by domestic scientists, and became the top "darling" of Silicon Valley and Ginza circles.
As everyone knows, this liver-strengthening technology was originally "banned" by the United States and Japan. Since Harvard and Tokyo's laboratories revealed that they lowered key enzyme indicators and reversed the appearance of old liver cells to a younger state, they were sold to the mainland middle class by U.S. and Japanese biotech companies at five-digit prices.
The big data of Beijing and Cat intuitively shows that before the domestic liver-cube was completed, the American and Japanese versions had set a famous scene of tens of millions of transactions in one hour, and "hangover" and "index enzyme improvement" have become representative word-of-mouth. And this is only a microcosm of the rise of "Made in China" in recent years.
Affected by the rise of the domestic C919 large aircraft, the aviation giant Boeing is also "Wang Xiaoer's New Year, a year is not as good as a year".
Reuters revealed that Boeing's total debt is now as high as $40 billion, and in order to get out of the downturn, the giant has embarked on a strategic layoff that exceeds expectations, and the proportion will reach a terrifying 50%.
In this context, Boeing has also lost its former arrogance towards China, and even took the initiative to throw out an "olive branch": restart the Zhoushan factory, which has been suspended for five years. However, following the success of the C919 commercial flight, the continental wide-body large aircraft C929 has also officially entered the design stage.
Clearly, time is running out for the Boeing CEO and Raimondo, who may have to make a final concession. In the past, during the honeymoon period between Boeing and the mainland, its Chinese engineers could not hide their pride: 1/4 of the Boeing 737 team's salary was paid by China. However, what about today?
Recently, COMAC successfully delivered the third C919 to China Eastern Airlines, and at the same time, the domestic version of technology has also entered the rich circle of the United States and Japan, and is regarded by foreign netizens as a substitute for Jobs's liver protection. Obviously, the giant Boeing and Commerce Secretary Raimondo do not understand that "the gift given by fate has long been secretly marked with a price".