Return to Hong Kong Island for a Century

Chapter 366 Official Announcement
After accompanying the leaders on a tour of the project, we held another short meeting.

The theme of the meeting was to vigorously develop science and technology.

Finally, the leader also inscribed the words "Chang'an Aircraft Manufacturing Plant"!

Then in the afternoon, the leaders inspected the surrounding aircraft industrial park.

It was thanks to the Chang'an Aircraft Manufacturing Plant that many factories were established in the surrounding area, mainly providing supporting services for aircraft!
This is also Chang'an's first high-tech industrial park!
Of course, there is also a rocket manufacturing plant here, but this is not publicly visible!

The rocket manufacturing plant doesn't have a name yet because the factory is still under construction.

The rocket manufacturing plant's employees and technicians are still working on technical challenges elsewhere!
After the leader left, Li Song began to reward those who had contributed!
However, this matter was handled rather discreetly!

The project team's rewards are mainly in the form of cash prizes.

The entire project team received a bonus of three million, but only two million was paid out this time. This is because the aircraft has just started ground testing, and the remaining one million will be paid out once the aircraft is finalized and mass production begins.

When Li Song distributes bonuses, there is a limit on the percentage of the total bonus that management can receive.

Unlike some companies where management receives a 999 million yuan bonus, and then each subordinate receives 100 yuan, while publicly announcing that 10 million yuan in bonuses were distributed this year.

Because management positions already have very high salaries.

Take Chang'an Aircraft Manufacturing Plant as an example. Chief Engineer Ma's annual salary plus bonuses starts at least at 300,000 yuan. How much does an ordinary worker in China earn now? A hundred?
The deputy leader of the CA201 project team earns a starting annual salary of 100,000 yuan.

Ordinary technicians earn at least 30,000 yuan a year and are also provided with free housing.

The starting annual salary for a typical assembly worker is around three thousand.

So it's unreasonable that these managers already receive high salaries, and bonuses take up the majority of their income.

Because there are fewer management personnel and more ordinary workers.

Management accounts for about 5% and receives about 15% of the bonuses, while the remaining 95% of the workers receive 85% of the bonuses.

The CA201 project has a performance bonus of 3 million, the small turboprop transport aircraft project has a bonus of 800,000, the general aviation helicopter project has a bonus of 1.2 million, and the B-type transport aircraft project has a performance bonus of 6 million.

At noon on May 1st, New York time (midnight on May 1st in mainland China), inside the Hexagon, staff from a certain agency were reviewing satellite images transmitted back to them.

Because data transmission is very slow at this time, it takes a long time to send the photos back.

Even decades later, only mainland China could transmit ground images in real time via satellite, while Aramco's satellites at that time mostly used image transmission.

This mainly refers to Amer's entire transmission system at the time.

Because compatibility is essential within the entire satellite transmission system, since the satellites used by Aramco were deployed very early on.

This raises a problem: in the ongoing plan to update satellites, compatibility with other satellites must be considered, which leads to a certain result.

The satellites I launch now need to be compatible with satellites launched five, ten, or even more than ten years ago.

Everyone knows that satellites need to be calculated even for a single gram of weight, which is why Amazon's satellite transmission iteration speed is very slow.

The key issue is compatibility. Satellites are not ground-based equipment, so multiple sets of equipment can be used.

Moreover, these spy satellites are extremely expensive to build, with the most costing up to several billion US dollars.

In addition, satellites are meant to be used in a network; using them alone doesn't offer much advantage.

This explains why, decades later, a certain Eastern country can broadcast live videos of takeoffs from certain airports in the US, while the US is still only transmitting images.

Because Amazon was the first to launch, it had to constantly consider compatibility issues with other satellites and ground equipment during the iteration process, unless Amazon has the courage to completely overturn the existing standards and implement a new one.

But it's too difficult; to completely overturn it would require an enormous amount of funding.

Moreover, in the age of intelligence, some Eastern countries have long been equipped with supercomputing systems on their satellites, which means that the satellites directly calculate various data and then simply transmit the results to the ground, greatly saving time.

Because data from satellites in space also needs to be analyzed, calculated, and processed when it reaches the ground.

Just like when Amei's staff saw the newly delivered photos, they immediately dialed their boss's number—an internal number, of course: "Boss, I think we're in trouble!"

Fifteen minutes later, people from several departments were in a conference room looking at a stack of photos.

"Based on our analysis, this aircraft is a narrow-body passenger plane, and its appearance parameters are highly similar to those of the medium- and long-range passenger plane for which Li Song applied for a patent in Hong Kong Island."

Everyone saw enlarged slides, satellite photos, and pictures of airplanes on the runway.

These photos also require professional calculation and analysis, which can be done by comparing the target with reference objects, such as surrounding buildings, railways, or the size of certain vehicles.

Additionally, calculations can be made using sunlight, shadows, and other factors.

"Another possibility is that their leaders are inspecting Chang'an, most likely to attend the ground test of this aircraft."

"Furthermore, through subsequent photos, we can see that the aircraft is undergoing ground testing."

"This is a refueling truck, this is a fire truck, and this is an ambulance."

"This is a photo from the last ground test of the Starliner."

"There are also fire trucks, gas stations, and ambulances."

"So we can be sure that we're in big trouble."

"The manufacturing technology of the Star Shine aircraft demonstrates the level of aircraft manufacturing technology in mainland China."

"The manufacturing technology of such medium- and long-range passenger aircraft is a reflection of a country's comprehensive strength, involving materials, processing, assembly, and so on."

"Therefore, some of our previous speculations are very likely to come true."

"But we need more precise information, and then, based on the assessment, we can formulate some countermeasures as soon as possible."

The meeting was attended by heads of multiple departments because there was still much to be done after the project evaluation.

To determine the accuracy of the assessment results, further steps are needed.

"I'll have Boeing test the waters and see if they can manufacture some parts for mainland China," one of them said.

"I'll have the relevant companies sell the technology and see how they react in mainland China."

"I am closely monitoring news from the mainland."

"I will report to the White House immediately and adjust the policy if necessary."

"I've arranged for some probes to be conducted by countries with good relations with the mainland." Intelligence agencies don't exist in isolation; their reach extends to all industries, so they have many ways to find out the details of a matter.

"Okay!" The head of the intelligence department nodded. This intelligence will be evaluated again after it is compiled.

Because there were no news reports in mainland China, but what these people didn't expect was that at 5 pm on May 2nd, a mainstream media outlet in an Eastern country reported a five-minute news brief, directly announcing the mainland's medium- and long-range passenger aircraft, and giving many shots of the assembly workshop, the outside of the aircraft, and the inside of the aircraft.

(End of this chapter)