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Schematic diagram of project site selection: A320 aircraft assembly line project is located in Airport Industrial Zone (Aviation City) of Tianjin Binhai New Area, adjacent to Tianjin Binhai International Airport and Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu Expressway, 3 km away from downtown 130km away from Beijing130km away from Tianjin Port, with superior geographical position. The reporter learned from the Tianjin Development and Reform Commission that a few days ago, with the consent of the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission officially approved the location of the Airbus A320 series aircraft assembly line project in Tianjin Binhai New Area. (Reporter Zou Lanzhang) In 2008, the world's third Airbus assembly line, the first batch of assembly aircraft went to Blue Sky People's Network Tianjin on June 8. Reporter Chen Jie reports: The final assembly line of A320 series aircraft has settled in Tianjin. This news attracts and shakes the world like a magnet. This is the third assembly line of Airbus Europe in the world and the first assembly line outside Europe. Foreign media commented that "this cooperation between China and Airbus is of great significance to both sides". A320 aircraft assembly line is one of the major international cooperation projects to strengthen China-EU strategic partnership. In June 5438+February last year, the National Development and Reform Commission and Airbus signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen industrial cooperation, including the feasibility study of establishing an Airbus single-aisle aircraft assembly line in China. After investigation by Airbus, expert demonstration by China, approval by the State Council and approval by National Development and Reform Commission, the project is located in Tianjin. The "two-legged" domestic assembly and commissioning test of A320 series aircraft will train a group of technicians and workers for China, reserve high-quality talents for the manufacturing and testing of China large aircraft, and realize China's dream of manufacturing large aircraft. Professor Xu Chunsheng of civil aviation university of china, who has been teaching for many years, has been looking forward to this moment. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee and the National Conference on Science and Technology held this year put forward the goal of strengthening independent innovation ability and building an innovative country from the height of national strategy. Independent innovation does not exclude opening up and cooperation. "Under certain conditions, export-oriented cooperation will promote the improvement of independent innovation capability and promote the development of civil aviation key equipment and system industrial clusters," said Associate Professor Li Yanhua, director of civil aviation university of china New Generation Air Transport System Research Institute. Since the founding of New China, China has independently developed Y7, MA60, Y8 and other civil aircraft from scratch. Since 2002, the development of regional aircraft has been regarded as the entry point for China aviation industry to participate in the international market. At the same time, aviation industry enterprises have strengthened international cooperation, from subcontracting aircraft parts to undertaking foreign assembly and production. The subcontracted parts include Boeing 737, 747, 757 and Airbus A3 10, A320, A330/340 and ATR42/72. In 2003, Hafei Company and Embraer jointly assembled the ERJ 145 regional aircraft. Continue to develop ARJ2 1 aircraft with independent intellectual property rights, participate in international market competition, participate in the development of Canadian C-series aircraft in danger, and participate in A350 aircraft design and manufacturing projects. The civil aviation industry is a high-tech industry with priority development in China. The state has intensified its independent research and development, and the development of complete sets of technology for large aircraft design and manufacturing has been included in the "major scientific and technological projects" of the national "Eleventh Five-Year Plan". "Big Aircraft" has been identified as one of the major projects in the national medium and long-term science and technology development plan 16. According to experts, China is walking on two legs in independent research and development, introduction, digestion, absorption and re-innovation of big aircraft projects. As foreign media said, the construction of A320 aircraft assembly line in Tianjin "means that China has taken the first step to own its own aircraft industry". That is, the first step of technology introduction, taking advantage of China's advantages in the civil aviation market and on the basis of reference and independent technology research and development, gradually develop from production cooperation to comprehensive technology cooperation, and finally realize the synchronization of independent research and development and industrial development. Take-off just happened to be "arrow" on "string". The reporter once saw 430 questions raised by Airbus during its inspection in Tianjin, which were very detailed, and the answers from Tianjin and the relevant departments of the central government were very complete. Airbus praised, "I was deeply shocked by the perfect organization." The A320 aircraft assembly line project is located in the Airport Industrial Zone (Aviation City) being planned and constructed in Tianjin Binhai New Area, adjacent to Tianjin Binhai International Airport and Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Expressway, surrounded by the Airport Processing Zone, Airport Bonded Zone, Airport Logistics Zone and National Civil Aviation Science and Technology Industrialization Base of Tianjin Port, 30 kilometers away from Beijing/KLOC-0 and 30 kilometers away from Tianjin Port, with railways, ports, expressways, rail transit and expressways extending in all directions. Tianjin will build a new runway at the airport to meet the needs of flight test, and the flight test airspace environment is good. Dong Weizhong, deputy director of the Aviation City Planning and Construction Office, told the reporter that Tianjin is located at the junction of North China, Northeast China and East China, and its location and geographical location are convenient for the import of aircraft parts, which is conducive to the low-cost matching of domestic parts. Some scholars describe the layout of the urban agglomeration around Bohai Sea as a bow and arrow, the coastal port cities as a string on a bow, the vast hinterland as a bow, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban belt as an arrow, while the economic take-off around Bohai Sea happens to be an arrow on a string. The A320 aircraft assembly line project provides an opportunity for the economic revitalization of the Bohai Rim region, especially for Tianjin Binhai New Area as the central positioning of China's high-end modern manufacturing industry and R&D transformation base, and plays a leading role in radiation. Aviation industry involves more than 70 disciplines and most industries in the industrial field. Every big plane has millions of components, which need the support of a huge supporting industrial cluster. It has the characteristics of high correlation, large scientific and technological radiation and strong scientific and technological drive, and plays a decisive role in upstream and downstream industries, effectively driving the rapid development of aircraft R&D, parts manufacturing, sales and service in surrounding areas. Associate Professor Li Yanhua analyzed that the location of A320 project in Tianjin Binhai New Area will help to give full play to the technology-intensive advantages of Beijing and Tianjin, attract system integrators to transfer aviation product production to China through the strategic decisions of major manufacturers, promote the formation of Beijing-Tianjin aviation industry chain, make Beijing and Tianjin one of the largest gathering places of high-tech aviation industry in China, and accelerate the overall development of aviation industry. After the organic integration of scientific research intelligence and processing and manufacturing resources in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the competitive strength is prominent, which can drive the supporting industries in the whole Bohai Rim region and promote regional economic cooperation. Tianjin Binhai New Area plans to build an airport industrial zone (aviation city) with the goal of building it into a high-level aviation industrial manufacturing and R&D transformation base; Scaa and Tianjin Municipal Government signed an agreement on June 5438+ 10 last year to build the only national civil aviation science and technology industrialization base in Aviation City, making it an important undertaking place for the transfer of world aviation high-tech industries and a "Silicon Valley" for China's civil aviation science and technology research and development. Wang Zhenguo, director of civil aviation university of china Foreign Cooperation Office, said that Thornton Technologies and Memphis Group, which provide services for Airbus, entered the industrialization base in April this year, and more than 40 projects are still in operation and negotiation, which will form a hot spot for cooperation between China aviation industry and international aviation system integrators. In 2008, the first assembly planes flew into the blue sky. It is understood that the assembly line of A320 series aircraft is expected to invest 5 billion yuan, and the total investment of the project is expected to be 8-654.38+0 billion yuan. By the end of 20 10, 4 aircraft will be produced every month, reaching an annual output of 44 aircraft. In the first stage, 300 commercial aircraft will be assembled, mainly in the domestic market, and then export will be considered. In 2008, the first batch of final assembly aircraft left the factory, delivered and flew into the blue sky. The project is divided into four parts: assembly, painting, debugging and flight test. It will be designed and produced according to Airbus standards and procedures, and the product quality is consistent with that produced on European assembly lines. At the beginning, the factory had about 1000 people, 400 technical managers and 600 senior technical workers. With the expansion of production, the number of personnel will increase exponentially. After the site selection of the project is confirmed, in June, Tianjin backbone enterprises will be the main investors, and relevant enterprises in the United Nations will form a China enterprise consortium to establish a joint venture with Airbus for business negotiations, and the project will start this year. It is predicted that direct investment in aviation manufacturing will stimulate investment in other related industries. General international operation experience shows that after 10 years of development, an aviation project will bring local benefit-output ratio 1: 80, technology transfer ratio 1: 16, and employment-driven ratio 1: 12. Civil aviation university of china is the cradle for the growth of civil aviation talents in China. Building "Toulouse, China" next door will attract a large number of high-quality human resources, and then boost the service industry. Indirect and induced benefits will be multiplied by direct benefits, and the influence and development space of the city will be rapidly improved. The joint venture between China and Airbus to assemble A320 series aircraft is a beneficial attempt for China's civil aviation industry to participate in the international division of labor, gradually take the road of international cooperation and innovate the aviation industry system and mechanism. Yin Yaoguang, secretary-general of Tianjin Development and Reform Commission, who participated in the whole process of introducing the project, said that the joint construction of A320 assembly line with Airbus Europe has given full play to the enthusiasm of central and local governments and enterprises to participate in the civil aviation industry. It is reported that the next step will be to establish a joint venture company in the civil aviation industry, build an operation mechanism of aviation industry enterprises in line with international practices, break the fragmented situation of traditional state-owned aviation enterprises, form a new commercial operation mode of the civil aviation industry, and improve and optimize the original layout of China aviation industry to promote the upgrading of industrial structure. Project background: development trend and demand forecast of civil aviation industry 1980. Since 2005, the average annual growth rate of China's air transport is 18.2%, which is 2. 1 times of the economic growth rate. In 2005, the total turnover and passenger volume of air transport in the whole industry reached 2.6/kloc-0.30 billion tons kilometers and/kloc-0.30 billion passengers respectively, ranking second in the world and becoming a veritable civil aviation power. There are 863 transport planes in the whole industry. In the next 20 years, the per capita GDP of China will be between 1 1,000-5,000 USD, which is a period of rapid growth of aviation market. It is estimated that the average annual growth of air transport industry will be above 10%. According to the forecast of China Aviation Development Research Center, Boeing, Airbus and other departments, by 2020, the fleet size of China will be about 4,000 aircraft, among which 1000 to 200-seat aircraft will be needed. The world aviation industry has gone through more than one hundred years, and now it gradually presents five major trends: 1, and the aviation industry is playing an increasingly prominent role in the national strategic industry; 2. The trend of production globalization and specialization is obvious; 3. The pace of the transfer of aircraft manufacturing to a country with a large demand for civil aircraft has accelerated; 4. The aviation industry giants have centralized monopoly, and the competition of high-end core technologies is fierce; Aviation industry is playing an increasingly important role in promoting and upgrading related industries. The Airbus A320 assembly line with a total investment of 7 billion euros will be settled in Tianjin, and the final location of the Airbus A320 assembly line in China will be announced in a few days. According to informed sources, Tianjin will be the final winner in the competition among Shanghai, Tianjin, Xi and Zhuhai. The source said that the Airbus A320 Tianjin assembly plant is expected to start construction this year, with a total investment of 7 billion euros, and the first aircraft is expected to be produced by the end of 2008. The source said that negotiations between the National Development and Reform Commission and Airbus are still going on. Airbus China Strategy In February 2006, Airbus officially announced that it would establish a single-aisle aircraft assembly line in China, which would be the first aircraft assembly line of Airbus overseas. At present, Airbus has only two aircraft assembly plants in the world, both in Europe, namely Toulouse, France and Hamburg, Germany. Before the announcement, Airbus actually started the site selection work in China. From June, 5438 to February, 2005, Airbus has clearly stated in the memorandum of cooperation with the National Development and Reform Commission that it will establish a single-aisle aircraft assembly line in China. According to industry insiders, Airbus's aircraft assembly line in China is an important step in its global strategy. There is no doubt that China will become the most important aviation aircraft buyer in the international market in the future. For the duopoly competition between Airbus and Boeing, whoever wins the China market will win the global duel. According to Airbus statistics, up to now, the number of Airbus aircraft in service in Chinese mainland, Hongkong and Macau SAR has exceeded 340, making it the largest overseas buyer of Airbus. With the development of China's civil aviation industry, China will purchase nearly 600 aircraft in the next five years. Therefore, it is very important for Airbus to establish a close cooperative relationship with China. Airbus predicts that in the next 20 years, the sales volume of Airbus in China will reach 65,438+0,600, including 200 A380, the largest civil airliner in the world. Analysts believe that Airbus's two production lines in Europe have been able to meet Airbus's production needs in Europe, and this production line in China will mainly serve the Asia-Pacific region, especially for China. At present, Airbus has achieved industrial production cooperation and partial technology transfer by outsourcing some aircraft parts to domestic aircraft parts manufacturers such as Hafei. Airbus has said that by 2007, the purchase amount in China will increase to 60 million US dollars per year; By 20 10, it will increase to $65438+200 million per year; By 2007, China will fully master the manufacturing technology of Airbus A320 wing. The Comparative Advantage of Tianjin After learning that China will cooperate with Airbus, many provinces and cities in China have extended olive branches to Airbus. Shanghai, Tianjin, Xi and Zhuhai are the four cities that finally entered the selection range of Airbus. Before Airbus officially announced that it would set up an aircraft assembly line in China, it had actually visited the above four cities, but did not disclose who would spend the money. This led to rumors. Among the four cities, Zhuhai has the weakest voice, and the other three cities have their own advantages and are equally divided. According to our reporter's understanding from insiders, Airbus finally chose Tianjin mainly because of its comprehensive advantages. Xi 'an has a well-known domestic aviation manufacturing enterprise-Xifei Group. At present, we are fully studying the regional aircraft ARJ2 1 with independent intellectual property rights in China. There is a strong technical foundation and a large number of skilled workers. The only drawback is that it goes deep into the mainland and the traffic is inconvenient. Shanghai has cooperated with McDonnell Douglas to build a large aircraft production line, and it also has strength in technology and talents. But it is precisely because Shanghai has cooperated with McDonnell Douglas, which has been acquired by Boeing, that it is not in the stage of Boeing's arch rival Airbus. Based on the above considerations, Airbus is located in Tianjin. An internal material obtained by the reporter shows that Tianjin's comprehensive advantages are more prominent. Tianjin has a good location and geographical advantages, which not only facilitates the import of aircraft parts, but also facilitates the low-cost matching of domestic parts. According to preliminary statistics, there are currently 39 units engaged in aviation industry in Tianjin, with more than 2,000 engineers and technicians. The annual output value of aviation products is 500 million yuan, and related products are about 2 billion yuan. There are manufacturers of avionics, aviation composite materials, aviation instruments, aircraft navigation equipment and other supporting equipment. In addition, Tianjin Binhai International Airport already has a Class 4E flight zone, which will be upgraded to Class F.. The taxiway and runway pavement of the airport fully meet the requirements of flight test of A320 aircraft. There is also a fixed large-scale flight test airspace in the north of Beijing, which can be used for A320 flight test. More importantly, on June 65438+1October 65438+June 6, 2004, Tianjin signed an agreement with the Civil Aviation Administration of China to build a civil aviation science and technology industrialization base in China with a planned area of 1 1 square kilometer. The main function of the base is to become the ground for civil aviation technology transfer and industrial transfer. Setting up an assembly line in Tianjin is in line with the national technology transfer goal. In addition, Beijing-Tianjin area is also one of the areas where China aviation industry research institutes are concentrated. The Airbus (Beijing) Engineering Technology Center established in Beijing will form a comprehensive support, guarantee and service system for A320.