Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 239
Sitting next to Zhong Cheng, Mr. Deng said excitedly: "I finally saw this day. The civil aviation aircraft manufactured by Red Star Company began to carry passengers!"

Zhong Cheng thought for a while, Mr. Deng proposed this idea six years ago.

And he himself has had the idea for 9 years!

All the planes flying in the sky of China are made by China, and this day is becoming a reality!
The three cabin doors opened automatically, and everyone started to file down and out of Qingluan 520.

Zhong Cheng did some calculations, and it took exactly 50 minutes from boarding the plane to now.

If you count the time to enter and exit the aviation service building, it can reach the center of Haicheng from the center of Beishan City in at most 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Back then, he rushed from Beishan to Haicheng to participate in the Aircraft Expo. Starting from Beishan, he went to the provincial capital to change planes. After getting off the plane, he took a car to Haicheng city for a total of 6 hours.

It also felt very fast!
Now it seems that it is a waste of time.

A group of people took the high-speed elevator to the huge exhibition center on the first floor of the Red Star Heavy Industry Building, and the press conference was about to begin.

At this time, the convention and exhibition center was already crowded with people!

Zhong Cheng roughly estimated that there should be more than 3000 people, almost reaching the upper limit of the capacity of this convention and exhibition center.

Yang Jin, director of the building management center, reported to a group of leaders that this was the result of strictly controlling the number of participants.

A month ago, Huaxia Aviation Service Company and Red Star Heavy Industry Group started a publicity campaign.

The aviation bus system itself has been a hot topic for more than a year, and it is normal for the media to pay special attention to it.

Li Changfeng asked, how many people came for the intelligent robot?
Yang Jin replied embarrassingly, there should be many, after all, the products promoted by Red Star Company are all high-quality products.

Zhong Cheng and Li Changfeng looked at each other, and they both knew that intelligent robots must not be favored by the media, and now intelligent robots have almost become synonymous with money-making.

The most hyped these days are the three high-tech themes: metaverse, space travel, and intelligent robots.

(PS: Metaverse is based on digital twin technology to generate a mirror image of the real world, similar to virtual reality games, but also broader.)
Especially for intelligent robots with the lowest threshold, there are now hundreds of well-known robot manufacturing companies in China, let alone how many there are in the world.

These companies are launching all kinds of intelligent robots at any time, making the public almost numb.

But there is no real "smart" robot!
10:[-] am.

The much-watched press conference has begun.

Countless people across the country and around the world began to focus on the live broadcast of the press conference.

In the upper right corner of the huge mid-air display in the convention and exhibition center, it shows that the number of people currently watching the live broadcast has reached 1 million.

This number is second only to watching the commencement ceremony of the controllable nuclear fusion construction project the year before last and the National Day event last year.

It seems that people's interest in the air bus system is still unabated.

After the invited government leaders gave their speeches, it was Lu Yao who spoke on behalf of Huaxia Aviation Service Company.

Lu Yao didn't talk nonsense, he had already talked too much in the past year.

He wanted to speak with facts. He first played the video specially recorded during the first flight of Qingluan 520 just now.

From the time when passengers enter the Beishan Aviation Service Building to when they get off the plane on the apron on the 120th floor of the Hongxing Heavy Industry Building, excluding the 30 minutes during the flight, there are a total of 30 minutes of video.

Of course, the pictures of the words and deeds of important figures in Red Star Company were blurred, and the pictures of the Wukong robot had to be deleted.

Before the video could be dubbed, Lu Yao explained it himself, and Red Star sent Yang Xi to supplement it.

The video and commentary vividly demonstrated the excellent performance of Qingluan 520 and the convenience of the air bus system, which aroused the shock of all the audience.

The number of people watching the live broadcast is still rising sharply. After the video commentary is completed, the number of viewers has almost reached 2 million.

The reporters in the convention and exhibition center were overjoyed, asking about the official operating schedule and ticket prices of the air bus system.

After Lu Yao introduced the operation and opening hours of major cities, he talked about the issues that everyone, including Zhong Cheng, cared about, how to price the future air bus system.

Lu Yao loudly announced that the one-way fare for all domestic routes of China Airlines Service Company will not exceed 100 yuan.

The ticket price ranges from 10 yuan to 100 yuan, and the farther the flight mileage is, the more cost-effective it is!
Lu Yao's words were like a heavy bomb that exploded the scene!
It shocked all the viewers who watched the live broadcast, and also frightened the airline bosses at home and abroad.

The ticket price is not cheap, it is cheap, and many people even think that it is because they heard it wrong or the speaker missed a zero.

Zhong Cheng was also shocked. He knew the operating costs of the air bus system best.

If such a price does not include the depreciation costs of aircraft and facilities, it can only barely maintain operating expenses and employee wages, let alone make money.

Don't even think about recovering the investment. It seems that Lu Yao really intends to do what Yang Shuzhen wants.

This ticket price is really making money at a loss!
At present, the longest domestic route is from Guangzhou to WLMQ. The full price of the air ticket is 2840 yuan, even if the discount is as low as 1140 yuan.

In the future, it will only cost 100 yuan, which is really the price of a bus.

Calculated from the lowest fare of 10 yuan for a direct flight from a big city to a small and medium-sized city around, spending 20 yuan a day and taking an hour to go back and forth can completely realize the idea of ​​living in a small city and going to work in a big city.

According to this approach, the aviation public transport system will provide the public with long-distance passenger transport services far exceeding the existing cost-effectiveness, and will completely change the travel mode of human society.

The doubts that Huaxia Aviation Service Company has received for more than a year have finally come to an end, and I believe it will be followed by overwhelming praise.

Lu Yao spent half an hour answering the reporters' questions, but when he saw 11 o'clock, he had to stop answering the questions.

He announced that the press conference will move on to the next topic: the press release of Red Star's new intelligent robot.

As soon as Lu Yao finished speaking, people began to leave the stage.

Many reporters went out excitedly, preparing to go back and release a special report on the trial operation of the air bus system.

The number of people watching the live broadcast on the big screen also plummeted, and within a few minutes, it was less than 1 million people.

Lu Yao stepped down from the stage and walked to Zhong Cheng's side, and said helplessly, "Zhong Cheng, I'm sorry, I stole your limelight!"

Zhong Cheng looked at Lu Yao and said with a smile: "You are so popular now, or you should introduce intelligent robots!"

"Haha, if you're not afraid that I'll screw it up, I'm really on it!" Lu Yao also jokingly replied.

At this time, Li Changfeng, who was in charge of introducing the new intelligent robot, had already stepped onto the podium excitedly.

He began to explain the excellent performance of Wukong robot in a regular manner, and let Wukong No. [-] and other four robots come to the stage for demonstration.

Following Li Changfeng's instructions, the four robots walked, ran, and picked up objects accurately and smoothly, just like real people.

But to the surprise of Zhong Cheng and others, the reporters and audience on the scene reacted mediocrely, and some people even left the stage continuously.

The number of people watching the live broadcast also dropped to less than 1000 million.

No one applauded, in stark contrast to Lu Yao's speech just now, Li Changfeng's expression on the stage became awkward.

Zhong Cheng also started to worry in the audience, even a little unconfident!

Is the level of intelligent robots in the world already so high?
Wukong robot is out of date before it comes out?
(End of this chapter)