Chapter 259 Power Tsar and New Opportunities

Li Xiaofan looked up and saw that it was Ye Niya who greeted her.

Ye Niya was accompanied by two young blonde beauties who looked very similar to her, as well as a young foreign handsome man.

"Aunt Ye Niya, good evening, are you guys coming here for dinner?" Li Xiaofan greeted.

Ye Niya smiled and said, "We have already eaten. I brought these relatives here to stroll around and plan to find a place to sit down and have a drink. I just happened to see you passing by and came to say hello to you..."

Li Xiaofan suggested, "Aunt Ye Niya, let's just find a bigger table and I'll treat you all to a drink together!"

Yen Niya glanced at Lin Muchu beside Li Xiaofan and smiled, "Is it convenient?"

"Convenient! Aunt Ye Niya, come and introduce you to Miss Lin from the investment promotion department of Singapore Ascendas Group, and the owner of Singapore Science Park where my new company's office is located..."

"Hi, Miss Lin!" Ye Niya greeted.

Li Xiaofan asked the waiter to find a large table for six people nearby, and everyone sat down and introduced themselves to each other.

After Yenia's introduction, Li Xiaofan learned that the two women and one man brought by Yenia were all from Ukraine, and they were Yenia's cousins.

Yenia's grandfather and his generation were all Ukrainian. When Yenia's father was a child, he came to Moldova from Ukraine with his relatives to develop business, and later he simply immigrated to Moldova and settled there. And her uncles continued to stay in Ukraine.

Yenia's two cousins ​​came to Singapore for a visit yesterday and lived in Yenia's big villa in the botanical garden. After dinner, Yenia took them out to the nearby Holland Village for a walk and shopping.

Yenia's two cousins ​​have received higher education in Ukraine, and their English is pretty good, so they can communicate with Li Xiaofan and Lin Muchu.

After chatting with them, Li Xiaofan learned that Yenia has three uncles in Ukraine.

This young man is called Brokus, the son of Uncle Yenia, and currently works at Motor Sich, a well-known Ukrainian aircraft engine manufacturer. His father Vasilysin is a senior engineer at Motor Sich.

Talking to Brokus about the Ukrainian Motor Sich company he serves, Li Xiaofan was in awe.

Motor Sich of Ukraine, referred to as "Sich", is located in Zaporozhye, Ukraine. It is a world-renowned engine manufacturer that mainly provides power systems for fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. As early as the Soviet era, its products were exported to more than 90 countries and were known as the "heart of the Soviet aviation industry."

The company produces a variety of engines, and there are many famous products, such as the DT18T engine of the world's largest transport aircraft An-225, and the D136 turboshaft engine equipped with the Mi-26 helicopter.

In the past, the engine prototypes equipped with the Y-8 and Y-9 developed by mainland China also came from the AI-20 engine produced by the company. Therefore, Motor Sich was once called the "Power Tsar" by the outside world, and its strength can be seen...

In Li Xiaofan's memory, after the complete disintegration of the Soviet Union, the glory that Motor Sich once had was gone forever. Later, due to the improper operation of the Ukrainian government's financial funds, the daily operating conditions of Motor Sich deteriorated, so that the operator had to announce to the outside world that it would sell Motor Sich's shares to ensure that it would not go bankrupt due to the depletion of funds.

Originally, an aviation company in the big country of China planned to acquire Motor Sich, but it was brutally interfered by the United States when Chinese companies cooperated with Ukraine. The United States has repeatedly put pressure on Ukraine, asking Ukraine to prevent Chinese companies from acquiring Motor Sich, and finally the acquisition case has come to nothing...

While drinking and chatting, Brokus saw that Li Xiaofan was so concerned about the Dasich company he served and the Ukrainian military industry. Brokus joked to Li Xiaofan: "Although our country Ukraine is not very rich, it seems that countries all over the world are looking for us to buy weapons!"

The Cold War ended with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the former Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 countries. When these countries were discussing the sharing of the Soviet legacy, Russia got most of the Soviet legacy, and Ukraine ranked second.

Brokus told Li Xiaofan that Ukraine inherited about 35% of the military industrial capacity of the former Soviet Union. There are currently more than 3,000 military enterprises in Ukraine, and more than 3 million people like him and his father are engaged in the military industry.

"Mr. Li, except for the fighter aircraft, almost all other military equipment can be manufactured in Ukraine, including intercontinental missiles!" Brokus laughed.

Brokus introduced that there are two very important intercontinental missile production plants in Ukraine, and a military-industrial joint venture that produces strategic missiles. These are the most advanced technologies at the time.

But Li Xiaofan knew that the most likely and coveted company in the mainland was Motor Sich. The weakest point of our air force is engine technology, and Motor Sich is known as the power czar, unparalleled in engine technology. The engine of the world's largest fighter Mi-26 comes from this company.

Brokus also told Li Xiaofan that the only shipyard capable of building aircraft carriers during the Soviet era was also in Ukraine, located in the Black Sea port of Nikolayev, called the Black Sea Shipyard.

Russia's aircraft carriers Kuznetsov and Varyag were both built at the Black Sea Shipyard.

Li Xiaofan's heart jumped when he heard the name "aircraft carrier Varyag".

The predecessor of Liaoning is Varyag. Varyag was originally built by the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union collapsed after only half of the construction. The aircraft carrier has been idle. In 1995, Russia instigated Ukraine to almost sell Varyag at the price of scrap iron.

Later, it was purchased by a Chinese company and came all the way from Ukraine to China across thousands of miles of ocean, but the process was very difficult and tortuous. In this process, what really blocked the progress of the aircraft carrier was not the strong winds and waves on the sea, but it was stopped by Turkey halfway with various requirements and demanded a high deposit from the mainland.

However, after efforts from all sides, Varyag finally came to the mainland from Europe...

In Li Xiaofan's memory, Ukraine had a "good hand" after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, but later it was "broken" and caused domestic turmoil.

Li Xiaofan suddenly had an idea: Ukraine has very good high-tech industries such as military industry and heavy industry, as well as a large number of related talent reserves. He might ask Yenia and her relatives when they will go to Ukraine to investigate and see if there are any suitable projects to invest in or cooperate with...