Ukrainian aircraft manufacturers and rocket scientists are fleeing to China in the thousands and entire families
China has taken advantage of the collapse of Ukrainian industry and is creating favorable working conditions for employees of Ukrainian industrial giants, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports.
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“In one of the counties of Shaanxi province, on an area of 124 square meters. km, a production area is being built where thousands of Antonov employees and their families will live and work. The same number of former Motor Sich employees will work on the creation of engines at the new enterprise in Chongqing. People from Yuzhmash will also settle here.
The Chinese do everything on a grand scale, they build not only new enterprises, but, in fact, new cities, employees are immediately given the keys to apartments, they are provided with high earnings and comfortable living conditions. Before importing labor, the Chinese purchased in Ukraine the technological documentation they were interested in, in particular for the Antonov super-heavy transport aircraft - Mriya and Ruslan, as well as aircraft engines. Now China will be able to launch the production of heavy transport aircraft, engines for aircraft, helicopters and missiles,” the publication notes.
The publication writes that not so long ago Ukraine was an industrial country with space, nuclear, aircraft, and chemical industries, but today in Bloomberg’s ranking of the top 50 most innovative economies in the world, Ukraine occupies 42nd position, having fallen over the past three years from 33rd. th place.
“After President Petro Poroshenko banned military-industrial cooperation with the Russian Federation, many Ukrainian enterprises were on the verge of closure. For example, the Zaporozhye plant “Motor Sich” lost about 85% of orders. Thousands of workers were fired from the company. The Southern Machine-Building Plant named after Makarov (Yuzhmash), which was the largest enterprise in the rocket and space industry in Ukraine, was transferred to an operating mode of one day a week in the fall of 2016,” recalls NG.
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