[Explanation] The aircraft engine is the heart of the aircraft. Repairing an aircraft engine is like performing an operation on the heart. It is one of the most difficult maintenance techniques.
With the recovery of the aviation market, after 40 days of Spring Festival travel, the China (Xiamen) global one-stop aviation maintenance base has reproduced the busy scene of previous years.
[Explanation] Visual "physical examination" of the engine, modular maintenance of precision parts, as the only aviation maintenance base in China and one of the few aviation maintenance bases in the world that can provide comprehensive maintenance services for the engine GE90 with the largest thrust in service, hundreds of young technicians are here meticulously Provide professional maintenance for about 40 GE90 engines.
[Concurrent] Ye Fangchao, technician of Xiamen Taikoo Engine Service Co., Ltd.
The aircraft engine is equivalent to the "heart" of the aircraft, so the main content of our work is to maintain and maintain the "heart" of the aircraft to ensure that it is in a very perfect state.
[Explanation] Aeroengines involve tens of thousands of precision parts. Ye Fangchao, who has been employed for several years, told the reporter of China News Agency that every link of the engine, from maintenance, assembly to testing, needs to be checked at every level, and no mistakes are allowed, otherwise it will be It will be "a thousand miles away".
[Concurrent] Ye Fangchao, technician of Xiamen Taikoo Engine Service Co., Ltd.
Engine maintenance is more demanding than other maintenance work. What we ensure is quality and safety first, so we need to carefully check most of the work links to ensure that the work process and work results are free from any omission.
[Explanation] Xiamen TAECO Engine Service Co., Ltd., the operator of the maintenance base, has nearly 500 employees and has repaired and repaired more than 800 engines.
Thanks to the recovery of the international and domestic aviation markets, Swire's engine business has grown significantly, with annual revenue of nearly 4.7 billion yuan in 2022, a record high.
[Concurrent] Simon Smith, Managing Director of Xiamen Taikoo Engine Service Co., Ltd.
First of all, with the support of the Xiamen Municipal Government, the Free Trade Zone Management Committee, and the Huli District Government, we can meet the demand for production growth this year and better introduce new businesses.
In the first quarter of this year, our business volume increased by 40% year-on-year.
This year, our development will focus on equipment, production capacity and talents, and strive to achieve a leap of 100 engines imported into the plant every year.
[Explanation] During the Spring Festival this year, about a quarter of the employees in the maintenance base chose to work on the job.
Looking forward to 2023, the China (Xiamen) global one-stop aviation maintenance base is undergoing plant renovation, staff expansion and capacity expansion, striving to achieve a leap of 100 engines into the plant each year, while developing new aircraft maintenance capabilities.
[Concurrent] Simon Smith, Managing Director of Xiamen Taikoo Engine Service Co., Ltd.
We, the Swire Group, are both contributors and beneficiaries of China's development.
In the future, we will also continue to contribute our strength in the engine field.
Reporter Li Siyuan reports from Xiamen, Fujian
Editor in charge: [Liu Xingchen]