Zhou Haoren and Zhao Yi did not know each other, and he sought Zhao Yi's support only because he had heard that Zhao Yi had stated in a meeting that more funding should be allocated to high-end manufacturing, precision engineering, and materials research and development.
Red Wind Industry is an industrial group that integrates heavy manufacturing, precision engineering, and alloy material production. It is a very important military-industrial enterprise in the country and also a listed company in the military industry sector.
As a listed company in the military sector, Red Wind Industry operates with semi-autonomy, meaning it has a good degree of independence but is subject to upper-level and policy constraints regarding general direction, research and development, and production, which can sometimes be awkward.