The Theoretical Group and the Z-wave Group had a multitude of tasks, but Ruan Wenye was the busiest and under the most pressure as he was the head of the Z-wave Group, thereby becoming the direct person in charge of the Energy Space Research Project.
The Energy Space Research Project was bound to become a mega-project, with initial domestic investments anticipated at five billion yuan, and a conservative estimate of the project size exceeding ten billion yuan.
Though the scale could not match that of a spacecraft, the two projects were not of the same type.
Spacecraft manufacturing is a production project, divided into several sub-teams to tackle core technologies and finally produce the spacecraft, while the research of energy and space is a scientific project surpassing ten billion yuan, similar to particle collider projects.
Such projects are of a more academic nature, not aimed at producing something specific.