Military industrial enterprises have always involved large investments, large outputs, and large profits. The "Canglong" project, personally overseen by Vice President Shen Songling, was a new type of future main battle aircraft. If successful, the dividends it brought could easily sustain the corporation luxuriously for at least twenty years, and even have surplus energy to continue developing the next generation of main combat aircraft. This achievement would be enough to heavily mark his personal legacy in the history of the company, hence moving up further was not an impossibility.
But should it fail, the vast economic loss incurred, not to mention the huge impact it would have on Shen Songling's internal status within the corporation, would very likely lead him to resign due to guilt, or take an early retirement, since someone had to be responsible.
After struggling hard for most of his life, he might become an insurmountable obstacle for a lifetime.
