5 August 1981
· Gas prices at record lows · Wuxang Oil opens hundreds of Gas stations nation wide · Wuxang subsidiary Samsung buys out Beijing News Group ·Imperial Air Force Awards Contract to Wuxang for Next Gen Fighter
After over a year of competitive development during the Supernova Trials the Imperial Air Force has awarded Wuxang Industries the contract for its next generation fighter.
Wuxing was fiercly contested by McDonald Douglass an American Aerospace company and the YF-22 prototype.
Wuxang's YF-23 will probably not be production ready until at least 1985 or later.