1novels #385 - Progress in foreign trade and shipbuilding industry (two-in-one update)
#385 - Progress in foreign trade and shipbuilding industry (two-in-one update)
The Peninsula War, deliberately fueled by external forces, took a course so winding that it defied everyone's expectations. No one anticipated that Dongda would miraculously emerge as the ultimate victor. On the smoke-filled battlefields, Dongda not only secured victory but did so with remarkable finesse, each battle fought with exhilarating vigor, showcasing extraordinary military acumen and combat prowess.
Although this war was not of Dongda's choosing, but a calamity it was forced into, history, in its unique way, presented Dongda with an opportunity to rewrite its destiny.
Finally, as the smoke of war gradually dissipated and the dawn of victory illuminated the entire peninsula, Dongda, as the victor, solemnly signed the armistice agreement.
This victory not only came at a cost far lower than any other possible option but also yielded dazzling results, earning Dongda unprecedented glory and respect.
On the battlefield, Dongda proved beyond any doubt that it was the true king of land and air in the Blue Star world. The J-5A in the sky and the latest Dragon-type tanks on the ground struck fear into the enemy, earning dignity for their nation and people.
Beyond the battlefield, Dongda seized this rare historical opportunity, ensuring that victory extended beyond the military sphere. Leveraging the shifts in the international landscape brought about by the war, they actively sought cooperation and exchange with world powers on relatively equal terms, successfully opening up trade channels and injecting new vitality into the nation's economic development. This move not only boosted Dongda's economic prosperity but also laid a solid foundation for its future international standing.
This unprecedented opportunity for international openness directly unlocked Dongda's foreign trade potential.
Benefiting from Ren Zhong's procurement and possessing advantages in chemical fiber industrial materials, the clothing industry, taking the lead, gained a reputation for high quality and low prices in the post-war international clothing market, becoming the undisputed number one industry in domestic foreign trade. Due to early industrial guidance, sufficient development space was reserved for private capital in the early stages. Through nearly a decade of development, this industry attracted tens of millions of laborers to join the clothing industry.
Since the technology was procured from the Main World, the expenses originally spent on importing technology in the 1980s of the Main World were greatly reduced. In this way, Ren Zhong could calmly arrange and adjust the domestic new industries.
Domestic fertilizer production capacity has not yet been released. Faced with the major issue of grain supply, even if international import channels have been opened, Ren Zhong still hopes that the country can be self-sufficient and not place its hopes on others.
Therefore, the import of fertilizer is a priority, followed by the large-scale import of fertilizer plant equipment. Now, regarding the pulse of the international market, Ren Zhong did not rely on reckless youngsters in the country to mess things up, often resulting in prices rising sharply as soon as they bought, and prices falling sharply as soon as they sold.
Using the seeds released early on, in addition to technical experts, there were also many business talents proficient in international trade. Through their international trading companies, they formed a fairly stable and well-informed market channel. In this way, there were people helping with both procurement and sales, driving the foreign devils to lower their prices until they were convinced!
Using quite favorable prices, we rapidly developed our scarce chemical, metallurgical, machinery, and energy industrial infrastructure in a leapfrog manner, developing rapidly at a rate that doubled year by year.
Especially the steel industry, which in this timeline, is still a core industrial category. A country's strength must first be judged by the total amount of its steel industry. Although we have many high-end processes for special steel, we actually lack in basic steel and processing technology.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to import large quantities of various metal mineral products domestically, several new large-scale steel enterprises were directly built along the coast. The emergence of these super-large steel enterprises that use imported iron ore and coal to produce steel drove the rapid development of the steel industry.
The Dongda steel industry, which originally started to take off in the 1980s, was prematurely spurred to explode in the 1950s.
Relying on the advanced steelmaking technology process and the huge development opportunities of foreign trade after opening up the international market, Ren Zhong procured from the Main World, we can import a large number of ordinary steelmaking equipment to quickly form new production capacity.
After the Peninsula War, we opened up the market and also entered the global market. Especially in the iron ore market, which has not yet taken off, this time, through the seeds that were scattered, they are also blooming everywhere in the iron ore producing areas. Especially in the iron ore power, the kangaroo country, our people, with their prescient resource sense, quietly controlled at least 50% or more of their high-quality iron ore mines.
Many mines, in the eyes of the locals, are small mines that are not of much use. In this way, our scattered seeds took over the mining and revenue ownership of these mines at relatively low prices.
Among these people, many often controlled mineral resources worth billions or even tens of billions of dollars in the future with just a few million dollars.
It is equivalent to opening up the supply base of iron ore from the kangaroo country in advance.
Not only that, in several other countries with stable political situations, our scattered people are also constantly active, gradually swallowing their best-quality mine parts.
Due to the more relaxed international environment than the Main World, the foreign exchange resources earned through clothing and food are carefully transferred to those seeds to form initial capital, and then transferred to various countries in the world to slowly become those high-quality mineral resource shares.
Some minerals are in direct mining, while others are still in a raw, unexplored state, but no matter which one, it is a sure profit to take it down now.
Ren Zhong is not worried at all that these countries will renege on their debts. After more than ten years of hard work, we can now crush strong opponents like the rogue Eagle on land and in the sky.
Once the navy is fully formed, the entire Blue Star will be free to navigate. In this situation, anyone wanting to welch on debts to the Great East Country will have to consider whether their head is hard enough.
On another front, the booming foreign trade has ushered in a golden age for the domestic shipbuilding industry ahead of schedule!
Thanks to the early prioritization of Ro-Ro ship research and development, we have now successfully developed ultra-large Ro-Ro ships ranging from 3,000 tons to 50,000 tons!
Since acquiring the Dalian Shipyard, the successful development of 10,000-ton, 30,000-ton, and 50,000-ton Ro-Ro ships, along with our own end-to-end maritime transport industry, has led to increasingly cheaper sea transport for our bulk primary goods.
The rapidly expanding transport fleet has stimulated explosive growth in our shipbuilding industry. In just a few years, we have established six new shipbuilding systems spanning the entire coastline, from Dalian Shipyard to Jinmen Shipyard, Island City Shipyard, Jiangnan Shipyard, Mawei Shipyard, and Wuyang Shipyard.
Through a mixed-ownership capital model, we have invested in the construction of over 60 large docks capable of handling 10,000-ton ships and over 100 ordinary docks. We now have over two million shipbuilding workers, and the annual launch of merchant ships alone exceeds 170, with a total tonnage of up to two million tons!
This shipbuilding scale is already the world's largest in terms of merchant ship launches in the Bright Sword world!
Starting with the acquisition of Dalian, in less than eight years, with Ren Zhong leading the way in rapid development, the Great East shipbuilding industry, coinciding with the golden age of domestic and foreign maritime transport development, directly stole the limelight from the Eastern Dwarf devils in the shipbuilding industry in the original timeline! It has become the core of the world's shipbuilding industry in one fell swoop.
It not only satisfies the huge demand for domestic and foreign trade transport but also has become the third largest foreign trade industry for making money.
The overseas Chinese forces that were supported earlier to develop maritime transport now basically choose 3,000-ton to 5,000-ton Dawn-class Ro-Ro transport ships and 6,000-ton to 9,000-ton Hope-class Ro-Ro transport ships to run intra-continental maritime transport.
10,000-ton to 30,000-ton Far-Voyage-class Ro-Ro transport ships are used as the main transport ships for intercontinental crossings.
The 50,000-ton Neptune-class Ro-Ro transport ships are specially customized for the transportation of ore, coal, and other materials, equipped with convenient ore-specific conveyor belts and crane devices.
Because these three major series adopt similar power structures and ship structure designs, they have achieved large-scale modular production, greatly reducing product costs and risks. There are almost no competitors in similar products in the international shipbuilding industry.
In addition, the design of container ships has been patented in several major countries. In the future, the container transport field will basically be dominated by these three series of products.
In this way, the Dawn-class, Hope-class, and Far-Voyage-class not only support the needs of the Great East's newly developed trade but also provide a successful demonstration for those new maritime transport merchants who see the huge space in the maritime transport market, providing these maritime transport merchants with a de facto standard for choosing Ro-Ro transport.
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This greatly enhances the international status and market competitiveness of the Great East shipbuilding industry.
After all, the standardization of Ro-Ro cargo ships and the use of containers, pioneered by Dalian, have made a huge contribution to saving international bulk cargo transshipment time.
You need to know that the timeliness of maritime transport is money. With these containers, bulk cargo can be sorted into containers in advance, so that during transportation, the containers can be directly placed on trailers by trucks or trains.
Then, it is transported to the port and quickly hoisted onto the ship through the port's hoisting facilities, which can greatly reduce the loading time that used to take more than ten days or even a month to one or two days!
For goods with high timeliness requirements, this is undoubtedly a huge time-saving method.
Even for products that are not time-sensitive, this mode of transportation also saves a lot of transshipment and cargo turnover costs.
Thanks to the booming shipbuilding industry's technological accumulation, our shipbuilding industry has not only cultivated millions of shipbuilding workers but also thousands of shipbuilding engineers.
Relatively speaking, the maturity of this batch of shipbuilding workers has also had an extremely positive impact on our warship production. The original planned annual production capacity of 4 Jianghai-class destroyers has been expanded to 12 ships per year after the great development of the shipbuilding industry!
Now that the numerous shipbuilding docks have allocated the task of 12 Jianghai-class destroyers, two ships a year is simply no pressure for the six major domestic shipyards!
Therefore, the construction of the first 6,000-ton Luhai-class destroyer began in Dalian. Today, the main hull and power subsystem have been completed, and preparations are underway for sea trials!
The Luhai-class destroyer is basically based on the Type 052C guided-missile destroyer as its prototype and target. The full-load displacement is 6,800 tons, the overall length is 155.5 meters, the overall width is 17.2 meters, and the draft is 6 meters. These indicators have not been changed much.
However, in terms of the power subsystem, the old steam turbine system is still used. The prototype technology comes from the 120,000-horsepower Parsons steam turbine used on the Enterprise aircraft carrier that was exchanged for back then.
After several years of research and thorough understanding, the maritime power research technology team of the Dawn Research Institute not only restored and researched a 120,000-horsepower Parsons steam turbine sample on a one-to-one basis but also fully verified that the technology purchased at the beginning was real and effective.
However, this prototype has not yet been used at sea, so the maritime power research team transformed it into a set of land-based steam generator units.
Because they have thoroughly understood this steam turbine technology, the team has reduced the power on this basis and developed two series of small and medium-sized steam turbine products with 35,000 horsepower and 70,000 horsepower respectively.
The Luhai-class destroyer is driven by two 70,000-horsepower steam turbines, focusing on powerful thrust and high speed, which can exceed 35 knots!
According to the standards of the 1950s, this power and tonnage are already very good among destroyers.
Moreover, this destroyer will be equipped with a Type 351 three-coordinate maritime radar search system, equipped with 32 units of the soon-to-be-formed Hongqi-1 air defense missile and 8 units of the Yingji-1 anti-ship missile, which has strong air defense and anti-ship capabilities. Once it appears in this era in full strength, it will be a bug-like existence, allowing the Great East's navy to truly have the ability to operate in the ocean.
Shipbuilding and the navy are about to embark on a path of soaring development!