Chapter 1359 - Launching ceremony of the "Yue Ship"

Barack supports sea power, not land power!

After entering the White House, Barack's heart would beat violently when he understood the current situation in the United States.

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq consume more than 400 billion US dollars each year, accounting for nearly half of the US military expenditure.

These are simply two big mudflats that are bleeding the United States continuously.

Even though the United States is a big country, it can't help bleeding like this.

If the time is not right now, Barack would like to announce the end of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

This time, Barack personally attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the first ship of the "Ford-class" nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which also showed his attitude of supporting the US Navy.

Under the witness of many American politicians and media reporters, technical workers began to cut the steel plates of the aircraft carrier.

After the groundbreaking ceremony, a lot of discussion suddenly arose in the United States, and even the whole world was discussing the "Ford-class" nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

In just one week, the Beihai Shipyard held the launching ceremony of the second ship of the 003-type aircraft carrier, the "Yue Ship"!

Originally, the launch ceremony of the "Guangdong Ship" was planned to be held on July 1, but now it has been adjusted and the launching ceremony will be held in advance.

The launching ceremony of the "Guangdong Ship" was broadcast live by CCTV and Hong Kong Satellite TV at the same time. It was not only broadcast live on TV stations, but also on the Internet!

With TV live broadcast and Internet live broadcast, it can be spread faster across the country and even the world.

In terms of TV stations, it is easier to be restricted in various countries. After all, there are political forces behind TV stations in various countries.

The Internet is different. The Internet belongs to an emerging field. It is a new thing in various countries. Young people are the main users of the Internet, and young people are most likely to accept new things and like new things the most.

The restrictions on online live broadcasts are often the lowest, far lower than TV live broadcasts.

As long as the Internet speed is basically available, it will be fine!

Not to mention, the popularity of smartphones has opened up this aspect.

So far, Kirin mobile phones have sold hundreds of millions of units worldwide, which means that there are at least more than 100 million smartphone users in the world.

Among them, China and overseas countries account for about 50% each!

Compared with the first ship of the ‘Ford-class’ nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which has just started construction and cut the aircraft carrier deck, the Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is already the second one. The first one is about to be put into service, and the second one has already been launched.

Now the second Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has been launched, so is it far from the third one?

The huge ‘Yue Ship’ looks very spectacular and majestic. It is a real steel behemoth.

Many people watched the launching ceremony of the ‘Yue Ship’ and couldn’t help comparing the ‘Yue Ship’ with the ‘Ford-class’ nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Even various military experts and military commentators couldn’t help but compare the two.

Especially for some people who know about China’s shipbuilding industry, they know that unlike the US nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that can only be built in the Newport News Shipyard, China can build them in multiple shipyards.

Moreover, the US shipbuilding industry is no longer the time when it was extremely developed and prosperous during World War II and could carry out large-scale military explosions.

As early as the 1980s, the US shipbuilding industry began to shrink on a large scale. Now the US only has military shipbuilding industry left. As for the civilian shipbuilding industry, it is only the shipbuilding industry of some insignificant luxury yachts and luxury cruise ships.

As for why there is a large-scale shrinkage and even the loss of almost all civilian shipbuilding industries, it is naturally because of the difficult cost problem and the close relationship between manufacturing outsourcing and capital shift to financialization.

The cost problem can be said to be the most fundamental problem. In the 1980s, according to the US International Trade Association, the cost of building a civilian ship in the United States is 2 to 3 times higher than that in similar foreign shipyards!

In the shipbuilding industry, cost is the key.

In other words, for industrial products, cost is a very critical factor!

The rise and fall of Japan's shipbuilding industry is also due to cost!

At that time, Japan became the world's shipbuilding center with its huge cost advantage. Civilian shipbuilding orders ranked first in the world all year round, and the order volume exceeded 50% every year. Later, the decline of Japan's shipbuilding industry was also due to costs. With the sharp increase in Japan's labor costs, as well as the increase in materials and investment costs, Japan's shipbuilding costs are also rising rapidly, and its competitiveness is also declining rapidly.

When China competed with South Korea to take over the transfer of Japan's shipbuilding industry, China defeated South Korea with its huge cost advantage and eventually took over more shipbuilding industries. Now China has become the world's shipbuilding industry center and the world's largest shipbuilding power and power, and has been taking over more than 70% of orders all year round.

Now, although South Korea has more advantages in labor costs, it is at a disadvantage in steel and investment costs, and its shipbuilding costs are still higher than China.

China is different. China's annual steel output has long exceeded 1 billion tons. This is the first time in history that steel output has exceeded 1 billion tons since the world entered industrial civilization, and it can produce steel of all qualities. The huge amount of steel output makes China's steel prices relatively cheap.

In addition, the perfect industrial system and huge industrial clusters give China a huge advantage in scale.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

As for investment costs, whether it is a major state-owned shipyard or a private shipyard, it is easier to obtain bank loans, and the loan interest rate is relatively low!

Of course, there is another aspect, that is, China is not only the world's largest shipbuilding country, but also the world's largest ocean transportation country. The world's four major shipping groups are all located in China!

In this case, it means that China can start building nuclear-powered aircraft carriers at multiple shipyards at the same time, and in the construction of aircraft carriers of the same level, China undoubtedly has a greater cost advantage.

Originally, some people laughed at China's export of two aircraft carriers to the UK, which was short-sighted and would pay a heavy price, but now, with the launch of the second 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "Yue Ship", no such words are said anymore.

Liu Tao also attended the launching ceremony of the "Yue Ship". There is a big difference from the past, that is, the officers and soldiers equipped with the "Yue Ship" are all very experienced and veterans!

This will help the "Yue Ship" complete a series of tests faster and form combat effectiveness faster.

Why did China finally agree to export the Type 001 and Type 002 aircraft carriers to the UK? In addition to the need to exchange a large number of Chinese cultural relics, a very important reason is that China is going to start the small dumpling mode. The aircraft carrier will be mainly the Type 003 aircraft carrier. As for the conventional powered aircraft carriers such as the Type 001 and Type 002 aircraft carriers, they are no longer suitable for China.

If the Type 002B aircraft carrier is not a nuclear powered aircraft carrier with too many advanced technologies, it is estimated that it will be considered for export.

In the future, China will only produce large aircraft carriers, because only large aircraft carriers can match the status of a great power! (End of this chapter)