Chapter 635 Where is the way forward?

After Feng Defeng left, Liu Tao made some tea by himself.

He had a thoughtful look on his face.

Thanks to the development of Panshan Group, China's development is much faster than Liu Tao remembered.

The major state-owned enterprises are in much better condition, and there is no large-scale poor management. Although they are crying poor, they can still support themselves.

The situation of other military factories is not too bad, but it is definitely not moist.

The army needs patience, and everything gives way to economic construction.

This alone is enough to make most military factories depressed.

However, the annual funding of core military industrial units is not small. Although these units cannot be well-off, at least they can eat and wear warm clothes.

After all, not every military industrial unit can have the right to raise funds, independently establish projects and export like Panshan Group, and not every military industrial unit has the ability to win overseas orders.

However, Panshan Group has this right, and it has proved itself with its own strength. Its political achievements are there, which makes the leaders above look at it with admiration and feel at ease.

Since 1978, the Chinese military industry system, Panshan Machinery Factory and Panshan Group have always been the most beautiful ones. The military scientific research results have been innovative repeatedly, and there are countless awards every year. Liu Tao has won many awards.

In the process of the development and growth of Panshan Machinery Factory, it naturally led to the development of a large number of enterprises.

About 80% of them are state-owned enterprises, and 20% are private enterprises.

I don’t know how many state-owned enterprises rely on the development of Panshan Machinery Factory to achieve their own rapid development and avoid falling into operating difficulties like other state-owned enterprises.

There are also countless private enterprises that rely on the orders of Panshan Machinery Factory to gradually grow and develop.

Panshan Group is not only a group, but also a system, an entire upstream and downstream industrial chain, with tens of thousands of supporting factories behind it.

If Panshan Group falls into development difficulties, many factories will also fall into development difficulties.

Therefore, Panshan Group must continue to develop rapidly.

And to develop rapidly, orders are indispensable.

With economic construction as the center of the country, military expenditure will not increase significantly. Panshan Group can still sell weapons and ammunition to the army with a meager profit. This means that there will not be too many orders. They are limited and must rely on overseas orders.

However, at present, as the world situation tends to stabilize, the total contract of overseas orders does not seem to have decreased, but they are mainly high-value ones such as tanks and armored vehicles, aircraft, warships, anti-aircraft missiles, and anti-ship missiles. The export of firearms and ammunition is showing a downward trend.

Tanks and armored vehicles, aircraft, warships, and missiles are naturally high-profit, high-value, and super-high profits. They are the core.

However, the export of firearms and ammunition has lower profits, but it cannot be less, because it is related to employment!

Liu Tao looked at the world map on the wall. His eyes did not stay in China, but looked overseas.

The entire Nanyang will be relatively calm in the future. North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia are mainly focused on construction, building roads and railways, developing agriculture, mining, etc., and opening up the seaports of Yunnan Province and Guangxi Province.

In Myanmar, half of the region is mainly developing, and the other half is relatively turbulent. The weapons are mainly limited to guns, bullets, and artillery shells. Tanks and armored vehicles are mainly exported, such as the Type 59 tank, and the number will not be too large. In addition, the China-Myanmar Railway is under construction, and peace will gradually come later.

The entire Nanyang is rapidly moving towards peace as a whole, developing roads, railways, and shipping. It is expected that these places will develop relatively fast in the next 20 to 30 years.

There is only one country that can really import a large number of weapons and equipment, Thailand.

In recent years, Thailand's economy has made great achievements, developed at a very fast speed, and its economic structure has changed significantly. Relying on the strong demand of China, Thailand exports a large amount of grain, natural rubber, etc.

Thailand's foreign exchange reserves have now reached 15 billion US dollars.

"I don't know if Thailand, which is not under much external pressure now, is willing to increase its investment in military equipment." Liu Tao touched his chin, and he was unsure.

Before, Thailand was very active in armed forces. A very important reason was that the east faced military pressure from Annan and the west faced pressure from the war in Myanmar.

But now, both pressures are gone.

Panshan Group has been negotiating with Thailand about the Kra Canal in recent years. With the Chao Phraya River shipping almost settled, the Kra Canal is only a matter of time.

The Chao Phraya River, the largest river in Thailand, runs through the entire country from north to south. It originates from the Shan Plateau in northwestern Thailand, flows to the flat area in the south, forms the Chao Phraya River Delta, and finally flows into the Bay of Bangkok. It is 1,352 kilometers long and has a drainage area of ​​170,000 square kilometers.

The Chao Phraya River only needs to dig a canal with the Salween River and the Mekong River in the north to form an inland canal, which has great shipping value.

Although the shipping speed is slower, the transportation capacity is strong and can be directly transported to the Gulf of Thailand. If the Kra Canal is navigable, it can directly bypass Malacca, which has a huge effect.

If the Burmese forces were not too complicated, and the Irrawaddy River and the Salween River could not develop shipping in a short time, Liu Tao would not have focused on the Chao Phraya River.

"Thailand~~" Liu Tao stared at the topographic map of Thailand, with thoughts flashing in his eyes.

To be honest, Liu Tao is not too sure whether Thailand will import some tanks, armored vehicles, warships and aircraft.

Even though Panshan Group has been increasing its work in Thailand in recent years and the two sides have frequent contacts, Thailand is a country with relatively large autonomy. The Chinese forces here are of various types and even hostile.

So far, the two sides have mainly cooperated in economic and trade, and there is relatively little cooperation in politics and military.

Then, Liu Tao turned his attention to several countries in the west and India. At present, the countries in the South Asian subcontinent are more engaged in verbal battles, and the possibility of war is not very high.

In order to cope with the pressure from India, Pakistan may import aircraft, warships, and missiles.

However, Pakistan is also facing considerable troubles now. It is hard to say whether it will spend a large amount of money to purchase at this time.

Liu Tao turned his attention to Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines in Southeast Asia.

The Philippines and Malaysia can be directly excluded.

Singapore is a tiny place, too small. It is called a country, but it is actually just a city.

"Indonesia?" Liu Tao frowned slightly.

Indonesia has a land area of ​​1.9136 million square kilometers and consists of about 17,508 islands. It is the largest archipelago country in the world, with its territory spanning Asia and Oceania. The larger islands include Kalimantan, Sumatra, Irian, Sulawesi and Java. It now has a population of 176 million and a GDP of US$84.3 billion last year, making it a relatively poor country.

Since the end of the 16th century, Indonesia has become a Dutch colony. It was occupied by Japan in 1942. With the end of World War II in 1945, the Japanese left Indonesia. Under the wave of national liberation in the world, Indonesia gained independence and successively armed resistance to the invasion of Britain and the Netherlands.

Since 1962, Indonesia has been a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and oil exports account for a large proportion of its foreign trade.