Chapter 953: Groundbreaking Ceremony for Type 002 Aircraft Carrier

On the morning of August 10, the sun was shining, the sky was clear, and the sea breeze was blowing.

Yangcheng Shipyard.

After careful preparation, the domestically-produced Type 002 60,000-ton medium-sized conventional-powered aircraft carrier will finally start construction at the Yangcheng Shipyard.

The entire aircraft carrier construction dock is directly covered and built indoors, so it will not be affected by rainy weather at all.

Here, it can even be built in three shifts 24 hours a day.

As a domestically-produced medium-sized aircraft carrier, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Type 002 aircraft carrier was very grand and solemn.

The senior leaders came in person.

Yesterday, the leaders came to the Yangcheng Shipyard and inspected the Yangcheng Shipyard on the same day, inspecting the Type 054 frigate, Type 052 destroyer, Type 039 new submarine, Type 094 strategic nuclear submarine and two Type 001 light aircraft carriers under construction.

As the largest shipyard in China today, the Yangcheng Shipyard has a very important position in the hearts of the leaders.

Yangcheng Shipyard has become the largest shipyard in the world, building large warships and large ships.

The production of Type 022 missile boats, Type 022A torpedo boats, Type 817 electronic reconnaissance ships, Type 083 minesweepers, Type 084 minesweepers, etc., has been transferred from Yangcheng Shipyard to Beibu Gulf Shipyard and Mawei Shipyard.

Even large warships such as Type 054 frigates, Type 039 new submarines, and Type 052 destroyers have also transferred more than half of their orders to Beibu Gulf Shipyard and Mawei Shipyard.

Yangcheng Shipyard focuses its main efforts on the construction of large warships and large ships.

Except for some special ships, the large civilian ships now built at Yangcheng Shipyard are no less than 50,000 tons.

Beibu Gulf Shipyard and Mawei Shipyard have taken over part of the production capacity of Yangcheng Shipyard.

With Yangcheng Shipyard as the center and Beibu Gulf Shipyard and Mawei Shipyard as the east and west wings, it drives the development of the entire southern Chinese shipbuilding industry and greatly promotes the development of the entire Chinese shipbuilding industry.

Now, China has become the world's largest shipbuilding industry country, with more orders and orders delivered than Japan, accounting for more than 50% of the world market share.

Yangcheng Shipyard, Beibu Gulf Shipyard, Mawei Shipyard all build warships and civilian ships, with military and civilian development in parallel, from ships as small as a few hundred tons to super-large tankers of 500,000 tons.

Even super cruise ships, LNG ships, large luxury yachts and other high-value-added industrial pearls have been picked.

In the past ten years, the three major shipyards under Panshan Group have picked all the industrial pearls of the world's shipbuilding industry.

All the pearls of the world's shipbuilding industry that public intellectuals have boasted about have been picked off one by one, so that now, public intellectuals no longer mention the pearls of the world's shipbuilding industry. Instead, they say that the shipbuilding industry is a backward industry, a leftover from Europe and the United States, and they disdain to build ships. China's shipbuilding industry only does what Europe and the United States don't want to do, so there is nothing to brag about.

Or just say, strategic nuclear submarines and nuclear-powered aircraft carriers!

In the eyes of public intellectuals, the technologies that China has mastered are backward and Europe and the United States don't want; and as long as China has not mastered the technology, it is an industrial pearl.

But there are not many industrial pearls left for public intellectuals.

After inspecting the Yangcheng Shipyard yesterday, the leader had dinner with the workers in the cafeteria and chatted with the workers cordially.

And this morning, it was the groundbreaking ceremony for the Type 002 medium aircraft carrier.

The leaders attach great importance to the Type 002 medium aircraft carrier.

The construction of aircraft carriers is to build a blue-water navy of a great power. Now, with the continuous expansion of China's overseas interests, in the future, aircraft carrier fleets must be able to reach the waters of the world and protect overseas interests.

The 21st century is also the century of the ocean!

The strategy of the Chinese Navy is a defensive navy. The Chinese Navy will never bully those small countries like the Eagle Sauce, nor will it drive aircraft carrier fleets everywhere to show off its power, but China needs aircraft carrier fleets to strike and deter pirates, ensure the safety of ocean routes, and deter some scoundrels.

At the same time, the stronger the Chinese Navy is, the stronger the power of world peace will be, and some forces that want to destroy world peace will have to weigh it.

The entire dock was full of colorful flags and gongs and drums.

Liu Tao accompanied the leaders to the dock.

Soon, the time came to 9 o'clock in the morning, and the groundbreaking ceremony for the first ship of the 002 aircraft carrier finally began.

The leader delivered a speech, highly affirmed everyone's efforts, and emphasized the importance of the Type 002 aircraft carrier to the Chinese Navy, and highly praised the importance of the Type 002 aircraft carrier to China's national defense construction.

The leaders of the Navy also delivered speeches one after another. Even though it was just a groundbreaking ceremony, the leaders of the Navy came to Yangcheng Shipyard yesterday and were all smiling from ear to ear.

In recent years, the Navy has been celebrating the New Year every year.

In addition to nuclear submarines, the ships built by the Navy before 1983 were either exported overseas, or a few that were not suitable for export were handed over to the Coast Guard to serve as Coast Guard ships.

The strength of the Chinese Navy is now more than ten times stronger than in 1980!

Not only has the Navy's equipment been upgraded, but the Navy's academic qualifications have also increased significantly. A group of highly educated talents have poured into the Navy, which can better play the combat effectiveness of new warships.

When the leader officially announced the start of construction, several technical workers used CNC cutting machines to cut off several steel plates, welded them together, and completed the group, which marked the beginning of the construction of the aircraft carrier.

This is just a small module on the aircraft carrier, but the aircraft carrier is composed of countless such small modules.

The digital shipbuilding technology is very advanced and can greatly improve the efficiency of construction. Therefore, with the skilled workers of the 001 aircraft carrier and mature shipbuilding technology and industrial chain, the 002 aircraft carrier can be launched in just two years.

The scene was very lively, and the reporters on the team kept taking pictures and recording these scenes.

Then, they took a group photo as a souvenir.

Today's news will not be reported. Maybe it will not be officially reported until the 002 aircraft carrier is launched or even put into service, or it will appear in the documentary of the 002 aircraft carrier.

Of course, it is also possible that at some time next year or the year after, when it is necessary, the groundbreaking ceremony of the 002 aircraft carrier today will be reported to the outside world.

This is also the characteristic and convention of China, and there will always be some trump cards.

Just like the first Zhuhai Air Show last year, the outside world was speculating that the J-10 fighter and the J-11 fighter would appear at the first Zhuhai Air Show, but in fact, these two fighters did not even show up in their basic models, and the biggest support was the Y-13 regional aircraft.

The same is true for other military industries.

So far, Europe and the United States have reported on China's aircraft carrier countless times, but China itself has not reported anything, so much so that public intellectuals are still saying that China will take at least 100 years to build a modern aircraft carrier.

Liu Tao, as always, was in the first row, with the leaders, and was particularly conspicuous.

At 12 o'clock, the entire groundbreaking ceremony was over.

The leaders had a meal in the canteen of Yangcheng Shipyard, and then left Yangcheng Shipyard on a special helicopter "Ray Sculpture".