Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

"Mr. Liu, you are too busy these days. Besides, I haven't forgotten what I promised you. Our group has been doing relevant technical research and development during this period..."

In the factory area, Xu Huasheng and Mr. Liu were walking and chatting, and he introduced his shipyard to Mr. Liu.

A group of experts named by Xu Huasheng followed behind the two of them, and they also walked and looked at the shipyard curiously.

This shipyard is very large, and the surrounding buildings are all new. The interior looks very clean and neat.

When looking at the dock in the distance, many people swallowed their saliva, because there are a lot of docks here, dozens of large and small docks. Especially after seeing the four super-large dry docks, everyone couldn't help but whispered.

Such a super-large dock is a dock that can only be used to build 10,000-ton ships. Looking at the size of this dock, it is estimated that ships of 100,000 tons can be built here. Such docks are rare in China. After all, China's shipbuilding technology is relatively backward, and the shipbuilding capacity of 10,000-ton cargo ships is really lacking. Let alone 10,000-ton ships, even 6,000-7,000-ton ships cannot be built well in China.

These four super-large docks are closed docks. A huge mobile shed directly covers the dock. There are two long rails at the tail of the dock. When the shed needs to be moved away, just use the rails to pull the huge shed away.

"Mr. Liu, this is Dock No. 1 of our shipyard..."

Xu Huasheng led Mr. Liu and his party directly into Dock No. 1. When they entered the huge dock, everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them.

After entering the dock, everyone saw the huge mobile gantry crane spanning both sides of the huge dock. Although the data of this gantry crane is unknown, it is estimated that the performance will not be bad looking at this head.

There are several huge English letters on the crossbeam of this gantry crane, HUATENG. No one knows this brand. This situation made these technicians couldn't help but discuss in a low voice, wondering which country this gantry crane was imported from.

"Isn't this Pinyin?"

A technician couldn't help but say after looking at it for a long time, which made everyone stunned. Look at the English letters, and then look at the four smaller Chinese characters next to the letters, and you will be amused.

Huateng Heavy Industry, what is this if not Pinyin? Aren't these English letters the Chinese spelling of Huateng? It's just that it is spelled with uppercase Pinyin letters now, which looks like a foreign brand. If you don't say it, it can really fool many people.

Huateng, no one has heard of this brand.

They naturally haven't heard of it. Huateng Heavy Industry is a heavy industry group invested by Xu Huasheng. Gantry cranes are Huateng's current core products. There are not only super large ones, but also large, medium and small ones. However, these products have not yet been launched on a large scale, and the market share is still relatively low.

"Mr. Liu, this gantry crane is the core product of Huateng Heavy Industry, a subsidiary of our head office. The maximum lifting capacity of this gantry crane reaches 16,000 tons. With this thing, let alone building a 10,000-ton cargo ship, even building a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier is no problem at all."

Xu Huasheng pointed to the gantry crane and introduced it to Mr. Liu. This gantry crane has powerful performance and a maximum lifting capacity of 16,000 tons. Not to mention in this era, even if it is placed in thirty years, it is still the world's top gantry crane.

If you want to be good at work, you must first sharpen your tools. If you want to build a big ship, you must have advanced tools. Gantry cranes are indispensable. After all, modern shipbuilding is not like before. Now shipbuilding is built in sections, one section at a time, and then these sections are assembled together, which greatly improves the speed of shipbuilding.

And if you want to hoist such a heavy section, you can't do it without this large gantry crane.

"Just these few steel cables can lift 16,000 tons of things?"

A technician couldn't help but ask in surprise, and the others were similar, even Mr. Liu. Because this gantry crane doesn't look complicated.

Just a huge gantry, some steel cables, and a multifunctional hook, it doesn't look complicated.

Hearing this, Xu Huasheng laughed.

"Everyone, don't underestimate these steel cables. I'm not bragging. Even the United States and Europe may not be able to produce this kind of steel cable. This kind of steel cable uses new materials and new processes, and its performance is very good. Mr. Liu, in fact, this kind of steel cable can be used not only on gantry cranes, but also in other places. For example, the cables of cross-sea bridges, even the arresting cables used on aircraft carriers can use this material. In the future, as long as the country needs it, we can always come up with qualified aircraft carrier arresting cables..."

Xu Huasheng's words made everyone stareeyes, Mr. Liu was even more excited.

"Xiao Xu, you didn't lie to me?"

Mr. Liu asked quickly. Aircraft carriers, aircraft carriers are Mr. Liu's obsession. He also knows a lot about aircraft carriers, and the arresting cable on the aircraft carrier, although it is just a thin steel cable, is indeed one of the most difficult things in technology. Because the aircraft carrier does not have this thing, the fighter jets cannot land, and the fighter jets cannot land. Even if the aircraft carrier is built, it is just an empty shell. From this, we can see the importance of this arresting cable.

Mr. Liu knows better that there are very few countries that can manufacture this kind of arresting cable.

"Mr. Liu, why did I lie to you? Don't underestimate our own R&D capabilities. There are many times when our companies do not lack R&D capabilities. As long as the money is in place, it is not difficult for them to make technological breakthroughs..."

Xu Huasheng said with a smile, thinking of the interesting story of the arresting cable of the Chinese aircraft carrier in the original time and space. When China built the aircraft carrier, there was no arresting cable, so it was thinking about buying it from Russia and the United States. As a result, the two countries directly and clearly refused, and the United States also ridiculed that it would take at least ten years for China to make arresting cables.

But it was unexpected that something slapped their faces. China was determined to make arresting cables by itself. After the performance indicators were sent down, a domestic company immediately reported that they had already made this thing a long time ago.

The Chinese military investigated and found that the arresting cables of the US aircraft carrier were actually made by China. In order to save money, American companies acted as middlemen and bought steel cables directly from Chinese companies, and told Chinese companies that these were steel cables for building bridges.

In this way, American companies bought six million US dollars of steel cables from this Chinese company one after another, but the price of reselling them to the US military was as high as hundreds of millions of dollars.

In fact, such things can be found everywhere, and the people next door like to do this kind of thing. Importing things from China and selling them under OEM, such as high-end bearings, steel, even rice cookers, eels, and some agricultural products are like this.

They just kept making money without finding out, saying it was made in Japan. When something went wrong, they continued with the old routine, bowed and apologized, and then continued to sell. At that time, many Chinese people who worshipped foreign things went to Japan to travel and bought Japanese rice cookers. They also boasted about how good Japanese rice cookers were. In the end, they found out that these rice cookers were actually made in China. It was really ironic.