The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

Humanity seems to be about to start a new round of space exploration craze again.

China officially announced the timetable for building a space station belonging to China for the first time, and announced the timetable for manned moon landing for the first time.

This is undoubtedly telling the world that China is serious about space exploration.

The United States restarted the moon landing plan and started a plan called "Return to the Moon", which will land a man on the moon again in 2010.

In Europe, the European Space Agency announced that it would start a manned space program belonging to Europe in 2010, and announced that it would achieve a manned moon landing in 2025.

The Russian Space Agency was not to be outdone, announcing a series of manned spaceflights and a manned moon landing in 2025.

Even Japan, whose national strength has declined significantly, has proposed an ambitious space program.

It seems that the world is about to enter the space age all of a sudden.

Of course, there is one more thing, that is, in the Middle East, Israel faces greater challenges.

Although the seventh Middle East war ended, the friction on the border has never stopped, shooting today and throwing bombs tomorrow.

In order to ensure security, Israel plans to build a border wall, which is formed by building barbed wire to ensure the security of the border.

In addition, Israel began to build anti-tank trenches on the border defense line.

The Golan Heights, which is regarded as a thorn in the eye of Israel, seems to be unbreakable.

If it is said that the biggest danger is regarded by Israel, it must be the Golan Heights.

Then there is Syria's SAM missile position in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, which is a huge threat to the Israeli Air Force.

These two places are simply thorns in the eye of Israel.

In addition, the land area is small and there is no strategic depth at all. Once a war breaks out, the war will cover the whole of Israel.

Neta cursed the previous stupid things more than once. In the fifth Middle East War, Israel could not give in and form a new border line, otherwise why would Israel be so passive now.

The sixth and seventh Middle East Wars were a disastrous defeat for Israel, with heavy losses, and each loss was greater than the last.

If it were not for the United States's death protection, Israel would probably really usher in the finale.

However, after this war, Israel will no longer be able to launch an attack within ten years.

At this time, the Golan Heights was undergoing large-scale construction.

With the help of all parties, the two sides reached a cooperation agreement.

Syria continued to supply water to Israel, and Israel paid for water resources every year.

In addition, the oil and natural gas extracted from the Golan Heights should also be allowed to be exported to Israel.

Before this, Israel had to import oil from other places, which was much more expensive. If it could obtain oil supply from the surrounding areas, the cost of importing oil would undoubtedly be reduced a lot.

There are also water resources, which is also what Israel desires.

Although Israel can obtain fresh water by building a desalination plant through seawater desalination technology, the cost is too high.

At this time, the Golan Heights began large-scale construction, and it is expected that two years later, in 2008, it will officially start oil production.

Shanghai, Yangshan Port.

Liu Tao and others came to Yangshan Port for inspection.

Last year, the cargo throughput of Yangshan Port reached 5.5 million TEUs. As the most important port in Shanghai in the future, Yangshan Port mainly undertakes the business of ocean-going containers in the hinterland and international transit containers. It is also the world's largest container terminal, and has made great contributions to the development of the Yangtze River Delta.

The investment in Yangshan Port and its supporting projects is very huge.

After years of large-scale investment, the entire Magic City Port has become the largest port in the country, with an annual throughput that is astonishing.

The entire Yangshan Port construction cycle will last until 2020, when the cargo throughput of Yangshan Port will reach 25 million TEUs, or 437.5 million tons of cargo throughput.

Every day, a large number of transport vehicles travel to and from Yangshan Port. Similarly, freight trains travel to and from Yangshan Port every day.

At present, Europe and the United States hope that China can open up more high-quality assets on the stock market.

Such high-quality assets are not real estate companies or other well-known listed companies, but port terminals, airports, railways, tobacco, oil and gas, communications, etc.

Everyone knows that the most profitable business in the world is a monopoly business.

In China, these are all in the hands of the government.

Even up to now, the industries that involve the lifeline of the economy are all state-owned economies.

This is why every time the government issues a treasury bond, it will not worry about selling it.

Because the Chinese government has enough assets to repay debts.

Just like this Yangshan Port, many people thought it was a losing business at the beginning and it would never be possible to recover the cost.

But now, no one says that anymore, because it has become a high-quality asset.

Liu Tao and people from the Magic City conducted research at Yangshan Port. Both Panshan Group and the Magic City Government attached great importance to Yangshan Port.

Because it is related to the development of Magic City, it can even be said to be related to the development of the entire Yangtze River Delta in the third quarter.

There is a consensus at present, that is, the development potential of the Yangtze River Delta is greater than that of the Pearl River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan, and the current development speed of the Yangtze River Delta also reflects this point.

Of course, the development potential of the Pearl River Delta should not be underestimated.

The Pearl River Delta, Southwest, and Beibu Gulf Economic Zones are all facing ASEAN and South Asia.

At present, China's strategic priority is obviously Southeast Asia, followed by South Asia!

In theory, Northeast China should be the first priority, but Northeast Asia is more complicated and difficult.

As for Southeast Asia, since the ASEAN + China economic integration was set that year and a timetable was given, that is, 2010, all parties have been acting according to this timetable.

It can be said that the process of integration is accelerating.

The vast South China Sea has become a trend for Chinese people to venture into the South China Sea, and it has also driven Chinese capital to the South China Sea.

In order to ensure the development of integration, the countries in the South China Sea are also constantly strengthening the construction of military forces, especially the construction of the navy, so as to ensure regional stability and development.

After leaving Yangshan Port, Liu Tao flew directly to Zhoushan.

Zhoushan Islands is the largest archipelago in China, equivalent to 20% of the total number of Chinese islands, with a sea area of ​​22,000 square kilometers, a land area of ​​1,371 square kilometers, and an inland sea area of ​​20,800 square kilometers.

Located at the intersection of the golden coastline of eastern China and the golden waterway of the Yangtze River, it is the main sea gateway for the eastern coast and the Yangtze River Basin to the world.

Panshan Group has invested heavily in Zhejiang Province, and the construction of ports belongs to this area. A total of 19 port areas are planned and built in two cities, with more than 620 production berths planned and built, including 170 large berths above 10,000 tons, and more than 100 large and extra-large deep-water berths above 50,000 tons, and all of these will be completed in the next five years.

This place complements Yangshan Port.

However, unlike Yangshan Port, which is a container port, this place is positioned as an iron ore transshipment base, crude oil transshipment base, liquid chemical storage and transportation base, and an important coal and grain storage and transportation base in East China. (End of this chapter)