The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

In 1994, the world economy seemed to be clear after the rain.

After the economy experienced a downturn in the first four years of the 1990s, it began to improve comprehensively in 1994, which seemed to become a feature of the world economy in 1994. Another feature was the rapid development of regional economic groups.

In 1990, 1991 and 1992, the average growth rate of the world economy was only about 1%, and this was the conclusion drawn from China's annual growth rate of 12% in the past three years.

Many countries have abnormally slow economic growth, and even negative growth.

There are more than one bankrupt country.

As the world's second largest economy, Japan has continued to experience negative economic growth after the economic bubble was punctured.

However, the yen has continued to appreciate against the US dollar, which is indescribably strange.

Japanese products are rapidly losing their competitiveness.

In recent years, Japan's action romance films have ushered in rapid prosperity and growth, conquering cities and seizing market share all over the world, and even Europe and the United States have been defeated by Japan in this area.

By 1993, as the United States took the lead in solving internal economic problems and significantly cut interest rates, the economy began to improve, and the average growth rate of the world economy reached 1.4% in 1993.

In January, China announced its development data, which was still the familiar 12% economic growth rate.

This is the 14th consecutive year that China has maintained an economic growth rate of 12% in its published statistics.

By 1994, the world economic growth rate reached 3% in the first quarter, which was significantly better than in 1993 and much better than before.

Although the new US government suffered a big loss in Somalia and became an international laughing stock, its economic achievements have not caused its support rate to drop much.

In China, the discussion about economic overheating has once again become a hot topic.

At this time of year, there is always a wave of discussions about economic overheating, and the discussion about economic overheating has lasted for ten years.

There will be such discussions every year, as if economic overheating will lead to the destruction of the country and the extinction of the race.

Liu Tao couldn't help but smile as he watched the news.

For this kind of discussion, those who have a clear-cut stance, Liu Tao thinks that they are either really worried about the country and the people, or they are stupid or bad.

What's wrong with good economic development?

Does it have to be bad for economic development to be good!?

You know, since the reform and opening up, China's actual economic growth rate has reached an average annual growth rate of 30%. According to the current statistical method, China's GDP has reached 9885.73 billion yuan, equivalent to 2.6 trillion US dollars.

After so many years, nothing has happened.

As the economic scale becomes larger, the growth rate has slowed down, but it can still maintain an economic growth rate of 15%.

It is an indisputable fact that the country has invested a lot of money in infrastructure construction, and the overall national strength of the country has obviously become stronger.

But some economists seem to be blind to it. Holding the economic theories learned from Europe and the United States, they worry about the country and the people all day long, as if the sky is about to fall.

They can't see that China has built highways and high-speed railways, ports and docks, and a large number of houses to improve residents' living conditions. They can't see that Chinese cities are building roads and parks.

They also can't see that China's food, clothing, housing and transportation have improved. They can't see that China no longer has a drought or flood, and the whole village, town, and county go out to beg. They can't see that the food on the table of the people has become better, and they can't see the improvement of education. They can't see that wages are constantly rising and people's income is growing rapidly.

They can't see that China has become the world's factory in less than 20 years since the reform and opening up. Every day, cargo ships full of Chinese-made goods depart from Chinese ports and are shipped to the world.

They can't see that the Japanese now have to import refined oil from China, and they can't see the international competitiveness of Chinese products, covering all low-end, mid-end and high-end products.

When Liu Tao saw that some economists called for complete marketization and leaving all economic adjustments to the market, he sneered.

Look at Roosevelt's New Deal. Wasn't it the government that intervened to save the economy and pull the United States out of the economic quagmire, which allowed the United States to make a fortune in World War II and attract a large number of European scientists, thus establishing its hegemony?

Has the United States interfered less with the market economy in recent years?

Don't you see that there is no real government that does not intervene in the market in European and American countries now? Instead of persuading the governments of Europe and the United States, they want to persuade China?

It's really ridiculous!

Look, it is recommended that the country cancel industrial policies, cancel tax rebates, and cancel industrial training? ?

Tsk tsk tsk!

Liu Tao sneered.

Industrial policies and tax rebates are actually the state giving money to enterprises so that enterprises can have more money for development.

Industrial training is to improve workers' skills and give enterprises a clearer understanding, so as to continuously upgrade the industry.

On the one hand, they say that excessive taxes cause great pressure on enterprises; on the other hand, they say not to give money to enterprises.

Well, they have said all the good things and are invincible.

Sometimes Liu Tao couldn't help but feel lucky that the country was not led by these people, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

On this day, at the Yangcheng Shipyard, a 400,000-ton tanker was holding a delivery ceremony.

This is the largest tanker built by Yangcheng Shipyard, and it is also the first 400,000-ton tanker successfully built.

This also means that Yangcheng Shipyard has mastered tankers of 400,000 tons and below, and the next one to be conquered is only 500,000-ton tankers.

The delivery ceremony was very grand, and even major media reporters were invited to come.

The milestone achievements made by Yangcheng Shipyard in recent years represent the highest level of development of China's shipbuilding industry.

Whether it is a warship or a commercial ship.

So far, the ships manufactured by Yangcheng Shipyard are all large ships, and small and medium-sized ships have all been transferred to other shipyards such as Mawei Shipyard.

Now Yangcheng Shipyard has mastered the fourth-generation container ship construction technology, and it is also a container ship with a total container load increased to 4,400.

The so-called fourth-generation container ship is a container ship that is large enough to pass through the Panama Canal. The total number of containers loaded has increased to 4,400, and the use of high-strength steel has reduced the weight of the ship by 25%. The development of high-power diesel engines has greatly reduced fuel costs. Due to the improvement of the degree of ship automation, the number of crew members has been reduced, and the economic efficiency of container ships has been further improved.

Now Yangcheng Shipyard is working on the fifth-generation container ship, that is, the container can load 4,800 TEUs. The only disadvantage of this type of container is that it cannot pass through the Panama Canal, which means it cannot be used to transport to the east coast of the United States.

In addition, a container ship that can load 8,000 TEUs is also being developed to further improve the loading capacity of container ships and further reduce transportation costs.