The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 802 LNG Ship Calculation
"Our Yangcheng Shipyard has achieved a new breakthrough today, breaking the foreign monopoly."

"We know that natural gas is a clean energy source. We have become a natural gas importer in the past few years. We need a large number of natural gas ships to ensure the transportation of natural gas."

Since a few years ago, China has not only been a net importer of oil, but also a net importer of natural gas.

The annual import volume of both is showing explosive growth.

Compared with proven oil reserves, China's proven natural gas reserves are close to 1 trillion cubic meters.

In the past year, China Petroleum Industry produced 1.4 million tons of crude oil and 154 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

But the production of crude oil and natural gas is more than enough.

However, the ceiling of China's oil extraction is very obvious. There are 256 onshore oil fields under development in the country, with a total of 57300 wells put into production. The water content of old oil fields has increased, making it more difficult to maintain stable production.

As for natural gas, the places with rich natural gas discovered so far are basically in places with inconvenient transportation conditions, and it takes a relatively long time to extract natural gas.

After all, the construction of gas pipelines takes time.

The importance of LNG ships is self-evident!

The news of the construction of China's first LNG ship was soon reported on the news. The 7 o'clock news broadcasted this news for a full three minutes, introducing the LNG ship as the 'crown jewel' of the world's shipbuilding industry. Now this 'crown jewel' of the world's shipbuilding industry has been won by China.

In an instant, the whole of China was in an uproar, and the whole world was paying attention.

Since China's reform and opening up, one industrial pearl after another has been plucked by China, and there are not many industrial pearls left.

Now even the industrial jewel of LNG has been won by China.

LNG ships. The number of countries that can build LNG ships now can be counted on one hand!
Now China has quietly mastered the technology for developing LNG ships, and the domestic production rate is 100%, without using patents from other countries.

If shipyards in other countries build LNG ships, they will have to pay high technology patent fees to the French, because the French are the only ones in the world who can produce Invar steel.

The result is that the French, with Invar steel and other core technologies for LNG ships, have made far more profit than a shipyard could make from building LNG ships.

This means that the high profits were taken away by the French, and the shipyards actually earned their money through hard work.

But Yangcheng Shipyard is different. It has mastered the core technology, which means that Yangcheng Shipyard will have higher profits and be more cost-effective in building LNG ships. If Yangcheng Shipyard engages in a price war, other shipyards will not be able to compete with it.

Unless the French stop making money!
But how is that possible!

If the French don’t make money, how can they enjoy a high-welfare life?
French things have always been notoriously expensive. Isn't it because the French make excess profits from this that they can support high social welfare?
If the French have technology but don’t make a lot of money, they are not French!

That evening, Liu Tao was discussing the construction of the second LNG ship with the head of the Yangcheng Shipyard.

Currently, Yangcheng Shipyard does not have an extra dock for building LNG ships, but with the continuous improvement of Mawei Shipyard and the construction of shipyards in other places, a dock will soon be available.

What Yangcheng Shipyard lacks now are qualified and skilled workers to build LNG ships.

In addition, the relevant supporting factories for LNG ships have been improved.

"Two years later, we will start the construction of the second and third 12.5 cubic meter LNG ships, and the first 20 cubic meter LNG ship," said the person in charge of Yangcheng Shipyard. Liu Tao nodded slightly, and said, "You need to train more qualified and skilled workers, and also remember to develop more ship types, including 15 cubic meter LNG ships, 17.5 cubic meter LNG ships, 22.5 cubic meter LNG ships, 25 cubic meter LNG ships, 27.5 cubic meter LNG ships and even 30 cubic meter LNG ships."

For LNG ships, the larger the natural gas capacity, the better.

Because LNG ships have similar speeds, this means that the larger the natural gas capacity loaded, the more freight can be earned per trip and the lower the cost.

LNG ships are known as the 'crown jewel' of the world's shipbuilding industry, but they are quite expensive.

For example, a membrane-type LNG ship with a capacity of 12.5 cubic meters costs about one to two hundred million US dollars, and a 20 cubic meter LNG ship costs about two to three hundred million US dollars.

In the short term, Liu Tao has no plans to engage in a price war on LNG ships, because these LNG ships are all used for his own shipping group.

In a few years, it will be different.

At that time, we will have to compete for orders in the international market, and we will need to have a higher cost-effectiveness than others in order to snatch orders from others.

This is the defect of being a latecomer. You are less well-known than others, and your connection with customers is not as close as others. If you want to get orders, you must have a higher cost-effectiveness than others.

"You also need to do your best in the shipbuilding industry's industrial chain. Building the industrial chain and constructing a complete supporting factory are also very important." Liu Tao advised Qin Weiye.

Qin Weiye is currently the head of Yangcheng Shipyard.

When Panshan Group took over Yangcheng Shipyard, Qin Weiye was just a young man who had just graduated for a year. Over the years, he relied on his own efforts to stand out from the grassroots step by step and was promoted repeatedly. After the previous person in charge died of illness, he was promoted to the person in charge of Yangcheng Shipyard.

Qin Weiye, who is in his thirties, is in his prime and is brave and combative.

Of course, being in this position, with a strong political foundation, there is no problem at all.

Qin Weiye's family is an ordinary farmer. He entered a vocational school with his friendship and was later assigned to Yangcheng Shipyard. He worked hard and was willing to endure hardships. Even when he was resting, he was reading and studying. Later, he went to college and is now the head of Yangcheng Shipyard. He is also studying for a master's degree in a related major.

Liu Tao also likes to promote people like Qin Weiye. Currently, Qin Weiye is in charge of Yangcheng Shipyard. As long as he continues to work hard and keeps his original intention, he will have every hope of becoming the general manager of China Shipbuilding Group Corporation.

"I understand, leader!" Qin Weiye said solemnly.

Although he is the director of Yangcheng Shipyard and deputy general manager of China Shipbuilding Group Corporation, and should be directly under the leadership of Qian Jianguo, general manager and party secretary of China Shipbuilding Group Corporation, Liu Tao is the general manager of Panshan Group and often comes to Yangcheng Shipyard. With Liu Tao around, he naturally listens to him.

Shipbuilding industry chain at night, this is not the first time Liu Tao has said this.

Qin Weiye naturally understood the importance of this matter.

Moreover, what Liu Tao asked for was never just supporting state-owned enterprises, but also supporting private enterprises as well.

Let state-owned enterprises and private enterprises compete and let the fittest survive!

On August 1986, 8, the Shenyang Explosion-proof Equipment Factory declared bankruptcy, becoming the first company to officially declare bankruptcy after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Its bankruptcy gave birth to the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law of 3, which was the first bankruptcy law in Chinese history regarding state-owned enterprises.

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