The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 850 Ocean
Liu Tao is with the planning team.

Discussing matters concerning external transportation.

As for the ferry, it is nothing more than a matter of adding berths and ships. What is really needed is to build a high-speed railway to the ferry.

This ensures that passengers can quickly go to the ferry and buy tickets after getting off the high-speed train.

In terms of aviation, what we actually need is to strengthen airport construction.

Liu Tao meant that Qiongdao would have three airports in the future, forming a triangle, thus meeting the needs of passengers.

Either don’t build it, or build it well.

Sufficient land was reserved for the airport from the outset and construction was carried out in phases.

Each airport covers an area of ​​2000 hectares, or 30000 acres.

An airport is not just an airport, it is also a place for tourism and leisure, it will be an airport complex.

Three airports are sufficient to meet the needs of the entire Qiongdao Island.

As long as the annual passenger throughput can be reached, Qiongdao will surely develop to a whole new height.

Of course, for a project of this scale, the investment in each airport will not be less than 300 billion RMB.

Qiongdao is an island, and many construction materials have to be transported from other places, so the project cost is much higher than that in other provinces.

For example, sea sand cannot be used in engineering construction, it must be river sand.

Although sea sand and river sand are both sand, there is a huge difference between them.

Because sea sand contains a large amount of free chloride ions and other acid ions in its water, when it is used in reinforced concrete, these free chloride ions will corrode the steel bars, causing the steel bars to expand, which in turn causes the structural components themselves to expand and deform, reducing the bearing capacity and seriously affecting the safety of the building.

It costs a lot of freight to transport river sand to Qiongdao by ship.

In mid-March, Panshan Group finally took action and, with the cooperation of Qiongdao and the support of relevant banks, took over the properties and plots of land from these bankrupt developers.

In order to minimize the losses, the banks had no choice but to accept the consequences; the developer had gone bankrupt and entered bankruptcy liquidation, and all the people had disappeared; all the places on Qiongdao Island had to accept the consequences as well, after all, they were the ones who caused the trouble, and now Panshan Group was here to clean up the mess.

Panshan Group needs to invest nearly 400 billion yuan to clean up this mess, and it will cost nearly 1500 billion to implement these plans.

Now, for Qiongdao, Panshan Group is the rich man and the boss, and they have to be served.

Otherwise, given the current situation on Qiongdao Island, it may take another 20 years to get out of this hole.

After returning to Panshan Group, Liu Tao convened a party group meeting and held a special meeting on this matter.

Then it was finally decided to let Li Weimin be responsible for leading the command center and starting work on Qiongdao Island.

At the same time, Panshan Group selected elite troops to form the Qiongdao Construction Command and rushed to Qiongdao. Liu Tao personally served as the commander-in-chief, and Li Weimin served as the executive commander-in-chief. Unless necessary, Li Weimin would command the command.

This also means that in the next few years, Li Weimin will probably stay in Qiongdao for most of the year.

In order to facilitate Li Weimin's work, Liu Tao decided to equip Li Weimin with a private plane.

This is also the only one in the entire Panshan Group that is equipped with a private plane, except for Liu Tao.

The special plane was not any other aircraft, but a converted regional airliner that Liu Tao participated in building.

Liu Tao has full confidence in this regional airliner in which he personally participated, because this regional airliner was originally intended to be his own private plane.

It will take at least another five years for the Y-10 and Y-13 to actually apply for their airworthiness certificates.

It is not a problem of aircraft quality, but it requires sufficient data and enough flights. However, if it is used within Panshan Group, there will be no such problems.

For example, they are now manufacturing the Y-10 and Y-13, which will be used as Panshan Group's special business jets and transport aircraft.

Just after the Spring Festival, a Y-10 carrying goods flew to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. This was the first time that the Y-10 flew to the Middle East.

Liu Tao no longer paid attention to the affairs of Qiongdao Island. He was invited to participate in the first ocean voyage of the Type 818 electronic reconnaissance ship.

The first Type 818 electronic reconnaissance ship is 206.6 meters long and 27.7 meters wide, with a standard displacement of 15000 tons and a full load displacement of 18000 tons. It has a self-sustaining capacity of 80 days, a cruising range of 20 nautical miles at a speed of 13000 knots and a cruising range of 15 nautical miles at a speed of 15000 knots, and is equipped with four laser helicopters.

After the Type 818 electronic reconnaissance ship was built and put into service, it has always been near the Chinese coast and has not yet left the Chinese coast within 500 nautical miles.

This time, the Type 818 electronic reconnaissance ship will make its first ocean voyage, heading to the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Aden.

Also travelling there were two Type 2 destroyers, four Type 052 frigates and a supply ship.

In addition, there are several warships that were delivered to various countries in the Middle East.

The officers and soldiers on these warships are not from the Chinese navy, but from the navies of those countries. They receive training at Panshan Group, and then they can drive back after the warships are delivered.

However, they often choose to follow China's escort formation.

The super order from Saudi Arabia has not been fully delivered even after nearly seven years since the purchase order was placed.

It is estimated that it will take another four years to complete the delivery of all Saudi orders.

All previous warship orders are not expected to be delivered until 1999.

Of course, this is under the premise of ensuring the needs of the Chinese Navy. Otherwise, the delivery speed can be much faster.

And with the current rapid development of China's shipbuilding industry, delivery may be completed ahead of schedule.

Liu Tao set out with the escort formation this time. In addition to participating in the performance evaluation of the Type 818 electronic reconnaissance ship, he will also visit the Middle East and Africa in person to meet his old friends and take a look at Panshan Group's business in the Middle East and Africa.

The escort fleet stopped at a Cambodian port and all the radars of the reconnaissance ships were turned on to ensure that everything was safe.

It's within the radar detection range, very clear.

The escort formation was ready for battle, and Liu Tao boarded a laser engraving helicopter and flew to the Mekong River waterway project in Cambodia.

I saw that sections of the nearly 100-kilometer line were being excavated, soil was being continuously excavated and transported, then loaded onto ships and transported to the Hong Kong River for land reclamation.

Of course, some of the soil was directly used to fill nearby low-lying areas.

A huge ship lock is being built at Haikou. It is both a ship lock and a tide gate, ensuring that seawater does not flow back in and form saline-alkali land along the line.

At the same time, it is also beneficial for controlling water levels and facilitating shipping.

Through the locks, even 10,000-ton cargo ships can pass through the lower reaches of the Mekong River.

After the construction here is completed, a hub project will have to be built on the original waterway to control the water level and flow. At that time, the downstream areas will have to buy water every year.

Cambodian militiamen, armed with live ammunition, patrol the border from time to time to prevent sabotage.

Liu Tao is full of expectations for the future shipping value of the Mekong River. It can become a golden waterway. Although it is not as good as the Yangtze River, it can definitely be greatly improved than before.

As long as the shipping value of the waterway is developed, the development of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and other countries along the Mekong River as well as Yunnan Province will be greatly promoted.

(End of this chapter)