Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

The Pakistani delegation stayed in China for five days before leaving. During these five days, Xu Huasheng also accompanied them for a long time, took them to inspect many things, and experienced many things.

Pakistan was very satisfied with both military and civilian products, and they wanted to take them back now. The Chinese military also showed them many things and even conducted live-fire drills, with very satisfactory results.

China has done everything well. As for what Pakistan will decide in the end and what it will want, just wait patiently.

However, cooperation in the economic field has already begun. During the days of negotiations, representatives of Huasheng Group have gone to Pakistan and signed a series of cooperation agreements with Pakistan, including a series of investment agreements, with a total investment amount of more than 2 billion US dollars.

There are also some other Chinese companies that have taken action with Huasheng Group, preparing to invest in some industries in Pakistan and drink some soup and water with Huasheng Group. Prepare to sell more Chinese products to Pakistan, especially high-tech industrial products.

China's products are very advanced for Pakistan now, and are urgently needed by the market. Moreover, China's products are of good quality and low price. Anyway, you have to buy them, so it doesn't matter who you buy from.

The most important thing is that doing business with China is more flexible. It doesn't matter if there are no currencies such as US dollars, pounds, and yen. You can just barter directly. Oil, natural gas, food, minerals, as long as they can be sold for money, they are all fine. Even Pakistan's donkeys are fine. The main point is flexibility.

For China, no matter what resources can be digested, after all, the Chinese market is very large, as long as the products are cheap enough, there is no worry about selling.

After the Pakistani people left, Xu Huasheng was not idle.

In the research institute of Kuafu Power in Shenzhen, Mr. Liu came here today with a group of ship experts, ready to personally see the treasures in this research institute.

"Everyone, there are three types of ship gas turbines developed by Kuafu Power. They are CT30, CT40 and CT50. The gas turbine you see now is CT30, with a power of 33,000 kilowatts and a horsepower of more than 44,000 horsepower. This gas turbine adopts advanced modular design and has a thermal efficiency of 39.4%. If the displacement of a ship is less than 10,000 tons, two such gas turbines are enough to make the speed reach 36 knots. Moreover, this gas turbine is relatively compact and uses a lot of new materials. It has a long life, is easy to maintain, and has a low failure rate..."

The group came to a huge gas turbine. A technician from Kuafu Power introduced the big guy in front of them in detail. After the introduction, everyone took a breath and looked at the gas turbine with envy.

The performance of this gas turbine is so excellent that it makes them feel like they are dreaming. Looking at the expressions of these people, the technician smiled and continued to lead everyone inside, and the things inside were even more shocking.

"CT40, power 42,000 kilowatts, horsepower over 56,000, thermal efficiency up to 41.2%, using advanced intelligent system. Suitable for ships with displacement of 10,000 to 50,000 tons,..."

"This is the last gas turbine, which is the most powerful gas turbine currently developed by our Power Research Institute. CT50, power 54,000 kilowatts, horsepower over 75,000, suitable for large ships with displacement of more than 50,000 tons..."

After listening to the technician's introduction, everyone's eyes widened, even Mr. Liu was no exception.

My goodness, these three gas turbines are too violent.

The CT30 gas turbine with the smallest power is very, very violent. In the eyes of Mr. Liu and his group, this performance is like an alien product.

This gas turbine is much more powerful than the American ML2500 gas turbine that China wants to buy. The horsepower of a single ML2500 is only 25,000, while the horsepower of a CT30 is 4,400. The horsepower of a CT30 is almost catching up with two ML2500s.

The ML2500 has already made China very jealous. Originally, China's 052 was going to introduce this gas turbine. As a result, because of the appearance of Xu Huasheng, because of the design modification of 052, and because Xu Huasheng said that he had the corresponding gas turbine, the introduction plan was shelved.

Now it seems that it is right not to introduce it. If you really buy a few and compare them with CT30, you must throw them to other ships.

The performance of CT30 is very, very top in this era, and its performance can even rank first in the world.

But inHere, CT30 is the weakest gas turbine. The latter two are abnormal, especially the last one CT50, which has 75,000 horsepower per unit. This is too terrible. Two units have 150,000 horsepower, which is crazy.

What is the concept of 150,000 horsepower? Take the US aircraft carrier as an example. The Kitty Hawk-class conventional-powered aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of more than 80,000 tons is powered by four steam turbines with a total horsepower of only 280,000 horsepower. The total power of the US Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is only 260,000 horsepower.

Now, if four CT50s are used as the power of a ship, the total power can directly reach 300,000 horsepower, which is too crazy.

Steam turbines and gas turbines are two different things.

Compared with steam turbines, gas turbines have high energy efficiency, fast startup, small size and light weight. In addition to the cost, maintenance and reliability being lower than steam turbines, there are too many advantages.

Aircraft carriers using steam turbines may need a long time of heating before starting to get the temperature to the most suitable temperature, and the speed response is relatively slow.

But gas turbines are very fast, and there is almost no need to prepare in advance. When power is needed, it is available at any time. This is why advanced destroyers and the like use gas turbines.

"Xiao Sheng, have these three gas turbines passed technical verification?"

Finally, Mr. Liu couldn't help but look at Xu Huasheng with anticipation and asked.

"Mr. Liu, now CT30 has passed technical verification and can be shipped at any time. The technical verification of CT40 is about to start, and it is estimated that it will be finalized within two years. As for CT50, it is still in the design stage, but within ten years, this gas turbine can definitely be finalized and shipped."

Xu Huasheng said directly, which made Mr. Liu nod his head. Although only one model was finalized, it made Mr. Liu and his team quite satisfied. The fact that CT30 can be shipped is the best news for China now. People must learn to be content and not be too greedy. After all, the data of CT30 is now the best in the world and it is a national treasure.