The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 622 Thoughts and Pie in the Sky
Magic City.

This is a city that rose in modern China.

In modern history, Shanghai has always been the best developed city in China and one of the earliest cities to open to the outside world.

After the founding of the Republic, Shanghai has long been ranked first among the top 100 cities in China.

In 1949, the year the Republic was founded, Shanghai’s GDP was 36.7 billion yuan, far ahead of other provinces. In 1978, the first year of reform, Shanghai’s GDP accounted for 1/8 of the country’s total.

However, after the reform and opening up, the coastal economy rose and the share of Shanghai in the national economy began to decline.

Guangdong Province was the first province in the country to implement the reform and opening-up policy, surpassing Shanghai in one fell swoop to become the country's largest economic province.

Soon after, Yunnan Province, which rose strongly thanks to the Panshan Group, also surpassed Shanghai in terms of economy, and within a few years Sichuan also surpassed Shanghai in terms of economic output.

Since the reform and opening up, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Kunming, Chengdu and Shancheng have developed rapidly, and the total economic output of individual cities has surpassed that of Shanghai one after another.

Even now, the capital's economic output is approaching that of Shanghai, and is about to surpass it.

The leaders of Shanghai are also racking their brains to develop the economy in an attempt to revive Shanghai's economy.

It is just due to the lack of funds that the Magic City has always lagged behind in development.

What Shanghai lacks is not only capital, but also pillar industries. Compared with Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places, Shanghai's industries are not competitive, and there are no pillar industries either.

Liu Tao looked at the Magic City of this era with a thoughtful look on his face.

I remembered the conversation between his leader and him a few days ago.

The importance of the Magic City is beyond doubt.

If the Yangtze River Delta is to be developed, then Shanghai will undoubtedly be the center of the Yangtze River Delta.

The country attaches great importance to Modu and places it in a strategic position, otherwise the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway would not have been built.

In recent years, the fastest-growing cities in the country are Guangdong, Yunnan, and Sichuan!

This year, your province will also gain wings for economic take-off because Panshan Group has invested huge sums of money to restructure the 011 Aviation Base.

But for the country, we are focusing on the whole country, which is a chess game for the whole country.

It is not enough to just focus on rapid development in these places.

The Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan, the three northeastern provinces and other places also need to develop their economies rapidly.

Liu Tao sighed softly, there is still a long way to go.

Great achievements have been made in these years of reform and opening up, but this is not enough to be proud of, because this is only the first step in a long march.

If you are proud of even this, then you are too petty.

Liu Tao took out the high-speed rail planning line and looked thoughtful.

His fingers ran across the Xiamen-Shenzhen High-Speed ​​Railway, Fuzhou-Xiamen High-Speed ​​Railway, Hangzhou-Ningbo High-Speed ​​Railway, and Shanghai-Hangzhou High-Speed ​​Railway!

Dalian Shipyard.

Currently the second largest shipyard in China.

At this time, the Dalian Shipyard was very busy.

Warship construction, merchant ship construction, ship repair, etc. keep Dalian Shipyard very busy.

The Dalian Shipyard is currently undergoing expansion.

With funds and orders, Dalian Shipyard dared to expand its shipyard.

Liu Tao handed over part of the order to Dalian Shipyard. After years of hard work, Dalian Shipyard's shipbuilding capabilities have changed dramatically and have made great progress. It can now build qualified Type 022 missile boats, Type 022A torpedo boats, Type 83 minesweepers, Type 84 minesweepers, Type 054 frigates and Type 052 destroyers.

Although Dalian Shipyard does not belong to Panshan Group and Panshan Group does not hold any shares in Dalian Shipyard, the cooperation between the two parties over the years has made the relationship between the two close.

Liu Tao came this time to negotiate the order contract with Dalian Shipyard.

Although he will leave enough profit for Dalian Shipyard, he will not leave too much profit.

Brothers should settle accounts clearly!

No matter how close the relationship is, the accounts must be settled clearly.

Dalian Shipyard can be regarded as an OEM factory, so naturally it is impossible for it to make too much profit.

As the saying goes, a little bit of rice is rewarded with a grudge, so everything needs to be discussed clearly to avoid unpleasantness later.

If Dalian Shipyard is not satisfied, the worst that can happen is that it can look for other shipyards.

Dalian Shipyard showed great courtesy to Liu Tao upon his arrival.

In the entire Liaoning Province, the best developed place is actually Dalian. The reason why Dalian has developed so fast is that the Dalian Shipyard has driven economic development.

A shipyard may seem like just a shipyard, but in fact it is related to a large number of supporting factories.

Building a ship involves steel mills, electromechanical plants, screw factories, etc.

A ship requires hundreds or thousands of tons of steel. Even if it is a warship, it must have special steel with high added value.

For example, the two 10,000-ton merchant ships currently under construction in Liaoning Province require an astonishing amount of steel alone.

It is precisely because of the boost from Dalian Shipyard that Dalian's economic development is unique in the entire Liaoning Province.

Now that Liu Tao has arrived, Dalian Shipyard naturally welcomes Liu Tao as the God of Wealth.

In fact, at the Dalian Shipyard, Liu Tao had a separate room, which was cleaned every day.

When Liu Tao announced the order to Dalian Shipyard and the price of each ship, the entire leadership of Dalian Shipyard was dizzy, as if they had been hit by a pie in the sky.

The quantity of this order is large enough to ensure that Dalian Shipyard will have no worries for the next three to four years. More importantly, this order is not only large in quantity, but the price is also 20% higher than before.

This means that the profits are staggering.

Although workers' wages have been rising in recent years, and steel prices have also been rising, you have to know that the cost of producing multiple ships is different from the cost of producing one ship.

The cost of mass production will be greatly reduced.

In other words, the profit of this batch of orders is very astonishing.

If Dalian Shipyard completes this order, even after deducting the costs, Dalian Shipyard will have a profit of more than 500 million yuan.

Liu Tao looked at the surprised and shocked expressions on everyone's faces, and secretly felt that the Chinese people are really kind and simple. Few of them would think about making higher profits, but they would be very motivated to do something if there was some profit.

They never thought that they made a lot of money from this order, but Panshan Group made even more.

The order to Dalian Shipyard is pure profit for Panshan Group.

However, the core technology is in the hands of Panshan Group. It is fine to produce warships for domestic use, but the production of warships for export is also in the hands of Panshan Group.

This was agreed upon from the very beginning.

The core technologies and key equipment are basically produced by Panshan Group. Even if these shipyards knew the export prices and would be jealous, no one would dare to produce them against the will of the world.

After the order was agreed upon, Liu Tao returned to Panshan Group and asked the heads of the other shipyards to come to the Panshan Group headquarters for negotiations.

(End of this chapter)