The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 632 Suggestions
Qiong Province, with a land area of ​​3.54 square kilometers and a marine area of ​​approximately 200 million square kilometers, is the largest province in China in terms of land area (land area plus marine area).

Qiong Island is the second largest island in China after Baodao Island.

The Qiongzhou Strait demarcates Qiong Province to the north with Guangdong Province, the Beibu Gulf to the west with Guangxi Province and Annan, the South China Sea to the east facing Taiwan, and the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia in the South China Sea to the southeast and south.

How important is geographical location!

Especially now, the Beibu Gulf has become an inland bay, and new ports are being built in the Red River Delta, FCG City, and BH City.

Qiongdao Island is particularly important.

Qiongdao is very important, but if everyone wants to invest in Qiongdao now, it will only be an unconscious carnival for everyone, a game of passing the parcel.

Currently, Qiongdao is connected to the outside world only by ferries. There are no bridges or undersea tunnels. Qiongdao also has no industry, so how can it develop?

How can Qiongdao develop without industry as a foundation?

With the current situation, all the hot spots for development and holy places for getting rich are just skyscrapers built on the beach.

While visiting the leaders, Liu Tao specifically talked about the possible situations and dangers that might arise on Qiongdao Island.

The leader was smoking a cigarette, crossing his legs, and looking thoughtful.

Today, reform and opening up have become more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Reform and opening up need to be expanded to larger areas, thereby promoting economic development in more places and enabling China to develop faster and better.

It was in this context that the country decided to make Qiong Province an independent province and establish the Qiong Province Special Economic Zone.

This is an attempt, and it also reflects the good geographical location of Qiongdao. If Qiongdao develops like Pengcheng and Yangcheng, the significance will be immense.

However, the situation Liu Tao mentioned must also be considered.

Because once it appears, it will severely damage Qiong Province, leaving behind countless unfinished buildings and a mess.

"You don't think this decision is a good one?" the leader asked after smoking a cigarette.

Liu Tao hesitated for a moment, "It's not that I'm not optimistic, but the step is too big. What does Qiong Province have now? Nothing. There is no industry, no transportation, and a population of only 600 million."

"This is an island, unlike Pengcheng. Even if someone wants to go to Qiong Province, they have to take a boat. How many boats are there?" Liu Tao shook his head slightly: "Unless the country invests hundreds of billions in Qiong Province and builds a large number of enterprises in Qiong Province, otherwise, Qiong Province will not be able to develop at all now."

The leader looked thoughtful.

Now it seems that the previous decision was a bit too optimistic.

As for what Liu Tao said, about the state investing hundreds of billions of yuan in Qiong Province and building a large number of enterprises in Qiong Province, there is no need to even think about it.

Firstly, the country does not have that much money, and secondly, even if it does have money, it will prioritize investing in other regions.

"I will discuss what you said at the meeting," the leader said. "Comrades from the Air Force have told me that the two advanced training aircraft you developed have excellent performance. It seems that you still have more innovations."

What the leader was talking about were the J-7A and the 'Eagle' advanced trainer aircraft.

There is no doubt that advanced trainer aircraft are of great significance to a country. With advanced trainer aircraft, air force pilots can be trained better and faster, so that pilots can get more training before flying fighter planes, and then they can fly fighter planes immediately after becoming proficient in advanced trainer aircraft.

"Leader, these two advanced trainer aircraft have received many orders. They will be the star products for export among the air force's equipment in the future." Liu Tao said with a smile. He was very optimistic about this.

The number of countries in the world that can produce advanced training aircraft can be counted on one hand.

As for the countries that are capable of producing advanced training aircraft, there are only three.

This thing has a relatively large market, so there is no need to worry about selling it.

"It's great that we can get export orders. Facts have proved that what you said before was correct. Supplementing domestic demand through foreign trade is a feasible path." The leader nodded, full of satisfaction.

Who would have thought that it would be the export of military products that supported half of China's exports, earned US dollars for China and supported China's foreign exchange.

If there were no foreign exchange earned from the export of military products, China would probably still be worried about foreign exchange reserves.

It is also because of the huge profits earned from foreign trade that domestic procurement unit prices are very low and the troops spend much less.

If not, with the reduction of military expenditure, which is about 200 billion per year, how can we establish a semi-mechanized force? We are not far from establishing a mechanized force.

The reason why the army was further reduced by 50 personnel last year was that China had already built a semi-mechanized force, and it would not take a few years to establish a mechanized force.

The streamlining of the army this time mainly has four aspects. First, it will reduce the size and complete the task of streamlining the military personnel. By reducing the size of the army, adjusting the organization of the navy and air force, abolishing some units with outdated equipment, and withdrawing and merging the internal institutions of the army and above, the establishment of 50 personnel will be streamlined; second, it will streamline the organs and streamline the leadership organs at the army and above. The organs at the army and above have reduced their internal institutions and personnel by adjusting their functions and withdrawing and merging departments. After the adjustment, the total number of organs and departments at the army and above in the whole army has been reduced by more than 1500.

The third is to adjust the organization and optimize the organization structure of the troops. The army field forces abolished some army headquarters, divisions and regiments, disbanded most of the garrison troops, and assigned some army divisions to the armed police. The navy, air force and second artillery forces eliminated outdated equipment and adjusted their organization, and merged some organized units.

Fourth, reform the system and further rationalize the relationship. The General Armament Department was established to adjust the weapons and equipment management system, realizing the centralized management of the main weapons and equipment of the entire army; the logistics support system was adjusted, and the military region logistics department was changed to the joint logistics department, and the joint logistics support system combining regional support with organizational support, and unified supply support with special supply support was officially launched at the theater level.

Through this troop streamlining, the number of reinforcements was controlled within 250 million.

According to current estimates, after streamlining the army, the remaining money will be used to speed up the mechanization of the army. It is expected that between 1990 and 1992, the Chinese army will be transformed from a semi-mechanized army to a mechanized army.

Of course, a lot of money needs to be invested here. It is definitely not enough just relying on the annual military expenditure, even if the purchase price is low.

This is largely because Panshan Group paid a large amount of profits and taxes.

"Will there be any impact if the 'Brave Brigade' and the 'Tiger and Leopard Brigade' are transferred to the 'Zhu Rihe Military Training Base'?" The leader smoked another cigarette and looked at Liu Tao.

The Brave Brigade is a heavy combined brigade, while the Tiger and Leopard Brigade is a medium combined brigade.

The two combined brigades were transferred to the Zhurihe Military Training Base, a decision made during the National Day.

After all, the troops are being streamlined, but polar bears must also be guarded against. In addition, the 'Malong Military Training Base' is now very crowded, and it is not appropriate to have so many combined brigades in the 'Malong Military Training Base'.

The 'Tiger Brigade' is now stationed in Hong Kong and will not return to the 'Malong Military Training Base' until July; at the end of the year, the Eagle Brigade will go to Macau.

It can be said that the six combined brigades will soon be dispersed and assigned to one side, and gradually integrated into the military system. The ownership and command rights will be separated from the Panshan Group Armed Forces Department and assigned to various military regions.

　I was deeply moved watching the competition between Zheng Qinwen and Fan Zhendong. It has been a long time since I felt moved by an Olympic competition!
　　
　
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