The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 801 LNG Ship Construction Starts

Yangcheng Shipyard.

Liu Tao hung up the satellite phone and shook his head slightly.

In fact, he does not necessarily have to acquire HSBC himself. It is not unacceptable for Hong Kong businessmen such as Henry Fok to join HSBC.

But he has a bottom line, that is, HSBC can no longer have the right to print Hong Kong dollars.

Printing money is something that must be controlled by ourselves.

We didn't touch HSBC before because it was not the right time and we couldn't force it too much, lest it become desperate.

It's different now, the time is ripe.

To be honest, HSBC's choice was quite unexpected to Liu Tao.

His original idea was that the British would charge a higher price or simply compete in the market.

Since the British made this choice, Liu Tao no longer paid attention to it. After dealing with the affairs in Hong Kong, he went to the Yangcheng Shipyard.

This time, Yangcheng Shipyard is going to start construction of China’s first LNG ship!
This is a milestone in China's shipbuilding history. Many mainstream domestic media were invited to attend the groundbreaking ceremony.

LNG ships are civilian ships, not warships, and need to be kept confidential.

As the 'crown jewel' of the world's shipbuilding industry, the construction of China's first LNG carrier by Yangcheng Shipyard is of great significance.

Although Liu Tao designed two LNG ships, construction of the two LNG ships did not start at the same time.

Because there aren't that many workers here!

羊城造船厂现在很繁忙，在建造的军舰就有好几艘，一艘‘001’轻型航母、一艘093型核潜艇、一艘094型核潜艇、一艘054型护卫舰、一艘052型驱逐舰、三艘022型导弹艇、两艘022A型鱼雷艇、一艘扫雷艇、一艘电子侦查船、一艘40万吨级超级油轮.
The start of construction of another LNG ship has directly made the workers at the Yangcheng Shipyard nervous.

It is not easy to train a qualified worker, and it is even more difficult to train a mature technical worker!
The construction of this LNG ship has started, and the total construction period from construction to delivery of the ship will take 35 months.

This process is also about training workers.

Once the workers are trained and mature, the construction period will continue to shorten. Ten years later, a 12.5 cubic meter LNG ship like this one will only take about 25 months, a reduction of %.

Ten years later, Panshan Group will be able to build five LNG ships annually!
At this time, at the Yangcheng Shipyard, the dock for building LNG ships has been vacated and the layout has been completed.

The workers are making final preparations.

The groundbreaking ceremony is no small matter and requires careful preparation.

No one wants anything to happen during the groundbreaking ceremony. Everyone hopes that the ceremony goes smoothly and has a good start.

The next morning, at 9 o'clock sharp.

The groundbreaking ceremony for China's first LNG ship was held as scheduled.

The cameras were ready and reporters started taking pictures early.

Some reporters even wrote press releases in advance.

With Liu Tao announcing the start of construction, the groundbreaking ceremony also began.

The steel plates are cut by automatic cutting machines and then welded by automated welding equipment.

Under the operation of the technical workers, the gantry moved back and forth and the automatic welding handle was calibrated.

This equipment is a very advanced automatic welding equipment, and its weld tracking technology can reach the world's leading level.

During the welding process, there will be various strong lights, smoke, processing errors, etc. Even automatic welding equipment cannot avoid these problems. Originally, the welding was done straight, but when the steel plate was cut, there was a deviation, and the weld was inaccurate. At this time, weld tracking technology is needed.

The Japanese were the first to use advanced sensors to collect various welding data, using the spatial parameters of the welding torch and the welding object as a standard to monitor welding deviations in real time and then make corrections.

The automatic welding equipment here also uses advanced sensors.

Automated welding begins.

Under everyone's gaze, sparks flew and automatic welding was performed without the need for human operation.

No need to smell the choking smoke, no need to worry about welding sparks being harmful to the eyes.

Many people felt stunned when they saw this scene.

They have never been exposed to automatic welding, and their impression of welding is still manual welding.

Liu Tao was not surprised at all. Automatic welding technology has been used in Panshan Group for ten years.

Since it is difficult to train good welders, we can only develop automatic welding technology to make up for the lack of good welders.

In the entire Panshan Group, there are only two people who can reach level 10 welders, and less than 20 people who can reach level 9 welders.

These highly skilled welders are only responsible for solving difficult problems and training people.

Panshan Group took over those technical secondary schools, colleges and undergraduate colleges. Because it belonged to the weapons industry system, the training they provided was biased towards engineering, and it belonged to an engineering college.

In recent years, these colleges have developed well. After all, they are needed by colleges and universities, as well as technical secondary schools.

Different levels of institutions cultivate different talents.

For example, the goal of technical secondary schools is to train qualified workers with strong hands-on skills so that they can be competent for work immediately after graduation and entering the factory.

Junior colleges mainly train mid-level technical engineers, who can solve some difficult problems.

As for the positioning of undergraduate colleges, it is to train future senior engineers, solve most common problems, and have independent thinking ability. Perhaps there will be very few people who stand out and become the top in the industry.

In addition to entering the arsenal, students trained by these colleges will also enter other companies of Panshan Group.

Yangcheng Shipyard is no exception.

It just takes time to train talents and it also takes time to train workers.

Liu Tao was interviewed by reporters. He was wearing a safety helmet and walking towards an area.

Behind Liu Tao, there was a large group of reporters, holding cameras in their hands, clicking away at Liu Tao and the working dock.

There were even a few people with cameras. One of them was a pretty female reporter who was often seen on TV. She held a microphone with the CCTV logo and introduced herself to the camera.

"Dear audience, today we have come to Yangcheng Shipyard. Now we are holding the groundbreaking ceremony for China's first LNG ship. As far as we know, LNG ship is a special ship that transports liquefied gas at a low temperature of minus 163 degrees Celsius. It is a kind of 'super refrigerated truck at sea' and is known as the 'crown jewel' of the world's shipbuilding industry. Now Yangcheng Shipyard has started the construction of China's first LNG ship, which marks that we have taken off this crown!"

The reporter spoke a little quickly, "Now, let's interview Academician Liu Tao, General Manager and Party Secretary of Panshan Group, who is also the chief designer of the LNG ship that is being built this time!"

Liu Tao faced the camera with a smile on his face. This kind of scene was nothing to him and he was not as nervous as he was at the beginning.

Liu Tao has seen every big scene.

A scene like the current one is just a small scene for Liu Tao.

Coupled with the fact that he has been in a high position for a long time, Liu Tao unconsciously has a powerful aura.

(End of this chapter)