In the country's industrial system, the shipbuilding industry is classified as mechanical and electrical products, and because of the reasons of reform and opening up, China's export products after the 80s have gradually shifted to the export of mechanical and electrical products, and Shen Huan still remembers very well that in 1995, the country's exports of mechanical and electrical products exceeded $4 billion, accounting for nearly 30 percent of the export products.
The shipbuilding industry has become the pillar of mechanical and electrical products, ranking sixth in the export category of mechanical and electrical products in 1996.
In the final analysis, the shipbuilding industry is also a labor-intensive and technology-intensive industry, rather than a capital-intensive industry.
At the beginning of the nineties, the shipbuilding industry invested very little, but the level of profit was higher than in other industries.
The troika of electromechanical products, automobiles, ships and airplanes, in China in the nineties, only the shipbuilding industry had considerable international competitiveness.
The automotive industry is still dominated by joint ventures, and independent brands are still in the bud; Not to mention the aircraft manufacturing industry, which mainly processes some parts for international aviation industry giants such as Boeing and Airbus, and it is quite difficult to break through in this field.
In 1997, China's shipbuilding industry was already ranked third in the world in terms of completions after the stick country and the foot basin country.
Of course, although the shipbuilding industry is lower than the aircraft and automobile manufacturing industry in terms of technology and capital intensity, it is still a reflection of a country's comprehensive strength.
Shen Huan studied mechanical and electrical engineering at Daning Institute of Technology, which is also an important discipline in the shipbuilding industry, because the shipbuilding industry is an industrial cluster that includes dozens of industries and hundreds of disciplines.
That's why there are so many shipyards in China Shipping, as well as factories, design institutes and other units supporting the shipyard.
Of course, in the shipyard, there are also the most workers.
After all, this is a labor-intensive industry, and about 60 percent of the price of a ship is the value of labor.
Now Shen Huan is most worried about the huge impact of the Asian financial turmoil on the shipbuilding industry.
Because he knows that the shipbuilding industry has experienced many major fluctuations in history, and the impact of the Asian financial turmoil this time is very large.
Many shipyards have suffered losses to varying degrees, on the one hand, because of the huge changes in the exchange rate, as well as the increase in the price of materials and equipment, and the phenomenon of shipowners breaking contracts and abandoning ships is not uncommon.
Although China's shipbuilding industry now ranks third in the world in terms of completion, compared with developed countries such as stick country and foot basin country, the technology and capital intensity are much lower, and the technical level is far inferior to these two shipbuilding powers.
Moreover, the number of completions is only one-fifth of that of the second-ranked stick country, and most of the orders of the world's shipbuilding industry are in the hands of the stick country and the foot basin country.
The degree of technology intensity can be reflected in the output value of shipbuilding, which was only less than $1.5 billion in the country's shipbuilding output in the ninety-five years, only about one-ninth of that of the country in the footbasin, and even lower than that of several European countries that ranked lower.
This is mainly because the Chinese shipbuilding industry at this time is mainly building ships with low added value, and those ships with high technology and high added value are not yet capable of building.
One of the most direct examples of shipbuilding technology, large docks and slipways, more than 300 meters long, there are more than 50 in the world, and in 97 years, there was only one in China.
Shen Huan still remembers the joy and excitement of the whole factory when the Jiangnan Changxing Shipyard moved from the bank of the Pujiang River to the newly built Changxing Island Shipbuilding Base.
This is all because the Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding Base has several extra-large docks, of which the No. 1 dock is 520 meters long and 80 meters wide; Dock No. 2 is 520 meters long and 111 meters wide; Dock 3 is 590 meters long and 118 meters wide; Dock No. 4 is 370 meters long, 86 meters wide and 15 meters deep.
These extra-large docks are capable of building ships of 300,000 or even 500,000 tons, and can even build giant aircraft carriers of the sea.
Of course, at that time, not only Jiangnan Changxing Shipyard will move to Changxing Island, but also several large shipyards in China Shipping will move to Changxing Island, forming a shipbuilding base with an area of 40 square kilometers, of which Jiangnan Changxing occupies an area of 10 square kilometers, which is the largest one.
It's just that the current Jiangnan Changxing Shipyard can build a Panamax bulk carrier with a maximum tonnage of only 60,000 tons.
Not only Jiangnan Changxing, but also the shipyards in China, can build most of the ships that can be built are conventional low-value-added products such as oil tankers, bulk carriers and multi-purpose cargo ships, and high-value-added products such as container ships account for less than 10% of the completion.
Of course, in terms of per capita output, China's shipyards are far worse than those of shipbuilding powers such as the stick country, and in the nineties, China's per capita completion volume was only one-tenth of that of the stick country, and the per capita output value was only about one-fifteenth.
To change the backward appearance, Shen Huan also knows that it is difficult, even if he is a reborn person and has a lot of shipbuilding technical knowledge beyond this era, it is difficult to achieve it without the support of the system.
However, Shen Huan still decided that this time when he went to Jiangnan Changxing Shipyard, he must find a way to improve the technical level of Jiangnan Changxing Shipyard, starting with the most basic component processing.
Shen Huan knew that the current Jiangnan Changxing Shipyard would become part of the China Shipping World Expo Park in more than ten years, so that the ruins of this shipyard with a history of more than 100 years could be preserved and visited by the world.
This is still very comforting to him.
After a simple lunch, Shen Huan set off with his luggage.
Or called a three-wheeled motorcycle outside the staff community, and after arriving at the wharf, the luck was good, I bought a ticket for a fast boat, and it only took half an hour to get to the Songhu wharf.
When he arrived in the cabin, Shen Huan's mood was different again, this time it was to report, and it was the place where he had worked in his previous life for nearly ten years, and he left an unknown number of memories there.
The speedboat cleaves the waves and sails on the river, and this kind of flying speedboat sits as if it were on an airplane, and even the layout of the cabin is no different from that of an airplane.
This kind of flying boat is also a foreign product, and now there is no shipyard in China to produce this thing, of course, like this kind of small ship, only those small shipyards will build, such as Jiangnan Changxing Shipyard, such a large shipyard, will not consider building this kind of ship.
At this time, on the river, all kinds of ships are also coming and going, and the whistle is constantly sounding, a busy scene.
Who would have thought that at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the world's largest shipbuilding base would appear in ten years.
From then on, China will begin to make great strides from a shipbuilding power to a shipbuilding power.