Sansha City, as the fourth municipality directly under the central government in China, is the first archipelago city in China to be established as a series of archipelagos, and it is also the southernmost city in China's current geographical latitude.

The whole world can clearly see that China's establishment of the Sansha Municipality in the South China Sea fully shows that China has taken an important step forward in its awareness of sea power. At the same time, it also means that China's management and control of the major archipelagos, islands and reefs in the South China Sea and related territorial waters have risen to a strategic level.

Municipalities directly under the central government are different from prefecture-level cities, but cities under the direct jurisdiction of the central government. In terms of administrative level, Sansha City is at the same level as Nanhai Province.

There is no doubt that Sansha City has received many preferential policies in terms of urban construction and economic development.

Two large-scale desalination plants imported from Europe have temporarily solved the most urgent freshwater resources in Sansha City, making the infrastructure construction projects of Woody Island and surrounding islands progress with each passing day.

In addition to military facilities, civilian facilities such as post offices, hospitals, banks, hotels, and museums have also been set up.

In addition, the specially developed Xisha resort and community have fundamentally solved the poverty and backward life of the aborigines on the island for hundreds of years.

Cecil Marine Investment Co., Ltd., which built the Cecil South China Sea Branch on the island and obtained the right to develop real estate, is currently the most active foreign-funded company in Sansha City, and its development of high-end seaview villa area has played a great role in promoting the development of tourism resources in Xisha Islands.

Although a deep-water dock has been built on Woody Island, it can only dock ships of about 5,000 tons at most, and none of the modern-class destroyers belonging to the Rock Fleet can dock, let alone the aircraft carrier "Baron John Young", which is more than 50,000 tons.

The Sansha City CPC Committee and the Garrison District Headquarters, which had been notified in advance, had already put on a big scene of warm welcome on the wharf.

Although the Rock Mercenaries are Yang Weiping's personal forces, they are limited to a few high-level leaders in China. In the eyes of most people, the Rock Mercenaries are a foreign army friendly to China.

Foreign troops pay friendly military visits, Sansha Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. and the garrison command, of course, there can be no rudeness.

Yang Weiping can also understand this. After all, he came to Sansha this time. It is not as a ministry leader who came to inspect the work.

After the fleet anchored in the open sea, Yang Weiping transferred to a small landing craft, and only took a few entourages such as Guo Shangyi, Meng Shouzheng, Shi Zhenhai, and Zhang Haiyang, under the escort of a coastal protection frigate in the Sansha City Garrison District. Landed on Woody Island.

Xiao Hanjie, secretary of the Sansha City CPC Committee and mayor of Sansha, is a former deputy chief of staff of the South China Sea Fleet and has just turned 40 this year. It is the golden age of the career in the prime of life.

When the Central Committee appointed the cadres of Sansha City, Director Yang was consulted. Yang Weiping's attitude is quite clear, the South China Sea has just been recovered, and it needs to be further stabilized, and he suggested that Sansha City first implement military management, and then change the administrative system of Sansha City after all the islands in Nansha are recovered.

The State Council felt that Director Yang's words were reasonable. So he simply asked Yang Weiping to recommend it. After thinking about it repeatedly, Yang Weiping selected Xiao Hanjie, deputy chief of staff of the South China Sea Fleet. For this reason, he also specially brought Xiao Hanjie to do ideological work.

After a year and a half, when Xiao Hanjie saw Director Yang again, he was naturally upset and emotional.

This Director Yang's supernatural powers are also too great, how can he transfer the aircraft carrier formation of the Rock Mercenary Army to call on him at will?

Know the way. Whether it is the "Baron John Young" aircraft carrier or the Hyundai-class missile destroyer, for Xiao Hanjie, the former deputy chief of staff of the South China Sea Fleet, it is a good treasure that is extremely greedy!

It's not just Xiao Hanjie's greed, Wang Xinmin, the commander of the Sansha City Garrison District, also stared at the five big warships moored in the distance with two eyes, and almost drooled.

After shaking hands with the military and political leaders of Sansha City at the dock and greeting them one by one, Yang Weiping adhered to his usual vigorous and resolute style and asked Wang Xinmin to lead him directly to the Yongxing Island Military Airport.

Because, this airfield is currently stationed in the First Fighter Regiment of the Naval Aviation, whose predecessor was the Fourth Brigade of the F14 Independent Air Force of the former Air Force.

The 24 F14A Tomcats assembled by HNA have already completed all the modifications, and the engines have been replaced with domestic WS10 Taihang engines. The avionics system was also replaced with a new HD79-A2 system.

The Immortal Island long-range air-to-air missile was replaced with the PL12 long-range air-to-air missile, the Sidewinder and Sparrow short-range air-to-air missile, and the PL10 large-off-axis angle medium-range air-to-air missile and the PL8 short-range combat missile.

The fire control radar is also replaced by the domestic clairing HK2 passive phased array radar. It can be said that the current F14A Tomcat, in addition to the shell is the original American goods, its core components, including avionics and power system, have been replaced with Huaxia manufacturing.

Correspondingly, the F14A tomcat is no longer called a tomcat in China, but is given the new name of the J-14 Raptor in China.

The F14 flight regiment of the Iranian Air Force is also currently undergoing major surgery by our country. The Iranian people, who were already strongly anti-American, did not hesitate to change the name of the F14A of the US imperialists to the Chinese-made Jian-14 Raptor of Raptor, which made the US Government feel both angry and helpless.

The F14, which replaced the WS10 Taihang engine and the HD79-A2 avionics system manufactured by Huaxia, is no longer comparable to the F14A Tomcat currently in service in the US Navy.

In addition to sourly lamenting that the Chinese people's copycat ability is really outstanding, the Americans can only increase their investment in the development of new high-thrust military turbofan engines.

However, at the strong demand of the Navy, the US Government had no choice but to grit its teeth and sign an agreement with the Huaxia Government to modify 150 F14As, and set the modified model as F14D.

At the Yongxing Military Airport, Yang Weiping conducted a detailed inspection of the training situation of the First Regiment of the HNA Regiment. At the same time, special attention was paid to whether the modified J-14 Raptor had any bad problems in the training process.

The 1st HNA Regiment strictly implemented the prescribed training syllabus and did not reduce the training subjects and intensity for fear of falling the plane.

Thanks to the strict ground support system, the first regiment of the HNA has not had a single training accident so far.

Facts have proved that the domestic WS10 Taihang engine and HD79-A2 avionics system are worthy of the high-quality symbol of the military industry in this era. Compared with the original F14A Tomcat, the comprehensive performance of the J-14 Raptor has been significantly improved.

In particular, equipped with a flight helmet with sights, as well as the PL10 medium-range air-to-air missile with a large off-axis angle, the air supremacy of the J-14 Raptor has been greatly enhanced.

The space and weight saved by the replacement of the WS10 Taihang engine and the addition of an auxiliary fuel tank have increased the combat radius of the J-14 Raptor by nearly 300 kilometers, which is enough to easily cover the entire South China Sea.

Based on the principle of matching high and low levels, the 1st Regiment of the HNA has also added a squadron of 24 Qiang-5 B2 carrier-based combat attack aircraft, which can be used at any time as a supplementary support for the carrier-based aircraft of the Nanhai light training and participation aircraft carrier that is stationed in the South China Sea.

With the support of such an unsinkable "aircraft carrier" as Woody Island, supplemented by the aircraft carrier formation of the South China Sea as a mechanical force, Yang Weiping believes that in the next 20 years, even the United States will not be able to shake China's control over the South China Sea.

At the Sansha Municipal Building, Yang Weiping listened to Xiao Hanjie's report on the construction achievements of Sansha City over the past year.

Of the 50 large islands in the South China Sea that can be inhabited, except for two in the Philippines and one in Malaysia, all the other 47 islands have been appropriately reclaimed and expanded, and a total of 14 field airfields have been built.

All other islands and reefs that are exposed to the sea, no matter how big or small, have built a sovereignty monument declaring the sovereignty of China. In Xisha, Zhongsha and Nansha, three new marine meteorological observation stations have been built.

Transporting all kinds of building materials from the southern cities of Annam is much less troublesome and cheaper than transporting them from mainland China.

With China's development of the Nansha Islands, the Philippine and Malaysian governments did not even dare to send any additional troops to the three large islands they occupied, as if they were afraid of touching China's sensitive nerves, and even the former patrol ships did not dare to easily enter the waters within the nine-dash line in the South China Sea.

Taiwan's Kuomintang and Kuomintang troops stationed on Taiping Island have always stepped up the construction of field fortifications as if they were facing a great enemy, and are also stepping up the expansion of the Taiping Island field airfield. He did not show fear because of the strategic encirclement formed by the PLA. As if they knew that the PLA would not attack them, the officers and men defending the island did not even conduct regular military training every day, except for building fortifications and airfields.

At present, the Coast Guard, the South China Sea Fleet, and the Southern Military Region have stationed 35 companies on 47 large islands, with a total of 5,000 officers and men stationed in the South China Sea for a long time.

The Coast Guard and the South China Sea Fleet have built a total of 52 large and small wharves to ensure that transport and supply ships can dock at various islands.

At the same time, it can also provide logistical supplies for Sino-foreign joint ventures engaged in oil exploration and exploitation in the South China Sea.

The ocean-going training of the South China Sea Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet, and the Coast Guard has enabled at least two or more Chinese Navy warships to patrol the waters of the South China Sea every day, protecting the fishermen of Sansha City and those who have come from Qiongdao to engage in fishing operations freely. There is no longer any need to worry about foreign warships coming to bully them and expel them.

With regard to the diplomatic talks between the Philippines and Malaysia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China has been working hard to get the governments of the Philippines and Malaysia to take the initiative to return the three large islands within China's territorial waters that they have forcibly occupied.

However, the Philippines and Malaysia have played the role of weak people bullied by big powers in the international community, calling out at the United Nations every day to ask for international assistance, claiming that these islands are the territory of their inherent territorial waters, and that the Chinese government should be jointly condemned and condemned by all peace-loving countries and governments in the world for such a brazen hegemonist policy.

The weak have always been more vulnerable to sympathy in international political circles.

In addition, the strong military strength displayed by China in the Annam War also aroused the vigilance of the Soviet Union and the United States. (To be continued.) )