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In fact, the competition between the world's major powers on the bottom of the sea is still quite fierce, and after learning that Britain has built Astute-class nuclear submarines, the Russian side cannot sit still.

Back five years ago, the Northern Shipyard in Severodvinsk, Russia, held the first boat of the fourth generation of Russian nuclear submarines. Keel laying ceremony of the Dolgoruki.

However, the fate of Russia's new generation of nuclear submarines seems to be doomed, because of bad weather, the actual time of the keel laying ceremony is a full week later than the originally selected zodiac auspicious, and the dignitaries who were originally scheduled to attend the ceremony - Andrei, the first deputy minister of defense of Russia. Kokokin, Moscow Mayor Luzhkov, and the head of the President's Office, Chubais, were not present at the ceremony.

For the mayor of Moscow, Luzhkov, the construction of the fourth generation of nuclear submarines has a special meaning, because the first boat, Yuri. Dolgoruky takes its name from Prince Dolgoruky, the father of the city of Moscow, and the city of Moscow promised that if the funds from the Russian Federation were not received in time, the city of Moscow would pay for the salaries of shipyard workers and future officers and men of new submarines.

This promise may sound a bit outlandish, but in fact, there was a tradition in the Great Patriotic War that factory workers, city dwellers, and government officials could adopt a tank or an airplane, and the weapons and equipment that the Soviet Red Army had fought bloody battles on the front line would also be named after individuals, units, or cities.

As planned, Yuri. The Dolgoruky should enter active service this year.

However, as soon as construction began, it hit the first hurdle, and the Russian Navy decided to replace the other missiles of the original design with more advanced Hammer missiles. This meant that the Ruby Center Design Bureau had to redesign the armament system and the space on board. As a result, the pace of construction of submarines had to slow down.

What is even worse is that the Hammer missile failed by exploding in mid-air and failing to hit the target during the three test launches, which made all sides full of suspicion about this type of missile, thus once again delaying the process of submarine construction.

By the turn of the millennium, due to the failure of federal government funding to arrive in time, the Moscow city government could not afford the huge construction costs in addition to paying the workers. The construction of the Dolgoruki came to a near standstill. At this time, the disappointment news from the Russian Ministry of Defense said that if the money could not be obtained, the launch of the first boat might have to be postponed to 2010 and 2012. In the following time, the construction appropriations were in place one after another like squeezing toothpaste, and the progress of submarine construction was not optimistic.

This year, because the British Royal Navy began to build the Astute-class nuclear submarines, the Russian Navy made a special inventory of its own underwater nuclear forces, and the results made people feel very shocked, at present, only 25 nuclear submarines in the entire Russia can still be put into service, and the nuclear warheads carried are 2,200, which is far lower than the national strategic needs.

At this time, the officials of the Russian State Duma Committee on the Appropriations of the Defense Budget also told the Navy in an official tone that there was no money anyway. The construction of the Dolgoruki is in trouble.

Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin learned at a high-level meeting of the government. After the construction plight of the Dolgoruky, he was very angry and immediately said that even if the Kremlin was sold, a new generation of nuclear submarines would be built in time, because this is related to Russia's future.

At the urging of President Putin, Yuri. Funding for the construction of the Dolgoruky was quickly disbursed, and construction began on a second new strategic nuclear missile submarine.

From time to time, President Putin personally inquired about the pace of submarine construction, raised the wages of workers in the northern shipyards, and sent congratulatory messages of encouragement on holidays, which greatly boosted the morale of the workers.

After all this twist and turn, the construction rate of Russia's new generation of nuclear submarines is ten times faster than in previous years.

"Therefore, people's subjective initiative is very important, what can't be done in the past ten years, or now it has been done in a year, this is not some wishful thinking, the key is whether we can let everyone do it." Fan Wuxian further expressed to Fan Heng.

Fan Heng thought for a while and said, "Since you are so interested, then I might as well mention this matter at the appropriate time to see what other people think, and then make plans." ”

This year has been a tumultuous year for Americans, with the 911 attacks, the Enron and WorldCom scandals, and the aftermath of the Nasdaq stock market crash, which suddenly turned the world's largest country's foreign politics and domestic economy into turmoil.

At the same time, there is a very different picture in distant China, where several important and far-reaching events are taking place, but they are much more festive and brighter.

On July 13, at 22 o'clock Beijing time, the much-anticipated host city of the 2008 Olympic Games was finally announced at the 112th Plenary Session of the International Olympic Committee in Moscow. Beijing, China, Toronto, France, and Istanbul, Turkey, are in the final race.

In the silence, the president of the Olympic Committee, Samaranch, announced the final elected city, and he said only one word in a majestic voice: BEIJING! Thousands of miles away, the land of China was suddenly boiling and full of fireworks. Beijing has announced plans to invest 280 billion yuan in infrastructure and stadium construction.

On October 7, the Chinese men's football team defeated the Oman team 1-0 at the Wulihe Stadium in Shenyang, and entered the World Cup finals in history.

November 10 is another historic moment.

On the afternoon of that day, at the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) held in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the participating countries deliberated and adopted China's decision to join the WTO by consensus. China's Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation signed the Protocol on behalf of the Chinese Government.

In a month's time, China will officially become a member of the World Trade Organization.

The success of the Olympic bid, the qualification of the men's football team, and the accession to the World Trade Organization -- a series of great happy events were squeezed together until 2001, giving the Chinese a sense of "great rise" at the beginning of the new century, an unprecedented sense of excitement, happiness, and satisfaction. It is precisely because of this that the saying "2001 is the Year of China" has spread far and wide.

Around the time of China's accession to TO, predicting China's future and direction has become the hottest topic in the global economic circle.

Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry mentioned for the first time in a white paper that China has become the world's factory, and made in China has ranked first in the world market share in color TVs, washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, microwave ovens, motorcycles and other products. Economists go on to believe that Chinese companies will begin their journey to conquer the world, just like Japan did in the eighties of the twentieth century.

In connection with this, ** is also quietly emerging.

Of course, there are voices that are completely different from the above views.

Some scholars predict that with the gradual opening up of the market and the influx of transnational capital, the already crumbling state-owned economic system will be vulnerable, and those old and invigorated state-owned enterprises will soon be expelled from the market, which will affect the macroeconomic stability and sustained development of China's economy.

A Chinese-American lawyer named Zhang Jiadun also published a book, "China's Imminent Collapse," in which he claimed that China's economic boom was a sham and that China's current political and economic system would only last for five years at most under the strong onslaught of joining the TO.

Investment bank Solomon Smith Barney predicts that 40 million people will lose their jobs in the first five years of China's accession to TO, and severe employment pressures will crush the country sooner or later.

A similar argument is that China's economic growth model, characterized by high input and low output, and one based on cheap labor and huge energy consumption, is reaching a dead end, and that China's nearly two decades of rapid growth will not be sustainable.

In this regard, Ziqi once asked Fan Wuxian what his opinion was?

"The Chinese themselves can't figure out the affairs of China, where can foreigners figure it out?" Fan Wuxian laughed.

"What does that mean?" Ziqi felt a little confused, not understanding what Fan Wuxian really meant.

Fan Wuxian explained, "The reason is very simple, we do not have a mature reference plan for our development, Deng Gong said when he was alive before, feel the stones to cross the river, find where the water is shallow, wade through, find where the water is deep, and bypass, we are not brainless, we will only identify a direction to move forward, things are always changing." ”

Speaking of this, Fan Wuxian also sighed a little, "In the bones of the Chinese, they are still heavily influenced by the idea of moderation, so you don't expect those principles of foreigners to be able to influence the Chinese, even if we cross the river by feeling the stones, we will know where the water is deep and shallow, where it cannot be touched, and no one will be stupid enough to think that foreigners will drown in the mud." ”

"Oh, that's right." Ziqi understood what Fan Wuxian meant.

At the same time, the particularity of China's political system can ensure that the government can correct the problems in a timely and effective manner when they find them, which results in a result that foreigners cannot understand, so their predictions are always outrageously wrong.

As long as you don't get involved, don't really go into China, and only analyze China's situation through some data concocted by some international news media from an unobjective standpoint, the conclusions you come to are naturally very absurd.

In fact, in recent decades, there have been many foreigners who have tried to predict China's development, but without exception, no one can predict success, which is also a manifestation of the unpredictable development of a special country.

"If economists can predict what the future holds, do I need to be reborn?" In Fan Wuxi's heart, he was a little dismissive of this.

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