In the eyes of many, Huaxia's discussion of abolishing English classes is not just an educational issue, but also a political issue. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Some Western countries have even informed the Chinese government, hoping that they will seriously consider this issue and not cancel English classes.

In the first decade of the new century, China rapidly grew from a regional power to a world power, and in the second decade, China began to challenge the United States. Originally, many people predicted that if China's comprehensive national strength wanted to surpass that of the United States, it would take thirty to fifty years, especially in the field of science and technology, and the technology and accumulation of the United States would far surpass that of China. However, who knew that there was a Luyang in Huaxia.

In the past ten years, Huaxia has surpassed the United States in many important fields such as aerospace, automobiles, electrical engineering, semiconductors, energy, intelligent electronics, Internet artificial intelligence, and materials.

In 2008, in the world's 100 hot scientific research frontiers and 49 emerging research frontiers, 80% of the breakthroughs came from the United States, and the contribution of China is not high, ten years later, these 149 fields, more than half of the Chinese have made breakthroughs, and the degree of scientific contribution has surpassed that of the United States for the first time this year, becoming a real scientific and technological power!

Last year, the total GDP of the United States was 15 trillion US dollars, and the GDP of China was converted to 13 trillion US dollars, while the economic growth rate of the United States was 2.1%, and that of China was 10.9%. According to this trend, it will not take two years for Huaxia to surpass Mi Guo.

The economy and science and technology have caught up with and surpassed the United States, and China has formed a huge challenge to the United States. Politically, China is also playing an increasingly important role in international affairs.

Although Europe and the United States have differences in interests, the two sides have common interests in dealing with China. Therefore, European countries openly and secretly helped the United States to suppress China. At this time, Huaxia abolished the English curriculum, which provoked the nerves of European countries too much.

It is precisely because of this that the reaction in Europe to this matter is extremely strong, but they do not know that it is precisely because of their attitude that the Chinese top brass has strengthened its determination to abolish English classes.

The mainland is still discussing whether to cancel English, while Penglai Island is one step ahead, English, French, German, Arabic, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese, etc., these languages are listed as elective courses in high school, students can choose freely, and the compulsory courses are only Chinese and mathematics. On this basis, Lu Yang increased the proportion of Chinese education, especially classical Chinese. Really speaking, the students of Penglai Island do not necessarily reduce the burden.

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Because of the special geographical location, Penglai Island is very developed by sea and air, and land transportation is seriously lagging behind. After the reform of Penglai Group, Su Yan integrated air and sea transportation and established Penglai Transportation Group, which was responsible for Dong Ming of the original Penglai Airlines.

When the new official took office, Dong Ming first learned about the shipping situation on Penglai Island, because he was very familiar with air transportation. Penglai Island now has 82 ships, of which 18 are of 100,000 tons, and the others are of 10,000 tons, and they are all high-speed ships, with a total tonnage of nearly 4 million tons, and they are also one of the most popular shipping companies in the world.

Dong Ming is not satisfied with this, Penglai Island Wangxiang Port terminal has a daily cargo throughput of more than 600,000 tons, which is already one of the top 50 ports in the world and has a broad shipping market. Dong Ming, who is in charge of Penglai Island's sea, land and air transportation, has similar thoughts to others, wanting to do a big job, and is ready to increase the total tonnage of ships to 10 million tons in three years.

Although Dong Ming's plan is very clear, if he wants to implement it, he still has to convince Lu Yang. Penglai Transportation Company's total assets are now only 100 billion, and it just achieved profitability last year, and there is not much liquidity. And if he wants to achieve this goal, he will invest at least 20 billion, which he can't come up with.

Before reporting to Lu Yang, Dong Ming also went to Penglai Shipyard. The current Penglai shipyard has undergone three expansions, with an annual production capacity of more than 5 million tons. In order to improve efficiency, Penglai Shipyard has achieved semi-automated production, and the speed of shipbuilding has increased a lot.

"Mr. Dong, you are welcome to come to us for inspection!" Yuan Yi, the person in charge of the shipyard, greeted Dong Ming warmly.

"Mr. Yuan is too polite, where am I to inspect, I am here to visit and study......" Dong Ming shook hands with the other party vigorously and said modestly.

Dong Ming and Yuan Yi have met several times at the group meeting, and both of them are senior executives of Penglai Group, although they are not too familiar, they are not strangers. After meeting, everyone exchanged a few words of greeting, and went straight to the main body.

"Mr. Yuan, I came this time to ask for your help." Dong Ming has a request for others, and his attitude is relatively low, "I heard that your 50,000-ton high-speed ship has achieved mass production, and it just so happens that the transportation company wants to add a batch of new ships, see if you can ...... it."

Penglai Shipyard is still studying the high-speed ship technology provided by Luyang, and in the past three years, they have made a lot of progress, from the initial thousands of tons to 10,000 tons, and then to 20,000 tons and 40,000 tons...... Last month, the first 50,000-ton high-speed transport ship at the Penglai Shipyard was launched.

Yuan Yi showed an embarrassed expression on his face: "Mr. Dong, you also know about the shipyard, from the establishment of the factory to the present, our production capacity is seriously insufficient. No, another batch of European orders was received in the first half of this year, and now the orders for the entire shipyard have been scheduled for 2021......"

Yuan Yi didn't prevaricate Dong Ming with words, this is the actual situation. High-speed ships have not been around for long, but for the world's ocean transport industry, it is nothing less than a revolution. Since 2016, high-speed ships have been officially unveiled. At that time, the first high-speed passenger ship of Penglai Shipyard was launched, carrying 300 tourists from Penglai Island to Shencheng, a journey of more than 4,000 kilometers in only 18 hours, which caused a sensation in the world. For the first time, everyone learned that ships can run at sea at the speed of high-speed trains!

Penglai Shipyard became famous in one fell swoop, they did not meet the displacement of the first passenger ship of 2,000 tons, and then made persistent efforts, ate the technology left by Lu Yang, and created a high-speed cargo ship with a displacement of 12,000 tons, it is this cargo ship that makes high-speed ships go to the world, and deeply affects the global shipping.

So far, only Penglai Shipyard and Huaxia Shipbuilding Corporation have high-speed ship technology, and the global demand for high-speed ships cannot be estimated, and both sides have received a large number of orders. The world's top ten shipbuilding companies have sent a request for cooperation to Penglai Shipyard, hoping to get technical authorization, and Yuan Yi has been thinking about this issue.

"It was because I knew that I came to Mr. Yuan for help." Dong Ming nodded and said, "No matter what, we are a family after all, right?" ”

Yuan Yi didn't refuse again, Dong Ming and he were colleagues, and their status was also equal, so he always had to give him face.

"Mr. Dong, if I can help, I will never say anything." Yuan Yi sighed, "It's just that I'm afraid that what I can do is limited, and I will disappoint you, Mr. Dong." ”

"Mr. Yuan, you are too polite." Seeing this, Dong Ming was a little happy in his heart, and hurriedly took the opportunity to explain his needs, "I won't embarrass you, do you see that in June next year, can you build us 40 50,000-ton high-speed cargo ships?" ”

Yuan Yi was shocked: "Mr. Dong, you don't embarrass me, the total production capacity of our shipyard is only 5 million, and you can take 2 million at once, no, no!" Besides, 40 50,000-ton cargo ships, even if they give you a preferential price, they will have to be more than 10 billion, can you afford such a large amount of money......

"In this regard, I also want to ask Mr. Yuan to help see if I can pay in installments......"

"Absolutely not!" Yuan Yi categorically refused, what are you kidding, Penglai Shipyard has always been a contract signing, and it has to be paid, and when the whole world is begging them, they all collect money in advance, how can there be installment payment?

"Mr. Dong, I can't decide such a big thing, don't embarrass me." Yuan Yi politely sent Dong Ming away.

Dong Ming thought about it again and again, and decided to discuss it with Lu Yang. In fact, he is not only planning to expand the sea fleet, but also to expand the scale of air transportation. Penglai Transport Company now has a total of 137 large passenger aircraft, mainly flying to China, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Dong Ming also wants to open up flights to the Americas and wants to be the world's top airline. And now, Dong Ming has found a great opportunity, that is, a supersonic passenger plane of Penglai Aerospace Company.

However, the capital demand for increasing aircraft is much greater than that of ships, just like the 22 Airbus A380s owned by Penglai Transportation Company, each with a price of about 2 billion yuan, and even the Airbus A320, the unit price is more than 500 million. And now, the supersonic passenger plane launched by Penglai Aerospace Company is about the same size as the Airbus A380, and the price is definitely much more expensive than it, which is not something Dong Ming can afford at all.

Just when Dong Ming was thinking about how to report his plan to Lu Yang, he received bad news that a fleet of Penglai Transport Company had been detained by the Lion City in the Strait of Malacca!

Dong Ming immediately called to find out the specific situation, this fleet has been traveling between Africa and Penglai Island for a long time, and is responsible for transporting various resources to Penglai Island. Penglai Island itself is poor in resources, it is an artificial volcanic island, except for some mineral resources on the seabed nearby, it can be said that Penglai Island has nothing, and there was no soil back then.

In the past three years, all the resources of Lu Yang's construction of the island have been transported from the mainland of China, and because of this, although sometimes the high-level officials of China have forced him, Lu Yang has chosen to make concessions. (To be continued.) )