Chapter 392: Harbor Site Selection

After the three plans were spoken, as Sanshui expected, the Chinese delegation's face became a little unpleasant, and everyone could see that Palawan was completely opening his mouth in this way. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The construction of a railway around the island, this amount of work is not very large for China, but China is not wronged, according to every proposal of Palawan, China is difficult to recover its own costs, and Palawan's population base is so small, after the completion of the railway throughput is also a very critical issue, not to lose money is a good thing, expect to rely on railway income to repay China's loans, is simply nonsense.

China is such a big country, every year the railway loss reaches tens of billions, this is not a joke, although it seems that Chinese take a lot of trains, but the maintenance cost of the railway itself, all kinds of expenses are not low, losses are a normal thing.

Not only China, European and American countries if you choose to take the railway, often the price of the train will be much higher than the plane, according to our understanding of the people, the railway should be a cheap mode of transportation, but in Europe and the United States sometimes have to be specially taxed, the railways in Europe and the United States are the same as China, are in a state of loss.

After whispering for a while, the Chinese negotiating team finally shook their heads, and Minister Chang stood up: "This matter is very important, and we need to study the plan given by your country. ”

Sanshui nodded, he also knew that his request was a bit excessive, China needed to come up with a corresponding response plan, and the negotiation of this kind of thing is not a one-time agreement that sometimes takes a few days, some more than ten days, and even a year or two can be negotiated.

"Okay, let's skip this topic first, and Liu Shan will start the next topic!"

Liu Shan nodded, and walked onto the rostrum again, his work today is equivalent to the nature of the host.

"Next, let's discuss some of the agreements signed with Palawan before, including the Chinese side to help Palawan build two military ports, the specific details of which we already have in our hands, this no longer needs to be discussed, the focus of our discussion today is the location of the port."

"These are the areas in Palawan that are suitable for the construction of ports, among which the most excellent location is Puerto Princesa, followed by the Camigaliu area, as well as the city of Andrew, El Nido and the Kalba area."

After Liu Shan finished speaking, he marked four locations on the map, among which Puerto Princesa is the capital and largest city of Palawan, which everyone knows, but the other four places are little known.

Located southeast of Puerto Princesa, facing Mindanao, the Camigalio region is not very strategically important, but it can be a key to the division between the Philippines and Palawan.

Andrew City is located in the southernmost part of Palawan, not far from Balabac Island, located between the Sulu Sea and the South China Sea, facing Kudat in Malaysia, the geographical location is very advantageous.

The Kalba area is close to the Mindulok Sea, looking at Luzon Island and Mindulok Island, the geographical location is also quite good, while El Nido is very close to the Kalba area, but it is an independent small island, and the geographical location is closer to Luzon than the Karba area.

Sanshui looked at the map, and probably guessed in his heart that there were two ports that the Chinese side might want, one was the Karba area, and the other must be the Andrew urban area.

If the Chinese side has a military port in the Kalba area that can be freely stationed, it will indeed be a very happy thing for the Chinese navy, after all, the Kalba area is located in the middle of the South China Sea, where the Chinese military can support all positions in the South China Sea at any time, and if it can, it can include Lucena on Luzon Island in its range of attack in less than two hours.

As for Andrew's urban area, this location of Sanshui is certain, it must be needed by China, and other places in China can not take this place down.

If there is a military port in the Kalba area, the Chinese Navy will be very happy, then having a military port in the city of Andrew will allow the Chinese Navy to wake up with a smile in its dreams.

Andrew's location can be considered a coveted location for China.

About two hours from the Nansha Islands, through the Sulu Sea into the Sulawesi Sea, to the west, through the Makassar Strait into the Java Sea, directly along the Sunda Strait into the Indian Ocean, can perfectly bypass the Strait of Malacca.

In this way, China can establish a strong deterrent force in the southeast region, so that some Southeast Asian countries will not dare to be too presumptuous.

To the east, pass through the Sulawesi Sea, cross the Sulawesi Sea, and go directly into the Pacific Ocean, leaving the three island chains of the Yankees completely behind you!

The corners of Sanshui's mouth laughed when he thought of this, and he finally understood why China was able to spend so much energy and energy to help Palawan.

"After the unanimous consultation of our relevant experts, our country is ready to build two naval ports for Palawan in the two areas of Puerto Princesa and Andrew City, and both military ports are built according to the 10,000-ton military port, and the construction plan is about to be able to dock all cargo ships and warships with a draft of less than 30,000 tons, and a super-large port that can berth no less than 30 large ocean-going cargo ships at the same time."

"Among them, Andrew's Port will also be the official recommended port of call for our freighters passing through the Indian Ocean, which can play a key role in stimulating the economy of southern Palawan."

Sanshui laughed in his heart, sure enough, the Chinese side chose Andrew City, but the choice of Puerto Princesa was a bit unexpected by Sanshui, Lin Qing explained one thing before, Puerto Puerto has been contracted to the Netherlands to build, so there is no need for the Chinese side to build a second port.

In fact, Sanshui knows that it is not for this reason, but because if China builds a port in Puerto Princesa, then there will definitely be Chinese warships docked in Puerto Princesa for repairs in the future, although this is nothing, but Puerto Princesa is now the national capital of Palawan, and the warships of other countries can enter and exit at will, which is really a little unreasonable.

As for why they were able to agree to the Dutch request, it was entirely because the Dutch warships were still drifting in the Atlantic, and it was one thing whether they could come to the Pacific Ocean or not, and even if they did, they would pass by occasionally, but China was different, China's South China Sea Fleet carried out routine patrols in the South China Sea almost every day, and the distance was too close. (To be continued.) )