After several years of silent efforts, China's shipbuilding technology has reached a new level. Such a freighter has a tonnage of between 7,000 and 12,000 tons, and the construction time is only two months. This was originally a trump card that Liu Xian still wanted to play again at a critical moment in two years, but now because of the crisis of excess steel, he had to be thrown out in advance!

Freewheel is a shipbuilding philosophy, not a fixed way of building a cargo ship. China has begun to build a large number of free ships, in addition to cargo ships and oil tankers, there are also many distant-water fishing vessels.

When the problem of filling the stomach is solved, how to eat delicious and satisfying has become the biggest problem to satisfy the 'Chinese stomach'.

The ocean is nature's best gift to human beings, but in the past two or three decades, Chinese have still mainly fished inshore, still concentrated in the coastal areas of the mainland and the South Sea. Now that the Freedom Wheel is launched, the first person to call for the vigorous development of naval ocean-going fishing is not Emperor Liu, but the cabinet!

China's prosperity in the past two or three decades has led to the rapid development of the offshore fishing industry. However, the recent shrinkage of coastal fishery resources has attracted the attention of the marine sector, and a protection plan for the fishing moratorium has been formulated.

Deep-sea fishing can not only alleviate the pressure of depletion of offshore fishery resources, but also promote the development of related industries such as fishing boat repair, aquatic product processing, and fishing port trade in coastal areas, and provide employment opportunities for thousands of people.

Last year, China formulated the National Fisheries Development Plan, which proposes to develop a sustainable fishing industry in a coordinated manner, on the one hand, to strictly control the intensity of inshore fisheries, and on the other hand, to support the expansion of distant-water fisheries. How to improve the management level of distant-water fishery equipment and corresponding enterprises, and cultivate a number of competitive distant-water fishery enterprises and modern distant-water fisheries, is once again the top priority of the government.

To know. China produces 2.1 million tonnes of marine capture products throughout the year, a figure that includes North America. Of these, distant-water fishing accounts for only 17 percent of the total, with an average annual growth rate of only 1.2 percentage points in the last five years, and the number of distant-water fishing vessels is less than 0.1 percentage point with about 1,100 vessels.

2.1 million tonnes of fishery catch, seems like a very large number. But is it really averaged to all Chinese? 2.1 billion kilograms only, 600 million Chinese. Each person is only 3.5 kilograms, which is seven kilograms. Although China still has a huge number of freshwater fisheries, pigs, sheep and beef, as well as poultry, it is safe to say that this number will definitely not meet the market demand.

In March 1909, in the spring days, all the fishermen on the eastern coast knew a piece of news for the coastal fishermen through newspapers and state propaganda notices. It's not good news.

The state has introduced a subsidy measure, the project is a distant-water fishing vessel, each can get 11% of the state subsidy amount, and can be borrowed for the purchase of the boat, as long as you can come up with 20% of the down payment funds, the boat is yours. For the next three years, pay in installments and mortgage monthly. until all the arrears are paid.

This policy is definitely very attractive to fishermen and boat owners. The launch of distant-water fishing vessels. There will certainly be a lot of jobs, but at the same time, the huge increase in fish catches in the market will also impact the price of fish traded in the coastal provinces.

China still makes its 'economic policy' vigorous, and it seems that it is far more important than military armament.

Sun Wen, who has not left Beijing for a long time in the past few years, has become busy. He is now Hawaii's permanent representative to the parliament in Beijing, and the policy of distant-water fishing vessels has undoubtedly played an important role in the development of Hawaii, which is becoming more and more homogeneous.

As the North Pacific shipping lanes become busier, Hawaii's seaports are thriving, and now they are the three largest ports in China, along with Shanghai, Singapore and China. How many people are there in Hawaii in the whole of Hawaii? Aborigines, Chinese, Japanese, and whites together are less than 500,000. More and more people are relieved from busy farming. In addition, tourism in Hawaii has also developed to a certain extent in recent years, and the service industry has skyrocketed. All of this is weakening Hawaii's agricultural output, which has been declining for 11 consecutive years, and Hawaii has set a good example for China's eastern seaboard.

Sun Wen is not holding a dead brain that agriculture will not let go, on the contrary. He didn't like agriculture very much. However, when the food supply of 500,000 people in Hawaii became a problem, when agricultural products, especially grain cultivation, could no longer meet the needs of 500,000 people, and when the fishing market was completely dominated by foreign fishing companies, Sun Wen felt that something really had to change.

Hawaii is suitable for growing cash crops such as sugarcane, pineapple, coffee, bananas, etc., and the annual per capita food consumption of Hawaiians is only 100 kilograms, and the developed service-oriented economy has brought high income to Hawaiians. Hawaiians have no success in fishing and meat farming, but they have the highest per capita meat consumption. The high nutrition and energy content of meat has greatly reduced the food consumption of Hawaiians, especially the abundance of fruit.

As a somewhat paranoid person, as a person who lived on the mainland as a child, Sun Wen always believed that Hawaii should ensure its own food source, 50,000 tons of grain production does not need too large an area, and there are more abundant fishery resources around the Hawaiian Islands. Not to mention the export of grain, the warehouses are full of rotten, at least what you grow yourself must have enough to eat.

Sun Wen's ideological concept is a very simple traditional concept of the Chinese people. There is food in the hand, and there is no panic in the heart.

Now that the state has introduced subsidies for fishing boats, Sun Wen is instantly excited. He saw a great opportunity for Hawaii to make the fishing industry grow rapidly.

Located in the center of the North Pacific Ocean, Hawaii's geographical location is not too good, if the development period of ocean fishing, not only can its own fish catch be satisfied, but also can be smoothly sold back to the east and west continents. Of course, the price is higher in the west than in North America.

It was not only Sun Wen who took action, but also the members of parliament in the eastern coastal region. This is obviously a good thing, and it can win the support of many people. And if the people really can't eat so much 'meat', can they eat it on their behalf?

Even the foreigners, namely North and South Japan, the Nguyen Dynasty and the Southern Heavenly Kingdom, were alarmed. With such a cheap price, there is no such shop in this village.

China's fast-yielding fishing vessels, 500 to 1,000 tons, can be rolled off the production line in one or two decades, and the quality is absolutely guaranteed. Because it is to develop domestic deep-sea fishing, the price itself is not high. 100% of the price of the purchase is also low on the international level.

So much so that in less than half a month, the Ministry of State Security reported a problem to the cabinet, that after some Chinese people bought ships with all the money, they sold them to Japan, the Nguyen Dynasty, the Southern Heavenly Kingdom, and even North Korea at 95 percent, and they could still make a lot of money. The Ministry of National Security reminded the Cabinet to quickly take defensive measures to prevent the recurrence of such incidents.

This news was soon exposed by the newspapers, and after Liu Xian heard the news, he could only sigh at the cleverness of the Chinese. There are always people who steal and cheat and take advantage of loopholes.

"Mazarin, my friend, open your eyes and see. What is China really doing? Are they a hoax you say? ”

A fishing boat trading market in Shantou was crowded with hundreds of people, including at least three or four people waiting outside, with a small business hall and a small three-story building.

Shantou, Guangdong Province, is an important node of the "Greater Pearl River Delta" and "Pan-Pearl River Delta" economic circles, and an important connection point of the Xiamen-Zhangquan Triangle, the Pearl River Delta and the economic belt on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait. The per capita income is also among the highest in the rich province of Guangdong. Therefore, as soon as the subsidy policy implemented by the state was introduced, coupled with the development prospects of the distant-water fishing industry vigorously promoted by the state, the entire Shantou Prefecture purchased more than 100 distant-water fishing vessels. And there are a large number of potential buyers, who are hesitant.

Although Europe has been caught in a tense military race, there are still many eyes on China. At a time when Europe is grasping every second to build warships, China is vigorously developing the distant-water fishing industry, which many Europeans cannot understand, or even believe! Like Massalin, a journalist for Le Parisien, they firmly believe that it is a hoax.

Mazarin. Levill pursed his lips tightly, looking at the lively scene in front of him, not only did his expression not relax, but became more solemn.

"Armand, my friend, do not be deceived by your own eyes. The Chinese must have more warships hidden and invisible to the eye, and tension is being created behind them. "Mazarin. Lewell's eyes sparkled with unwavering conviction. "I firmly believe in that!"

"But the tonnage of fishing ships, cargo ships, and oil tankers that the Chinese have now launched has exceeded 120% of their annual manufacturing capacity, do you still believe that China is secretly building warships behind the scenes?"

"Armand. The Chinese have already exceeded the normal range of shipbuilding tonnage, and the tonnage of fishing ships, cargo ships, and oil tankers they are now launching has exceeded 120% of their annual manufacturing capacity, why is there such an outbreak? Did the Chinese suddenly invent a new method of shipbuilding? Able to launch a tanker in two months or less? This is the best evidence that behind the Chinese there is a huge shipbuilding capacity. ”

There are some people in the world who are unreasonable, and paranoia is one of them. Mazarin. Levi is clearly a paranoid, madly hostile to China. Armand was not really a friend of his, as a Canton-based correspondent for Le Parisien, he had been in China for three and a half years. There is a big difference between people like Levi, who have just come to China from Europe.

Armand was able to clearly understand the strength of China, and he was very aware of the disastrous nature of the war between France and China. Therefore, he is a staunch member of the 'Sino-French Peace and Friendship Association', and he is in favor of Sino-French peace with his hands and feet, forgetting the past and carrying out the future. (To be continued.) )