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In late 1944, it was worth mentioning that British spies had finally found the location of the German heavy water plant after a long investigation, and Churchill immediately sent a team of agents to deal with the huge threat, and these MI6 elites did not disappoint the leaders of the Allied countries, and they succeeded in destroying the plant, causing Germany to lose at least a year of heavy water production. Although Hu Weidong's reminder was that the German graphite reactor project was not killed by inferior graphite, heavy water is still of great significance, and the successful surprise attack by British agents delayed the emergence of the German atomic bomb for at least half a year, which gave the American scientists who had been greatly delayed by the "Manhattan Project" because of the earth-shattering nuclear explosion a chance to catch up

Following the explosive growth of the previous year, China's economy in 1944 continued to maintain a rare high-speed growth in world history, of which the growth rate of industrial output value exceeded 20%, in addition to the Chinese government and the people of the whole country tightening their belts to increase investment, a large number of foreign military orders are also a very important growth engine, in addition to the Japanese continue to order ships, the Soviet Union, which is in an increasingly difficult situation, has also begun to import a large number of weapons and ammunition from China, The loan that was previously repaid in advance from China was tantamount to a change of method and quickly returned to China, but strictly speaking, it was the Americans who paid for it (Note 1), as for the Soviets themselves. Hard currency is long gone

Even at the official exchange rate, China's total industrial output exceeded $18 billion in 1944, surpassing Japan, which had initially absorbed the occupied areas and greatly increased its national strength, and the Soviet Union, which had fallen to a large part of the elite region, and ranked first in Asia and third in the world. In 1944, China produced more than 15 million tons of crude steel, more than 120 billion kWh of power generation, more than 120 million tons of cement, more than 230 million tons of coal, and nearly 15 million tons of crude oil, all of which ranked among the top three in the world, while the output of industrial manufactured products such as electrical appliances ranked even higher, of which the output of emerging industries such as plastics was even more amazing, and a considerable part of them were already the world's first

And in terms of technology. China has also made a number of exciting and significant achievements during the year. For example, although the integrated circuit computer has not yet been successfully developed, Hua Luogeng and other outstanding Chinese mathematicians have successfully completed the theoretical pre-research on such topics as binary algorithms and data bits-corresponding address-bus coding theory.

However, Hu Weidong is more looking forward to the progress in machining and material technology, although some progress has been made. But it is still not enough to produce a rocket with greater thrust. Nevertheless. Ballistic missiles with a maximum range of 3,000 km are still ahead of the world. It's just that because of China's poor geographical location, ballistic missiles of this range can't reach the elite zone of the Soviet Union, the United States and Germany, and they don't need such a long range to hit Japan. This determines that this medium-range missile, named "Dongfeng-2", is still only a transitional model

In fact, even if it is a ballistic missile with a maximum range of only 3,000 kilometers, the rocket technology used is enough to take the lead in the world to complete the feat of launching a satellite, but the weight must be strictly limited, with China's current electronic technology, sending it will play a symbolic significance, and it has no substantive significance for the military and economy, but it will attract the attention and vigilance of the great powers prematurely because it is difficult to keep secrets, which is not conducive to China's current Taoguang and obscurity, so Hu Weidong simply put forward excessively high functional requirements for the satellite. Even if it is developed, it must be too heavy, and we can only honestly wait for rocket technology to catch up

The completion of a medium-sized pressurized water nuclear reactor with an installed capacity of more than 10,000 kilowatts not only marks the beginning of China's commercial development of nuclear power, but also means that it is possible for nuclear power units to be put on ships, coupled with the successful development of large long-range conventional submarines and surface ballistic missile launch platforms, Hu Weidong is confident that he will be able to develop a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine that can be put into actual combat within 2-3 years, although before the technology of underwater missile launch matures, it can only surface to launch missiles for the time being, and only solid rockets with a much shorter range can be usedBut it's still much stronger than a land-based missile that is completely out of reach

In addition to the achievements of the "911 Project" in the research of strategic weapons, 1944 was also an extremely important year in the process of modernization of China's conventional weapons, and the successful finalization and production of the J-2 jet fighter and the 59 magic tank named the "Liberation Main Battle Tank" meant that China had regained some of the performance advantages of conventional weapons in the current situation of the emergence of new weapons in the world

In addition, the production of more important guns and ammunition has not been introduced in new models, but the output has continued to grow rapidly, coupled with the rapid increase in the production of automobiles and tractors, the logistics and supply capacity of the Chinese People's Liberation Army has been greatly improved compared with before, so that it is not only enough to defend our homeland, but also has the ability to take the initiative to kill out of the border and destroy the enemy's ability to wage war at the root

The rapid development of the economy and the military industry caused excessive optimism to begin to breed in the party and the military, and even Taizu said at a meeting of the Central Military Commission: "The Pacific Ocean is not peaceful now, and we will be in charge of it in the future before it can become the real 'Pacific Ocean'." Hearing this, Hu Weidong broke out in a cold sweat

As the person in charge of China's industry and military industry, Hu Weidong knows very well that China's strength is far from being as strong as everyone thinks, and although the level of ballistic missiles is the first in the world, it still does not reach the target of great value, and it still does not have much significance, and although the logistical capability has been greatly improved, even according to the early supply standards, it can only support more than 1.2 million light infantry units to go out of the country to fight, and the distance cannot be too far and the time cannot be too long. Hu Weidong was also a little uncertain in his heart.

Note 1: Although the U.S. industry is strong, it is inferior to the same period in history, and the logistics and transportation capacity is even more so due to Germany's more successful submarine warfare and the U.S. Navy's loss of ground again and again on the frontal battlefield, so the U.S. government's greater demand for assistance in this time and space is now also beginning to be a little inadequate, and the caliber of ammunition in China and the Soviet Union is basically the same and directly adjacent, so directly ordering from China and shipping to the Soviet Union has become a helpless choice for the U.S. government to urgently make up for the gap when necessary. Although Roosevelt was deeply worried about the rapid rise of Red China. (To be continued......)