One day after the Lantern Festival, An Ran walked into Luo Jia's office and said to Luo Jia, "Our expert group has been sent, taking advantage of the cold weather in the three eastern provinces, it is just right to test the reliability of the automatic driving system under ice and snow conditions, and the south and northwest have also assigned test teams, I hope this time can be successful." ”

Luo Jia smiled and asked An Ran to sit on the sofa and wait, and then he called the administration department and asked them to prepare the car.

"I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry." Luo Jia said, "In the final analysis, autonomous driving is what we are preparing for the future, and the opponent wants to use automatic driving to press us, and we can't be beaten passively." ”

"But if you really go autonomous, not everyone can afford to pay up to 70,000 yuan per car for modification, at most it will be used in luxury models, such as Hongqi or Volvo."

An Ran was slightly stunned, "Has the national team decided to restart the red flag?" ”

"Hmm." Luo Jia nodded, "They do have this plan, if there is nothing else, let's go." ”

So the two of them left the office, joined up with several other project leaders, got into a business car waiting downstairs, and went to Waigaoqiao, a Huaxia shipbuilding giant in Pudong.

Compared with the well-known Jiangnan Heavy Industry, Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding is slightly less famous, and it is even less famous than another giant in Shanghai, Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding.

But this large enterprise, which belongs to the China Shipbuilding Group, produces the world's best bulk carriers, the 200,000-ton Cape-class, and is also the world's leading manufacturer of 300,000-ton VLCC supertankers.

With the launch of the new energy plan, oil and coal are about to become a thing of the past, and the construction of oil tankers in Waigaoqiao has been suspended, and it is currently specializing in large bulk carriers.

In contrast, bulk carriers took a little less time to build than container ships, so they were the first to launch electric ocean-going freighters equipped with the Carmen vortex street power generation array.

As for the well-known Jiangnan Heavy Industry and Dalian Heavy Industry in China, they were pulled by the military to build warships, and the manufacture of civilian electric ships was handed over to several other giants.

Sitting in the car, Luo Jia said thoughtfully, "The field of shipbuilding and shipping is very new to most people, but they are very important. ”

"In this world, 98% of international trade is completed by shipping, and the world's largest trading country happens to be China, so shipping is really our lifeblood, and the lifeblood must be mastered by ourselves."

"Just like electric vehicles, if we plan to sell tens of millions of electric vehicles and related parts to the world every year, then we must build at least a few hundred, more than 200,000 tons of car carriers to meet the huge demand."

Ling Feng said curiously: "Cars are valuable commodities, and they can't be hoisted, they can only be ro-ro, it sounds like they are very high-tech, can our country build this kind of ship?" ”

"You look down on my country's shipbuilding industry too much, don't you?" Luo Jia pouted, "The 8500 model being built by Xiamen Heavy Industry can hold 8,500 cars, and these cars are 26 miles long, which is the largest in the world, but unfortunately the designer is from Det Norske Veritas." ”

"And in addition to Xiamen Heavy Industry, Jiangnan, Nantong COSCO, Jinling Shipyard, Zhejiang Yangfan, Tianjin Xingang, they can also build large car carriers."

"In this world, there are a total of eighty-two shipyards, which have built car carriers, ranking third in China, and ten shipyards have construction experience and design capabilities, and the strongest are still Japan and South Korea, the neon giants, Jinye Shipbuilding, Toyohashi Shipbuilding, Shinraijima Shipbuilding, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, South Korea's top three, Daewoo Shipbuilding, Hyundai Sanhu, Hyundai Heavy Industries, these seven shipyards are quite powerful opponents."

Luo Jia patted the car cushion under his buttocks, "Car carriers are a thing that must be built only if there is demand, Japan and South Korea are strong, because they export a large number of automobile products every year, in the past, our cars were not exported much, and naturally we didn't need too many professional ships." ”

"But it will be different in the future, including Xiamen Heavy Industry, all domestic shipyards that can build car carriers, orders have long been full, and because the Carmen vortex street power generation array needs to reach 200,000 tons to run smoothly, so the construction is a giant."

As soon as Ling Feng heard this, he immediately came to his senses and hurriedly asked, "How big is it?" ”

"A super-jumbo that can hold 15,000 cars, this is a new record, and the largest car carrier in the world in the past was only 8,500."

Everyone is excited, to be honest, shipping is a bit far away from life, there are really not many people who understand, and few people are like Luo Jia, who is concentrating on studying the entire shipping industry, and he is now able to understand the situation and historical data of opponents in the shipping industry.

Luo Jia and his entourage were warmly received by Mr. Xu of Waigaoqiao Group, and they were invited to the dock to check the new ships under construction.

An Ran asked everyone excitedly, "Do you know why this ship is called Cape of Good Hope?" ”

"I know that." Zhang Cheng, who is engaged in condensed matter physics, said: "Because the ship is too big to pass through the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal, it is necessary to go around the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn. ”

Luo Jia added: "What you said is outdated, the Egyptian side has revised the rules of passage of the Suez Canal, and now it can be passed, but the Panama Canal cannot be passed alive or dead." ”

"According to the requirements, the Panama Canal can only pass ships with a length of no more than 274.32 meters and a width of no more than 32.3 meters, which is also 70,000 tons and is called the Panama class."

After a pause, Luo Jia stood on the dock, let out two wry smiles, and asked everyone: "Do you know what these bulk carriers will be mainly used to transport after they are built?" ”

"Hey." An Ran let out a sigh and said: "Of course it's soybeans, last year due to the trade war, my country's import of soybeans has decreased, but there are still as many as 88 million tons, in addition, we have imported more than 100 million tons of iron ore, all of which are shipped back by this kind of ship." ”

When it comes to agriculture, everyone sighs with emotion, in this field, Huaxia is really too far behind, not just a gap in a certain aspect, but from fertilizers to pesticides, to seeds, as well as soil conservation, large-scale mechanization and so on.

Is agriculture a high-tech thing?

A typical high-tech capital-intensive industry not only burns money, but also is extremely time-consuming.

Mr. Yuan Longping's achievements today have been obtained in a lifetime, and the global monopoly of giants like Monsanto has also been accumulated over the past hundred years.

According to statistics, due to the development of China in recent years, the per capita annual consumption of meat has reached an astonishing 49.8 kilograms.

It seems that this figure is much less than the ninety kilograms in Australia and North America, and the eighty-six kilograms in Argentina.

But don't forget, East Asia likes to eat green vegetables, neon per capita meat consumption is only 35.7 kilograms, South Korea is slightly higher, 51.5 kilograms, China's per capita consumption has surpassed neon by a large margin, catching up with South Korea.

What do pigs and cattle rely on as feed?

Soybean.

Therefore, China's soybean imports have remained high.

Some people have calculated that the total area of cultivated land in the country is 224 million mu, and if we want to be self-sufficient without importing soybeans, we need to take out another 360 million mu of arable land to grow soybeans.

In the face of the cruel reality, our only choice is import, and import requires a large number of bulk carriers to transport.

"It's almost time, shall we get over now?" Mr. Xu said.

So, everyone followed him to the dock, boarded a speedboat that had been waiting there, and sailed quickly to the East China Sea.

Today, Luo Jia did not come to see the launch of the new ship, but something more important than the launch, the sea trial.

On this Cape-class 200,000-ton bulk carrier, a full set of black technology from Xingchen Technology is installed, and the exact effect will be revealed.