The increase in economic aggregate has a profound impact on all aspects of the country. Behind it is actually a series of changes, but relatively speaking, the numerical value of economic aggregate is more intuitive.
Among them, the most intuitive reflection is defense expenditure. I still remember that in order to raise more than 100 billion yuan in military expenditure a few years ago, I had to borrow money from him, and even touched the cheese of the national tobacco industry.
At that time, the advanced military equipment produced by Huaxia Military Industrial Company was afraid that it would not be sold, so Zhao Yi had to actively rack his brains for national defense expenditures and open source for them.
Even so, it is still a bit extravagant to spend the military expenditures on naval shipbuilding like dumplings, so the procurement of key military equipment is focused on the Air Force and Army.
Although the purchase price of air force military equipment is also high due to its advanced nature and complexity, the price is relatively low compared to navy ships.
An advanced fighter jet costs 40 to 50 million yuan, while a guided missile destroyer costs at least several hundred million yuan. The unit price gap between the two is very obvious.
The price of naval ships of China Military Industrial Company is generally much higher than that of similar ships of its international counterparts. The main reason is the advanced nature of the equipment, which allows its price to be highlighted.
It is also a guided missile destroyer. The combat power of Huaxia Military Industrial Company is comparable to several guided missile destroyers of the same tonnage in Yingjiang. It can even be said that there is no comparability unless a saturation attack is adopted.
If China Military Industrial Company's aviation equipment is only positioned to be about half a generation more advanced than the world's most advanced equipment, then the naval vessels are definitely at least one generation more advanced.
The reason for this consideration is mainly that the unit price of aviation military equipment is relatively low. Even if it is updated in the future, the cost is not particularly high, and it can also form a high-low mix, and old equipment can still play an important role.
However, no matter whether naval equipment is advanced or not, the unit price will not be too low. If you want to replace more advanced ships on a large scale in the future, the cost will be too high. It is better to make the equipment more advanced from the beginning.
In this way, although the initial price of the ship is much higher than that of its international counterparts, there is no need to worry about it becoming obsolete in a short period of time, and the service cycle will be relatively longer. Overall, the cost will actually be reduced.
my country's overall defense expenditure the year before last was about 300 billion yuan. Although defense expenditure was basically the same as that of Eagle Sauce, it accounted for less than 2.5% of GDP, which was at a relatively low level.
The large amount of military spending is mainly due to the huge scale of the economy. Bearing such a proportion of defense expenditures actually does not have much impact on our country's economic development.
Last year, my country's defense expenditure budget reached 500 billion yuan, officially surpassing Eagle Sauce in total and becoming the world's largest, but its proportion of the total economic scale only remained at about 2.5%.
The main procurement direction of the defense budget last year was air force equipment and army equipment, which almost completely replaced the old domestic air force equipment and army equipment.
Although it has not yet reached the mechanization rate of developed countries and the overall number of various types of military aircraft, it can be regarded as completing the basic modernization of our country's air force and army.
In addition to the army and air force, small-scale military procurement has also been carried out in the navy, and a number of guided missile destroyers, cruisers, amphibious landing ships, guided missile frigates, etc. have been obtained.
Although the quantity is not very large, the various types of equipment are considered complete, which has greatly improved our country's naval military strength. The most important thing is that after these military equipment were put into the line, the effect was very good and the results were very high. evaluation of.
Military expenditures increased significantly last year. While the overall procurement costs of air force and army military equipment remain unchanged, the excess procurement costs will be tilted towards the procurement of naval military equipment.
Since the naval military equipment of China Military Industrial Company has been initially verified, the navy is also boldly purchasing it, and it must equip all ships of at least two aircraft carrier formations and various naval military equipment.
The year before last, they were relatively restrained in their shipbuilding operations. After all, the military was not particularly confident. Only China Military Industrial Company itself was very confident in its own equipment, but this did not have much effect.
Therefore, the year before last was basically in the verification stage of naval military equipment such as ships. Only one or a limited number of various types of naval military equipment were built.
But even so, the total tonnage of the warships launched the year before last year reached more than 100,000 tons, which is still relatively high in terms of global warships.
It's just that our country itself is very lagging behind in the field of naval military equipment. We cannot look at the number of incoming ships from a conventional perspective. Instead, we must develop ahead of schedule in a short period of time to catch up in this regard.
In order not to delay the manufacturing of Huaxia Military Industrial Company, the military actually formulated a huge naval equipment manufacturing plan the year before last, giving Huaxia Military Industrial Company something to follow.
Although they did not have enough funds to pay at that time, it did not prevent them from placing orders. Huaxia Military Industrial Company itself had enough capital to advance, so the shipbuilding plan did not stop, but increased a lot.
This has led to more warships being launched for sea trials this year, with the total tonnage reaching an astonishing 300,000 tons, making it the country with the largest total tonnage launched that year.
It's just that our total tonnage is not high. If we exclude the outdated military equipment, the total tonnage is less than 500,000 tons, which is still far behind the two to three million total tonnage of Eagle Sauce.
Although our country does not seek global military hegemony and is mainly used for defense, such a low total tonnage is not able to shoulder this important task.
If we want our country's naval military level to be sufficient to afford our country's maritime defense capabilities, it must reach at least 2 million tons. If we want to seek global influence, we need to reach 3 million tons.
Because our country's current naval military equipment is very advanced, if the total tonnage reaches 3 million tons, it actually has the largest naval combat power in the world, but it is not easy to publicize it to the outside world.
Therefore, compared with this overall goal, the launch of 300,000-ton warships last year is not particularly remarkable. If we follow this speed, it will take about 10 years to achieve the overall goal.
If it were in the previous life, such a period of time would not have been very long. The naval construction of any country would not have been accumulated slowly over more than ten years. Very few countries could achieve their goals overnight and achieve their goals in just a few years.
However, the size of our country's economy is already twice that of Eagle Sauce. If it were not for the current international situation, our country would have begun to face pressure from all sides, which would be very unfavorable to our country's economic development.
As the saying goes, it is a sin for a child to walk down the street holding a gold brick. In order to prevent such a thing from happening, we must complete the modernization of naval military equipment in a shorter period of time and have sufficient capabilities to protect our country.
Therefore, while Huaxia Military Industrial Company is manufacturing conventional military ships, it has also launched the manufacturing of two aircraft carriers. Adding the two that were still under construction before, the total number has reached as many as four.
But this is not the focus. According to the plan, China Military Industrial Company will start building two more aircraft carriers this year, bringing the total number of aircraft carriers in our country to six. After that, the next step will be planned based on the international situation.
If the international situation is relatively stable, then with 6 super aircraft carriers, we have enough capabilities to protect our territorial waters and territorial security, and there is no need to continue building them. After all, we do not have too many overseas military bases and do not need to maintain global military forces. Sense of presence.
However, if the situation changes drastically and international military confrontation becomes tense, China Military Industrial Corporation is always ready to rapidly expand its shipbuilding capabilities to ensure our country's dominant position in the field of military equipment.
The aircraft carrier started construction the year before last year has a tonnage of 120,000 tons. It is already the largest aircraft carrier in the world, and its performance in all aspects far exceeds the aircraft carriers of other countries.
The tonnage of the aircraft carrier started last year reached a new high again, reaching 150,000 tons. It is slightly more technically advanced than the one built the year before. It uses the latest technology of China Military Industrial Company and is more powerful.
According to the plan of China Military Industrial Corporation, the aircraft carrier to be built this year will have a tonnage of 200,000 tons. It will become a true maritime giant and a mobile maritime island, laying a solid foundation for our country to deploy global military power in a timely manner.
However, this tonnage should have reached its peak. China Military Industrial Company has no plans to continue building aircraft carriers with large tonnage, because no matter how large it is, it will have more stringent requirements for the waterway, which will actually affect the freedom of navigation of the aircraft carrier.
In fact, in order to make the aircraft carrier larger and at the same time reduce the requirements for water routes, China Military Industrial Company has used many new technologies to ensure that these goals can be achieved.
And in order to increase the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier, the combat effectiveness of a 200,000-ton aircraft carrier must be at least twice that of the 100,000-ton class. Otherwise, it is better to build two 100,000-ton class aircraft carriers.
Therefore, building a 200,000-ton aircraft carrier is not only about increasing tonnage, but also requires calculation of cost-effectiveness and comprehensive combat capabilities. For this purpose, China Military Industrial Corporation has made many efforts.
In order to have enough power to drive such a huge aircraft carrier, Star Power Company, Xinhui Energy Company, China Military Industrial Company and CNNC have all participated in creating the most powerful nuclear-powered shipboard system in history.
Equipped with this nuclear power system, the cruising speed of the 200,000-ton aircraft carrier can reach 40 knots, which is much higher than the 30 knots of the Yingjiang aircraft carrier.
In addition, in order to increase the flexibility of the aircraft carrier and reduce the stress on the driving parts, the entire nuclear-powered shipboard system adopts a distributed system, which can make the aircraft carrier more flexible, the power system more dispersed, and the anti-attack capability more powerful.
Under normal circumstances, the deck area of a 200,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier cannot be twice that of a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier, so its combat power cannot be twice that of a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier.
In order to solve this problem, China Military Industrial Corporation and Cornerstone Materials Corporation have developed a number of emerging aircraft carrier materials, which can achieve a deck area that is 2.5 times that of a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier while doubling the tonnage.
It can be said that our country's aircraft carrier has actually broken away from the Yingjiang aircraft carrier model and is an aircraft carrier manufactured in accordance with our country's technical conditions and needs.
Therefore, there are four takeoff runways on the deck of the 200,000-ton aircraft carrier, and with the help of advanced take-off equipment such as electromagnetic catapults, the number of take-offs per unit time is at least three times that of the 100,000-ton aircraft carrier.
According to Zhao Yi's original words to China Military Industrial Company, when conducting research on military equipment, you must first have imagination and not be limited by existing things. The military equipment developed in this way will never be timeless. The product.
As for whether it can be realized, it depends on your own family background and the level of domestic enterprises. It is good to have something ready-made. If there is nothing ready-made, work hard to tackle the problem and strive to achieve the conditions for realization.
This is why the aircraft carrier built at the beginning had a tonnage of only 120,000 tons, because at that time, the technology of China Military Industrial Corporation and other domestic companies had reached the conditions to build an aircraft carrier of this tonnage.
There is no need for research and development, it can be built directly, and even an aircraft carrier of this tonnage is the largest and most advanced aircraft carrier in the world.
In fact, there were still many conditions that were not met for the subsequent 150,000-ton and 200,000-ton aircraft carriers at the time. Huaxia Military Industrial Corporation, together with domestic companies, had been working on research and development to gradually solve manufacturing problems.
Among them, Cornerstone Materials Company is really awesome. They are able to come up with aircraft carrier materials that meet the requirements in a short period of time, which is why the research and development cycle is so short.
The first thing to solve when building an aircraft carrier is the material problem, not only the outer shell material, but also the materials of various internal parts. Sometimes there are different requirements based on the tonnage of the aircraft carrier.
For example, nuclear power materials and internal power transmission materials, etc., if the tonnage is smaller, more conventional materials may be used to achieve the purpose. After all, the required power capacity does not need to be particularly strong.
However, as the tonnage has increased to 200,000 tons, the previous conventional materials have become stretched and cannot meet the total output power requirements. Special materials need to be developed to meet the requirements.
It can be said that to be able to design and manufacture such an advanced aircraft carrier, Cornerstone Materials Company should have made the first contribution. Only with the breakthroughs in various materials of Cornerstone Materials Company can the subsequent links be carried out.
It can be said that Cornerstone Materials Company accounts for at least half of the credit for the rapid development of my country's military equipment, because advanced military equipment inevitably requires the use of advanced materials.
Cornerstone Materials not only needs to be able to withstand the research and development of almost all advanced materials for military equipment, but also needs to develop materials that meet the needs of domestic economic development.
Therefore, Cornerstone Materials Company is the busiest R&D institution among his companies. The number of R&D personnel has reached 150,000. They have recruited almost all the students who graduate in materials science and other related disciplines every year.
It is also the research institution with the largest R&D personnel in my country, with hundreds of research institutes covering almost all materials fields.
Regardless of the scale of R&D personnel or the scale of the industry created, it is the world's largest materials R&D institution and has become a veritable super materials giant.
In fact, in these shipbuilding plans, Huaxia Military Industrial Company is very bold. It breaks the conventional development steps of naval military equipment and dares to make new attempts instead of following the pace of others.
Of course, such bold innovation will actually be accompanied by greater risks, but they have a complete simulation system and can consider many factors during the design stage to reduce risks to a minimum.
It's just that for such a bold plan, they were afraid that the military would not be able to accept it, or that the cost was too high and the military would not be willing to pay for it, so they had to reduce their profit margins.
It stands to reason that selling a 120,000-ton aircraft carrier for 10 billion yuan is definitely not a high price. However, in order to prevent the military from feeling that the price is too high, Huaxia Military Industrial Company only sold it for 8 billion yuan.
A 200,000-ton aircraft carrier would definitely cost more than 20 billion yuan according to the market price, but China Military Industrial Company only sold it for 18 billion yuan.
Zhao Yi was noncommittal about this behavior. Although this did reduce the profits of Huaxia Military Industrial Company, it was generally very beneficial to the development of our country's national defense and military.
Moreover, he himself does not have much interest in the Huaxia Military Industrial Company. He only hopes that they can develop safely and steadily on their own without the need for him to inject additional capital.
Therefore, Zhao Yi neither supported nor opposed their profit-sharing behavior, and completely followed their own strategy, as long as it did not affect the research and development of their next-generation military equipment.
Because these military equipment are very complex, Huaxia Military Industrial Company has only reduced its own part of the profits. For companies that provide parts and materials, profits are basically normal.
Most of the companies that provide these parts and materials are owned by him, and a small number are provided by state-owned military research and development units. Overall, they still make considerable profits.
The position of Huaxia Military Industrial Company is basically the research, design, integration and manufacturing of military equipment concepts. Many parts, materials, components, etc. are outsourced R&D.
If they completed the entire system by themselves, they would not be able to do it with their staff size. Up to now, the number of R&D personnel of Huaxia Military Industrial Company is only more than 50,000.
However, they need to carry out a lot of military equipment research and development tasks, involving all aspects of sea, land and air. With the size of their personnel, they can only conduct research in a limited number of major fields, and most of the rest are used for design.
However, in order to cooperate with the construction plan of China Military Industrial Company, many supporting companies and institutions have established their own supporting production companies or simply moved to Nanchang.
This has made Nanchang a veritable military industrial center in China. The output value of the military industry alone has reached an annual scale of 200 billion yuan. With the increase in the national defense budget in the future, there is still great development potential.
In addition to the research and development and manufacturing of military equipment, Huaxia Military Industrial Company also has another task, which is to transform military technology into civilian technology. This work has created a lot of income for them.
As mentioned earlier, the civilian use of smart glasses was not handled by Huaxia Military Industrial Company, but directly by Xuantian Technology Company.
However, individual soldier uniforms involve many technologies that are worthy of civilian research. For this purpose, China Military Industrial Company has launched many related civilian technologies, which have been widely used in the field of high-end clothing.
Some civilian technologies will be manufactured and sold by themselves, while others will directly license the technology and charge patent fees. For example, the civilian technology for individual soldier uniforms is licensed.
There are many more like this. For example, the holographic helmet used by fighter pilots has been developed into various game auxiliary equipment, and has even been licensed as a toy. The consumer market is not bad.
Therefore, many times, when China Military Industrial Company sells military equipment, it conducts a lot of profit-making activities, but through the transformation of military technology, it can bring them additional economic income.
Many companies even established related companies in Nanchang in order to inherit the civilian technology of Huaxia Military Industrial Company, thus gathering a large number of civilian industrial companies.
Zhao Yi also acquiesced to their diversified operations, because relying solely on military equipment actually restricted the development of Huaxia Military Industrial Company.
Because the national defense budget is limited every year, it needs to pay for the salaries of officers and soldiers, daily life and training expenses, maintenance of military equipment, etc., and the rest will be used to purchase new equipment.
Only by allowing them to let go and not be limited to the field of military equipment can they have more possibilities. Just like the civilian technology department they have established now, it is a good attempt.
In the past year, their civilian technology department has generated operating income of 20 billion yuan. Although its scale is not comparable to other companies under its umbrella, it is also performing very well outside.
In addition, it is actively exploring overseas markets, selling its foreign trade military equipment to as many countries as possible, and winning more military equipment orders.
It's just that as a new military industry giant, although it performs well in all aspects, military procurement not only depends on the advanced level of military equipment, but also considers political factors.
Therefore, last year, their foreign trade revenue was only 15 billion yuan. Although compared with other military industry giants, they could not occupy the top position, but they were still on the list, which was a good performance.
In addition to political factors, what affects the sales of military equipment is actual combat performance. The countries where China Military Industrial Company sells military equipment are generally countries with relatively stable politics.
There is currently no license open to the warring parties to sell military equipment, which means that in the short term, they cannot put their military equipment into actual combat, and they cannot have a more concrete experience.
This is why YLK is our bridgehead. If nothing happens in the future, there won’t be much loss. After all, we can still earn a lot of economic benefits.
If there are really big changes here in the future, then the military equipment of China Military Industrial Company will have the opportunity to compete with Yingjiang's advanced military equipment.
This will allow one's own military equipment to participate in war practice, obtain more actual combat data, and provide data support for subsequent improvements, which will be of great benefit to our country's future military equipment development.
At the same time, it can make our military equipment the focus. As for whether it will be the one being abused, Huaxia Military Industrial Company is still very confident and believes that its side is definitely more brilliant than the enemy. (End of chapter)