Chinese Navy's dual aircraft carrier formation
Since the launch of the Chinese Navy's third aircraft carrier and the first catapult aircraft carrier "Fujian", domestic and foreign media have paid more and more attention to the development achievements and growth rate of the Chinese Navy. Military fans There was even more applause. Even Taiwanese military expert Yuan Juzheng commented on the significance of the launch of the Fujian aircraft carrier on a TV program: "This just shows that China has successfully transformed from a traditional "land power country" to a "sea and land country", and the new The construction speed of amphibious ships and destroyers is still accelerating, and the United States and Japan are obviously feeling heavy pressure. "Xiao Sheng also wanted to add that in the near future, the Chinese navy with large aircraft carriers as its core will definitely be able to do so. Check and balance the U.S. Navy and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force in the Pacific waters, thereby firmly safeguarding our country's territorial sovereignty and national dignity.
Scene of the Fujian ship being launched
As Yuan Juzheng said, New China has indeed been a "land power country" since its founding. Due to economic strength and technological limitations, our country could only maintain a "huge army" in the last century. To offset the shortage of naval and air force. Because of this, although we were able to defeat the aggressive "United Nations Forces" led by the United States on the Korean battlefield, we were always unable to cross the strait between the mainland and the island of Taiwan. With the development of the times and entering the 21st century, the focus of world competition has shifted from land to ocean. If a country wants to prosper and stand in the "forest of the world", it must build a strong navy and safeguard its own legitimacy. maritime interests.
Yinhe No.
This is especially true for China. After all, from the 1990s to the first ten years of this century, our country suffered too much coercion and insult at sea: the "Yinhe No. 1 incident" in 1993, the "Yinhe No. 1 Incident" in 1994, The "Sino-US Yellow Sea Standoff" in 2006, the "Taiwan Strait Crisis" in 1996, the US Navy surveillance ship "Victory" illegally entered my country's exclusive economic zone in the Yellow Sea and drove away two Chinese fishing boats in 2009, etc., all told China: it must establish A powerful people's navy. That is to say, since then, countless navy personnel, scientific researchers, and military shipbuilding personnel have begun arduous exploration and entrepreneurship. However, at the beginning, our country still pursued the strategy of "small steps and fast running". It built a maximum of two warships of a type. For example, there were only 2 052 destroyers, only 2 051C destroyers, only 2 052B destroyers, and only 2 054 frigates. There is only one miserable 051B destroyer. The reason for this approach is that at that time, my country's large-scale warship construction and equipment integration technology was still relatively backward, and it was temporarily in the stage of technology accumulation. It was afraid that if too many warships were built rashly, it would be unbearable if something went wrong.
The grand occasion of the Chinese Navy
Until the 054A frigate began (the first ship Xuzhou was commissioned in January 2008), the Chinese Navy finally began the journey of batch construction of warships, and then later the 052C destroyer, 052D destroyer, and 0.55 million ton destroyer Even amphibious assault ships and aircraft carriers can be described by the term "dumplings". Today, after 20 years of hard catching up, the Chinese Navy is the second largest naval force in the world, second only to the U.S. Navy, with 3 aircraft carriers (including the Fujian), 2 075 amphibious assault ships (the 3rd ship is in Sea trials), 7 0.55 million ton destroyers (No. 8 ship has recently entered service), 8 071 dock landing ships , 25 052D destroyers, 6 052C destroyers, 30 054A frigates and more than 50 056A anti-submarine frigates and other ocean-going ships Surface combat ships have mature high-sea combat capabilities. In addition, the Chinese Navy also has a huge force of nuclear submarines and conventional submarines, which have both quantitative and qualitative advantages.
The Chinese Navy’s destroyers and frigates
The Chinese Navy’s strategic missile nuclear submarines
The above mentioned are all about the “competition for sea power” in the military field. In fact, in addition to military actions, China has also already fought for “sea power” in the economic field. "paving. In September and October 2013, the cooperation initiatives proposed by China to build the "New Silk Road Economic Belt" and the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" respectively were warmly welcomed by the countries along the route.Among them, the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" has attracted the most attention. It covers the western Pacific, Indian Ocean and the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, and spans East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and East Africa. Such an important maritime route occupies It has accounted for a considerable share of the world's economic and trade volume, and also laid a solid economic foundation and public opinion influence for China to have a say in the maritime world.
052D "Chinese Aegis" destroyer
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