The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

Yangcheng Shipyard.

Big dining hall.

This is where everyone eats lunch. Like other workers, there is no special banquet.

Liu Tao and others have actually eaten all kinds of delicacies. They no longer care about what kind of delicacies they eat, they are pursuing greater ambitions.

They have integrated their own personal values ​​with the pursuit of national and national values.

The launch of the Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier put them in a very good mood. Even if it was just a meager meal, they still enjoyed it.

Everyone chatted happily and ate while chatting.

In particular, the representatives from Xiangjiang were greatly shocked.

They originally thought that the Type 052 destroyer was big enough.

But after seeing the Type 003 aircraft carrier with my own eyes, I realized that the Type 052 destroyer is just a junior in front of the Type 003 aircraft carrier!

Even the Type 001 aircraft carrier, which once docked in Xiangjiang for visitors to Xiangjiang citizens, was just a junior in front of the Type 003 aircraft carrier.

They truly felt the motherland's strong military power and rapid technological development.

If they were shocked by the morning military parade, they felt the terrifying power of the heavy-duty combined brigade of the "Hu Ben Brigade" on the ground.

So now personally participating in the naming ceremony of the Type 003 aircraft carrier will make them feel the shock and trembling in their souls.

The aircraft carrier seen on TV has a completely different impact than the aircraft carrier seen in reality!

They truly feel what it means to be a big country and what it means to be a strong country!

How terrifying is the will of the country!

The first ship of the Type 003 aircraft carrier is named "Xiangjiang Ship", which naturally has a very special meaning.

Especially now that it coincides with the tenth anniversary of Xiangjiang's return, this meaning is even more different.

Thousands of officers and soldiers, as well as thousands of representatives from various participating units, represent a force that is self-evident and extremely powerful.

After lunch, everyone took the helicopter back to Xiangjiang.

Taking a helicopter from Yangcheng Shipyard to Xiangjiang is very close, less than 100 kilometers, and it takes less than half an hour to reach Hong Kong Island.

Liu Tao and others visited the Xiangjiang History Museum, which is the largest museum in Xiangjiang and was built in 1987.

The Xiangjiang History Museum stores historical cultural relics, precious images and documents, and records the past of Xiangjiang. This is irrefutable proof that Xiangjiang has belonged to China since ancient times.

Xiangjiang culture itself belongs to Chinese culture!

Of course, the most precious ones are the gifts given to Xiangjiang by various provinces and cities when Xiangjiang returned. These gifts with local characteristics and commemorative significance serve as historical witnesses and part of cultural exchanges.

The central government presented the large sculpture "Eternally Blooming Bauhinia", which is cast in bronze with gold foil on the surface and supported by a Sichuan red granite base, symbolizing the eternal prosperity of Hong Kong.

Shandong Province presented a mahogany screen inlaid with Thai gemstones, gold and silver, "The Towering Mount Tai Welcomes Home from Hong Kong". The main picture is Mount Tai, which contains the soul of Chinese civilization and the spirit of self-improvement.

Qiongdao presented a large-scale Northern Sculpture "Together at the End of the World", with six wish-fulfilling waves forming a wave, which means wishing the six million compatriots in Hong Kong all the best; the double shells held up by the waves mean community and unity, symbolizing perfection and beauty.

Jilin Province presented the Songhua Inkstone "Pineflower and Bauhinia Roots of Love". The giant stone carved Songhua inkstone, the wood-carved Bauhinia decorative ribbon and the roots of a century-old tree in Changbai Mountain are integrated into one, which means that the people of Jilin Province are celebrating the centenary return of Xiangjiang. The people of the two places are rooted in the motherland and share the same Step forward to a better future.

Guangdong Province presented the jade carving "Smooth Sailing", which was carved from jade from Xinyi City, Guangdong Province, to congratulate Xiangjiang on his smooth return to his mother's arms and move forward smoothly.

Shanxi Province presented the peach-core wood carving "Yingxian Wooden Pagoda". The wooden pagoda model is made of high-quality walnut wood and scaled down to a ratio of 1:20 to faithfully reproduce the majesty and style of the wooden pagoda.

All provinces and cities presented gifts, and Panshan Group also presented gifts at that time.

Panshan Group spent several years making wood carvings from golden nanmu. On one side of the wood carving is a map of Xiangjiang, and on the other side are engraved logos. They are all companies supported by Panshan Group, helping Xiangjiang get out of the cold winter at that time and promoting the development of Xiangjiang.

Liu Tao stood in front of the wood carving for a while. Some of the companies that supported Xiangjiang back then were no longer in Xiangjiang, but a large part still remained in Xiangjiang, supporting the backbone industries of Xiangjiang.

These gifts are all carefully prepared by various provinces and cities and have local characteristics. There is no doubt that they welcome Xiangjiang back to the embrace of the motherland.

Every gift is very precious!

And these gifts are also placed in the most important position in the Xiangjiang History Museum.

The entire Xiangjiang History Museum has adopted the strictest security measures to ensure the safety of these gifts and cultural relics.

Of course, in this Xiangjiang History Museum, there are also four zodiac bronze heads.

During the prosperous period of Qianlong, the Qing Dynasty's national power was strong and its craftsmanship was at its peak. This was particularly reflected in the bronze statues of the twelve zodiac animal heads in the Yuanmingyuan.

The twelve zodiac beasts were originally the image of the fountain on the fountain in the fan-shaped pool in front of the Haiyan Hall in the Old Summer Palace in Beijing. They were destroyed by the British and French forces in 1860, and the bronze heads of the twelve zodiac animals were lost overseas.

After years of hard work, these bronze heads of the zodiac returned to the motherland.

In addition to the four museums at the Xiangjiang Historical Museum, there are also four at the Macau Museum of History and four at the Formosa Historical Museum.

Visiting these historical museums, you can feel that the cultures of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Hong Kong are of the same origin and blood. We are all descendants of Yan and Huang, and we are all Chinese people and Chinese civilization!

After visiting the Xiangjiang History Museum, everyone visited Xiangjiang University, Xiangjiang University of Science and Technology, and Xiangjiang Chinese University!

Xiangjiang is also one of the centers of Chinese education, with a university ranked among the top in the country.

Since the reform and opening up, it has always been a cradle for cultivating talents. In more than 20 years, it has cultivated hundreds of thousands of talents for China. These talents play an important role in the road of China's revival.

Unlike most universities in the mainland that rely on central fiscal funding, provincial fiscal funding, and prefectural fiscal funding, Xiangjiang's university school-running models are diverse, including Xiangjiang fiscal funding, Xiangjiang fiscal funding + donations from all walks of life, private universities, etc., which can be said to be an experimental site for education.

Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan were also the first to implement free preschool education and twelve years of free education.

Of course, Xiangjiang's education expenditure is also the largest overall expenditure item of the Xiangjiang Special Administrative Region, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the total government expenditure for many years.

As you can imagine, education is an expensive thing.

At Xiangjiang University, there are naturally lectures and exchanges.

Liu Tao even gave a speech in Xiangjiang again after many years and communicated with students here.

As a person who has been deeply involved in the construction and development of Xiangjiang for many years, Liu Tao is definitely one of the people who knows Xiangjiang best.

In fact, at a certain level, many people privately call Liu Tao the "Emperor of Xiangjiang". (End of this chapter)