China's shipbuilding industry is advancing by leaps and bounds: smart transformation plays the main theme of development

With the efforts of many parties, China’s shipbuilding industry has advanced by leaps and bounds

Throughout the development process of the shipbuilding industry, people are lamenting: From In the past, "there was no defense against the sea" to now one of the world's leading maritime forces. China's shipbuilding industry has embarked on a characteristic development path in line with China's national conditions, which also reflects the difficult and tortuous development history of China's equipment manufacturing industry for decades. The achievement of all these results is inseparable from the participation of all relevant departments and the efforts of each ship manufacturer.

As early as 2012, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Shipbuilding Industry". The plan proposes that by 2015, my country's shipbuilding industry industrial system will be more complete, the industrial structure will be more reasonable, innovation capabilities and comprehensive industrial quality will be significantly improved, the shipbuilding market share will be firmly among the top in the world, and China will become a world shipbuilding power. Over the years, practitioners in my country's shipbuilding industry have based themselves on reality and invested a lot of energy in shipbuilding technology and material research and development, and their shipbuilding capabilities have been continuously improved.

Some analysts pointed out that from the perspective of civilian ships, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, our country's shipbuilding industry was at the end, and generally only simple ironclad ships were built. 70 years later, China’s merchant fleet has firmly ranked first in the world. In terms of civilian shipbuilding capabilities, after 2005, the center of commercial shipbuilding shifted from Europe to Asia. In Asia, China surpassed South Korea and Japan. This also reflects China's increasingly important role in the shipbuilding industry.

Overcoming difficulties, smart marine equipment manufacturing has achieved fruitful results

The completion of any great undertaking requires down-to-earth experience The struggle and efforts are the same as the development and growth of the shipbuilding industry. As various industries accelerate their intelligent and modern transformation, the original model of ship equipment manufacturing has been affected to a certain extent. Some traditional ship manufacturers have also accelerated the use of various cutting-edge technologies and equipment to promote the upgrading of ship manufacturing processes and civilian use. Improve the quality of different types of ships such as ships and commercial ships.

In January 2019, according to information released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the three major indicators of my country's shipbuilding in 2018 wereThe market share in terms of weight tonnage all exceeds 40%, continuing to rank the world; in terms of corrected gross tonnage, shipbuilding completions, orders on hand, new orders received, and orders on hand accounted for 36.3%, 35.8%, and 35.4% of the market share respectively. Among them, new orders ranked second, and completed orders and orders on hand ranked second. Once this data was released, it aroused heated discussions among industry insiders. Some analysts are also full of confidence in the development prospects of China's shipbuilding industry.

In addition to traditional shipbuilding, China has also achieved fruitful results in smart ocean equipment such as deep sea development equipment and marine scientific research equipment. The national "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" scientific and technological innovation planning project, the launch of my country's first independently designed and built manned submersible support mothership - Shenhai No. 1, and the delivery of the world's cutting-edge drilling platform A5000, etc., all indicate that China has already possessed the expertise in deep-sea equipment manufacturing. Relevant experience has been gained, and the ability to manufacture smart marine equipment has been further strengthened.

Based on reality, concentrate on building a new highland for shipbuilding

The platform starts from tired soil; the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Compared with the past, my country's shipbuilding industry has indeed made many new advances in materials, technology, etc. However, in the process of becoming bigger and stronger, there are still problems such as weak independent research and development of core technologies and a lack of professional ship designers. . Facing and actively solving relevant problems will help clear obstacles for the development of the shipbuilding industry and expand a broader development space.

Some people in the industry believe that next, ship manufacturers and technology R&D personnel need to base their efforts on the actual development of the domestic shipbuilding industry and continue to increase their investment in basic components, basic materials, core software, etc. Investment in this aspect will further consolidate the foundation for the digital and networked development of the shipbuilding industry. At the same time, practitioners in the shipping industry also need to pay attention to the role of cutting-edge technologies and equipment such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and robots, and promote the transformation of various cutting-edge technologies into practical application results.

In the final analysis, the shipbuilding industry is a comprehensive industry that provides technical equipment for the shipping industry, ocean development and national defense construction. It has great influence on the development of steel, petrochemical, light industry, equipment manufacturing, electronic information and other industries. Strong driving effect. In the future, I believe that with the joint promotion of industry insiders, China's ability to manufacture marine equipment will achieve a new leap.