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China aims to become world's
biggest shipbuilder
BEIJING
- China plans to build more ships to handle
growing demand from the international market and
turn itself into the world's largest shipbuilding
nation, said He Rongguang, president of Bohai
Shipbuilding Heavy Industrial Co Ltd based in
northeast China's Liaoning province.
China
presently builds about 15% of the world's total
tonnage of ships and holds 17% of all the global
orders, said He, a deputy to the 10th National
People's Congress, in an interview with the
official Xinhua news agency on Saturday.
China, which has been the world's
third-largest shipbuilding nation for years, is
"very likely" to rank the first in the near future
if it maintains the growing momentum, he added.
He went on to say that "a booming
shipbuilding industry will boost China's overall
manufacturing industry, particularly the
production of iron and steel, electronic and
mechanical products, and will create more jobs."
On the other hand, a booming shipbuilding
industry will help rejuvenate the country's
northeastern rust-belt, as most shipbuilders are
based in the traditional heavy industrial base, he
added.
China's shipbuilding industry faces
a golden opportunity for expansion since a growing
number of international investors have eyed China,
a developing nation, as an ideal manufacturing
base, he said. "Meanwhile, sustained growth of the
national economy has created a sound environment
for the industry to prosper."
His view was
echoed by Chen Xiaojin, general manager of China
State Shipbuilding Corp, who said that the
recovery of the global economy has brought a busy
international shipping business and rising demands
for ships. "This in turn stimulated the
development of world shipbuilding industry," said
Chen, a member of the National Committee of the
Chinese People's Political Consultative
Conference.
Nevertheless, Chen said, China
has to rely on state-of-the-art technologies and
innovation to further enhance its shipbuilding
capacity.
As a leading shipbuilding
company in China, CSSC built 3.57 million tons of
new ships in 2004, up 64.5% over the previous
year. Of the total tonnage of ships constructed,
73.8% have been exported.
According to
Chen, his company expects to build 4.36 million
tons of ships and receive 4 million tons of new
orders in 2005.
(Asia
Pulse/XIC) |
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