Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 276 Keel Laying Ceremony
Then everyone put the gifts they brought on the dining table, and Zhong Cheng also put the white tiger mecha statue among the gifts.

Ye Wenxin picked up Zhong Yi from among a group of children and put him on the dining table, and everyone gathered around laughing and watching.

Xiao Zhong Yi, who was wearing a small vest and open pants, was fat and thick, and he was not afraid of strangers lying on the table by himself.

He looked around with his big round eyes, and was attracted by the dazzling array of gifts in the middle of the table.

There are more than a dozen kinds of things that children like in this pile of gifts, such as dolls, teddy bears, building block toys, airplane model toys, and Transformers toys.

Zhong Yi crawled over with hands and feet, poking this and touching that curiously.

But in the end, he stopped in front of the statue of the white tiger mecha, opened his mouth wide, and looked up and down the domineering statue curiously.

The mecha statue carved by Zhong Cheng stands upright, looking up to the front, holding two knives, one knife is raised above the head to point directly at the sky, and the other knife is held by the side and pointed at the ground obliquely.

Zhong saw that he was happy and wanted to rush to hug the statue of the white tiger mecha, and Ye Wenxin was so frightened that he immediately picked him up.

Ye Wenxin looked at Zhong Cheng, and blamed him: "Look at the gift you got, the two knives are so sharp, what should I do if I stab my brother?"

At this time, Zhong Yi, who was in Ye Wenxin's arms, started to make a fuss, kicking his limbs wildly.

Zhong Cheng said with a smile: "This is not easy, Huzi, come together, wrap the knife with gauze!"

The two wrapped the statue's blade in a few strokes, and Ye Wenxin put Zhong Yi back on the table helplessly.

After a few beats, he crawled over again, hugging the statue of the white tiger mech with both hands, giggling!

The adults all laughed.

"This kid must be an excellent mech warrior when he grows up!"

"Mecha Warrior? That's a pity that Zhong Cheng and his wife are in their genes. I think they are masters of mecha design!"

"It's not bad to be a general, to be the commander of our future deep space fleet!"

Zhong Cheng also smiled gratifiedly and said: "It's good to be a soldier, I hope he can guard Huaxia with two swords in his hand!"

Yang Shuzhen rolled her eyes, and just about to speak, she swallowed the words back, thinking that she was just wishing her child a birthday celebration, why should she be more serious than herself!
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A few days later, Zhong Cheng held a summary meeting of the Nuwa Project, officially announcing the successful conclusion of the Nuwa Project.

So far, the three major projects he set three years ago: electric flying cars, civil aircraft, and intelligent robots have all been completed.

At present, there are only two major projects underway by Red Star Company, the Xihai Project and the Nantianmen Project.

Although the Xihai project was planned by Zhong Cheng, under Shao Weimin's changes, it has already deviated from the original goal: mining and refining lithium ore in the Qinghai Salt Lake area to solve the problem of the tight supply of lithium resources in Red Star Company.

The Xihai project was expanded to comprehensively develop the mineral resources in Northwest China, improve the local harsh natural environment, and create a new heavy industry base in China.

If this goal can be achieved, it will completely change China's economic ecosystem and provide a strong impetus for China's future development.

Shao Weimin is gone, but Zhong Cheng doesn't want to give up the grand goal he set.

Just slowing down the pace of development will not let the Xihai project drag down Red Star Company.

Most of the Xihai projects are projects with large investment and slow results.

If it is too aggressive and cannot form a good capital cycle, it will be a bottomless pit that can swallow all the profits of Red Star Company.

Zhong Cheng had handed over the Xihai project to Lin Hansheng, and now he asked Zheng Yilun to focus on the Xihai project to provide support for Lin Hansheng.

As for the Nantianmen project, he was personally in charge of it, and the main research and development forces of Institute 804 were basically concentrated and joined the construction project of the Qinglong aircraft carrier.

9 month 8 day.

Zhong Cheng, Li Changfeng, Zhou Hu and others flew to the Changxing Island shipbuilding base to participate in the keel laying ceremony of the first Qinglong aircraft carrier.

The keel laying ceremony was originally used to commemorate the completion of the laying of the beam in the center of the ship (that is, the backbone of the ship), and to sound the horn for the official start of ship construction.

Today's ships are made up of a series of components, so this symbolic ceremony is now used to celebrate the laying down of the ship's first module in the dock.

Although the Qinglong aircraft carrier is no longer a ship, this traditional ceremony is still used.

The first Qinglong aircraft carrier was also the first domestically-made aircraft carrier. It was placed with high hopes by the Chinese people and was named "Xuanyuan" by Zhong Chengguan.

Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor is the leader of the tribal alliance in ancient China, and the head of the five emperors among the three emperors and five emperors in ancient China.

The other four Qinglong aircraft carriers will be named after the other four emperors, Ganhuang (Zhuanxu), Gaoxin (Diku), Taotang (Yaodi) and Chonghua (Shundi).

Such a name takes the meaning of "five emperors survey the sky and bless China together"!
At 10:18, the keel laying ceremony of the Xuanyuan aircraft carrier was held at the No. [-] dock of the Hongxing Shipbuilding Company-Changxing Shipbuilding Base.

Considering that the engineering site involves a lot of cutting-edge confidential technology, the ceremony was not carried out in public.

In addition to the high-level personnel of Red Star Company and the project implementation personnel, only a dozen high-level military personnel were invited to come, mainly from the navy.

After the Nantianmen project was approved, after consultations between high-level officials and the military, it was finally decided to hand over the Qinglong aircraft carrier to the navy.

Since the first phase of the Red Star Nano Building Materials Company has been put into production, a large number of soil building materials have been used.

The original open-air No. 30 dock has been covered with a huge roof, covering an area of ​​more than 150 square meters and a height of [-] meters. It can be said to be the largest factory building in the world today.

At this time, under the guidance of Liu Yang and Zhao Wei, more than 50 people watching the ceremony, including Zhong Cheng, came to the center of the No. [-] dock.

A group of people are like a bunch of ants in this huge factory building. Since the assembly and construction of the aircraft carrier has not yet started, the factory building looks extraordinarily empty.

It's just that hundreds of platforms have been built on the ground. According to Zhao Wei, this is the future assembly support of the aircraft carrier.

Following Liu Yang's order, hundreds of Wukong industrial robots climbed from the scaffold to the platform ten meters above the ground in the center.

Dozens of Jingwei industrial drones flew over the platform with huge metal pillars measuring one meter square and ten meters long.

Zhao Wei said that this is the aircraft carrier keel made of Taiyi Alloy 201, which was directly cast into an alloy when the 钅kong-310 metal transported from Beishan was smelted into an alloy by precision casting technology in the metallurgical factory of the shipbuilding base.

Although the hardness of Taiyi alloy 201 is not as good as 101, it is still impossible for conventional metal cutting.

These Taiyi alloy 201 pillars will be wedged together through seamless riveting technology to form a 360-meter-long hull pillar, which can be called a keel tentatively.

There will be three such keels in the Qinglong aircraft carrier, distributed 60 meters apart, and three huge Suihuang nuclear fusion generators will be installed on each of them, forming the mass center of the entire Qinglong aircraft carrier.

There will be dozens of sub-keels distributed on the 800-meter wing width, which will be one size smaller.

Then there are the horizontal dragon tendons and ribs, which together constitute the skeleton of the Qinglong aircraft carrier.

Coupled with the outer shell deck of the aircraft carrier, the hull of the aircraft carrier is formed.

These materials are all made of Taiyi Alloy 201, accounting for 30% of the Qinglong aircraft carrier's cost and 40% of its weight.

If it weren't for the sharp drop in the cost of the ZK-310, when Zhong Cheng first started planning, the hull materials would have accounted for more than 90% of the overall cost.

When Zhao Wei introduced it, the Wukong industrial robot had perfectly cooperated with the Jingwei industrial drone to assemble the first keel.

This keel is the center line of the entire Qinglong aircraft carrier. Only after the subsequent work of fusion, positioning, calibration, alignment, and stress relief is completed, the laying of the keel of the Xuanyuan can be officially completed.

But it will take more than ten days, and today's ceremony will be completed here.

(End of this chapter)