Chinese shipbuilding industry

3,000 tons technology demonstrator for Guoxin-1 100,000 tons offshore fish farm ship has been launched.


Guoxin-1 is scheduled for a 2022 launch. Guoxin plans to build a fleet of 50 offshore fish farm vessels.


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Fish in general are far more efficient at turning feed into protein. China should build thousands of these vessels.

Tam said:

Pretty dumb article if you ask me.

This year, Chinese military has over 2 million applications alone. The huge labor force is still there by 2030 because that is still how big China's reservoir of labor and this won't exhaust until past 2050. By then the GDP per capita would have to match those with the highest in the world.

China's warship building takes a teeny weeny proportion of China's total shipbuilding capacity. Last year, total gross tonnage of China's shipbuilding amounted to 11.8 million. One of every three ships in the world is made in China.

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China's military shipbuilding is so insulated from China's demographics because its shipbuilding industry is so huge you can always allocate teeny weeny portions of the shipbuilding capacity into warship building.

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Chinese shipbuilding jobs just for CSG alone, without counting all other shipbuilding companies. This is more than double the number of shipbuilding jobs in the US for a single corporation.

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300,000 employed in CSG (combined CSSC + CSIC) is a drop in a huge tank even by 2030, where China is likely to maintain its 1.4 billion population.

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For comparison, how many shipbuilding jobs does South Korea have? It seem like they are threatening China for the top spot in terms of tonnages of ships built per year.

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For comparison, how many shipbuilding jobs does South Korea have? It seem like they are threatening China for the top spot in terms of tonnages of ships built per year.

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They were the ones already on top before China took the top some years ago. S. Korea has about 143,000 in 2019, but that used to be as high as 233,000 in 2015. I think China's number of employed in the shipbuilding industry and the number of yards were also much higher years ago, then ship glut happened and the global shipping industry went Darwinian and still in this stage. S. Korea's ship building industry, much like Japan's, has very high productivity that necessitates because of high labor cost while China's ship building is much less productive and efficient, at least they used to to be, and is seen as an industry to soak up excess labor in the market and provide as many jobs as possible. But this has gradually changed over the years as the complexity of Chinese built ships rose and compete for the high end, and as Chinese labor costs began to get more and more expensive.

For many years, S. Korea and Japan has been tossing the position of world's ship building leader but in this decade, Japan has since lost its mojo and momentum, ensuring S. Korea a decisive lead, especially in the area of LNG carriers.

S. Korea deserved its position through hard work, they have earned their reputation past tense, while China is still trying to earn this reputation, which it is also succeeding.

CMA CGN looking to expand its LNG powered fleet. Maybe this means more orders for Jiangnan and Hudong Zhonghua?

Do you know the Jiangnan built CMA CGN Jacques Saade, is named for the shipping line's founder?



Some historical information tidbit people don't know.

Jiangnan Shipyard, long ago, built a ship for the US Navy.

The USS Guam was a Yangtze River patrol gunboat.



Back then, the shipyard is known as Kiangnan Dock and Engineering works.


The boat was later captured by the Japanese, survived attacks by the Americans and eventually recaptured by the Americans. Later the Americans gave the boat to the Republic of China, which is then later captured by the Red Army for the People's Republic.

China's container handling ports are a marvel on their own.


This comes as container handling volumes are up, a good indication of economic recovery.

Tragedy as pirates hit the Zhenhua 7 heavy lift vessel with 14 crewmen kidnapped. The ship has been escorted to safety by an Italian naval vessel.



Stock shot of the ship in one of her duties.

thats Scotland how beautiful

I remember when this ships was here !

Constructing China's first all-composite high-speed passenger ship. The images below show the builders injecting resin into carbon fiber molds. The ship's name is Haizhuwan (海珠湾).
- Length: 42.8m
- Beam: 10.8m
- Capacity: 260 passengers
- Waterjet propulsion
- Speed: over 37 knots.

Testing the new submersible Yulong (禹龙) at the world's tallest dam. Test depth was 200.7 meters.