aside from military shipbuilding, 6 shipyard now capable of building LNGs (2/3 of the world's total)
Curious to know, which Chinese shipyards can build LNG carriers, apart from Hudong-Zhonghua? Jiangnan? Dalian?
At present, besides China, only South Korea is capable of building LNG carriers in three of their shipyards, i.e. Hyundai Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Samsung Heavy Industries.
In semiconductor tool bids, 50%+ of bids now go to domestic tool makers and domestic equipment cannot fill the demand. 28nm lithography machine in test usage and 40nm de-americanized line is in production.
The Huawei patent application for EUV is the most delightful thing I have ever seen (for a laymen who knowns very little about semiconductors). Perhaps the best ever year-ending gift from China and for China.
The West would pay dearly for being spineless lapdogs to the whimps of Washington DC.
In 2023, looking for C919 coming into service, CV-18 start sea trials, 2nd batch of 055s, J-35/J-20B development, H20/076 appearing?
maybe fully domestic production line for smartphone CPUs.
The continuous C919 roll-out is well underway, although we can only hope that CJ-1000A would be ready sooner in case the US decides to wave the export ban of LEAP-1C again just like last time.
Judging by the CCTV look of Fujian's interior, CV-18 could be ready for sea trials as soon as the middle of this year.
I damn well hope that H-20 would be ready for public view this year, but preferably after she has successfully conducted flight testing. Xi'an already "lost" to Northrop Grumman this time, so please don't "lose" again to Tupolev.
For the 076, did he/she meant that the first unit(s) of the 076s have already began construction simultaneously as the 2nd batch of 5x 075s?