Building an Ocean Power with Chinese Characteristics: Exploring the Road to an Ocean Power with Chinese Characteristics

Witnessing a historic moment, the third aircraft carrier was recently named "Fujian". This is the first aircraft carrier designed and built entirely on its own. This is a very important significance for the Navy.

As Marshal Peng Dehuai once said, "Gone are the days when the Western invaders could overrun a country by simply setting up a few cannons on one of the Eastern shores for a couple of years."

The shameful history of modern history began with the sea, and the door of the country was opened from the direction of the sea by the Western powers. 1840 to 1949, more than 100 years, has suffered hundreds of invasions from the sea, and was forced to sign more than 700 unequal treaties. Modern history can be described as a history of blood and tears on the sea, the history of humiliation at sea.

Starting from the Ming Dynasty, China gradually moved away from the ocean (blue) civilization and transformed into a continental (yellow) civilization. This is a transformation in the opposite direction of the trend of globalization. As the world's maritime power today, it is a historic task in front of the nation for China to fully learn the lessons of history, enhance the consciousness of a maritime power, break through the long-standing maritime predicament, and become a veritable maritime power.

China is a land and sea country, in the 9.6 million square kilometers of land area, there are more than 3 million square kilometers of the vast ocean. How to build a large maritime country into a maritime power is a realistic problem.

What is an ocean power? What is the theoretical foundation of the ocean power? What is China's view of the ocean and the concept of building a strong oceanic country? What are the practical experiences of going to the ocean and building a strong marine country, and what problems need to be avoided? How to transcend the clash of civilizations and reconstruct a new pattern of integrated development of yellow and blue civilizations in the construction of an ocean power?

The book that Mo Yang shares today is Building an Ocean Power with Chinese Characteristics. This book explores the road to building a strong maritime nation from a number of perspectives, including theory, practice, opportunities and construction, and analyzes in detail how to build a strong maritime nation with Chinese characteristics in the context of the Belt and Road, and the integration and development of the farming and maritime civilizations. Like a grand blueprint, it takes readers to see clearly and comprehensively the responsibility and mission of a great nation from political, economic, cultural, military and ecological perspectives.

The editor-in-chief of this book is Liu Dexi, a doctoral supervisor and deputy director of the Center for China Strategic Studies at Peking University. He is the author of Two Great Men and Two Great Powers, Diplomatic Strategies, Transformation of Chinese Civilization Beyond, and other academic monographs.

Mo Yang selected two points from the book to share reading.

Multiple means to safeguard maritime security and maritime rights and interests. The construction of the navy and related military center is particularly important. The ocean is an important barrier to national security. Mr. Sun Yat-sen once exclaimed, "sea power, manipulated in me will survive, manipulated in people will die." After the founding of New China, the situation of China's sea without defense has been gradually improved.

Into the 21st century, the ocean has become an important strategic space for the various powers to intensify the struggle, China's maritime security is facing an increasingly complex and grim situation, the global ocean governance challenges are increasingly severe. The world's major countries have accelerated the exploration and exploitation of marine space, and stepped up their efforts to advance into the deep sea, distant sea and polar regions.

With the deepening of China's opening up to the outside world and the in-depth promotion of the construction of "One Belt, One Road", a large number of infrastructure, resource assets and personnel have been overseas for a long time, and some of them are facing the threat of regional wars and chaos. China's national strategic interests and maritime security has put forward a new demand for China's ocean escort, maritime humanitarian rescue, international peacekeeping and other aspects. China must vigorously strengthen the construction of maritime forces, which is not only to contain the war, win the war, to ensure the objective needs of maritime security, but also to effectively safeguard the interests of the country's development, the development of the marine economy, and the construction of a strong marine power strong backing.

As a mobile multi-functional maritime combat platform, aircraft carriers have a strong capability of activity, a wide range of radiation, and are capable of both offense and defense, and are generally not replaceable by other ships. Internationally, the number and technical level of aircraft carriers is an important symbol of a country's maritime military power. In August 2011, the aircraft carrier made its first sea trial. It was named "Liaoning" and given the port number "16". This is the first aircraft carrier owned by the Navy, marking the realization of the Navy's 100-year dream of an aircraft carrier, and a historic breakthrough in strengthening the construction of maritime power. In the same year, the first aircraft carrier in dalian shipyard officially started construction, in 2019 in hainan delivery of the navy. The first domestically produced aircraft carrier named "Shandong ship", port number "17". The first domestically produced aircraft carrier Shandong ship commissioned so that China has become a country with the ability to build aircraft carriers. After the 21st century, the first 20 years of unremitting efforts, naval equipment to achieve basic standardization, serialization, generalization.

The realization of the idea of "moving Xi'an to the sea" was mentioned.

Xi'an, once the capital of a thousand years of empire, is a place where various civilizations meet and are influenced by the ocean (blue) civilization. 2,000 years ago, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to open up the world-famous ancient Silk Road from Chang'an, which became the center of world trade and cultural exchanges between the East and the West.

Nowadays, Xi'an people have established an inland port in Xi'an, and moved the "sea port" to Xi'an. Xi'an has no sea, no river, and will not evolve, 2008 Xi'an International Port Area was officially established. 14 years, Xi'an, the millennium emperor are in the new situation to actively embrace the sea, and the construction of the port area as an opportunity to comprehensively activate the civilization of the ocean country gene, boldly create and use the sea, and made brilliant achievements to go, for the exploration of the road of the ocean of Chinese characteristics to provide a reference for the success of the experience.

"Building an Ocean Power with Chinese Characteristics" is a book that explores the road of the ocean with Chinese characteristics in four chapters, 25 chapters, respectively, from the overview of the construction of an ocean power, the strategic practice of the ocean power, the ocean power and the "One Belt, One Road", and the integration of the yellow and blue civilizations. This book is the crystallization of collective wisdom, the book brings together a number of national strategy, ocean research in the field of well-known scholars, to bring you a panoramic understanding of the Chinese characteristics of the construction of the ocean power of the road to experience how China in the construction of the ocean power to promote the construction of human destiny **** the same great power responsibility and great power to bear.

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