blenderwars #523 - 5 years later
#523 - 5 years later
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Dongda's fifth five-year plan has passed. Thanks to Dongda's role as a stabilizer after its rise, the Bright Sword world has not faced major war threats. Furthermore, it has helped John Bull stabilize his precarious Black African colonies, slowing down John Bull's decline, which in turn reduced the turmoil in Black Africa. This allowed the Bright Sword world to spend another five years in prosperity.
The global economy is developing at a high speed, and Dongda once again leads the world with a super-high growth rate of 15%.
After five years of development, Dongda's total economic output has jumped to second place, with the entire GDP exceeding 600 billion US dollars. It is beginning to approach the leading rogue eagle's total of 690 billion US dollars. At the same time, the economic aggregate of the European Community has also exceeded 500 billion US dollars, of which the core Western European Seven Group accounts for the vast majority of 440 billion US dollars. John Bull has exceeded 110 billion US dollars, becoming the well-deserved core of the European Community.
Due to the fact that the Great Bear has not followed the principles of market production, no one can estimate a reasonable figure for its total economic output. Therefore, on the surface, Dongda is now the well-deserved second in the world!
Dongda's development is not only reflected in the GDP figures, but also in the national economy. First of all, the railway sector has exceeded 100,000 kilometers, opening up the strategic Sichuan-Tibet Railway and Xinjiang-Tibet Railway at both ends, realizing railway connections to every province. In this way, the entire Dongda's trunk transportation capacity and strategic transportation capacity have been greatly enhanced.
High-speed rail has begun to enter the mass production and transformation stage. The first generation of Oriental Star TGV trains has been finalized and is uniformly called the 'Fuqiang' high-speed rail locomotive in Dongda. Only the European and export models are called Oriental Star TGV. The first high-speed rail lines to be opened are the 200 km/h Beijing-Shanghai, Beijing-Hankou, and Beijing-Fengtian lines.
Next, based on the 'Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal' high-speed railway network in the main world, that is, the 'Eight Vertical' channels along the coast and Beijing-Shanghai, and the 'Eight Horizontal' channels along the land bridge and the Yangtze River, supplemented by intercity railways, a large-scale high-speed railway network will be planned. The work of railway construction and high-speed rail construction will be gradually carried out on two lines.
The railway trunk lines connecting the inland and coastal areas, coupled with nearly 200 navigable airports spread across the country's cities and prefectures, more than 300,000 kilometers of various grades of highways, including 100,000 kilometers of national highways, and more than 50,000 kilometers of inland waterway transportation, the overall transportation infrastructure capacity completely surpasses the level of the 1980s in the main world!
This has played an extremely important supporting role in Dongda's economic development.
For Dongda's huge domestic logistics and transportation, these infrastructures can now fully undertake it, ensuring the smooth transportation of goods and personnel.
These are mainly supported by the issuance of long-term railway construction bonds or local construction bonds with a term of ten or fifteen years. Now that the land is state-owned, there are no demolition costs. The construction cost per kilometer of railway is only several hundred thousand yuan, and the construction cost of highways is even lower.
For Ren Zhong, such low construction costs mean that it is better to build sooner rather than later. Even if the economic benefits of the Sichuan-Tibet Line and the Xinjiang-Tibet Line cannot be expected in the short term, these trunk lines with great strategic significance can provide stronger support for the development of southern Tibet.
Moreover, after the railway, highway, and air transportation networks are woven together, there will not be too many obstacles to the communication of products in each densely populated area.
In this way, Dongda is now doing much better than the main world in terms of unbalanced regional economic development. First of all, from the perspective of regional development, the old revolutionary areas are now still relatively strong in industrial development because they were the first places to develop industry. Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and Inner Mongolia, which were originally relatively backward in the main world, are not inferior to the eastern region in the Bright Sword world.
Now, only Guangnan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region have slightly surpassed them in terms of rapid development.
On the contrary, the development in the southwest region started a few years later due to the fact that it was the rear area in the past. Although the state has also made certain tilts in adjusting the layout, it is still lagging behind the newly developed areas in the north.
However, due to the heavy investment in transportation, even the southwest region is developing much better than in the 1980s of the main world. After all, Dongda's economy in the Bright Sword world has overall jumped to second in the world.
Such an industrial distribution is healthier for Dongda compared to the main world.
On this basis, Dongda's development in other aspects is even more gratifying.
In terms of education, with the spirit and determination to sell everything to develop education first, the one hundred key universities planned by Ren Zhong in the early stage have been completed, realizing the enrollment of 1 million university students. In addition, there are more than 300 various vocational colleges, including more than 3 million college students. Although the number of universities is still an order of magnitude different from the modern main world, these institutions have provided a strong guarantee for the industrial development and the demand for professional talents in various industries.
In addition to these full-time universities, there are also countless one-year or one-and-a-half-year vocational and technical night schools for factories, which can realize customized training for entire classes according to needs and train technicians in batches.
In this way, although Dongda's population has rapidly increased to 750 million, the rapid economic and agricultural development has allowed the demographic dividend to begin to be released. First of all, there will be no shortage of workers in factories, even in labor-intensive enterprises such as textiles, handicrafts, and toys.
Secondly, skilled technicians and engineers needed for high-end manufacturing such as steel, chemical, automobile, aviation, shipbuilding, and electronics industries can now be provided by a mature training system.
In the twenty years of development from the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945 to 1965, Dongda in the Bright Sword world has not missed any major industrial development opportunities. Whether it is steel, automobiles, aviation, or electronics, it has world-leading technologies and products emerging, and it has begun to occupy a leading market position in the Bright Sword world.
In addition, it has pulled in the European continent for in-depth cooperation, helping several major countries in Europe to quickly recover, making the European Community an economic organization that has grown into a world behemoth, standing together with Dongda and North America, greatly enhancing their autonomy.
After five years of efforts, Dongda's civil aviation has continued to advance by leaps and bounds. It has not only completed the CAC-120L/Airbus A300L two long-range regional jetliners, but also completed the finalization and mass production of the CAC-150/Airbus A310 two new 4,000-kilometer-class regional jetliners, with an overall production capacity exceeding the super-high level of 400 aircraft per year.
In this way, Dongda, in cooperation with leading European aviation companies such as Rolls-Royce, maintained a pace of developing a major civil aviation product every five years. They prepared for the next five years in the *Bright Sword* world, aiming to catch up in the civil aviation industry by 1970. Their plan included researching a new generation of four-engine, wide-body intercontinental aircraft, the CAC-300/Airbus A330, with an initial capacity of 350 passengers. Simultaneously, they continued to promote minor upgrades in the hundred-seater aircraft category, replacing them with new three-rotor WS11/RB211 engines and introducing a stretched version of the CAC-180/Airbus A318.
With this shift in momentum, under the influence of Dongda Yandu Aviation and Airbus, the North American Big Three were somewhat dumbfounded.
Not only were their regional jets completely dominated by the Airbus A300/Airbus A300L and Airbus A310, losing 70% of their market share, but now a long-range Airbus A320 intercontinental airliner emerged, snatching half of their flagship intercontinental flight market orders. This was unacceptable for the previously monopolistic North American Big Three.
After five years of unremitting effort and continuous innovation, Southeast University (referred to as Dongda) achieved remarkable success in the field of civil aviation, with a momentum as unstoppable as a bamboo shoot splitting through the earth. During this period, Dongda not only successfully completed the research and manufacture of the CAC-120L and Airbus A300L, two regional jets with long-range capabilities, but also simultaneously finalized and mass-produced the CAC-150 and Airbus A310—two newly designed regional jets capable of covering 4,000-kilometer routes. This series of achievements propelled Dongda's overall production capacity to leap forward, successfully crossing the 400-aircraft/year mark, reaching an unprecedentedly high level, marking its significant position in the global civil aviation manufacturing industry.
However, this was just a small milestone on Dongda's aviation dream journey. Even more exciting was the successful development of the three-rotor engine WS11/RB211, jointly researched by Dongda and Rolls-Royce (referred to as Rolls-Royce), which laid a solid foundation for subsequent large aircraft projects. Based on this, the CAC-200 and Airbus A320—two intercontinental long-range, four-engine wide-body aircraft—were also born. With its spacious cabin of 250 to 280 seats, a cruising speed of over 950 kilometers per hour, and an astonishing range of up to 11,000 kilometers, the CAC-200/Airbus A320 easily achieved direct flight connections between most cities in the world, greatly expanding people's travel options.
Whether flying directly from London in continental Europe to the bustling city on the east coast of North America, or traveling from London to remote Black Africa or South America, or even arriving at the heart of Dongda—Yandu—the CAC-200/Airbus A320 could ensure that passengers comfortably reached their destination within 12 hours. This groundbreaking advancement undoubtedly opened a new chapter for global air travel.
With the successful mass production of the CAC-200/Airbus A320, the cooperation between Dongda Yandu Aviation and Airbus further deepened, jointly completing the comprehensive layout from hundred-seater regional jets to two-hundred-seater mainline intercontinental aircraft. Just as the CAC-200/Airbus A320 was shining brightly in the market, Dongda and Airbus once again joined hands and announced the next heavyweight product—the CAC-300/Airbus A330 three-hundred-seater mainline aircraft development plan, and expected to achieve mass production within the next five years. This move demonstrated Dongda and Airbus's determination and strength to continuously catch up and break through in the field of civil aviation.
On the other side, the electronics industry made a breakthrough. The first generation of true 0.13-micron lithography production line in the *Bright Sword* world was successfully replicated. The market in the *Bright Sword* world suddenly fast-forwarded to the ARM9 and ARM11 era. Due to the need for self-iteration and optimization, the x86 system only completed two generations of evolution in five years, slowly and steadily progressing to the 486 era.
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In this way, the mainstream computers in the *Bright Sword* world switched to the ARM system. Using the open-source Linux system, computer scientists in the *Bright Sword* world added server-version features such as large caches and new prediction mechanisms to the ARM11 kernel. Coupled with the maturity of parallel computing, the computer technology in the *Bright Sword* world suddenly improved to the level of Pentium III and above, and began to possess the basic conditions for the computer Internet era.
In addition, in terms of network communication, 100MB Ethernet and network communication equipment such as switches and routers were conquered by Dongda and patented to form a standard. Coupled with the successful research of optical fiber communication technology, Dongda transformed the concept of the Internet into a huge interconnected Dongda network, achieving network connections in the core cities of the country for the first time in the world.
The huge demonstration effect made North America and Europe completely disregard the disadvantage that the core of this technology was entirely in Dongda's hands. They ran to Dongda one by one, requesting the introduction of network communication technology, promoting Dongda's Ethernet communication worldwide, and starting negotiations to build submarine cables, directly connecting the Asian, European, and North American networks into one!
In the face of the enormous convenience of network communication, no one could go against the tide and resist the trend of technological development.
Because it grasped the core of computer and communication technology, the root servers of the entire Internet were deployed in Dongda, forming three major central nodes in Yandu, Chang'an, and Modu, achieving mutual backup to ensure that the core of the entire network would not crash.
Based on this, digital media emerged. The Liming Research Institute pioneered the application of early Internet killer applications such as instant messaging, portal websites, search engines, and forums, and established a company respectively for commercialization.
Because Ren Zhong seized the opportunity, in the budding state of the Internet, the Liming Group once again dominated, obtaining the first pot of gold in the early Internet era. Whether it was instant messaging, portal websites, or search engines, they all grew rapidly. Due to the mature development of Dongda's financial market, several Internet companies of the Liming Group also quickly obtained the opportunity to go public, raise funds, and develop, and completed the occupation of the Dongda domestic market faster. They began to go abroad and attack the relatively mature markets of North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
With its natural advantages in technology and a deep understanding of business development, the four Liming Group Internet companies that went abroad also achieved great success abroad, becoming world-renowned stars in the Internet era.
It was precisely because of these applications that people realized that the role of the Internet was far more powerful than initially imagined, and a wave of informationization and Internetization sweeping the globe began to rise.
For early computers, the main world can no longer see many entities, but in the *Bright Sword* world, people who have just come from complete paper and television media have not yet broken through the scope of substantive understanding of Internet news.
Therefore, many people do not fully understand the significance of Dongda's large-scale research in this area.
In the Western world, only North America's Vision Company and London's Goldenstar under Project Qianlong are fully transforming into information technology companies, following in the footsteps of Dongda's computer industry, and investing huge amounts of money to research the Internet and Internet applications. (End of chapter)