China’s Shipbuilding Industry

China’s shipbuilding industry (SBI) is a large, geographically dispersed, and increasingly modern sector that sits at the nexus of China’s burgeoning civilian economy and its defense-industrial complex. The SBI is responsible for supplying China’s navy with warships, submarines, and related combatan...

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Hauptverfasser:	Evan S. Medeiros, Roger Cliff, Keith Crane, James C. Mulvenon
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Applied arts Applied sciences Armed forces Arts Business Business structures Civil engineering Corporate affiliates Defense industries Design Destroyers Engineering Frigates Harbors Industrial sectors Industry Manufacturing industries Marine engineering Marine structures Military science Military vessels Navies Political science Ports Shipbuilding Shipbuilding industry Ships Shipyards Subsidiary companies Transportation Vehicles Watercraft
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Zusammenfassung:	China’s shipbuilding industry (SBI) is a large, geographically dispersed, and increasingly modern sector that sits at the nexus of China’s burgeoning civilian economy and its defense-industrial complex. The SBI is responsible for supplying China’s navy with warships, submarines, and related combatants as China strives to develop a more advanced naval force. In contrast to some of the moribund and perennially troubled parts of China’s defense-industrial establishment, the SBI is unique in many ways. In the early 1980s, as China was first exploring defense conversion, the SBI’s relatively rapid diversification into commercial shipbuilding, especially into international sales, and its sustained access