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22/08/2012

Chinese industry, the Soviet factory in search of "State of the Art" (DIEEEO62-2012)

The economic growth of China and its candidacy to become a great power have permitted that, in this 21st century, its armed forces can be immersed in a deep modernization. To manage this process, it is been fundamental the role of the Defense national industry, a sector controlled by the state in which hundreds of thousands of workers are employed. Their mission is to provide indigenous products, technologically advanced and that may cover an extensive range of military needs. In the past, the replicas of the popular AK-47, Migs jets or the tanks of the Soviet epoch equipped the most numerous armed forces of the world. Today, with more flexible armed forces, the Chinese soldiers need more efficient teams and technologically more advanced. In its step toward the outside, besides maintaining the nuclear deterrent, China is investing in cybernetic resources, a deep water navy, all kind of launchers, an independent spatial career, jets of the latest generations, or C4ISR and A2/AD (Anti-Access/Area-Denial) capacities, among many others. In this context, the industry of Defense is also another of the gears in the economic growth of the country as part of a continuous cycle: manufacture to grow, grow to generate more employment, more and better employment to provide wealth to China, to invest that wealth in consume, and thus… consume to manufacture,...

Author: David Corral Hernández

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