Small ship models witnessed the development of Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry to the world

In the captain's cab, there is usually a ship model. This is presented by the shipyard when the ship is delivered to use. Guo Chaoyang of Xiamen Port produced a lot of such boat models.

Guo Chaoyang has a fate with the boat. He has liked to follow his father to watch the sea and the boat from an early age. Junior high school has been in contact with the ship model. After adulthood, he went to work and engaged in the mechanical maintenance of the dock. He watched the ship entering and leaving Hong Kong every day. In the past three decades, the children who watched the boat at the beach had made hundreds of ship models one after another.

He and several like -minded partners set up a ship model studio and made their hobbies professional: these ship models have official contracts, shipyards build large ships, and they build ship models. "Made in Xiamen" car rolling ships, container boats, bulk cargo ships, multi -functional operating ships ... Even if they are only "souvenirs", the ship models are as delicate as real ships. , Large to the hull and small to the internal structure, each part is fine and realistic. "This is a‘ all -round technology work ’. From the selection of materials to design, to processing, a total of more than 100 processes, almost all of which are done by hand.” Guo Chaoyang said. Because of this, making a ship model takes two or three months or even longer.

Small ship models witnessed the development of Xiamen's ship industry from weak and strong, gradually forming brands, and then going to the world. "In the 1980s and 1990s, Xiamen Shipbuilding had no right to speak internationally internationally, and there was a large gap with the top level from the top." Guo Chaoyang recalled that until 1996, the Xiamen Shipyard Construction Factory at that time went from Xiahe Road as a whole. Moved to Haicang and began to produce 820 -standard box container ships exported to Germany, 30,000 tons of multi -purpose heavy hanging container cargo ships to achieve a large leap from the construction of thousands of tons to a 10,000 -ton wheel.

According to the data, this 30,000 -ton multi -purpose reinstallation of the container cargo ship has been rated as the "Top Ten Outstanding Ship types in the World in 2000" by the Economist Magazine and won the "Science and Technology Progress Award" of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation. At that time, Guo Chaoyang personally made a model for Chengbei -style ships here.

In 2002, Xiamen Shipyard was restructured into Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd., which opened a new chapter in Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry in one fell swoop. Since then, Xiamen has begun to produce some high -tech complex ship types, and shipbuilding facilities, technical capabilities and orders have been increased year by year. The advantageous ship type has expanded to car rolling ships, container ships, bulk cargo ships, residential boats, platform supply ships, wind power platforms, wind power platforms Ship, self -lifting platform ship ... The rapid development of the ship industry is enough to stun the world.

Correspondingly, Guo Chaoyang's ship model production orders are also increasingly diversified and "tall". Most of these ship models have gone to Europe, America, Southeast Asia and other places with the delivery of large ships, becoming a vivid carrier to show Xiamen Shipbuilding.

Several ship model photos of the "Promise" are kept in Guo Chaoyang's mobile phone album all year round. "The huge wheels delivered to foreign shipowners in 2015 by Xiaxia Shipyard workers, with a maximum loading volume of 8,500 standard cars, is currently the largest car rolling ship in the world." At that time, the highest level of the design and construction of large -scale car rolling boats was the "weapon" of Xiamen ship heavy workers who won overseas orders.

Today, Guo Chaoyang is not often taken over the ship model orders, but the enthusiasm of his heart is like usual, as usual, he is a boat model teacher to teach the cultural knowledge and production skills of boat models to the teenagers. In his heart, Guo Chaoyang has a dream. He hopes that these children will not only travel in the world of ship models, but also participate in the construction of a real "big country heavy weapon" in the future and make a contribution in the era of the "Big Ship Garland".

Xiamen Daily reporter Tang Haibo

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