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🔥How China Took Over Global Shipbuilding?

⚓Everything you never knew about China’s rise — from 1949 ruins to today’s shipbuilding empire. Discover the full story behind the world’s #1 shipbuilder.

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🔥 Greetings, Maritime Mavericks!

Once devastated. Now dominant.

In 1949, China had fewer than 1,000 shipbuilding machines and 10,000 workers.

In 2024, it built 57% of all commercial ships worldwide.

What changed? A slow, steady, strategic journey — not an overnight miracle.

  • 📜 From Ruins to Repairs (1949–1970s)

  • ⚙️ Slow Rebuild and First Exports (1970s–1990s)

  • 💡 Government-Backed Takeoff (2000s)

  • 📈 21st Century: Global Dominance

  • 🏅Maritime Analytica Insight: What’s Next?

Let’s unpack how China built the world’s largest shipbuilding empire.

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📜 From Ruins to Repairs (1949–1970s)

  • Post-civil war, China's shipyards were stripped and dynamited.

  • Early fleet: 77 damaged merchant ships, plus small wooden junks.

  • Soviet aid rebuilt basic shipyards in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Dalian.

  • Progress stalled after the Sino-Soviet split; by 1963, shipbuilding nearly ceased.

  • Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) crippled industrial development further.


⚙️ Slow Rebuild and First Exports (1970s–1990s)

  • 1975: First small ship exports booked.

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