As we all know, the strength of the navy is very important for a country. The strength of the navy depends to a large extent on the strength of the warship, one is the size of the warship, and the other is the performance of the warship. At present, the mainland already has two aircraft carriers, but this is not the end of the mainland on the aircraft carrier road, but the starting point. After the founding of New China, many people have witnessed China's continuous strengthening along the way. In the past, Westerners asserted that China would not build an aircraft carrier, but China gave it life.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a large number of military weapons were inherited by Russia and Ukraine, of which the Varyag aircraft carrier was an important naval weapon allocated by Ukraine. But instead of playing any role in the hands of the Ukrainians, the weapon was seen as a liability. The carrier that Ukraine inherited at that time was not a completed aircraft carrier, but only half built. Ukraine has the money to build this aircraft carrier, so it can only be soaked in the sea. The day and night wind and sun made the carrier corrode quickly, but this dilemma did not last long, because Ukraine soon found a buyer.
Not Russia or the United States, but China. Xu Zengping, a patriotic businessman on the mainland, bought the aircraft carrier for $20 million and gave it to the Chinese Navy. Although Xu Zengping was low-key enough in the process of purchasing aircraft carriers, he did not expect to be discovered by the United States. They began to treat Ukraine softly and hard, asking them to refuse to sell. But Ukraine had already signed a contract at the time and would have to pay double compensation if it reneged.
Ukraine told the United States that what they sold to China was nothing more than an iron shell with nothing in it, which they had dismantled and blown up. However, the United States did not expect that Ukraine was a scene, but the fact was that the drawings and facilities were handed over to China intact. Just when Westerners were still naïve to think that what the mainland bought was just an iron shell, the mainland rushed to work day and night, and spent 6 years to make this aircraft carrier nirvana reborn, and the mainland's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was finally successfully launched, and the Chinese Navy ushered in a milestone development.