Why did China rent Hambantota Port? Hambantota Port is located about 240 kilometers southwest of Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, with a population of more than 500,000. In ancient history, the main port of Sri Lanka was Colombo Port located on the east coast of the island. The operation scale of Hambantota Port in Longzhou Bay is not large, which was destroyed by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. So far, Hambantota Port has not been properly developed and designed. As we all know, Hambantota Port has a unique geographical position, and it is a huge resource consumption to develop and design Colombo Port far away. Large and medium-sized ships passing through the main channel of the Indian Ocean are docked in Sri Lanka to make up for it. In terms of navigation and time, Han Port has more advantages than Colombo Port, which not only saves 1 1 hour navigation, but also reduces fuel costs.
From June 5438+ 10, 2007, with the support of China, Sri Lankan government departments gradually built large and medium-sized ports in Hambantota. The first phase of the port project started on June 5438+1October 65438+ May 2008, including two ports with an oil output of over 65438+10,000 tons and a working ship port. In June of 20 12, the Hambantota deepwater port with a project investment of $0.5 billion was put into operation, and the second phase of the project was completed in 20 16. The large-scale land resources behind the port have been built into large and medium-sized port-facing industrial parks, forming a development zone integrating petrochemical industrial parks, production and processing industrial bases and comprehensive supporting facilities industrial bases.
Hambantota Port now has about 300 ships arriving in Hong Kong every day, which has the development potential to become the most important logistics management auxiliary management center for all ships in the Indian Ocean and even the Pacific Ocean. At this time, only the cooperation of construction projects and loan liaison are available between Hambantota Port and China, and the shares and operation of Hambantota Port are owned by Sri Lanka. As we all know, Hambantota Port, which is the ultimate operator in hardware configuration, has encountered difficulties in operation. Because Sri Lanka's economy is underdeveloped and the import and export trade volume is small, the port relies on foreign cargo ships to obtain benefits.
Improper port management in Sri Lanka The operation and management methods of Sri Lankan ports are improper, lacking business processes, and the ability to attract foreign cargo ships to dock, replenish and distribute goods by trucks is insufficient, which leads to the port application being far from operating according to the design scheme, and the operation was once in deep trouble and unable to pay debts. By the end of 20 16, the total loss of hambantota port was about $304 million.
2065438+July 2007, Sri Lanka and China signed an agreement on the development and design of Hambantota Port management mode, and China paid1/kloc-0.20 billion US dollars to the Sri Lankan government department to purchase 85% shares of Hambantota International Port Group Corporation (HIPG), with the Sri Lankan Port Management Office as the second company's shareholder (15%). The government departments of Sri Lanka and the Port Authority of Sri Lanka granted the exclusive agency right for development, design, capital construction and operation for a period of 98 years, and leased 654.38+0.5 million square feet (equivalent to 60.7 square kilometers) of land resources capital construction industrial zone in the port and its vicinity.
2065438+0717 On February 9, Sri Lanka announced that it would hand over the property and operation autonomy of Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka to China. This contract not only enabled Sri Lankan government departments to obtain110.20 billion US dollars in cash from China Merchants Group at one time, equivalent to 80% of the total investment of 6,543.84 billion US dollars before China Merchants took over Hambantota Port, greatly reducing the economic burden of the new Sri Lankan government, but also because China Company has rich and colorful working experience in port management and its huge international shipping orders, China Company completed Hambantota Port.
To build a safe harbor for the soul in stormy East Asia, not far from the Indian Ocean tsunami, the design scheme of Hambantota Port must fully consider the safety of ships entering the port. Therefore, the second-phase port project takes the Wan Li lagoon as the berthing area, and an artificial island is built to resist strong winds, waves and fine sand.
In port engineering construction, the amount of foundation pit excavation is huge and the construction period is urgent, so the rationalization and upgrading level of the main project is set at a high level. Hambantota Port adopts dry land engineering construction method, builds plastic deformation concrete cutoff wall processing technology, and carries out curtain grouting to solve the problem, so that the main project can be constructed immediately in a dry natural environment, and there is no need to set up prefabricated parts places and large and medium-sized ship equipment for installation, which greatly reduces the difficulty coefficient of project construction, speeds up the project progress and greatly reduces the project cost.
The west breakwater of the port crosses the coastline at an acute angle, which can not completely and reasonably block the east-west sediment transport. Some fine sand in coastal areas will enter the estuary area and the outer channel of the estuary in the form of bottom sand or suspended sand, which will lead to siltation of the outer channel of the estuary and endanger shipping safety. Therefore, the function of sand retaining must be considered in the design of artificial island. According to the concrete calculation, the artificial island can reduce the compressive strength of fine sand deposition in the entrance area of breakwater and the approach channel by 70% respectively, and promote the stable balance of fine sand in the shore, which is not easy to cause fine sand deposition.
China's leasing of Hambantota Port is full of vitality. Since China leased Hambantota Port, its operation has been full of vitality. 20 18 is the first detailed year after the handover of the new project in Hangang. Hangang * * * completed 496,000 tons of freight transportation, 3.25 times higher than that in 20 17, including 236,000 ro-ro cars, an increase of 158%. In the first two quarters of 2065438+2009, Hangang * * * completed ro-ro vehicles 167200 vehicles, up 57.56% year-on-year; The bulk cargo volume is 450,000 tons, far exceeding the annual bulk cargo volume of 20 18. Both China and Sri Lanka have benefited from the operation of Hambantota Port, and the fictional "debt trap theory" of India and other countries is self-defeating.
After taking office, the pro-China American president suddenly turned to India, not only taking India as the first country to visit abroad during his term of office, but also opening up to the outside world, claiming to tear up the 98-year port lease signed with China enterprises. According to the Ukrainian Tass news agency165438+1October 29th, not long ago, the new Sri Lankan President Gotabaya was preparing to make his first foreign visit during his term of office, but the target of his visit turned out to be India. In addition, he made full preparations for this visit in advance, and while making good friends with India, he raised objections to the 98-year port lease signed by China and Sri Lanka. Gotabaya is concerned that Sri Lanka will never easily become a stumbling block in the middle of India's development trend. Sri Lanka wants to conduct in-depth cooperation and diplomacy with India to promote common development trends.
Sri Lanka re-negotiated the nearly 98-year port lease signed with China enterprises. Gotabaya's practice made people deeply realize the "mutiny". If it is not the application of the masses, whether he can succeed on the stage still needs to be questioned. Now, if you don't sit still and wait for death, you will gradually turn your face and be ruthless, and you will definitely be denounced by the people.
China's domineering response It is worth mentioning that Gotabaya Rajapaksa made it clear during his presidential campaign that he would resume friendly exchanges with China as soon as he took office. In this way, he can be elected president of Sri Lanka. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was very angry in our country because of the huge gap between left and right views before and after he took office. On this matter, China made it clear that the liquidated damages for the10 billion contract should be less! Obviously, with the overall strength of Sri Lanka, they can't afford to default.
Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor made it clear that the HKSAR government obviously resisted the relevant "decrees", which she accused of being totally unnecessary and unreasonable. Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor mentioned that he initially hoped that the calm before and after the District Council election would last for about ten days. In order to better keep Hong Kong's economic development and people's livelihood projects unaffected, social development must have a natural environment free from violence. However, it is a pity that in the past Saturday and Sunday, there were incidents of blocking roads, arson and throwing petrol bombs in Kowloon. The police are very restrained, and the use of tear gas is inevitable. She said that she hoped that there was a way to end the violence and give economic development a chance of rebirth, but now it has been "poured cold water", and she hoped that the violent tendency would stop as soon as possible.
Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor: Hong Kong's economic development has entered a pessimistic situation, and the fourth round of rescue measures will be released in a short time. Zheng Yuee said that the first three rounds of rescue measures used 20 billion Hong Kong dollars. Even if it is estimated that there will be a loss of public revenue in 2020 or the next year or two, the release of rescue measures is just to make good use of the wealth and profits accumulated in the past. She also pointed out that in addition to curbing violence and chaos and vigorously supporting the patrol, she also asked the secretaries of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government to help the industry solve problems from the perspective of bail-out.
There has always been a competitive relationship between countries. Because of their overall strength, many countries have been bullying some weak countries and even have the desire to rule the world. Britain is a very typical example. Britain suppressed many countries and wanted to rule the world. Besides Britain, there is another country, India, which has always wanted to become a world power. However, the overall strength of Indian countries also has great room for development. Their great ambition to become a world power has always existed and they have been developing their country's comprehensive strength.
In fact, everyone who incites the masses in the name of religious belief is shouting his own wishful thinking. In particular, those compatriots who let their followers put pressure on people with different religious beliefs under the guise of religious beliefs are actually fulfilling their rights and interests under the banner of religious beliefs. In order to develop the trend and realize intelligence, the Sri Lankan people need to get rid of the unnecessary dispute over proper nouns between religious beliefs, expose politicians who shout the banner of religious beliefs, embrace the thigh roots of powerful countries, and turn their geographical advantages into prosperous and powerful assets.