After dinner, he sent Russus and the others back. He watched Ziqi and two CCTV reporters leave, and Fan Wubing also returned home.

It is now June, and my dad's affairs have been almost done. This time, he has kept his position as the executive vice premier. There has been no major changes in his work, but he has added some more burdens. The institutional reform has also made good progress, and there has been no big trouble.

My father said that the impact of SARS this time was very great, and the health system had completely changed its leaders. After Fan Wubing led it, several disciples of Mr. Fan Tianlan supported the health department's presence.

"My senior brothers are also academicians at least, and have many years of management experience. They are always hundreds of times better than the original bureaucrats of the Ministry of Health." Fan Wubing said.

"How is your mine in Africa?" Fan Heng thought of this and couldn't help asking.

"It's okay. After the separation technology has been proven by the domestic market, some additional supplements should be effective. The next step is construction and production. It is easier for blacks to deal with." Fan Wubing replied.

In fact, Fan Wubing has not been idle in the past few months since he returned to China. The iloxane mixed mine in Africa has always been a major event in his heart, but it has been done now. Once it is put into production at the end of the year, the return on output should be very gratifying.

The domestic demand for titanium metal is not very large, mainly focusing on medical and aerospace technology. However, if applied to nuclear submarines in the near future, the demand will increase dramatically. Therefore, Fan Wubing is very concerned about this aspect and hopes that after it is put into production this year, there will be a relatively optimistic output.

The most complimentary thing is that after Bush Jr. heard about this, while busy with the Iraq War, he sent a special envoy to the country to contact Fan Wubing so that he could verify whether he could order titanium metal from Fan's Investment Group in the near future?

Fan Wubing did not say anything to this point. After all, the domestic demand is limited, and he cannot control all the titanium metals supplied to the United States. Instead of being cheaper for others, it is better to sell them some of them yourself.

The most important thing is that Fan Wubing is very clear that he is mining far away in Africa, and the domestic government is simply out of reach and cannot protect his industry. If he has an unhappy relationship with the Americans, he might be wiped out by other people's armed forces that day. However, if he takes the American line, it will be much more convenient. Not to mention anything else, hanging the Americans' star-striped flag is much more effective than the five-star red flag.

This is not to say that Fan Wubing has no national awareness, but the influence of the domestic government on the outside is really limited. Even if something happens, they are willing to help, at most they only pay close attention to it and seriously protest against something, which will not have any practical effect.

But it is different to cooperate with Americans. If something really happens to you, just call Bush Jr., and the Pentagon will immediately drive the fighter jets, and the special forces can be in place within twelve hours. This is because of the strength of the country, and the confidence will be different.

As a result, in the evening, Admiral Chen Guangyi visited.

Chen Guangyi naturally came to visit Fan Heng, and it was unlikely that he would visit Fan Wubing. Although Fan's Investment Group also had cooperation projects with the Navy, it would not be necessary to work as a navy general who came to him to come to him.

Chen Guangyi sat at Fan Heng for more than half an hour before saying goodbye and leaving.

After he left, Fan Wubing asked Fan Heng, "Why did he come to the door suddenly?"

"Something happened within the Navy, and the leader is going to be replaced." Fan Heng replied.

The Navy was in trouble before May. Fan Wubing also heard about this incident, but he didn't notice it much. Only after hearing what his father Fan Heng said, did he remember this.

Some time ago, when everyone was working hard to fight SARS, Xinhua News Agency once disclosed an unusually astonishing news: a submarine of the Chinese Navy crashed in the East China Sea, and all 70 officers and soldiers on the boat died.

This news is undoubtedly a worse problem for the Chinese who are already living in the fear of SARS. However, the unprecedented report of the naval submarine crash in China this time is a major improvement in the Chinese press towards honesty and independence, which is gratifying.

In the past 50 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the official media has never reported similar incidents. This does not mean that the Chinese Navy's submarines have never had any accidents, or the Air Force's planes have never had any accidents of plane destruction and death. Such incidents often occur even in well-equipped US troops. These incidents have never been approved for reporting under the government's strict control of the media.

However, after careful consideration, I found the problem. The Xinhua News Agency's press release, including punctuation marks, has a total of 125 words, and on average, each dead person is less than two words. Such a vague report does not seem to be due to the voluntary voluntary of Xinhua News Agency and its boss, but is forced by the SARS cover scandal that has not yet passed. Because the senior executives do not want to be exposed by the international media in a few days or dozens of days later.

There are many strange things in the news itself, which makes people feel a little doubtful.

First of all, the time of the accident. The original manuscript used the recent year. Which year, month and day does this recent refer to? No one knows. It depends entirely on everyone's understanding of this word. We often see a little of this word used in Chinese recipes, but news reports are different from recipes. News pays the most attention to the accuracy of time, place, characters and events. How can we use the vague concept of recent times?

Secondly, who died? What is their surname? What is their hobbies? What were their lives? What province did they come from? Where were their relatives? When did their families notify them? How did the accident happen? Do soldiers facing death have time to call for help? Have you ever tried to rescue? Time for rescue personnel and ships to arrive? Time spent on rescue and salvage? Are there any clues of survival? What are the escape equipment on the boat? Why do people know nothing about these?

Third, the number of people carried by the submarine. The rated number of people in the Ming-class submarine in the accident is 57, but according to official reports, the number of deaths in the accident is 70. Why did the extra thirteen people be overloaded? Because of what reason did the extra thirteen people enter the submarine and overload the boat? Did the ship overload the day it happened in the accident, or was it always overloaded when it was used?

Generally speaking, when a traffic accident occurs, if a person is injured or killed due to overload, the judicial authorities must hold him legally responsible. Then will the fatal accident of the submarine be caused by overload? If so, who should bear the administrative and legal responsibility? SARS dismissed several scapegoats. Where are the culprits and scapegoats of this incident? It is obviously thought-provoking.

Fourth, the age of the submarine. According to public information, the Chinese Navy has a total of 22 Ming-class submarines, and the construction time was around 1970 to 1979. In other words, the age of this Ming-class submarine in service has exceeded 20 years, and is likely to be around 30 years.

Submarines are much more dangerous than surface ships, so they also require faster equipment updates and maintenance. Is it because the Chinese army lacks military expenditure?

Obviously, this is impossible. Over the years, military expenditures in China have increased year by year, reaching about 60 billion US dollars. In recent years, when the national work market has tightened, unemployment and laid-offs have increased dramatically, active-duty soldiers are even better treated than national civil servants. Look at the luxury cars such as Mercedes-Benz, Lexus, BMW, etc. running on the streets, how could people think that naval sailors would be loaded into an old, homemade submarine that had been for nearly thirty years?

As for the cause of the accident, the report only said that it was a mechanical failure, and did not mention whether the submarine's crash site was underwater or on the surface. Generally speaking, an accident that caused all crew members to die is more likely to be underwater. If this is the case, there will be a large-scale search and rescue operation to tow the submarine back to the port as the report said. However, the report does not seem to mention that the Navy has had a large-scale search and rescue operation. Compared with the large-scale search and rescue of Wang Wei, a naval aviation soldier who bravely collided with the US reconnaissance aircraft two years ago, these 70 people died too lonely.

If the crash site is on the water surface, then mechanical failures, such as engine stopping or propeller stopping, will be difficult to cause the death of all the occupants. It is also possible that battery fluid leakage may occur, causing toxic gases to enter the cabin to suffocate the occupants. If this is the case, it has a lot to do with the old submarine.

In addition, it is possible that the torpedoes loaded by the submarine exploded, which is very similar to the Kursk accident in Russia three years ago. However, after the accident, most of the crew members of the Kursk still survived for a long time, and knocked on the bulkheads and sent a distress signal outside the cabin. If it were not for the Russian government and military attempting to cover up the truth of the accident and failing to take timely rescue measures, it would not have caused the death of all 118 officers and soldiers in the entire boat.

In short, this time the incident happened very strangely, and Fan Wubing intuitively felt that there were some insider situations.

"The specific situation, the military report has not been released yet-" Fan Heng said to his son Fan Wubing, "No matter what, the responsibility for the leadership of the navy must be pursued, otherwise Chen Guangyi would not have come here at this time."

Fan Wubing nodded, deeply convinced that everyone is motivated and requires progress. The leaders always need to know the military. The same is true for the military.
Chapter completed!