Sixth Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC (中华人民共和国第六机械工业部), one of the central offices in the People's Republic of China, created on Sept. 2, 1963, who oversaw the shipbuilding industry. After

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the first information about its business, already as a Ministry of Shipbuilding, from June 1970. In May 1982, was closed and converted into the China Shipbuilding Corp., July 1, 1999 which was divided into two organisms, the: * China Shipbuilding Industry Corp. - CSIC in

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

, * China State Shipbuilding Corp. - CSSC in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...

. In 1950, the first aid the Chinese shipbuilding industry has given the

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. In 1986, China had 523 yards, 160 factories manufacturing facilities, 540,000 employees and more than 80 offices and scientific research. The main shipbuilding centers are

(

Jiangnan Shipyard Jiangnan Shipyard () is a historic shipyard in Shanghai, China. The shipyard has been state-owned since its founding in 1865 and is now operated as Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) Co. Ltd. Before 2009, the company was south of central Shanghai at ...

Dalian Dalian () is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China. Located on ...

(Dalian Shipbuilding Co.),

Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popu ...

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong ...

and

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city a ...

Bibliography

* Malcolm Lamb: ''Directory of officials and Organizations in China'', ME Sharpe Inc. Armonk, NY, 2003, p. 1911 +, , Volume 1 * ''China's Economic System'', Routledge Abingdon 2005, 594 p., {{authority control Government ministries of the People's Republic of China

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