Yulin Naval Base

The Naval Base Sanya is a naval base of the People's Republic of China in the south of Hainan Island. It is located east of Sanya - and south of Yulin City.

Expansion for large base

Hainan Island is the headquarters of the Chinese Südmeerflotte the Navy of the People's Republic of China.

The construction activities of the naval base end of April 2008 are known in the Western world since 2001. Published the British journal " Jane 's Intelligence Review " for the first time detailed satellite images of the giant plant, created by the commercial provider DigitalGlobe, near major international waterways.

Two 950 meter long pier and three smaller are therefore sufficient for two aircraft carrier battle groups or amphibious assault ships. The amount of work it reasonable to assume that the base should be a central hub for future Chinese aircraft carrier, reported " Jane's ". 2012 China has made its first aircraft carrier in Liaoning service. It is predicted that China will put 2020 two self-built, conventionally powered STOBAR aircraft carrier by 2030 nuclear-powered CATOBAR aircraft carrier in service, which could then be deployed as a base for operations in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean in Sanya.

The amount of in -built into mountainous terrain, mostly underground harbor is estimated at about 20 meters. Overall, there will be eleven 18 -meter-high entrance tunnel leading under the water surface into the soil of the island. After speculation the U.S. military can protect up to 20 nuclear submarines off the spying by satellite in its bunkers.

The Ministry of Defense of the United States estimates that China will have by 2010 five nuclear submarines of type 094 ( Jin- class) ready for use, each of which twelve JL -2 intercontinental ballistic missiles can carry.

Media spoke of a " significant challenge to the hegemony of the U.S. Navy and the countries bordering the South China Sea ". U.S. analyzes indicate reached the advanced base in the course of 2010, the far-reaching operational readiness.

Hainan

On Hainan is also China's largest complex for electronic reconnaissance. On Hainan therefore are many experts that deal with the C4ISR concepts of the U.S. military stationed.

In September 2007, Chinese state media reported that the construction of a space station is planned on Hainan, the Baikonur Wenchang.

Hainan is a target of U.S. intelligence operations for years. On 1 April 2001 clashed over the sea, a U.S. reconnaissance plane EP 3E Aries II during a routine monitoring of the Chinese Navy with a Chinese interceptor type Shenyang J -8 (also: F-8 ), which triggered a week-long crisis from.

Reviews

For the People's Republic itself are waterways and shipping lanes in the East Asian metropolitan area of ​​vital importance. More than half of the total Seehandelsvolumens the world is channeled through the Malacca Straits, the Sunda Strait and the Lombok Strait. "80 percent of Japanese and 60 percent of China's oil imports pass through this bottleneck, the volume in the case of the People's Republic of China is growing rapidly.

Hainan offers the possibility of acting directly on this region. "The sea is 5,000 feet deep before quickly Hainan. The submarines can dive so deep quickly and protect themselves from discovery. Investors have a lot of space, even for large surface vessels such as destroyers and frigates. China wants to establish a submarine base in the south, to improve its operational capabilities to the Pacific and the Southeast Asian waterways, "judged the journalist and expert Otfried Nassauer armor in an interview. The location and spread of Chinese bases leads some to speak of a "string of pearls " strategy of Beijing.

In Chittagong ( Bangladesh), as China has a large container port; in Gwadar (Pakistan ) has been used for quite some time built with the help of 500 Chinese engineers a Navy base - its location, just 400 miles east of the Strait of Hormuz and as a possible endpoint of one or even several pipelines gives this a central place at the security of energy supplies from the Middle East and Central Asia to the Middle Kingdom. However, the U.S. government is concerned that Beijing's ambitions go far beyond the region, expresses doubts about the official figures for defense spending and Beijing suspects they might be much higher than acknowledged.

In the words of Kerry Brown, China expert at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, the VBA developed a strategy called "sea denial campaign" (about: campaign to refuse to sea access ) that the U.S. would stop them in any to intervene conflict with Taiwan.

Over a similar, but much smaller than underground base at Sanya China already in Jianggezhuang, on the equally (previously conventionally powered ) submarines are stationed with nuclear missiles. The plant on Hainan could be equipped with a " De - magnetization plant " According to the observations. With her ​​permanent magnetic fields of a submarine can be partially neutralized enemy sensors it would thereby locate heavier. " The Navy base is obviously China enable its warships and submarines continue on the high seas to send than before," said the " mirror " correspondent in Beijing, Andreas Lorenz: " The ' impressive progress ' in the conventional equipment has become not only the ' balance of power changed in the Taiwan Strait in favor of China ', he quoted the Taiwanese defense expert Andrew Yang. ' it has enabled China also in a position to extend its power in the Western Pacific. ' "