The unsinkable Titanic should be most people's first impression of luxury cruise ships. It is about the size of a medium-sized aircraft carrier, and its luxurious and happy life on board has made it a "dream ship" in many people's minds.

However, compared with the current cruise ships, the Titanic a hundred years ago is too outdated. On March 5th, the world's largest cruise ship "Ocean Miracle" made its maiden voyage from Fort Lauderdale, USA. It has a total height of 18 floors and a displacement of four times that of Liaoning. It is like a huge city that never sleeps at sea, once again refreshing the cognition of human cruise ship construction.

It is worth mentioning that this cruise ship was also specially built for the Asian market. It made its debut in China International Import Expo(CIIE), China. Originally, it was planned to settle in Shanghai and hold its maiden voyage. Why did it suddenly change its mind?

Ocean Miracle belongs to Royal Caribbean, the largest cruise company in the world. As the fifth cruise ship in the Oasis series, its "predecessors" all have their own unique skills, and the Ocean Oasis has occupied the title of "the largest and most expensive cruise ship" in the world for 11 years.

Ocean Miracle directly broke the record of Ocean Oasis, with a total length of 362 meters and a width of 47 meters. It takes about half an hour to walk around it at a normal speed, with a total tonnage of 228,111 tons, a maximum passenger capacity of more than 9,111 people and a construction cost of 1.2 billion euros, equivalent to 8.34 billion yuan.

if we can't imagine how big it is, we can compare it with the parameters of the aircraft carrier Liaoning. The normal discharge tonnage of the Liaoning is 54,511 tons, that is to say, it takes four Liaoning ships to add up to the weight of the Ocean Miracle.

There are 2,867 rooms on board, covering a lot of entertainment, dining and all aspects of experience, including not only the sea water slide with a height of 11 floors, but also the high-altitude zip line spanning 25 meters from the atrium. If you don't like this sensory stimulation, there is a game hall where you can play "Z Star Wars" and a secret room to escape with friends.

For middle-aged and elderly people who don't like this kind of young projects, they can also choose to go to the theater on the ship to watch classic musicals. After the musicals, there is the Aquarium Grand Theatre, where they can watch water performances by professional staff.

After playing enough projects and watching enough performances, it's time to eat in a number of special restaurants on board, including not only seafood restaurants and Mexican-style restaurants, but also a candy paradise specially set up for children and a "barbecue street".

After you have eaten your food, you can also take a walk in the central park on the boat. The park is completely open, simulating the real environment on the ground, and the interior is made of more than 21,111 real plants.

On the boat, tourists hardly feel that they are traveling at sea, and their life experience is no different from that of a city on the ground, but it is more global and integrated. In this strange and prosperous city, tourists can enjoy great surprises whether they are traveling together or alone.

As China has the most potential cruise market in the world, cruise ships are also interested in docking with China, and cruise lovers in China are also looking forward to its arrival, hoping to add a rare memory to their family adventure.

However, such a cruise ship originally set up for the China market suddenly canceled its original maiden voyage plan and moved to the home port of the United States, because of the epidemic.

Since the epidemic came, big cruise companies such as Carnival Cruises and Royal Caribbean have been hit hard. First, the construction of cruise ships could not be completed in time because of the increase in the number of sick workers, which led to repeated delays in launching.

Secondly, the mode of cruise travel has caused great controversy, because in a short period of time, several cruise ships broke out successively, and thousands of people were "forced to be isolated" at sea, which also made people have some criticisms about cruise travel.

China has the largest cruise port in Asia-Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Port. There are thousands of staff members alone, and the number of passengers is five or six thousand. In eight days in October 2121, more than 31,111 passengers entered and exited from here.

In order to cooperate with epidemic prevention, cruise companies suspended many cruise flights with Wusongkou Cruise Port as their home port, among which "Ocean Miracle" was included, and had to adjust the sailing season to North America and Europe.

This news is somewhat regrettable, but Royal Caribbean soon said that in 2122, another luxury oil tanker "Ocean Spectrum" will continue to operate in Hong Kong and return to Shanghai in summer to provide accommodation and services specially designed for the Asia-Pacific region.

Therefore, enthusiasts will have to wait for a few more months before the cruise market in China recovers. Big cruise ships will only be late, not late!

Speaking of which, our country is also a leading shipbuilding country in the world. Can we build our own luxury cruise ship?

Imagine that if it is really built, it can not only control the coming and going of cruise ships, better meet the needs of domestic enthusiasts, but also realize economic domestic sales, so that foreigners can earn less money from China people, or make money from foreigners in the past. Isn't it beautiful?

The country also thinks so, so it has started to build domestic luxury cruise ships. This cruise ship has a specification of 135,511 tons, belonging to a large Vista-class cruise ship, and the cost of each cruise ship is about 5.5 billion yuan.

Although this cruise ship is not big compared with the top international cruise ships, such as "Ocean Miracle", it symbolizes that China has taken off the "last dazzling pearl" in the shipbuilding industry, which is undoubtedly of great significance.

as for China, where even LNG and aircraft carriers are competent to build, why is it still spinning around on luxury cruise ships? It can only be said that its construction is not as easy as imagined.

For example, our domestic cruise ship has 25 million parts, which is about 1.2 times that of high-speed rail and 5 times that of large aircraft. At the same time, it is more difficult to coordinate the 136 systems on board, so that they can be accurately integrated and operate normally like various organs of the human body.

Of course, the most difficult thing is how to have a good relationship with more than 511 suppliers in the world. You know, since Europe and the United States have built cruise ships for more than a hundred years, they have absolute right to speak most of the technologies and materials. It is quite eye-catching for China to take off this last pearl.

In today's tense relationship between Europe, America and China, we may encounter many obstacles on the road of construction, but it is precisely because of this that luxury cruise ships have the value of "facing difficulties", because they can completely integrate modern industry, high-end manufacturing and high-end service industries, and are the product of absolute internationalization, which can better vindicate the manufacturing strength of our country.

At present, this cruise ship has successfully floated in the dock at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard, which symbolizes that it has completed an important construction stage. In this way, it seems that the completion of the first large cruise ship in China in September 2123 is just around the corner!