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Without Japanese machine tools, can China not build aircraft carriers? Is the rumor, regarded as truth by Japanese media, really true? Is China's aircraft carrier really being held back by Japanese machine tools? What is the true level of China's machine tool industry?

Looking at the entire military-industrial sector in China, including the entire high-end manufacturing industry, one can hardly see Japanese machine tools being used. The more complex the equipment, the less likely it is to use machine tools. At the current stage, who is China mainly using? The machine tools used for military-grade, complex, cutting-edge manufacturing are mostly from Europe. Even when purchasing advanced weaponry and equipment manufactured in the United States, the majority uses European machine tools. Why is this?

Firstly, machine tools can be classified into many types, including metal cutting machine tools, woodworking machine tools, as well as casting, stamping, and welding machine tools.

Machine tools play a crucial role in a country's industrial sector, especially in the field of precision manufacturing. It is undeniable that Japan's machine tool technology is outstanding, but it has not reached the level of holding back China's aircraft carrier production.

China understands that aircraft carriers are a type of heavy weaponry. What many may not know is that building a large-scale aircraft carrier also cannot do without machine tools.

However, the machine tools used for aircraft carrier construction in China are completely domestically produced and have no relation to those commonly used in Japan. Furthermore, in the field of military machine tools, Japan's level is far from competitive and falls far behind countries like the United States and Germany.

On a global scale, Europe possesses the most advanced military machine tool technology. However, China's development in the field of machine tools is surging forward and does not need to rely on external supply.

For instance, the aircraft carrier deck produced by China uses the 10,000-ton heavy-duty hydraulic presses from Jiangsu Guoguang Heavy Machinery Factory and the seven-axis, five-linkage machine tools used to manufacture propellers are produced by Zhenjiang CSSC Rudder Blade Company.

Not only is China's aircraft carrier production unrelated to Japanese machine tools, even ordinary military machine tools have no connection with Japanese products.

One of the provisions in the "Wassenaar Arrangement" restricting China's access to advanced technology explicitly prohibits the export of nuclear submarine propellers, large aircraft wings, high-precision five-axis, six-axis large-scale high-precision CNC machine tools. Dozens of countries are part of this agreement, including Japan, which strictly enforces it, especially towards China. Therefore, Japan will definitely not sell its own machine tools to China.

The Wassenaar Arrangement, led by the United States and jointly signed by multiple countries including Japan and the United Kingdom, aims to block China's technological advancements.

This agreement significantly impacted China's development in various critical areas such as aerospace, scientific research, and military technology, restraining the progress of Chinese tech enterprises for a long time. However, the countries involved in this agreement did not anticipate that their efforts to block China's technology would ultimately fail.

Not wanting to forever be at the mercy of these countries, China has strengthened its resolve to pursue independent innovation. The Wassenaar Arrangement made it clear to China that only by producing sufficiently outstanding products on its own can it be free from the constraints of any country and escape the shadow of reliance on imports. Through the efforts of generations of researchers and scientists, China's technology has continually made breakthroughs and progress.