Introduction to Mawei Shipyard: Mawei Shipyard is located in Mawei Port, Fuzhou, several miles away from the Min River. It is also called Fuzhou Shipyard. It was created under the Westernization Movement led by Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang of the Qing government in the 19th century. It was one of the major shipyards in China in the mid-to-late 1930s.
The Mawei Shipbuilding School in the shipyard park is the first modern naval school in China. It was established in 1866 by Shen Baozhen, the Minister of Shipbuilding. When it was first built, it was called "Qiushi Tang Art Bureau". In 1867, Mawei Shipyard After it was completed, it was moved to Mawei and renamed Shipbuilding School.
The Shipbuilding School is divided into two schools: the front school is a manufacturing school, also known as the "French School", which aims to cultivate shipbuilding and design talents, and is mainly devoted to shipbuilding; the rear school is a driving school, also known as the "English School". "School" was designed to train maritime navigation pilots and naval captains. The main major was driving, and later the marine major was added. In the same year, a drawing school was attached to the former school in order to cultivate engineering drawing talents. In 1868, in order to train technical workers, a painting school was added. A technical school, Yiyuan, was added to the former school.
In the more than 30 years since its establishment in 1886, Mawei Shipyard has built 40 ships for the Qing Dynasty, accounting for 70% of the domestic total at that time. A total of 620 students graduated from the two schools before and after the Shipbuilding School. Nine (famous translator Yan Fu and engineer Zhan Tianyou both graduated from here), in addition to being used to form China's first naval fleet, the Fujian Navy, they also equipped the two naval divisions of Beiyang and Nanyang with a large number of ships and a large number of generals.