Chapter 964: Chapter 721: The Era of Flight Arrives

In the unnoticed corner following the eight-year shipbuilding plan, Arthur initiated a new policy aimed at encouraging technological upgrades in the civilian shipbuilding sector.

When it comes to military shipbuilding, Australasia has certainly reached the forefront of the world.

However, in the field of civilian shipbuilding, Australasia still lags behind some countries with a long history in the shipbuilding industry.

This was an unavoidable issue. The country's focus was definitely on the more important military sector, and the civilian sector, relying solely on the efforts of the people, could not possibly catch up with those nations that had been building ships for several hundred years in a short time.

Take the Netherlands, for example, once the dominator of Europe, whose history of civilian shipbuilding could even be traced back several hundred years.