Lin Jianbang

Lin Jianbang

Lin Jianbang, male, a British Chinese, went to Britain from Hong Kong in 1992 to invest in real estate and catering industry in Birmingham and other places. On the evening of January 4, 2011, Lin Jianbang confirmed that his lawyer had submitted a legal letter to the British navy to participate in the bidding for the British retired aircraft carrier invincible.

Bidding for retired aircraft carrier

On November 30, 2010, a spokesman for the British Navy announced the auction of the invincible in response to the defense budget cuts launched by the British government. The British Navy ruled that buyers could not use the invincible for military purposes. the deadline for bidding by the British navy is 5 January 2011. The British Navy did not set a reserve price for the invincible, and the bidders participated in the bidding through "secret bidding". The British navy will first compare the bids, then assess the intended use of the bid, and finally announce the winner in early February. Experts estimate that the auction value is about 2 million pounds (about 20 million yuan), and the highest price proposed by Lin Jianbang is 4 million pounds (about 40 million yuan). Lin Jianbang said that if he was able to win the invincible, his first goal would be to tow the ship back to China. At a shipyard in Zhuhai where he invested, he would transform the ship into a maritime international school and carry out cultural exchanges between China and Britain through British education mode. If the British military does not allow the invincible to leave the country, Lin Jianbang will dock it in the British city of Liverpool, where the Chinese first settled down, and transform the ship into an international school capable of teaching Chinese and English, so that the young generation of British Chinese can maintain a "Chinese heart".

About invincible

The aircraft carrier invincible is the main warship designed and built by the Royal Navy in the most difficult period after the Second World War. It was officially put into service in July 1980 and withdrew from the combat sequence on August 1, 2005. In the whole 26 years of military career, it has witnessed almost all large-scale military operations participated by the British navy.