历史学家Niall Ferguson（尼尔·弗格森）在Civilization（《文明》）一书中指出，从造船业可以看出，中国正在复兴。“If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. 如果在 1411 年，你能够环游地球一周，你一定会对令人眼花缭乱的东方文明印象深刻。
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They are building ships again in China – vast ships capable of circumnavigating ... capable of solving the problems the twenty first century world faces. 中国又在造船了——能够环球航行的巨轮......能够解决21世纪世界面临的问题。”今年和明年是中国邮轮的发展大年，国家出台多项措施助力邮轮游，不仅方便了乘坐邮轮来华的外国旅游团免签入境，也圆了许多国人的航海周年新梦想。
