No. 1 in the world for 11 consecutive years. Why is it made in China?

(Economic Observation) No. 1 in the world for 11 consecutive years. Why is it made in China?

　　China News Service, Beijing, March 14 (Reporter Liu Yuying) China has become the world's largest manufacturing country for 11 consecutive years.

How is this done?

Standing at a new point of great change, what kind of challenges will the new crown pneumonia epidemic and trade frictions pose to Chinese manufacturing?

　　Regarding the above issues, a reporter from China News Agency interviewed the director and professor of the Center for World Politics Studies of the China Foreign Affairs University.

Prior to this, the three published works of "Hub-3000 Years of China", "Overflow-History of the Future Made in China", "Broken Cocoon-Isolation, Trust and the Future" became best-selling social science works and attracted the attention of academic circles.

　　"Made in China has become the world's number one external factor mainly due to the transformation of the global economic structure, and China is just stepping on the'right' timing." Shi Zhan believes that first, the European and American innovation economic transformation that began in the mid-1990s has resulted in large-scale outsourcing. China can take over the demand. Second, China’s accession to the WTO has opened the global market to China and spurred China’s manufacturing to become stronger.

　　As for internal factors, it is generally believed that China's complete industrial categories, huge market space, complete supporting facilities, and high-quality industrial workers have all contributed to the continuous strengthening of China's manufacturing, and the speed is very fast.

　　"The hard work of the Chinese people can hardly be compared to other countries, and a strong government. These elements together form a strong'supply chain network', reducing the overall cost of manufacturing in China to a very low level," Shi said. Said that the supply chain network is not a simple aggregation of many factories, but requires more system ecological cooperation. After reaching a huge scale, it will promote a qualitative change in the cost control logic, making it difficult for other countries to cooperate with Of competition.

　　But big does not mean being strong. China has a clear understanding of the level of manufacturing development.

Miao Wei, the former minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, said that China is still in the third echelon of the global manufacturing industry and has about 30 years to become a manufacturing power.

　　Shi Zhan believes that, in addition to the obvious shortcomings of high-end equipment, the shortcomings of China's manufacturing also have the problems of insufficient process capabilities and insufficient independent innovation capabilities.

China has many shortcomings in basic research and core technology, especially the lack of innovation from 0 to 1.

In these areas, China has a long way to go.

　　The new crown pneumonia epidemic and trade frictions have exposed shortcomings in China's industrial supply chain.

Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China stated that it will sort out 41 industrial categories and sub-categories, and find "blank spots" in the supply chain of the industrial chain, "strong chain" and "repair chain".

　　Shi Zhan believes that from a security perspective, it is necessary to solve the key "stuck neck" pain points, but it does not need to pursue independent control of all links. In fact, those stuck neck links are also in a state of interdependence between countries, as long as they are in the most critical link. It’s all you need to be able to have countermeasures.

　　The neck pain point is a safety issue, but most of the economic links do not involve the neck stuck problem, they are only economic issues.

As far as economic issues are concerned, all countries should develop based on their comparative advantages, which is the most efficient.

　　Looking back at the development of the global manufacturing industry in the 20th century, the central position of the manufacturing industry has been constantly shifting, from Europe and the United States to Japan and South Korea, to the Four Little Dragons in Asia, and to China. Can China continue to maintain this position?

　　Through in-depth research on Vietnam’s manufacturing, the Shizhan team believes that merely transferring factories without transferring the supply chain network does not constitute a substantial industrial transfer.

There is no overseas country that can undertake such a large-scale supply chain network transfer in China.

"China's supply chain network has not encountered substantial challenges due to trade frictions," Shi Zhan said.

　　If there are any factors that can change the global manufacturing landscape, it will be a technological revolution.

Shi Zhan believes that a new round of technological revolution is on the line, but it is still a single-point breakthrough and has not reached the node of multi-domain resonance, but more and more signs indicate that this resonance effect is ready to emerge.

For China, how to ensure that it does not fall behind in the new round of scientific and technological revolution by releasing the innovative vitality of society is of vital importance.

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