India, what industry are you challenging us with?

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In 1979, India’s GDP was 0.15 trillion and China’s was 0.17 trillion. The two countries were evenly matched. In 2019, India's GDP was 2.87 trillion and China's was 14.34 trillion. China's GDP was five times that of India. In terms of magnitude, India and China can no longer speak on the same stage.

Figure·The spiritual traits of Indians

"Stubborn and eternal optimism"

But as long as it does not compare with China, India also has the pride of India: India has been the world's fastest growing major economy in recent years. In 2019, India has surpassed its former sovereign country, the United Kingdom, and become the fifth largest economy in the world. In the next two decades, India will also compete vigorously with Japan and Germany to become the world's third largest economy.

Figure·India’s lagging urbanization rate

Even lower than the average level of developing countries

On the other hand, India’s development potential has not been fully released : The median age of the Indian population is 27 to 28 years old, and there is no pressure from the aging of the society, while China is approaching 40 years old; India’s urbanization rate has just exceeded 30, and is underdeveloped. Japan and Germany in the lead have exceeded 90 - in the future, it will be more Over a long period of time, India's demographic dividend and the advancement of urbanization have nurtured huge businesses and markets. Of course, the Indian government still needs to rack its brains on how to overcome the many obstacles and chronic diseases, and I will not give them any advice here.

Picture of the Taj Mahal was praised as "a tear on the cheek of time"

The Indian government is even more "a heart as high as the sky, and a life as thin as paper"

Let’s talk seriously about the industries in which India has bet its ambitions.

First of all, India’s software outsourcing service industry and electronics manufacturing industry are back on the road.

Since the 1980s, the IT industry has always been India's most important industry.

Indian programmers are world-renowned for their "high quality and low price", accounting for more than half of the global software outsourcing market. Although China's software outsourcing output value is not small, there is a clear gap with India in terms of international brand, order-taking ability, technology accumulation, and customer stickiness. Indian programmers can grab a lot of software based on their inherent advantages in language alone. Order items.

Figure · Indian programmers "have a set of skills and are eloquent"

In recent years, Indian software companies have lagged behind in the mobile Internet industry wave, but the new crown epidemic has stimulated the growth of service trade. With globalization, more multinational companies plan to outsource their software development and even design work, and their first choice is India, where human resource costs and communication costs are relatively low - especially for Bangalore, the "Silicon Valley of India", which is a big opportunity.

Figure · Bangalore, the high-tech center of India

Closely connected with Silicon Valley in the technology business

The Indian IT industry also wants to make progress in hardware manufacturing breakthrough. The Minister of Information and Communications Technology of India set a flag last year to make India the second largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world - in the next five years, it will produce 1 billion mobile phones annually, plus 50 million TV sets and 50 million laptops. Hardware devices such as computers and tablets. We know that India’s original national policy is to skip the secondary industry and develop high-end service industries in the tertiary industry. The foundation for sustainable development of the service industry is not strong, and its shortcomings have become prominent in recent years. If India really relies on electronic hardware equipment As a link, and then regaining the manufacturing industry, it can be said to be a way to make up for the situation.

Picture · "MAKE IN INDIA" "Made in India"

To this end, the Indian government is sounding gongs and drums and making arrangements

Overall, the Indian IT industry The application prospects are also very broad. India, which has a high penetration rate of mobile phones, is accelerating the promotion of cashless payments. Data shows that there were only 32 million mobile payment users in India in 2016, and the number of users has reached more than 200 million in 2020. This scale, growth rate and penetration rate are indeed only comparable to those in China.

Secondly, it is the higher education industry cultivated in India.

India’s educational resources at various stages are unevenly distributed, mainly tilting towards higher education. On the basis of such sacrifices, India has established the third largest higher education system in the world, following the United States and China.

The scale of the Indian education market has reached 100 billion US dollars, and has maintained an annual growth rate of more than 20%. According to "Indian Higher Education: Vision 2030" released by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, by 2030, global university graduates will A quarter of the students will come from India - India aims to become the world's largest supplier of mid- to high-end talents.

The education industry is also a "basic investment". The Indian IT industry we mentioned earlier relies primarily on the large number of professional talents trained in an assembly line by Indian universities. Higher education not only provides India with hard power but also enhances soft power.

Figure·Polarized Indian education system

The other side of the elite: backward basic education

Here we must mention the world-renowned Indian Institute of Technology (English abbreviation: IIT). As the top engineering education and research institution in India, the Indian Institute of Technology is known as one of the most difficult colleges and universities in the world to get into with its ultra-low admission rate. Therefore, there is a popular saying, "Only those who cannot get into the Indian Institute of Technology will Go to MIT!” It is also recognized in global university circles that the Indian Institute of Technology, which is “difficult to enter, study and graduate”, is pragmatic, rigorous and has a very high market conversion rate of teaching results. In fact, most undergraduate graduates from Indian Institutes of Technology are recruited to study in the United States. Because of their fluent English and similar values, many Indian college students can gain a foothold in the Silicon Valley of the United States, and Indians have become the most prestigious people in Silicon Valley. group of ethnic groups. Although there is a problem of brain drain, this large number of people overseas are leading the way for India's domestic development to varying degrees, greatly enhancing India's international influence.

Picture·Indians surviving in Silicon Valley in the United States

Picture·Indians in the current British cabinet

Indian Institute of Technology focuses on engineering education and comprehensive disciplines The strength is limited, and according to the latest National Education Policy 2020 passed by the Indian government, India has also begun to establish multi-disciplinary comprehensive universities, and hopes to release more teaching autonomy and autonomy by operating an open distance learning system, providing online courses Initiatives such as autonomy to cultivate national elites in more categories and attract more foreign students - India's layout of higher education in recent years is very similar to our previous 985 and 211 projects, and the results will also be It will gradually become apparent in the coming years.

Furthermore, what needs to be noted is India’s defense manufacturing industry, biomedical industry, aerospace industry and soft power film industry.

India has been tracking this big business of arms for a long time. The current Prime Minister of India, Modi, has publicly stated that "India will take a big step forward to promote production with a dynamic, stable and competitive defense manufacturing industry." At the same time, he assured relevant domestic manufacturers in India that any company that can Military hardware designed and manufactured domestically will no longer be sourced from abroad.

Figure · After making many international jokes, it is determined

It promotes the independence of military industry to drive other manufacturing industries

The Indian government has set a national defense target for 2025 The profit target for the manufacturing industry is set at 25 billion US dollars, and in recent years it has gradually simplified the procedures for issuing arms export licenses to public and private enterprises (the original bureaucratic system has been criticized for its inefficiency). A series of policy packages show that India is Actively transform from a major importer of "weapons from all nations" to a major arms exporter. The list of the world's major arms exporters released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in 2020 shows that India's arms export ranking rose from 23rd to 19th in 2019, and India's defense exports in 2018 and 2019 surged by 700% compared with 2016 and 2017. The speed is staggering.

Picture·The latest Indian defense exhibition DefExpo

The largest comprehensive defense exhibition in South Asia

The biopharmaceutical industry is another important step in India’s new economic field. A pillar. The COVID-19 epidemic has impacted many industries and also brought development opportunities to the medical industry. Before the COVID-19 epidemic, the global vaccine production center was already India. The Serum Institute of India is the world's largest vaccine manufacturer in terms of doses produced and sold globally. In 2012, the Serum Institute of India began a major overseas merger and acquisition, acquiring the Dutch Bilthoven Biopharmaceutical Company and the Czech Bohumil Pharmaceutical Factory. It not only mastered a variety of vaccine production technologies, but also opened up the European market. . Including the Serum Institute of India, India's six major vaccine manufacturers and an industrial cluster composed of some small pharmaceutical companies have taken on a large number of international vaccine orders, focusing on the production of common vaccines for pneumonia, rubella, BCG, meningitis, mumps, polio, etc. Vaccines have an extremely strong market position.

Pictured: Indian Prime Minister Modi expressed his ambition at the United Nations General Assembly

Claiming that vaccines produced in India will help all mankind

India’s generic drugs are even more famous internationally. The price gap of Glenin shown in "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is just the tip of the iceberg. The Indian government, which rarely faces sanctions and difficulties from the West over patent protection issues, has cleared the shackles of the patent system for generic drug companies. This has allowed Indian generic drugs to take advantage of large production, quick duplication and low prices, and their quality has also been recognized by international authorities. , becoming the "World Pharmacy".

Picture · With the acquiescence of the West, the Indian government has a hand

Allowing local pharmaceutical companies to imitate patented drugs

Picture · India’s GSLV launch vehicle, commonly known as Fat 3

Barely considered second-rate compared to China’s Long March series

The film industry is also an industry that the Indian government has supported for many years. Although there is a huge gap between the Indian film industry and China in terms of total box office and number of screens, it also has the advantages of high annual output, unique style, excellent overseas box office performance, and fully developed domestic market. Looking at the major countries in the world, all have strong cultural export support, and India relies on mass-produced movies from industrial bases such as "Bollywood" to build a distinct cultural identity and coordinates, providing a global recognition of India's national image. Solid pivot and inner drive. Indian movies with no taboo themes, such as "Three Idiots" and "Dangal!" The success of "Dad" and "Little Loli's Monkey God" in China is definitely not accidental, and the ticket price of Indian movies in India has always been maintained at a very low level. On the surface, the box office is not high, but there are a large number of moviegoers. In India The domestic entertainment market has strong appeal and has become the banner of cultural cohesion.

Picture·"Wrestle!" Among the overseas box office of "Dad"

The Chinese mainland market alone grossed nearly 1.3 billion yuan

Picture: List of some impressive Indian movies

India I really like to compare with China. This kind of entanglement reflects its own mentality and positioning, and it can also be regarded as a kind of recognition of us. India has great potential and ambitions internally, and there are better international channels and environment externally. These are facts. If we think that India on the road will only talk and be ineffective, it is undoubtedly a misjudgment.