Who is advocating the "artisan spirit" in the West?

Introduction: "Tell the story behind domestic cars, SLR cameras, ballpoint pens, rice cookers and toilet seats, so that you can understand the real strength and level of China's manufacturing industry today."

I haven't written any new articles for a while, but I've read something recently and my throat has been choking. I don't know when it started, but an analytical article boasting that the West has more "industrial spirit" suddenly blew up in China, greatly boasting that the West has more "contractual spirit" than in the past. However, China's industry and manufacturing industry have been dismissed by people from all walks of life as "lacking craftsman spirit", but is this really the case? Not exactly.

One: What is the so-called "western more contractual"?

The old joke that westerners have more "contract spirit" has long been sour. Since the era of great navigation, the west has been very good at signing unequal treaties and tearing them up at any time in order to plot greater interests, and this is still the case today. To give the simplest example: In order to keep the throne of the United States as the largest country in the Olympic gold medal, the Olympic Committee has constantly revised the rules and repeatedly reduced the table tennis and diving events that China people are best at. At present, there are only four events left, table tennis and diving, which are far below the events stipulated in the World Championships.

On the other hand, sports that Americans are particularly good at, such as track and field, are increasing wildly. From the first three projects to dozens of projects today. They are: men's events:100m, 200m, 400m, 800m,1500m, 5000m,10000m, marathon, 3000m steeplechase, 165438+. 4X400 relay and women's events:100m, 200m, 400m, 800m,1500m, 5000m,10000m, marathon, 3000m steeplechase,1000m.

Frankly speaking, if the incident had been a little fairer, China's gold medal would have been unknown outside the United States. I would like to add here that the United States and other countries also have a considerable number of national professional athletes receiving subsidies. Most of them, such as Phelps, are professional athletes, and they also participate in the competition under the national system. ) and these are just the tip of the iceberg. In the international economic order and commercial transactions, the West often breaks rules and contracts at will. So that Russian Putin once ridiculed at the conference: "Does the United States still know that there are international laws?"

But whenever I talk about the so-called "contract spirit" in the west, someone always says to me, "Zhou Xiaoping, the contract spirit may not exist in the west, but the craftsman spirit is obvious to all." ? You see how sophisticated German cars are. Japanese rice cookers are more sophisticated than those in China. This is the "artisan spirit". "Well, let's talk about this so-called" artisan spirit "which is stronger.

First of all, we need to establish a common sense here. China is a post-industrialized country. 1930 when Germany started missile research and development, we were still fighting among warlords, and I was besieged and had nothing in my hand. It's like a 5000-meter run. Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Japan all ran 4500m, and China was still standing at the starting line. Therefore, countries that are ahead will inevitably lead our country too much for a long time. But this lead is not because of the craftsman spirit, but because the research and development time is long enough.

Any country's industry and manufacturing industry are tempered from shanzhai and low quality. Made in Germany was synonymous with shanzhai and low quality at first, and was often copied from British sewing machines and ridiculed. At the beginning of the development of the United States, many weapons simply copied German designs and even robbed German scientists. In the past, American manufacturing was synonymous with low quality. At that time, many Europeans looked down on American goods and thought that American manufacturing was the flavor of the urban-rural fringe.

However, with the accumulation of their industrial chain for hundreds of years, these situations have gradually established their own reputation and constantly improved their technical level and threshold in the competition. This makes them move from the image of shanzhai to the image of precision manufacturing. Please note that I am talking about the accumulation of the industrial chain for hundreds of years! However, China has only been established for 66 years.

However, I, Zhou Xiaoping, have always believed that what westerners have accomplished in one hundred years will be enough for us in 50 years. Although it has only been 66 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's industrial field and technological level are surpassing the West in an all-round way. Here are some simple chestnuts:

Two: Isn't the domestic product inferior to that of Japan?

When I was young, about ten or twenty years ago, there was a very cynical joke in society. It is said that the Japanese are very cunning. They never cut down trees in their own country, but only buy trees from China for furniture and chopsticks. Part of it is for your own use and part of it is sold back to the Chinese people, so that you can get several times the profit, that is, make money for the Chinese people and destroy their environment.

Maybe in the past, maybe there was such a situation. But in fact, few people have thought, is this really the reason why Japanese people are smart and China people are stupid? Is it because the Japanese have a business mind and the China people don't? Of course not. Japanese people have money to buy wood, and China people are poor enough to sell wood. There is always a reason. Japanese capital did not fall from the sky, and there must be a source. In fact, the answer is simple, because it was made in Japan that year.

Many brands born in the 1990s may sound unfamiliar, such as Hitachi TV, Panasonic refrigerator and Toshiba washing machine. At that time, these Japanese manufacturers conquered the global market with their own prices and quality, and made enough profits. Of course, there is no need to sell trees for money. At that time, China didn't have this manufacturing level, so we had to sell trees for money.

However, today, China has gained a good reputation in the global small household appliances market. How far have China-made products such as Changhong, Haier, Gree, Midea, Jiuyang and TCL pushed Japan? Forcing their products to almost disappear from the market share. I posted this on Weibo the day before yesterday. As a result, someone immediately came to scold me and said, "Zhou Xiaoping, you are talking nonsense. These products in Japan were replaced by China because Japan took the initiative to quit, and people only focused on higher-end home appliances! "

Hehe, I guess Japanese entrepreneurs will want to die when they hear such mindless words: "You just disappear voluntarily, and your whole family disappears voluntarily!" " ".If there is no hair on the skin, there is no hair. When an industrial chain can't even scale the most basic products, how can it accumulate high-end products with craftsman spirit? Sure enough, according to media reports, almost all Japanese precision toilet seats and some Japanese rice cookers are produced by China enterprises. What role did Japan play in it? Is the role of packaging and advertising. This speculative mentality is very different from the craftsman's feelings of making products with heart.

Made in Japan was defeated by made in China, which not only caused Japan's weak industrial base, but also was one of the main reasons for Japan's economic recession for 20 years. How embarrassed is the Japanese economy at present? Please look at an economic data of Japan. The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued relevant announcements. In 20 14, the part of Japan's timber exports facing China increased by 96%, which means that Japan has now become the largest timber supplier in China. Some of these Woods are processed into packaging materials, some are made into exquisite furniture, some are consumed in China, and some are sold back to Japan.

How's it going? Is there an earth-shattering sense of generosity? Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, the process of Sino-Japanese trade reversal is actually the process of the decline of Japanese manufacturing and the rise of China manufacturing. The market is the best touchstone. It is by no means a day's work for China to replace Japan in these big economic fields. It is the result of China people's specialization for decades. From the moment Haier Zhang Ruimin would rather smash unqualified refrigerators than let these products flow out of the market, generations of China industrialists have been tirelessly pursuing and conquering the market with quality and reputation.

Some people may say, what are small household appliances? China is not as good as Japan and Europe in more sophisticated electronic equipment and subdivision. So I'm here to tell you about electronic equipment. Common daily electronic devices, such as mobile phones and smart phones, were once dominated by Finland, the United States, Japan, South Korea and other countries. Nokia Motorola Sony Ericsson Samsung. However, nowadays, many brands have long since withdrawn from China's post-90s vision and only exist in the memory of post-70s and post-80s. Nokia, motorcycles and Sony Ericsson have almost completely disappeared. Samsung barely survived, but its market share shrank sharply, and Huawei replaced it. Including in the European market, Huawei's sales, reputation and technology are much better than Samsung's. (According to the data released by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, a European market research company, in the third quarter of 20 15, the share of Huawei's mobile phones in the five major European markets (Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain) has jumped from the sixth place in 20 14 to the second place in the third quarter, becoming the fastest growing powerhouse. )

In fact, the mobile phone is only the terminal equipment of the communication industry. In this field, the strength of two domestic enterprises can be described as terrible, namely ZTE and Huawei. Few people know that the combined names of these two enterprises mean "for the prosperity of China". If a country does not have its own core technology in the field of communication, it is as terrible as a country without its own air force. Previously, in the global market, Cisco, IBM and Hewlett-Packard were the three pillars. However, since the emergence of ZTE and Huawei, the situation has been completely reversed.

Today, China's communication industry is booming not only in Asia, but also in Europe, America and even Latin America and Africa. Latin America and Africa are all communication networks and base stations of ZTE and Huawei. The United States is extremely vigilant against these two companies and has imposed sanctions on ZTE and Huawei many times. Through government intervention in the market, ZTE Huawei's business in the United States has been terminated many times, which has caused great losses to our enterprises in China. In the industrial field, China is probably the only country that can push the United States to this point.

Finally, to sum up objectively, Japanese manufacturing industry still has advantages in several sub-sectors at most, doing better than China, but it is not systematic. The advantages of these market segments are rapidly being gradually replaced by China.

Is it worse made in China than in Germany?

For a long time, China people thought that German manufacturing was the most advanced. For example, the quality of German cars is good, and German turners are really the best in the world.

We don't deny the quality of German products, but as I said, this is only because its industrial development is much earlier, and this commanding height is not insurmountable. With the continuous consolidation of China's manufacturing base, the situation is changing. Last year, Knut bought high-end CNC machine tools from China's Dalian Yangguang again, and Germany also wanted to apply for the exclusive agency sales right of Dalian Yangguang in Europe. It is reported that these high-precision machine tool impellers designed and manufactured by China people have better production efficiency and quality than German machine tools, but the price is twice as cheap as that made in Germany. This German company used to be a manufacturer of high-end CNC machine tools, but now it has become a distributor made in China.

Maybe many people still don't know what a machine tool is. Machine tools are also known as the mother of industry and manufacturing. Machine tools are machines that make machines! The accuracy of the machine tool directly determines the accuracy of the manufactured machine. Dalian Yang Guang is by no means the only one in China. There are also several CNC machine tool enterprises in Qingdao, and their product indexes are far superior to those of similar products in Germany. The difficulty and process complexity of machine tools are far from that of a German car. Because cars are only made by machines, and machines are made by machine tools.

This means that maybe in the future, you will buy a car imported from Germany. Although the machine that made this car is also made in Germany, the machine that made this car is probably made by China Machine Tool. In other words, China manufacturing is really at the top of the whole industrial chain.

Of course, there are many other types of lathes at present, and the level of German manufacturing is still above that of China. But these are just their roots. At the current rising rate of manufacturing in China, these industrial bases accumulated in the past century will slowly melt like icebergs under fire.

Frankfurter allgemeine zeitung reported in 2065438+05 that Germany will purchase high-speed trains in China, which means that Siemens' high-speed rail manufacturing technology in Germany lags behind that in China. 20 15 when I went to CSR research institute for an interview, their engineer said, "At that time, foreign media and even domestic media didn't believe that China high-speed railway was built by themselves, insisting that we copied it from Germany and France, but that was impossible. At most, some accessories have been purchased, but the core technology is ours. " "For example, the French high-speed rail, although the test speed has set a world record of 570 kilometers per hour, many parts have been damaged after completion, and most of the time it can only run at a speed of 300-350 kilometers per hour, while the China high-speed rail can run for a long time at an actual running speed of 350-400 kilometers per hour." "The experimental speed of German high-speed rail is ok, but their actual operating speed is only 200-250 km/h" ...

In fact, not only that, China high-speed rail can also adapt to the most complicated climate environment in the world. We can exercise in the cold and windy area of Mobei, gallop in the subtropical zone of Yunnan and Guangxi, and keep running without slowing down when crossing the dense caves and tunnels in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. And there are many technical problems that similar companies in the west can't do. What China can do is to rely on the tireless craftsmanship of generations of industrialists, from scratch, from scratch, from scratch to fine, from fine to strong.

How do you explain that China can't make a high-quality SLR camera, a high-quality car or even a high-quality ballpoint pen?

Every time I talk about the topic of "Made in China", someone always questions me and says, "Zhou Xiaoping, if China is as good as you say, why can't you use a high-quality SLR, a high-quality car or even a high-quality ballpoint pen?" . I just want to say that China should not do everything better than foreign countries, nor does it want to do everything better than foreign countries. Many things have nothing to do with technology, but whether market cultivation is worth it.

First, let's look at the ballpoint pen core. Indeed, the best ballpoint pen core in the world is SENATOR made in Germany. But at present, not only China can't make this thing, but also Japanese and American can't make such a good ballpoint pen core. Why? Because it's not worth it, not impossible.

The first is industrial accumulation. Senator is a very old enterprise, and has been working in the field of ballpoint pens for many years. Technology is accumulated bit by bit, and the annual R&D cost is not much, but it is accumulated slowly and for a long time, forming considerable R&D investment and technical barriers. If other enterprises want to catch up, they need to invest several times more in a short time, but this is not good because the profit of ballpoint pens is too low.

Secondly, the problem of sunset industry. Ballpoint pens have their own uniqueness, but with the continuous development of water-based pens, gel pens and signature pens, the market share of ballpoint pens is constantly being cut, and no enterprise is willing to develop them. An extreme example is that although Motorola's pagers in the United States have the best quality and the highest manufacturing level, it is impossible for China to invest huge sums of money in developing and manufacturing better pagers, because this thing is a sunset industry and unprofitable.

Speaking of ballpoint pens, let's take a look at SLR cameras. The recent good news is that China will launch an "optical capsule" similar to Hubble, with a field of view 300 times that of Hubble. Behind this news, it represents the real level in the field of optical technology in China. No one thought that China, who is not obvious in the field of optics, would make such an artifact. If you compare Japanese and German SLR lenses with this thing in China, it's just like throwing an egg at a stone, which is ridiculous. However, why are no domestic enterprises willing to transfer these technologies to civilian equipment? Is it because Chinese businessmen can't think of this? Of course not.

The production line of SLR industry is relatively complex, and the construction cost is extremely high. The transformation from national large-scale technology to civil equipment technology requires more adaptive development costs, which means that the investment risk is great. In addition, it is not only a technical problem, but also a "B-grid" problem in the field of fast-moving consumer goods, that is, the brand effect. For example, you can easily make a handbag that is more beautiful and much better in quality than LV and Prada, but you can't sell it for tens of thousands, only a few hundred pieces, so you must not be crazy about advertising like LV and Prada, because "B" takes time to accumulate and several generations to gradually strengthen.

At present, in the field of SLR cameras, Germany and Japan have made the "B grid" very high. Even if you make a SLR with similar or even better quality, the market will not buy it for a long time. Therefore, no entrepreneur will easily set foot in this field. Therefore, this is not a problem of technical threshold, nor is it a problem without craftsman spirit, but a commercial problem.

The same is true of the automobile industry. A few days ago, Mercedes-Benz and BMW advertised each other to commemorate the 130 and 100 anniversaries of mutual appreciation. Again, China was founded only 66 years ago. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were carriages dragging guns on the military parade. It is obviously unfair to China to expect to surpass German cars in such a short time. Is it harder to build a car than a rocket? Of course not. So China can make world-class rockets, why can't it make world-class cars?

After all, cars are different from SLR and ballpoint pens. They have a vast market and rich profits. Many people are willing to invest and take risks. But why is China's automobile manufacturing industry still inferior to German? In fact, there are many reasons, not only the problem that China's industry started late, because China started later than the West in all industrial fields, but we have surpassed the West in many fields, and the development of the independent automobile industry is still lagging behind.

Few people know that, in fact, China's automobile manufacturing industry has been suppressed by national policies for a long time. The reason why China approved a large number of German, Japanese and French joint-venture automobile enterprises in China and imported a large number of German and French cars to suppress domestic cars is actually very simple: that's because we don't want the European economy to collapse too soon.

Since Europe lost its dominant position in maritime trade, relying mainly on old coins and luxury goods, its economy has been sluggish. But luxury goods can't maintain the expenses of so many people, so the automobile industry has become the only economic pillar of the European Union. Micro signal: chn007cn

It is an indisputable fact that China is called "the crusher of developed countries", and things made in China will collapse in the west. However, for China's greater national interests, a complete EU is very helpful to relieve the international pressure from China, otherwise, if the EU collapses, China will face the pressure from the United States alone. If the EU can maintain stability, then China, the EU and the United States can form an ingenious tripartite relationship. In the process of China's continuous attempts to drive American forces out of Asia, a living EU has more advantages than a dead EU, so it can be said that the China administration is deliberately "protecting" the European automobile industry.

In fact, as you can see, in recent years, the national policy has been slightly better for the domestic automobile manufacturing industry, and domestic cars have blossomed in all directions immediately. The SUV series of the Great Wall should not be sold too hot at all, and its reputation is booming. As long as China becomes stronger, the existence of the European Union will mean less to us, and it is only a matter of time before China's automobile industry completely replaces Europe.

V: How strong is China Manufacturing at present?

For this question, I just want to say: "Today is the second, and tomorrow is the first." Let's count how strong China manufacturing is.

China has the best controlled nuclear fusion technology in the world, and its difficulty index is 10.

China has the only "complete industrial chain" in the world, and its difficulty index is 10.

China has the best quantum communication technology in the world, and its difficulty index is 10.

China has the strongest hypersonic vehicle in the world, with difficulty index 10.

China has the most sophisticated dark matter detection satellite in the world, with a difficulty index of 9.

China opens the world's most advanced Hadron Collider with a difficulty index of 9.

China has successfully tested the solid combustion rocket engine, with a difficulty index of 9.

China has the strongest land-based missile strike system in the world, with a difficulty index of 9.

China has the safest and most efficient aerospace industry in the world, with a difficulty index of 9.

China has the best nuclear bomb maintenance and preservation technology in the world, with a difficulty index of 9.

China has the fastest and best technology high-speed rail in the world, with a difficulty index of 8.

China has the largest transmission electron microscope (perimeter 1.5km) in the world, with a difficulty index of 8.

China has the most advanced gravitational wave detection station in the world, with a difficulty index of 8.

China has the fastest supercomputer in the world, with a difficulty index of 8.

China has the world's only duck stealth fighter with a difficulty index of 8.

China has the second-largest naval ship manufacturing technology in the world, with a difficulty index of 8.

China has the second-largest air force equipment manufacturing technology in the world, with a difficulty index of 8.

China has the second army equipment manufacturing technology in the world, with a difficulty index of 8.

China has the second largest nuclear bomb production capacity and equipment in the world, with a difficulty index of 8.

etc ......

So what's in Japan? There seems to be only one camera in China except for the production of toilet seats and some rice cookers packaged in Japan. What about Germany? It seems that only some machine tools and automobile technologies are better than domestic ones. Britain still has better aircraft manufacturing technology than China, but Britain has to turn to China for help in railway and nuclear power plant technology, and it still exchanges crude oil benefits with us. Of course, at present, the United States still has many technologies that are better than China, such as aerospace technology, fighter planes, warships and army equipment. Especially in the field of software and cultural soft power. The industrial categories in the United States are not perfect, with more than 500 in China and only 100 in the United States.

In other words, "China is the second today and the first tomorrow" is an objective conclusion that conforms to the facts and is not exaggerated at all.

So every time I hear someone say that Japanese SLR is better than China, it is not made in China. German cars are better than China, so I hate that China is one hundred years behind Germany. We don't put empathy:

If the situation of Japan and Germany in China is reversed, it is assumed that today's Japan and Germany have the strongest controlled nuclear fusion technology in the world, a complete industrial chain, quantum communication satellites, dark matter detectors, a "primitive" gravitational wave detection station, hypersonic flying chess, hadron collider, the world's first high-speed rail, stronger stealth fourth-generation aircraft, fleet, air force and marine corps, and the world's strongest large aircraft. There are deep space telescopes 300 times stronger than Hubble in the United States, and radio devices larger than three football fields. Suppose that only some rice cookers, cameras or cars in China are better than them today, do you think those in Japan and Germany are not as good as those in China? Do you think China is more "craftsman spirit"?

Obviously you won't.

It's not that our industrial and technical talents in China can't do it, that they don't have the spirit of artisans, or that they don't have the technical level. It's that we media owe them an apology and take them seriously. Just as only a few things in Japan are better than us and have been blown to the sky, we almost crush the West in many industrial fields, but we are always ignored or even degraded. What is bad is not the technical talents in China, but the cultural field in China.

Some people say that the craftsman's spirit is embodied in the details, so I will talk about the details again: except Chinese mainland, most countries have no straws for small packaged drinks and milk, and no forks for barreled instant noodles. People in China believe that customers definitely prefer to carry and drink drinks in small packages, so they are all equipped with small straws. When customers buy bottled instant noodles, they have to eat them in a non-family environment most of the time, so they should be equipped with a small fork. Details determine success or failure, which is praised by China people with originality.

Of course, you may also say that a XX daily newspaper, Weibo, once wrote that "China's manufacturing lags behind the West for a hundred years", and my answer is: "Oh, they also say that the yield per mu is 30,000 Jin."

Or you may say, "Zhou Xiaoping, how do you explain the statement made by the Minister of Industry and Information Technology at the two sessions that China's technology is still 30 years behind the West?" What I want to say is: "On the one hand, I am humble, working all day, repeating." Or jump into the abyss and have no regrets. On the other hand, it is to pour some ecstasy soup into the west. It is best to let the west continue to be blind and confident. It is best to let the west continue to think that we are not a threat, which is more conducive to our boredom and wealth. This is the ancient political wisdom of China. "Just as the last Prime Minister said when meeting with African leaders," China is still a developing country … ",the following leaders laughed directly. Although many people no longer believe in this story, the play will go on.

China is best at "strategic deception", which is by no means a legend in Jianghu.