Author: Zhu Mingqi
Source: Zhenghe Island (ID: zhenghedao)
Once, more than 3,000 pen-making enterprises in China produced more than 40 billion ballpoint pens per year, but faced the embarrassment of not being able to create a small ballpoint nib. A Chinese steel mill lasted 5 years to tackle the problem, and finally installed tens of billions of ballpoint pens with "Chinese pen heads" to solve the long-term pain of lack of "core" in Chinese ballpoint pens.
Once, many Chinese people went to Japan to grab smart toilet covers, and China's bathroom industry was questioned - China is the world's largest producer of sanitary equipment, is not even a smart toilet cover can not be done? But soon the bathroom industry broke through the core technology of smart toilet lids, and the history of "tao" toilet lids in Japan turned over.
Such stories are playing out in many of China's manufacturing industries. Manufacturing is the foundation of the country, the foundation of a strong country, a number of "Chinese-style unsatisfied" enterprises are moving from Chinese manufacturing to China's intelligent manufacturing, they disregard prejudice and doubts, in different ways to adhere to the "China intelligent manufacturing" belief, overcome the industry's core technical barriers, break the dilemma of foreign monopoly, and these enterprises are not only the industry's head giant, large enterprises, but also a large number of small and medium-sized micro and medium-sized enterprises distributed in all walks of life.
In recent years, under the leadership of such a group of Chinese entrepreneurs who dare to fight, are independent and innovative, and have set off a rolling upsurge of innovation and entrepreneurship in various places, and a number of specialized and special new "little giants" and "hidden champions" have emerged continuously.
In the micro-film "Unconvinced" filmed by WeBank, a company focusing on the core device field of wind power is one of the representatives of these outstanding small and medium-sized enterprises. With their ingenuity and dreams, with their own technology and strength, they staged a story of "disobedience" in China's wind power industry.
What impressed you most about entrepreneurship? Is it a contest between courage and perseverance? Or is it innovation that is constantly researching on its own? Or is it the spirit of being more and more courageous in the face of difficulties?
1. Chinese wind power enterprises that are "dissatisfied"
In the early 1980s, through the introduction, digestion and absorption of foreign advanced technology, the mainland servo drive technology made significant progress, but the shortcomings in product reliability still restricted the matching and application of the mainland CNC machine tool, and continued to affect the development of the mainland equipment manufacturing industry. Until more than a decade ago, some machine tool manufacturers still rely on foreign servo systems, once making domestic CNC machine tools in terms of price, delivery time, reliability and other aspects in the disadvantage, more unintentional to develop new varieties of market demand, losing huge market share.
Foreign servo-driven enterprises have occupied the highlands, and they have entered the world's largest wind power market early, established product barriers, and established a leading position in the market. Especially in the field of wind turbines, servo drives play a role similar to "hearts", but the domestic wind power industry has always relied on imported brands.
If you can't solve the problem of "subject to people", the future development of the wind power industry will be limited, the core technology in the hands is the only way out, many "unconvinced" enterprises take the initiative to shoulder the heavy responsibility of scientific and technological innovation, independent research and development, they firmly believe: foreign can do the technology, we must be able to do, not for anything else, we want to do Chinese their own brand.
Yan Zong, general manager of Shenzhen Zhongcheng Excellence Technology Co., Ltd., a zhongyuan enterprise in the short film "Dissatisfied", believes that "to seize the high-end market, we must do fine products, and each performance must reach or exceed the first-line imported brands, and at the same time, we must give full play to the advantages of local costs and implement the parity strategy." "A few years later, their products successfully entered the core industrial chain of the wind power industry.
It is this spirit of "disobedience" that drives the wind power industry forward, from relying on imports, to independent research and development, to import substitution, in recent years, domestic servo technology has improved rapidly, allowing the mainland to occupy a certain right to speak in the core technology of manufacturing.
Second, go global in "disobedience"
So why are so many Chinese companies so eager to firmly grasp the core market of the wind power industry in their own hands?
At present, the wind power industry is ushering in new opportunities for development, and China has clearly put forward the "double carbon" goal of "striving for carbon peak in 2030 and carbon neutrality in 2060", and strictly controlling enterprises with high pollution, high energy consumption and high emissions. Wind power and solar energy have attracted much attention because they can produce a large number of "green electricity", but if some core technologies of wind power cannot be mastered in their own hands, the market advantage cannot be mastered by local enterprises, and their costs will undoubtedly rise sharply, which is not conducive to the scale effect of wind power.
At present, China has ranked first in the world in terms of installed wind power capacity for 12 consecutive years, and the huge domestic demand for wind power is providing huge entrepreneurial innovation opportunities for the entire industrial chain, and the pace of "domestic substitution" of core components in the wind power industry has accelerated, and even further realized "going out".
The "disobedience" of Chinese entrepreneurs in the face of various problems is fully presented in the short film, and the patriotic feelings of Chinese entrepreneurs and the awe and sense of responsibility for the industry are also about to come out. It is precisely because there are so many Chinese enterprises like the protagonist of the short film that are "dissatisfied" that China's wind power industry can achieve breakthroughs in a short period of time and drive the steady development of related industrial chains.
The company in the short film is only a microcosm of the Chinese company. In China, there is a group of young people with the dream of a strong country who choose to start a business without hesitation, exert the spirit of craftsmanship of excellence, and delve into key technologies, just to compete with competitors on the world stage.
It is precisely because they are not convinced, they pursue excellence, only do fine products, and do not let go of every tiny detail.
It is precisely because they are not convinced that they shoulder the heavy responsibility of national rejuvenation, create core technologies belonging to China, and undergo metamorphosis to grow.
3. Witnesses and companions of small and micro enterprises becoming bigger and stronger
The reason why small and micro enterprises such as short films can grow rapidly, in addition to relying on the historic development opportunities brought by the Chinese market, is also inseparable from the various supporting "infrastructure" active on the Chinese innovation stage, especially the financial innovation system with Chinese characteristics.
Among them, As the first private bank and Internet bank in China, WeBank has taken "making finance inclusive to the public" since its inception as its mission, and in solving the financing problems of small and micro enterprises, it has learned from the practical experience of inclusive finance such as Internet product design, big data risk control, and digital marketing accumulated by micro-particle loans and other products, and has created a new set of loan solutions for small and micro enterprises, that is, the "micro-industry loan" model.
Using this model, WeBank has truly achieved point-to-point accurate access to small and micro enterprises, opened up the "last mile" of corporate financing, and greatly broadened the service coverage and accuracy.
Not only that, WeBank's services for small and micro enterprises are multi-angle and deep-seated. For example, the bank launched the "100% Public Welfare Action to Help Enterprises" through "Micro Enterprise +", and continued to help small and micro enterprises to speak out by shooting exclusive videos of enterprises, opening photo exhibitions, helping business owners to put posters on the big screen of Shenzhen Bao'an Airport and the cover of special magazines.
The short film launched this time is a micro film made of weChat + the story of real small and micro enterprise customers, which effectively demonstrates the social value of small and micro enterprises and pays tribute to the Chinese entrepreneurial spirit in the new era.
Today, WeBank Corporate Finance has explored a sustainable development path that deeply serves a wider range of small and micro enterprises, and will continue to play the role of companion and witness for the growth of small and micro enterprises, so that the spirit of "disobedience" of Chinese entrepreneurs in the face of the ever-changing market competition environment can be continuously transmitted, and grow together with small and micro enterprises with dreams.