Really, don't anger the Chinese.
Because once we start the involution machine, there will be thousands of companies behind it, constantly fighting and fighting.
And the brands that can fight their way out of the encirclement, each with their own unique skills, can be said to be the existence of solitary defeat.
Seeing this, the United States and the West can only spread their hands together, and they can't beat it, they really can't beat it.
Breakthrough of the shield machine
In the 90s of the last century, the mainland was preparing to build the Qinling Tunnel of the Xikang Railway, and when digging the tunnel, the engineering team encountered a problem.
If the traditional "drill and blast" excavation method is adopted, it will take at least ten years, and if you can get a shield machine, the efficiency can be increased several times.
But at that time, there were only a handful of countries in the world that could produce shield machines.
Among them, the German Wirther company is a global monopoly.
They relied on their own technology, and when they saw China coming to buy, they deliberately raised the price, 350 million yuan a unit, they liked to buy it but not it, and they only sold second-hand ones to us.
But there is no way, who called us inferior in skills, we can only be slaughtered by others, and we spent 700 million to buy two in one go.
However, after spending a lot of money to buy it, the follow-up maintenance and care costs are even more bottomless.
The daily fee paid to German engineers started at 3,000 US dollars, which was converted into 24,000 yuan, and the monthly salary of mainland engineers at that time was only a few dozen.
In addition, they strictly adhere to the 8-hour work week, even start calculating expenses from the time they leave the house, never work overtime on weekends, and have to wait until weekdays to solve problems with equipment.
What's more, when German engineers repair the machine, there is still a cordon on the scene, and no Chinese personnel are allowed to be present, for fear that we will steal technology.
This is not "spending money depends on the face", it is really embarrassing!
In the face of humiliating treatment, it also aroused the indignation of mainland technicians, since they have to engage in a technological blockade, then we will build it ourselves.
Therefore, in 2002, the state included the shield machine technology in the 863 plan, and made every effort to overcome it.
You may not know that a shield is several stories high, weighs thousands of tons, tens of thousands of parts, and the control system alone has more than 2,000 control points, and the corresponding control program code exceeds 400,000 lines.
However, no matter how difficult it is, it is not difficult for the Chinese, we start from the design drawings, disassemble and reassemble the parts over and over again, and study the principle of the shield machine.
Finally, in 2008, there was good news.
In this year, the first domestic composite earth pressure balance shield machine - "China Railway No. 1" came into being, breaking the pattern of foreign shield dominating the world.
Not only is the performance in all aspects not lost to foreign countries at all, but the cost is only 25 million yuan, which is much cheaper than foreign ones.
Later, we continued to make breakthroughs and gave birth to many kinds of shield machines.
For example, the largest diameter shield machine "Jinghua" in China, the world's largest cross-section combined rectangular shield pipe jacking machine "China Railway 1179", the world's first super-large section horseshoe shield machine - "Menghua" and so on.
Today, the domestic shield machine has accounted for 90% of the domestic market share, and occupies more than two-thirds of the global market, becoming the world's first.
Oh, by the way, the German shield machine manufacturer that sold us hundreds of millions of dollars before was forced to go out of business.
So much so that the title of "China is the crusher of developed countries" was born.
Breakthrough in new energy vehicles
The same is true for the automotive industry, once upon a time, foreign fuel vehicles entered China, which was a lot of money.
According to the data, in 2008, the market share of Japanese cars in China reached 30.79%, and for every three cars sold in the Chinese market, one was made in Japan.
However, they rely on their large market share and rest on their laurels, ignoring many needs of domestic consumers.
So, sorry, let's do it ourselves.
Since the West is much ahead of the fuel car track, it is not easy to enter, so we will overtake in corners and bet on new energy vehicles, and in the end we really got it.
Now, after dozens of brands have been fighting for many years, the domestic new energy vehicles that have finally broken the circle have completely crushed foreign countries.
This means that the "glory days" of them lying down to make money are gone.
Let's talk about the data, for every 100 new energy vehicles sold in the world, more than 60 come from China, which is already the kind that is fully crushed.
Other countries have never seen such a volume, and they have expressed their disagreement.
Even Apple, which has the money and technology, has been building cars since ten years ago, but in the face of the strong competitiveness of China's new energy vehicles, it has to announce that it has to give up.
Even traditional petrol car tycoons, such as Mercedes-Benz, have announced that they will abandon the all-electric vehicle plan and return their focus to fuel vehicles.
There is no way, because this time Europe and the United States are stuck by our technology, and it is the kind of the whole industry chain.
According to the latest quarterly data, as of October 2023, in terms of batteries alone, the total cumulative output of power and energy storage batteries in mainland China is 533.7GWh, a year-on-year increase of 44.9%, accounting for about 65% of global lithium-ion battery production;
Shipments of raw materials such as electrolytes and cathodes account for more than 80% of the global share.
Europe and the United States are now making trams, and the starting cost is very high.
When the time comes, our domestic new energy vehicle companies will fight a price war with you, how will Europe and the United States respond?
Now the vast majority of domestic cars in the market, the industry standard foreign countries have no right to speak, and the cost is inseparable from Chinese suppliers, how can Europe and the United States compete?
So much so that BYD unloaded 3,000 electric vehicles in the port of Bremerhaven, Germany, and the German media said worriedly, "The power of China's competition is making competitors tremble", "This is a declaration of war to conquer the European market!"
High-tech industry breakthroughs
As for high-tech industries such as chips, this is even more so.
The United States suppressed and blocked Huawei for several years, thinking that it could strangle China's chip industry.
However, in the end, Huawei launched a mobile phone equipped with the Kirin 9000s 5G chip, and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Raimondo inadvertently became a spokesperson.
The West still hasn't figured out what's going on, and it's all up to guess;
And what makes the West even more confused is that Huawei has launched the Pura70 series of mobile phones, with the latest Kirin 9010 chip.
Not only is it more powerful than the previous one, but the localization rate of the entire mobile phone, which is said to be almost 100%, is amazing.
If this is really the case, then the whole industry chain of high-end mobile phones has undoubtedly been won by us.
I have to say that in the mobile phone industry, Huawei is also out of the circle in the battle of many enterprises, and it belongs to the most capable enterprises.
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Any industry, as long as it is monopolized by the Western world, will open the Chinese-style involution mode.
Chinese enterprises are swept out of the sky, and if they want to do it, they will be able to engage in the best and most powerful in the world, and they will be able to beat foreign enterprises in a few years or a few days as fast, so that they will be able to sell at a reduced price at least and go bankrupt and go bankrupt at worst.
No wonder the West shuddered when it saw us.
The so-called high-profit industry in the West is just a window paper, as long as it is pierced, then it will inevitably become the price of cabbage.