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Preface
In the most difficult moment, countless scientific researchers devoted themselves to research, and finally built the atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb, becoming the country with nuclear weapons in the world.
Since then, China has closely followed the international situation and made remarkable achievements in aerospace, building the Jade Rabbit, leading the world.
But why can't China, which has made such brilliant achievements in nuclear weapons and space technology, build a bicycle transmission?
It's not really impossible to make
For a long time, the global bicycle market has been monopolized by Japan's Himano, the United States' SRAM and Italy's Campagnolo, and the reason for this is inseparable from this sophisticated technology.
However, this does not mean that China really cannot make bicycle transmissions.
It is important to know that China, as a country with a huge manufacturing base and highly developed scientific and technological strength, has the ability to independently develop and produce bicycle transmissions.
So it's not that we have to buy from abroad, but because the bicycle transmission is really because the market is too niche, and because of many years of foreign monopoly, they have long held the patent firmly in their own hands, so it's not that China doesn't want to make it, it's really a waste of time.
From the very beginning, it was reported on the Internet that China could not make ballpoint nibs, and that Japan had been stuck in the neck all year round and monopolized the Chinese market, and such words often flowed out on the Internet.
But when the Chinese company learned about this matter, it wanted to win glory for the country and shut up this group of people, so they began to let experts come to study, but they didn't know that it was this research that almost caused huge losses to the company.
Information source: Global Network - Ballpoint Pen Nib Apocalypse: TISCO successfully developed ballpoint nib steel notes
Because the tip of the ballpoint pen was too small at that time, when the company started to build, it still wanted to build a furnace to see the effect, and it was this furnace test that directly produced dozens of tons of output.
Source: The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China - The "ballpoint pen nib" is on fire, and there are even more environmentally friendly nibs behind!
You must know that at that time, China's annual imports to foreign countries were only 1,000 tons, so that a furnace could produce dozens of tons, and a ton of steel could make about 5 million nibs, such a production line could not last long, but the steel production line was different from other industries.
As long as the production line is opened, they can't be stopped at all, because the profits from stopping and reopening can't be made up even if they are all sold.
So at that time, TISCO had to continue to manufacture, and after reaching a critical point, TISCO sold the ballpoint nib.
However, this is the market if you want to sell, no, TISCO initially sold due to too much production, and the market was too niche, and the saturation of this track was also limited, which also led to only a small part of the manufactured nibs to buy.
In the face of such a situation, TISCO immediately made a choice, sold at a loss, and sold all these nibs at a price lower than half of the market at that time.
Source: State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council - Economic Daily: TISCO wins
This allowed TISCO to avoid the scene of this batch of products being pressed into the warehouse and falling into dust, but it was this sale that almost caused foreign companies to suffer a catastrophe.
Because the nibs sold to China by foreign companies every year are their main source of income, they do not go to the Chinese market, and who do they sell their nibs to?
This also made them panic suddenly, but they didn't know that TISCO did not choose to give up this part of the profits, but the nib out of China, to the world, and successfully grabbed the market in the global pen enterprises.
At this point, TISCO's name also became loud in China, but it was not only the ballpoint pen nib that China was monopolized at that time, but also the scalpel.
Cross-line anti-clamping
At that time, the ultrasound bone knife was monopolized by American companies for nearly 30 years, and this product has a super role in medical treatment, and the scalpel, as the name suggests, is a surgical knife.
However, the ultrasound bone knife is not different from the general scalpel, it is a small knife for cutting bones, its knife head is very small, and in the hands of the doctor, it can flexibly cut the bone that needs to be removed accurately.
It is such an ultrasonic bone knife that can cure diseases and save people, but it monopolizes 80% of the global market, until 2022, when a patent certificate from BYD was issued, which was a big surprise.
Because of this ultrasonic bone knife, BYD, a car company, actually developed it.
You must know that BYD, a car company, has always been famous for its cars, and now this ultrasonic bone knife has suddenly appeared, which is really different.
If during the epidemic in 2019, BYD changed the automobile production line to a mask machine, which had broken people's perception of the traditional production line, then the ultrasonic bone knife in 2022 completely changed the view.
Because the ultrasonic bone knife is a precision instrument, it can cut the bone because it can achieve 55,000 high-frequency vibrations per second, and it is precisely because of this high-intensity vibration that the bone can crack on its own and complete the operation with the smallest wound.
Not only that, the ultrasonic bone knife can also perform cold cutting, and when cutting, because the super vibration will inevitably bring high temperature to the bone, the cold cutting will have an effect at this time.
Cold cutting can effectively cool down the high temperature generated by the ultrasonic bone knife when it vibrates, so this is why the term cold cutting is born.
And this is because BYD added a set of external waterways to the handle of the ultrasonic bone knife during research and development, and through reasonable pipe routing, the water flowed through and the heat was taken away, which achieved cold cutting.
BYD has even made other optimizations, BYD has also changed the vibration from the original hand to a more advanced air separation, which allows medical staff to be lighter when using, so as to achieve more accurate cutting.
So why is this technology monopolized by the United States around the world?
The reason is very simple, not that China does not want to manufacture, but the market is too small, because the use of ultrasonic bone knife, the annual import volume for China may only be a few thousand, for example, in 2017, China's demand for ultrasound scalpel was 2034 units.
But the bicycle transmission is not the same, judging from the data, the number of bicycles produced in China is as high as about 40 million per year, which is enough to prove that this is the future of the industry.
Source: The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China - Nearly 40 million units were exported! Come and see the new track in the kingdom of bicycles
So can we export so many bikes and get stuck because of the transmission?
The history of the bicycle
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, bicycles have taken the lead in becoming a product that people scramble to have, because of the convenient way of travel, coupled with the emergency stop and walk, it has also brought the relationship between the people's homes closer.
And this also made the people give it a resounding name "Twenty-Eight Big Bar", which is also given a name because it has two wheels in front and back, and in the design, a long bar in the middle connects the seat and the handlebar.
At that time, if anyone could own this 28 bar, they would be able to walk with their heads held high in the village, because the price was not cheap at that time, and the car might cost a few hundred dollars, and sometimes, even more money could not buy it.
It is said that at that time, you had to queue up to buy a car, so people who could get such a car at home were generally well-known in the village.
Over time, bicycles have evolved into electric bicycles, and tricycles have introduced electric tricycles and even electric vehicles.
This method also makes many people very nostalgic for the previous 28 bars, and now the low-carbon life mode of travel, people have re-enabled bicycles as their means of transportation to and from work.
In addition to being inconsistent with the shape of the previous 28 bars, the bike also solves the problem of difficult climbing, that is, relying on the bicycle transmission.
Its use allows the bicycle to move fast on flat roads, and can also make the bicycle light and effortless when climbing, which is also loved by many people.
As everyone knows, it is this bicycle transmission, the mainland has always needed to rely on foreign imports, because foreign transmissions can smoothly achieve gear shifting, after all, the crisp sound of gear shifting can bring people a different feeling.
However, the domestic bicycle transmission is different, they do not have a crisp shift sound, and they often get stuck, resulting in a shift that cannot be changed, which makes the mainland always import transmissions.
The reason is that the precision of the disc of China's bicycle transmission is not as good as that of foreign production, and the disc connection cannot be firmly stuck, which leads to the failure of the jamming shift.
Therefore, when these problems arise, there is no company to stand up and solve the problem, and the reason is inseparable from the problem of specialized research time.
You know, at that time, the sales of bicycles were not as large as they are now, and if it took too much time to study bicycle transmissions, and even if they did, the market track was relatively niche, there would not be much sales.
Therefore, the bicycle transmission will be monopolized, but in the blueprint, the company is concentrating on the research and development of bicycle transmission, and then it has successfully broken the monopoly and created a domestic bicycle transmission.
However, the matter did not end there, after the successful research and development of the blueprint enterprise, it has also been praised by a group of riders, the reason is inseparable, it is durable at the same time, but also achieved the same reliability and quality as foreign companies.
epilogue
At the same time as China's scientific and technological development, it has continued to achieve leapfrog development from being monopolized to breaking the monopoly.
Whether it is an ultrasonic bone knife or a bicycle transmission, it is the result of independent innovation of Chinese enterprises, showing the continuous improvement of national strength.
The research and development of ultrasonic bone knife not only broke the monopoly of foreign companies, but also brought advanced medical technology to patients, and the successful research and development of bicycle transmission has given new vitality to China's bicycle industry and improved the quality of domestic bicycles.
In the future, with the continuous progress and innovation of science and technology, I believe that China will create its own spring in more fields, so that made in China will become popular all over the world.
Source: The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China - Nearly 40 million units were exported! Come and see the new track in the kingdom of bicycles
Source: The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China - The "ballpoint pen nib" is on fire, and there are even more environmentally friendly nibs behind!
Source: State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council - Economic Daily: TISCO wins
Source: State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council - Economic Daily: TISCO wins