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"Science and technology are the primary productive forces!"
Since Comrade Deng Xiaoping first put forward this important thesis in 1988, he realized that if a country wants to seek development, it must master the most critical and core technologies in certain fields.
China, Japan and South Korea, which are rivals to each other, each has mastered the world's top technology in certain fields.
For South Korea, semiconductors are their "nirvana", and in the field of semiconductors in Asia and even the world, South Korea has the absolute right to speak.
Japan relies on its leading precision machine tool technology to "kill all sides" in the processing and manufacturing industry, which can be clearly seen from Nissan Motors, which has been widely recognized around the world.
So as Asia's largest economy, what technology does China have that is far ahead of the world?
What kind of unknown experiences are hidden behind the sudden rise of Japan and South Korea?
Source: Finance 2020-01-08 About "Technology Stocks 'Popular' Which countries are the world's top technologies? ".
South Korea, which rose by "stealing".
Nowadays, whenever South Korea is mentioned, it is often impossible to avoid their despisable "stealing culture".
Over the years, South Korea has been surrounding the mainland, and South Korea can be said to have used the "stealing culture" to the extreme, not only successfully applying for the mainland's acupuncture, Dragon Boat Festival, kimchi, etc., but also wanting to apply for traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese martial arts.
The prevalence of "stealing culture" in South Korea just proves that they are a country that is extremely lacking in national self-confidence, so they want to "steal" Chinese culture to "fill the façade" for themselves.
Even the semiconductor technology that has made South Korea lead the world has been "stolen" from the United States.
In fact, even compared with the mainland, South Korea's semiconductor started relatively late, until 1965, South Korea was still only a very poor and backward agricultural country, and even the vast majority of people had never heard of semiconductors.
However, as relations between South Korea and the United States have become closer, the United States has provided a large amount of economic assistance and technical support to South Korea for various purposes, including semiconductor-related industrial technologies.
In the 70s, because of the high cost of domestic labor, major industries in the United States set their sights on the Asian market with cheap labor.
In this context, advanced manufacturing companies in the United States chose to move the industrial chain to Japan, while advanced semiconductor companies chose to move the industrial chain to South Korea.
With the strong support of capital, technology and industrial chain from the United States, South Korea's semiconductor industry has developed exponentially, and in a very short period of time, South Korea has become one of the world's largest chip manufacturing bases.
However, at this time, South Korea did not master too much core technology of semiconductors, and more assumed the role of a foundry.
Although this has made a qualitative leap forward in the South Korean economy, they are not satisfied with this, but want to use the power of the United States to develop their own semiconductor industry.
It was also at this stage that South Korea's largest chaebol company "Samsung" came into being, especially in 2009, Samsung successfully developed a 32Gb flash memory chip, which was also the world's most advanced flash memory product at that time.
Source: People's Information 2021-05-14 on "'Surpass China, be the first in the world!'" South Korea wants to build the world's largest semiconductor industry supply chain
Later, under the leadership of Samsung, South Korean semiconductors gradually moved to the forefront of the world, and in 2021, the South Korean government threatened to build the world's largest semiconductor industry supply chain in China by 2030.
South Korea, which once relied on agriculture, has become the third developed country in Asia after Japan and Singapore with its semiconductor industry, and South Korea, which is backed by the United States, has changed the country's destiny with its semiconductor industry in one fell swoop.
Much like South Korea, Japan is inextricably linked to the United States for its ability to master the world's top precision machine tool technology......
Japan: The strength of precision machine tools
In the 50s of the last century, in order to rebuild the post-war economy in Japan, a large number of advanced technologies and equipment were introduced from the United States, and the first batch of precision machine tool production lines in China were established.
With the gradual recovery and development of the Japanese economy, the paranoid characteristics of the nation have gradually been reflected in the manufacturing industry, and Japanese companies have begun to continuously transform and upgrade the production lines of precision machine tools.
Japanese companies that pursue the so-called "craftsman spirit" continue to promote the development of domestic precision machine tools in the direction of high quality, high performance and high efficiency.
At the same time, with the increase in global demand for precision machine tools, Japan, which seized the opportunity, quickly became the world's largest supplier of precision machine tools by virtue of its unique advantages.
With the blessing of precision machine tools, Japan's manufacturing industry can be said to be like a tiger with wings, especially in the field of automobile manufacturing.
In the eighties and nineties of the last century, the mainland also set off a boom in Japanese cars, until now Toyota, Honda and other Japanese cars, are still highly sought after.
Nowadays, precision machine tools have long become Japan's "signboard", as long as precision machine tools are mentioned, Japan must not be avoided.
Compared with Japan and South Korea, China, as the largest economy in Asia, has what technologies are far ahead of the world?
China's controlled nuclear fusion technology
When mankind's first atomic bomb was successfully detonated, countries around the world realized the importance of nuclear weapons.
All technologies that are related to "nuclear energy" are, without exception, technologies that many countries are willing to vigorously develop with the strength of the whole country, especially the controllable nuclear fusion technology that has made another breakthrough on the basis of traditional nuclear technology.
The atomic bomb is so devastating because it uses the fission reaction of the atomic nucleus, and controlled nuclear fusion can not only release more energy than nuclear fission, but also has higher safety.
To put it simply, if a country is really proficient in controlled nuclear fusion technology, then it can build an "artificial sun" that can be controlled by humans.
Source: China News Network 2024-03-07 Report on "Ouyang Zehua, Member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: The development of China's controllable nuclear fusion field is accelerating".
In 2023, the continent has already made significant progress in the field of controlled nuclear fusion.
On December 29, 2023, CNNC also joined forces with 24 central enterprises and scientific research institutes to form China Fusion Energy Co., Ltd., which will concentrate the country's top resources to conquer controllable nuclear fusion technology.
Once the continent can make a breakthrough in the field of nuclear fusion, then mankind will never worry about the energy crisis again, and we will have an inexhaustible supply of clean energy.
China is a global leader in 5G technology
Before the emergence of 5G technology, advanced network technologies such as 3G and 4G were in a state of long-term monopoly by the United States and other Western countries.
However, after the efforts of countless scientific researchers in the mainland day and night, we have finally achieved "corner overtaking" in the field of 5G, and now the mainland has almost achieved the great feat of "5G in every village".
In terms of 5G core technology, the mainland is also far ahead of the world, not only leading the transformation of 5G architecture, but also holding 14,000 5G-related invention patents.
In terms of 5G patents, China accounts for 42% of the total number of 5G patents in the world, ranking first in the world, and is well-deserved as the world's largest 5G country.
Of course, in addition to 5G technology and controllable nuclear fusion technology, the mainland is at the forefront of the world in many fields.
For example, in the field of space technology, China is not only the only country in the world that has built and owned a space station independently, but our Chang'e-6 has also carried out the first human mission to collect lunar soil on the far side of the moon in the presence of the whole world.
The mainland also has the world's top steelmaking technology, with Yuan Longping's grandfather left us super rice and so on.
Even in the field of semiconductors and precision machine tools that South Korea and Japan are proud of, the mainland has been steadily catching up, and I believe that as long as we are given enough time, it will be a matter of time before we catch up with them!
Key Sources:
1. This article was originally published in the financial industry 2020-01-08 About "Technology Stocks 'Popular' Which countries are the world's top technologies? ".
2. The original article was published in People's Information 2021-05-14 about "'Surpass China, be the first in the world!'" South Korea wants to build the world's largest semiconductor industry supply chain
3. The original article was published on China News Network on March 7, 2024 on "Ouyang Zehua, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: China's development in the field of controlled nuclear fusion is accelerating".