On September 2, Volkswagen Group issued a statement saying that it was considering closing one of its car manufacturing plants and a parts plant in Germany for the first time. If implemented, the plan will be the first time in Volkswagen's history that it will close a plant in Germany.
Suddenly I remembered the vigorous "Germany Industry 4.0".
At that time, the entire Internet was discussing and boasting about this "Industry 4.0", and a large number of people in the industry wrote countless papers and reports, and took great pains to study, discuss and study......
As a result, I studied and found that Germany was about to "deindustrialize". Compared with the real industry, it is really easier to write PPT to brag and draw flatbread for remote breeding.
Industry 4.0 proposed in 2013 Germany refers to the "intelligence of manufacturing", using the Internet of Things information system (Cyber-Physical System) to digitize and intelligentize the supply, manufacturing and sales information in production, and finally achieve fast, effective and personalized product supply......
However, at present, only China's local automobile "super factory" can do this, behind which are communications, industrial robots, and the Internet of Things...... A whole intelligent industrial system of the whole industry chain is needed.
Germany can't do it at all, they have long been dependent on and constrained by United States Wall Street and multinational capital, and in recent years, the price of energy raw materials has skyrocketed due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the production cost is too high, and various domestic political factors have hindered them, so that they have long since lost a complete industrial chain...... This makes their automobile industry extremely costly, and it has long been impossible to sustain, and they are even more unable to compete in the face of China's new energy vehicle industry.
On September 6, Germany's Federal Statistical Office released data showing that Germany's industrial production fell 2.4% month-on-month in July, well below the expected decline of 0.5%. The main reason for the decline in industrial production in Germany in July was the difficulties in the automobile manufacturing industry.
The CEO of the Volkswagen Group made it clear that "the European automotive industry is currently in a very harsh and stressful environment, new competitors are gradually entering the market, and Germany's manufacturing industry is further lagging behind in terms of competitiveness."
He also stressed: "There are no more checks from China. It refers to Volkswagen's declining profits in China, the largest market.
This has pointed out the real reason, the Chinese market is the largest market for Volkswagen, and if the Chinese market is lost, the myth of Volkswagen will collapse in an instant......
Volkswagen's sales in China have dropped from 4 million units in 2017 to 2.5 million units in 2024; At the same time, Chinese automakers are bringing electric vehicles to another key market for Volkswagen: Europe. The basic plate of the public is lost, and it is very likely that the family will not be able to hold it in the future.
If the Volkswagen Group closes these two plants, it will be the first time that the German company has closed a Germany plant since Volkswagen was founded in 1937, which has never happened in history.
Volkswagen Germany now has 120,000 jobs and everyone is at risk, and it is not known which plant to close and when. According to the Volkswagen board of directors, there is no need for at least one automaker and one parts plant in Germany to continue to exist.
Volkswagen's closure is also a huge shock to local workers in Germany. Volkswagen employs around 680,000 people worldwide, about half of whom are in Germany. Worker Axel · Wencslav told the media: "People are afraid of losing their houses and being fired. I have been working in this factory for 38 years. Many workers held signs while shouting slogans such as "We are the masses, you are not" and "Goodbye" to the higher-ups......
I'm thinking about one thing, when Volkswagen occupied the Chinese market and made a lot of money selling cars, did these Europeans care about us? Ever cared about the world's most populous "masses"?
Most of the huge profits of Germany car companies in the Chinese market are used to feed their local "masters" and "workers", and they have never cared about third world workers.
What do they say about Volkswagen's decision-making mistakes, steering is too slow, when they bought fuel vehicles and could make money lying down, why didn't they think about the layout of new energy in advance?
Therefore, the times have changed, and people in developed countries should still live a hard life...... Only by respecting the market economy and Hayek can competition be vigorous, and the iron rice bowl must be broken.
Only when the Germans have suffered will they "wake up".