Chapter 51 6. Looking forward to 2020: a technological evolution

When a country's technological equipment is backward, it will inevitably lead to the low quality of its overall economic growth. In the past 10 years, the phenomena of high energy consumption, high pollution, high investment, and low efficiency that have occurred in us are all directly related to this. Topic Introduction: Those Shocking Realities - Your Own Technology Road Today, no one can deny the fact that technology is also a resource. Although technology is invisible and intangible, technology is the decisive factor for the growth of an enterprise, an industry or even a country, especially when a certain technology is monopolized by a few enterprises or countries. This kind of preciousness becomes more and more obvious, and its value is often immeasurable.

Because of this, in many companies and even countries, technology is regarded as the core secret and enjoys the same security protection as real money. We have to admit that China is a country that is very backward in most technical fields. There are both historical reasons and current institutional reasons for this. However, in the past ten years, a concept has become popular, making China's already bumpy technological road. According to this view, China's technology has lagged far behind the world's advanced level, but it has the largest demand for high-tech products, while the developed countries represented by the United States have the most advanced technology and the most patents in the world. If the two can be combined, then the complementary situation will be mutually beneficial.

It is based on this point of view that in the past 10 years, we have started a grand technology purchase movement. In this transaction, many developed countries were able to sell their reserves of technology in exchange for a large amount of real money , and we have therefore achieved technological progress, which seems to have the best of both worlds, and seems to have really realized the prophecy of "mutual benefit". However, is the actual situation really that good? Behind our wanton purchase of technology and advanced patented achievements from abroad, the most direct problem is the sharp increase in the dependence of technology on foreign countries.

In Chapter 4, we mentioned the status of China’s industrial equipment manufacturing industry, and learned about our lack and lag in this industry. The reason for this situation has a lot to do with our extensive reliance on technology imports . According to statistics, at present, in China's equipment manufacturing industry, the import dependence of key components is very high. Only diesel engines and hydraulic control components are taken as examples, and about 60% to 70% of them all rely on imports to meet their needs. . In fact, the damage this has caused to China's industrial system is far from limited to the equipment manufacturing industry.

Due to the backwardness of the equipment manufacturing industry, its product research and development capabilities have been greatly reduced. The direct consequence is that the main equipment of other industries has to rely on imports. According to the data provided by an authoritative survey report, in recent years, the value of various basic equipment imported by my country has roughly accounted for 50% of my country's total imports, and two-thirds of equipment investment depends on imports. Here, car industry equipment, textile machinery , CNC machine tools, and offset printing equipment accounted for about 70%, petrochemical equipment related to the economic lifeline accounted for 80%, integrated circuit chip manufacturing equipment recognized as the driving force of science and technology was about 85%, and power generation equipment reached 90%. In high-tech fields such as cutting-edge optical fiber manufacturing equipment, large aircraft, and large-scale medical treatment, my country has no independent research and development capabilities at all, and all equipment must be imported.

Faced with such a fact, it really shocks us. In addition to the high purchase price we need to pay for this, the shortage of technology also has long-term negative effects. When a country's technological equipment is backward, it will inevitably lead to the low quality of its overall economic growth. In the past 10 years, the phenomena of high energy consumption, high pollution, high investment, and low efficiency that have occurred in us are all directly related to this. We must admit that China cannot leave the manufacturing industry. As far as China is concerned, the so-called "Made in China" is an inevitable situation. The inevitability of the time and the inevitability of the form are like the fate of a country. Not only can we not abandon the manufacturing industry today, even in ten years Even decades later, we also cannot leave the manufacturing industry.

In China, there are countless cheap labor forces and a very low level of industry. When such national conditions lie in front of us, it is difficult for us to easily abandon the manufacturing industry that has become the backbone of the national economy and turn to a developed country like Europe and the United States. Like other countries, it is even more impossible to give up the inherent industrial advantages and invest the processing and manufacturing profit links in less developed countries to seek a road of technological origination and brand building. From this, we get a proposition in the development of economic strategy, that is, how should national economic managers and the leading force of the market realize the optimal allocation of resources.Only by finding the appropriate ratio can China's economic development be guaranteed to move forward along a benign track.

For China, the most urgent problem to be solved at the moment is not to find a path for technological advancement in a short period of time, nor is it to go all the way on the road of "Made in China". Distributed in all links of the industrial chain, selectively select the technologies they are good at for self-development, and embark on a road of free technology that suits China's national conditions.