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Fan Wuji's investigation in the Southeast Heavy Industry Group lasted for half a month, and he directly entered the first month of two thousand and two years.

The winter on the southeast coast is actually relatively cold, and the cold in this place is not quite the same as in the north.

If Fan Wuxian doesn't feel that there is any winter in the capital, then he feels a little unbearable here, especially since there is no heating infrastructure here, and he completely relies on electric stoves and air conditioners for heating, which is easy to dry the air and eventually make people angry.

But if you don't do that, you really can't stand the weather.

At the beginning of the year, Wal-Mart, the American retail giant, decided to move its Asian sourcing center from Hong Kong to Luohu District in Shenzhen, and the president of China told reporters that they had found the largest seller.

Among the Fortune 500 companies not long ago, Wal-Mart ranked first with an operating income of nearly $220 billion, which is also the first time in history that a service company has become the leader of the world's top 500. Wal-Mart's purchases of goods in China this year totaled $12 billion, equivalent to the total trade between China and Russia.

According to calculations by New York Times columnists, Wal-Mart would be China's sixth-largest exporter of goods and eighth-largest trading partner if it were a country.

The wave of "Made in China", which began around 1998, is full of vitality this year, and Chinese products with cheap and high-quality prices have finally gained prestige to the world, and Chinese goods have taken the limelight. For example, in order to meet the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, a toy factory in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province has produced 300,000 World Cup mascots, a clothing company in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province has produced more than 2 million fan shouting flags and hundreds of thousands of fan wigs, and a factory in Fujian has provided millions of fan uniforms, wrist guards and football socks.

China's National Bureau of Statistics declared at a press conference that China's comparative advantage is still in the manufacturing industry, and that economic growth in the past two decades has mainly relied on the growth of the manufacturing industry, and the proportion of manufacturing added value in GDP has basically remained at about 40%.

According to preliminary estimates, the output of hundreds of manufactured products in China ranks first in the world.

Since 11 years ago, Chinese mainland has absorbed more than 230 billion US dollars, accounting for nearly half of Asia's total, of which manufacturing is the most important investment area, China has become the world's fourth largest producer, and Chinese manufacturing is rising in the world.

In terms of regional structure, China's manufacturing has formed three world-class manufacturing centers around the Bohai Bay, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, the total population of the three regions accounts for more than one-third of the country's total population, and the land area is less than one-tenth of the country, but it has created 57 percent of the GDP and 66 percent of the total industrial output value, and in terms of foreign trade, it occupies more than 85 percent of the country's share, and the utilization of foreign capital is also close to eighty percent of the country's use of foreign capital.

In the group of export enterprises, small enterprises occupy an absolute advantage in terms of quantity, and in terms of output value, large enterprises and small enterprises are almost the same.

Although large state-owned enterprises can better reflect the advantages of large-scale production in the manufacturing industry, but the room for growth is limited, and among the small enterprises, the emerging private manufacturing enterprises represent the new force of the manufacturing industry, which has developed rapidly in recent years, and is the main driving force for the rise of China's manufacturing, and it is also the main driving force for future development.

It was also from this year that a real joke began to circulate in various versions: many people traveled abroad to buy a lot of souvenirs and fashionable goods, and when they returned home, they opened the logo and saw that they were all Made in China. Behind this kind of joke that makes people laugh and cry, there is a special pride.

Made in China is a new term that suddenly popped up this year, or it is an old word, but it has been activated all of a sudden this year and given a new meaning.

Under the premise that the world economy is sluggish, China's economy is thriving, and due to various reasons such as global economic integration and comparative advantages, the world has increasingly felt China's existence and strength.

Just as the rise and fall of great powers confirms the rise and fall of manufacturing, from Great Britain, the empire on which the sun never sets, to the United States, the world's only superpower, from Germany, which provoked two world wars, to Japan, which created the miracle of East Asia, there are no exceptions. Even the later East Asian Tigers all took the manufacturing industry as the pioneer of development.

Nowadays, the wave of world economic integration has brought the opportunity of manufacturing to China's door.

Although such a comment is sonorous and powerful, but only half of the truth is observed, in fact, in the eyes of a discerning person like Fan Wuxi, the role of encouragement is relatively large, but the Chinese public and public opinion have a deep understanding of Made in China still needs time.

In fact, from the very beginning, the whole advantage of Made in China was the low price.

To give an example, we can see the essence of Made in China, Guangdong Galanz is the world's largest professional factory for the production of microwave ovens, and its factory area stretches for three kilometers. By this year, Galanz's production has exceeded 12 million units, accounting for one-third of the global market share.

According to Galanz insiders, their only secret is to take advantage of the low labor force to the extreme.

The important upstream component of the microwave oven is the transformer, the price of Japanese products is more than 20 US dollars, and the price of European and American companies is more than 30 US dollars.

Seeing this situation, Galanz negotiated with the American enterprises to give them the machines to make, and gave them eight dollars per unit according to the current output of the American side. Americans feel good that they can get eight dollars for nothing without having to do it themselves, where can they find such a good thing? So they happily moved the production line over.

Due to the low wages of Galanz employees and the fact that workers can work in three shifts 24 hours a day, only one or two days of the week are actually spent producing for Americans, and the rest of the time is almost always enjoying free dinner, so Galanz swept the domestic market.

Internationally, its low-price strategy quickly forced transformers into the Japanese as well.

So Galanz went to negotiate with the Japanese, saying that they would be given five dollars for each unit, and the Japanese would also lease the production line to them.

In this way, the production lines of many countries gathered in Shunde, and Galanz established the leading position of the microwave oven factory in the world.

If Galanz's story vividly illustrates the source of China's manufacturing advantage in terms of cost, then the story of Barbie can show the status of Chinese goods in the value chain.

Barbie is Disney's best-selling children's brand toy, sold in 120 countries around the world every year, and its main manufacturing base is in China.

A Barbie doll retails for $20 in the North American market, and the FOB price in the Chinese factory is only $1, which includes the costs, profits and taxes of manufacturers and distributors.

The twin engines of China's foreign trade and domestic demand markets have been launched, so that the macro economy has shown a prosperity that has not been seen for many years, the haze of the Asian financial turmoil has dissipated, and the theory of China's industrial collapse after joining the TO has also been self-defeating, and even people who have always been not very optimistic about China's economy have to change their views.

When former Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto visited China, he told CCTV reporters, "To be honest, I am particularly envious of you, Japan has been unable to solve the economic problem of inflation for a long time, while China's economy has been able to maintain a growth rate of more than 8 percent for several years. ”

In one year, 30,000 foreign-invested enterprises settled in China, attracting more than $50 billion in foreign investment, and the annual growth rate of domestic non-governmental investment reached 18 percent, twice the growth rate of the previous year.

According to the World Bank, China's per capita GDP is approaching $1,000, and the United States has contributed only 20 percent to global growth over the past seven years, compared to China's 25 percent.

As a result, there has been some complacent momentum in China, and it seems that in a few more years, it will be able to surpass the United States.

In this regard, Fan Wuxian said in the New Year's message of Fan's Investment Group that the growth of low technology may develop very quickly in a short period of time, especially the total amount of manufacturing will have an explosive breakthrough, but there will be many problems with it. You must know that most of the private enterprises in China have not yet provided workers with such protection as three insurances and one housing fund, and the salary is far lower than the local level.

In the long run, China will not be able to develop real high-tech enterprises, but can only be reduced to cheap manufacturing factories in the international market, once the international situation changes, and the economic order will fluctuate relatively largely, then the first to bear the brunt are these cheap commodity processing factories that are completely dependent on the international market for survival.

At the same time, Fan Wuxian also pointed out some problems in China, such as the lack of scientific and technological innovation with independent intellectual property rights, the lack of precision machining and manufacturing industry that can truly be regarded as the international advanced level, the lack of application of new materials and technologies, and the lack of a mature system for cultivating technical talents in the new era.

All in all, Fan Wuxian poured a large plate of cold water down, which made everyone feel very unhappy.

The most outrageous thing is that when Fan Wuxian interviewed him on CCTV, when he asked his personal opinion on the national football team's qualification for the South Korea-Japan World Cup, Fan Wuxian said very clearly, "I don't think I can't get in, but I'm even more depraved!" In the past, it was a shame to close the door, but now it is a shame to run to the world! If they can score even one goal in the World Cup, I will automatically twist my head off and give it to them to kick as a ball! ”

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