The assembly industry stigmatizes or undermines Chinese manufacturing, and high-tech is also quite dependent on the assembly industry
In some ways, assembly has become a disparagement, but if you look deeper into China's manufacturing industry, you can see how much assembly and labor-intensive production have affected China, even those industries that are highly technological, in high demand.
Through the statistics of China's imports and exports in 2020, we can see that the textile industry is China's largest foreign trade surplus, with a surplus of about 277 billion US dollars in China's textile and apparel in 2007, of which China's foreign trade surplus is 5,338 billion US dollars, of which processed products account for more than 20% of China's exports and imports.
Query China's top 100 export industries in 2020, the top of the list is a subsidiary of Zhengzhou Foxconn, and there are also subsidiaries of Foxconn's parent company among the top 100 companies, such as Chengdu Enterprise and Taiyuan Enterprise, of which Foxconn has become the champion of China's export industry for 5 years in 2018, which can also be seen how important the assembly industry is to China's export industry.
In terms of the export of high-tech products, there will be a surplus of 94.5 billion US dollars in 2020, of which computers, mobile **, etc. will be the mainstay. Lenovo is the largest personal computer company in the world, and it is also the largest personal computer company in China, and Lenovo is the largest computer company in the world, Intel, Dell, these companies, perhaps the so-called "assembly companies".
In China, mobile**, as the second largest export category of high-tech products, accounts for 16 percent of the export value of high-tech products2%, it is estimated that the largest mobile phone manufacturer is Foxconn's iPhone;At present, the sales volume of domestic mobile phones ranks among the top three, Xiaomi mobile phones, Huawei mobile phones, mobile phone exports of 64.1 million units, vivo mobile phone exports of 54.2 million units, of which OPPO did not enter the top five in the world, and OPPO is a realme company under the Oujia Group, and it is expected that Oujia Holding Company will export 70 million to 80 million mobile phones.
Judging from the above figures, labor-intensive industries such as assembly and textiles are still an important part of China's foreign trade surplus, which is also our actual situation. Without the export surpluses of these labour-intensive industries to purchase high-tech products, will these labour-intensive industries continue to provide the support needed to high-tech industries around the world?If there were no labor-intensive industries to create a surplus, we would go to the top to buy high-tech equipment
Throughout the development of China's manufacturing industry, China since the reform and opening up, mainly through the development of "processing with materials", as of 2007, due to the decline in the share of processing in China's total import and export volume year by year, its share in China's total import and export has been declining, until 2020 There was a significant decline. Labor-intensive industries are still an important part of China's foreign trade surplus.
At present, the foreign trade surplus generated by the high-tech industry we are talking about is still very limited, and there is still a long way to go to realize China's foreign trade surplus, so we must rely on the surplus generated by labor-intensive industries to realize China's high-tech manufacturing.
Even if the high-tech industry has made certain achievements, but it is still inseparable from the so-called assembly industry, as mentioned above, the two major areas of high-tech output, one is the computer, the other is mobile, the computer field, the largest domestic brand in China is Lenovo, and other foreign brands, such as Intel, Dell, are also assembled in China;As for mobile phones, isn't that Huawei, what is iPhone, what is Xiaomi, what is vivo, what is OPPO?
In this case, why do we denigrate the assembly industry again and again?When they comment on the assembly industry, India and Vietnam are trying to attract assembly manufacturers such as Foxconn to set up factories in the United States, and even the United States wants Apple to move the assembly industry to the United States.
Independent research and development is important, but it is still necessary to move forward step by step, and the current independent research and development is also to earn money to support labor-intensive industries, do not forget, even if there is really one, it must be combined with the surrounding industries to form a line of defense. Samsung's approach may be instructive, although Samsung is the world's top in many fields, even the world's top, but in areas such as TV and mobile**, they still firmly occupy the market, just to let them sink deeper and deeper into their own industrial chain.