How powerful is China today?
I'm afraid that many people don't know, and it's very shocking to say it.
Before talking about this issue, we might as well take a look at the United States today, because it still claims to be the world's only superpower, the world's largest developed country, and the "leader" of all countries.
There is always a little bit of a gap between the ideal and the reality.
I will not talk about hypocrisy today, but I will directly ask you: Has the West, represented by the United States, declined?
I think that even in 2023, different people will still have different opinions.
Those who are close to and worship the West as a whole, as well as the vast majority of Westerners themselves, will naturally say that the West is still the representative of advanced human civilization and scientific and technological developmentOthers, who have a little common sense and are sober enough, realize that the days of arrogance and prejudice in the United States and the West are almost coming to an end.
As Chinese, for a long time, we have been subjected to low-key propaganda and education that has been "making a fortune in a muffled voice" to a somewhat obscene level, and many people also think in ignorance that the United States is still the only hegemonic power.
Because today, when the global economic situation is wailing, although China's huge economy is still growing, many countries and regions in the world, and even some of our people, think that China's economy is really too bad this year, and there is no sense of "strength" at all.
The United States is taking the lead in saying, and we ourselves are also saying, "This year's economic situation is extremely complex and changeable, and we have encountered a lot of difficulties and ......."And so on, as if in order to stabilize people's hearts and comfortingly say that "the overall improvement has not changed".
Everyone looks at me, I look at you, and I don't know how far our economic strength has been.
Especially compared with the low-key China and the United States, which loves to brag, it seems that there is still not much confidence in my heart.
Let's be honest, our cultural and linguistic arts allow us to never act like deep-pocketed, arrogant nouveau riche, even when we are at our prime, whether in private or when we need to make a big splash.
Modesty, understatement, and subtlety seem to be our eternal motto.
In the past, when our strength was really poor, we could understand that we were obscene and low-key, but now our overall strength is no longer allowed to "swallow our anger" and avoid it.
Today, I will use sufficient authoritative data to prove: How strong is China's real strength, and whether the United States and the West are in declineIf the decline they go to what point.
Politics is an extension of the economy. In the past two years, friends who like to watch the news may have vaguely felt that why Europe, which had no direct conflict with China before, has suddenly become unfriendlyWhy did Japan and South Korea, which have always been "sweet talk" with us, suddenly start hating us?
Especially the United States, do you think it's really just about competing for the status of "boss"?
It can be said that it is not at all, but that we in China are about to run out of jobs in the United States and the West, and this is not a trivial problem for the eldest and second boss, but a major matter directly related to their life and death.
As the saying goes, robbing someone of their money is like killing their parents. That's why they don't hate us!What's more, we're doing things so well.
How absolute?Please read carefully.
First of all, let's take an inventory of the global strategic industries that have been monopolized by the United States and the West for dozens or hundreds of years, and how many of them are left now
I don't know if we in China have investigated and counted this kind of data in detail, but even if there is, everyone will say that it is boasting, and there is no credibility at all.
So I went straight to the "authoritative" data of the American survey statistics.
Robert D., founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Association, or ITIFAtkinson) and its policy analyst Ian Tufts co-authored a report on the performance of 40 countries and regions in 10 advanced and strategically important industries.
Let's take a closer look at what the report says:
It is worth noting that this "ITIF" is a leading conservative think tank in the field of science and technology innovation policy in the United States, which has always had a negative attitude towards China's science and technology innovation policy, and has a pivotal position in the previous ** think tanks in the United States.
In other words, the content of the ITIF report is absolutely true and valid, and it is not just for ideology or money like other think tanks in the United States.
The report's data, which is long and captivating, is striking: "As of 2020, China is the global leader in seven of the 10 strategic industries covered in the report, while the United States has a temporary advantage in the remaining three." ”
In 2020, these 10 industries accounted for 11 percent of the global economy, ITIF said8%, about the same as in 1995 (119%）。
In 2020, the global output value of these industries exceeded 10 trillion US dollars.
In addition, the report itself acknowledges that by 2020, China's output value was 47% higher than the global average in terms of the size of the economies of these 10 industries, while the output value of the United States was 13% lower than the global average.
If the Americans do not talk about this upward and polarized actual output, I am afraid that everyone will not know that their efficiency has been so low.
In particular, it is mentioned that China's huge investment in electric vehicles has paid off, becoming the global leader in car production, which reached 24 percent by 20203%, up from 14% in the U.S. and 12% in Germany6% and 10% in Japan.
In particular, the ITIF recommends that Washington develop a national industrial strategy to ensure better direct competition with China in the light of its current U.S. hegemony.
The report argues that in order for the United States to catch up with the share of advanced industries in China's economy, U.S. output must expand by 1$5 trillion, or 69 percent, would require a doubling of output in all industries except IT and IT services.
Do you think it's possible?
This is simply a fool's dream of whimsical or not, the United States is now kidnapped by Jews and can't move at all, not to mention doubling all industries, they just have to work hard to renovate the American railroad.
However, the report adds, "Even in these three industries, U.S. dominance may not be sustainable, as China has made these industries a priority area for development and has already made real progress." ”
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post pointed out that China is currently the world's largest producer of computers and electronics, chemicals, machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, base metals, metal products and electrical equipment. And the market share gained from the rest of the world is expanding.
At the same time, the United States is left with only three areas: pharmaceuticals, IT and information technology services, and other transportation, which temporarily maintain its advantage.
The U.S. retains the leading position in the "other transportation" category, in fact, only in aerospace manufacturing.
As of 2020, the U.S. accounted for 34 percent of global air transport production5%, while China ranks second in the category after the United States at 151%。
"China's rapid market share growth in these 10 industries in the report reflects the rapidly declining market share of the United States, the G7 and OECD members as a bloc," ITIF wrote. ”
We, China, have single-handedly carried the United States + G7 + OECD not only without inferiority, but also far ahead with such a disparity of 7:3. I don't usually feel itWhat is it that limits my cognition and imagination?
Low-key, really too low-key!
Despite the passage of the 2022 CHIPS and Technology Act at the expense of others, the political will to implement and fully fund this agenda is not high, especially as both parties are busy with 2024*** and political internal friction.
Because they simply do not have the ability to solve the huge ** budget deficit that is constantly flying, and both parties are dragging their feet. Obviously, they don't have the space to change time, and they must only end up with a morgue.
Finally, the report pessimistically argues that "while the market share of the United States and the G7 is declining rapidly, China's output in these 10 strategic industries is growing rapidly." ”
The report concludes by noting that "this underscores the nature of the competition between countries for global market share as a zero-sum competition".
Although our country often says in public that great power competition is not a "zero-sum game", I have to say today: the last words of the ITIF are true.
The reality of international politics is that of a jungle society, which has always pursued the game of "big fish eating small fish". Only this time, we're about to become the biggest.
At the end of the article, I present our own statistics as Chinese, so that we can deeply appreciate the strength of the motherland:
As of 2022, China's power battery production accounts for 6% of the world's total output, which is greater than the sum of the second to last places
As of 2022, China's display panel shipment area accounts for more than 50% of the world's total, with a production capacity of 200 million square meters, accounting for 60% of the world's total production capacity, which is greater than the sum of the second to the last place
As of 2022, China ranks first in the world in truck production, which is the sum of the output from the second to the last place;
As of 2022, China's steel production is greater than the sum of the second to last places (accounting for 539%）；
As of 2022, China's cement production capacity is greater than the sum of the second to last places. The cement used in 3 years is greater than the United States in the last 100 years combined;
As of 2022, China's aluminum production is greater than the sum of the second to last places;
As of 2022, China will have 10.62 million communication base stations of various types, 5.9 million 4G base stations, and 2.1 million 5G base stations, which is greater than the sum of the second to last places
As of 2022, China's annual pork production is 55.41 million tons, accounting for 46% of the global share, close to the sum of the second to last places;
As of 2022, China's facility agriculture area is about 40 million mu, reaching 80% of the world's facility agriculture, and the output of vegetables is 749.12 million tons, which is greater than the sum of the second to last places
As of 2022, China's glass production will reach 8600,000,000,000 weight boxes, greater than the sum of the 2nd to last places;
As of 2022, China's ports are the largest in the world, with a navigable mileage of 1280,000 kilometers, the world's first, the annual throughput of the port reached 156800 million tons, the world's top ten ports, China accounts for 8;
As of 2022, China's aquaculture production reached 53.88 million tons, accounting for more than 70% of the global share
As of 2022, the number of cars has ranked first for three consecutive years, with more than 400 million motor vehicles and more than 500 million people with driver's licenses
As of 2022, China's renewable energy generation capacity is equal to that of the EU27 combined
As of 2022, China is the world's largest in terms of electricity generation, almost twice as much as the second place. The installed capacity of wind power is 33831GW, 40% of the world;
As of 2022, the total mileage of expressways in China has reached 1770,000 kilometers, worthy of the name of the world's first;By 2022, the total mileage of China's high-speed railways will reach 420,000 kilometers, far ahead of the world's first;
As of 2022, China's fruit production is close to 300000 tons, which is 2869240,000 tons, accounting for 32% of the world's total production;
As of 2022, the Chinese Navy has installed 9 new ** ships with a gross tonnage of 150,000 tons, and the annual shipbuilding completion volume is 37.86 million deadweight tons, accounting for 47% of the world's total5% (almost half), China's shipbuilding share in the international market has been ranked first in the world for the 13th consecutive year (South Korea cried);
As of 2022, more than 40% of China's output of 500 major industrial products ranks first;
As of 2022, China ranks first in the world in optical fiber production and exports, and the total length of domestic laying reaches 57.91 million kilometers, ranking first in the world
As of 2022, there are more than 1 million highway and railway bridges in China, ranking first in the world
As of 2022, China's grain output is 682.85 million tons, ranking first in the world since 1986
The story continues.
Finally, I would like to reiterate that China has 41 industrial categories, 207 industrial categories, and 606 industrial sub-categories, and is the only country in the world that has all the industrial categories in the United Nations Industrial Classification.
Of course, the industrial output value has long been the largest in the world, and if someone wants to go to war with us without knowing whether they are alive or dead, they will have to weigh it only by relying on our country's mobilization capacity and industrial product production capacity, whether it is the United States or even NATO!
This year has been the worst year for the global economy since the pandemic, and it looks like our economy is well on its way to achieving the expected annual growth rate of 53%。
Well, 5Is 3% high?
Maybe it's not too high for a small and medium-sized economy, but for a 2022 annual GDP of 121 trillion yuan, or about 1806 trillion dollars for the world's second economy, it's really remarkable.
If by this year's increase of 53% calculation, that is, in such a difficult case directly add a Switzerland.
Difficulties are common to all, but ours are temporary, because we have full hope in mind, and that hope is just around the corner.
Some people may urgently ask, when is a day like this year a head?
To tell the truth, the time for the great power game, especially with the United States and the West, will certainly not be too short.
But there will be a particularly obvious event in the middle that tells us when the end is the end.
That is when Europe is willing to ask to sign the "China-EU Economic Agreement" with us, and at the same time, it is likely that Japan and South Korea will kneel.
How could the high-ranking Emperor Ou bow his noble head?How could it be that he whispered and asked us to sign an agreement?
Of course they don't want that, but hungry stomachs will force them to come, especially with France taking the lead.