As we all know, China is the world's largest steel country, the only country in the world with a steel output of more than 1 billion tons, and the steel output exceeds the sum of all other countries in the world. Many people say that this is a low-end industry with quantity but no quality, regardless of the fact that China's special steel exports are also the world's first.
This is still secondary, the important thing is that steel is an important basic industrial product, China's automobile production in 2023 will exceed 30 million, mobile phones, refrigerators, TVs, air conditioners are all the world's first, infrastructure level is the world's first, known as infrastructure madness. This requires a large number of parts and components, which in turn requires a large number of basic industrial products, and of course, a huge amount of electricity.
It is precisely because our country has the world's largest production capacity and industrial chain of basic industrial products, which allows Chinese enterprises to have the world's most cost-effective basic products in many fields, and thus form a competitive advantage.
For example, in the shipbuilding industry, China not only has lower labor costs than South Korea, but also has high quality and low prices for all kinds of steel and alloys used in shipbuilding. For the same ** order, South Korea may lose money, but my country still earns.
In recent years, China's shipbuilding industry has been fiercely competitive with South Korea, but now it has slowly opened up the gap. From the point of view of the three major indicators of the shipbuilding industry.
From January to November 2023, China's shipbuilding completions accounted for 50% of the world's1%, of course, this refers to the field of civil shipbuilding, that is, the number of shipbuilding completions in China exceeds the sum of all other countries in the world. China accounts for 65% of the world's new orders9%, this proportion is quite terrible, China's new orders have reached South Korea's 25 times, and this data directly affects the number of shipbuilding completions in the next few years. From the perspective of hand-held orders, China accounts for 53 of the world4%。All three indicators account for more than half of the world's total.
We all know that the larger the scale of the industry, the more conducive it is to reduce costs, improve efficiency, promote new technologies, and apply new management. This advantage will slowly manifest itself later. Just like China's new energy vehicles, production and sales account for more than half of the world's total, under the same technical conditions, no country's new energy vehicles can compete with China's cost, which is why Europe should restrict China's new energy vehicles. With the technological advantages accumulated by the European automobile industry, it is impossible to beat China's new energy vehicle products in a level playing field.
Therefore, if this advantage continues to be maintained, then it is not far off for our shipbuilding industry to completely defeat South Korea.