After 60 years of hard work in Japan, it ended in failure, and the gap with China is widening day by day
Although Japan is a small island country, it still has deep attainments in the field of science and technology, in the fields of semiconductors, CNC machine tools, military industry, new materials, **, etc., it has always been in the forefront of the world, which is mainly due to the fact that Japan reached its economic peak as early as the 80s of the last century.
However, Japan's initial development was too dependent on the United States, and it can be said that the United States intended to support Japan's scientific and technological take-off through direct economic assistance and the cancellation of huge war reparations on the one hand, and by providing Japan with basic funds for development on the other.
Seeing that Japan had a strong momentum of development and rapid economic recovery at the end of the 80s of the last century, the United States, together with Britain, France, Germany, and other countries, took measures to curb the Japanese economy"The Plaza Accord"Sign into force.
Subsequently, by 1991, the Japanese economy suffered a bubble, Japan's **, the real estate market collapsed, and then there was no improvement for more than 20 years, Japan's economic recession became a foregone conclusion, and the United States staged a play"Unload the mill and kill the donkey"The trick.
As a result, while Japan continues to lead the world in some areas, its global strength is not as strong as it used to be.
In the past, a country's GDP accounted for 60% of Asia's, and in Japan, the top 20 companies in the world's top 500 accounted for 60%, and now the country's top 15 technology companies in terms of market capitalization are not as good as South Korea's Samsung, and the gap is getting wider and wider.
In addition, Japan has begun to lag behind in some areas, such as the determination to develop the aircraft industry, which has now completely failed.
Recently, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries officially announced the end of the research and development project of the Spacejet, a domestic aircraft in Japan. This means that the Japanese people have been fighting for the dream of a large aircraft for 60 years, and finally yellow, and at the press conference, the president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bowed deeply and expressed his weak apologies.
You know, as early as the 60s of the last century, Japan manufactured the YS-11 propeller-driven aircraft, and made its first flight in 1962.
But since then, it has become extremely difficult for Japan to build regional jets, and the SpaceJet (formerly MRJ regional jet) is the product of Japan's 20 years of struggle, and it ended in failure, but it also shows that Japan's aviation industry ended in failure.
The consumer electronics industry was almost wiped out, the automotive industry is now crumbling, and the failure of the Japanese project to build a large aircraft is undoubtedly the heaviest blow to all Japanese"Shinkansen"The Japanese who are mythical about high-speed trains have a hard time accepting this reality.
Because of this, when reporters interviewed Japanese people, many Japanese expressed their helplessness, and one woman even said with tears in her eyes"I was very surprised, I heard that the progress was not easy, but I didn't expect it to end up like this"。
And she concluded that the failure of the Japanese aircraft industry, in addition to being restricted by the United States, is also related to the scale of industrial transfer in Asia, and now Asian production and cutting-edge technology and other industries are moving to China, and the trend is very obvious.
Although Japan is strong in materials, parts, structural modification technology, etc., there are still deficiencies in the field of aircraft manufacturing, and system integration aside, Japan has no advantage in basic fields such as aerodynamic design.
And China currently has the largest wind tunnel complex in Asia and the most complete in the world, so it was announced in Japan"Space planes"Before the failure, the C919 large aircraft developed by China began to be delivered.
Of course, the failure of Japan's aviation industry has nothing to do with the market, and Japan-made aircraft must be American-made, just like China today.
Chinese-made aircraft, even without an FAA airworthiness certificate, can survive, after all, the domestic market is large enough. But Japan is different, if it can't enter the European and American markets, then Japanese aircraft can only wait to die, so almost at the same time as Japan's MRJ, Japan began the development of ARJ21 domestic regional aircraft, and now it has been officially put into operation for 7 years.
Interestingly, the Japanese did not think much of China's ARJ21, and even made a bold statement that China's large aircraft must not be sold, but unfortunately the plane is not a verbal war
Today's China is no longer the China of more than 100 years ago, and no country should have the illusion that it wants to defeat China, because the loser cannot be China, which was the case a few decades ago and is the same today.