The third in the global economic rankings has changed.
According to Nippon TV on the 15th, Japan's nominal gross domestic product (GDP) will fall from the third place in the world to the fourth place in the world in 2023, overtaken by Germany. This is 55 years after Japan's economy surpassed West Germany in 1968 and ranked second in the world.
The British newspaper The Guardian believes that Japan's self-esteem will be damaged and that this decline is unlikely to end there, but "Japan's self-esteem is damaged, and Germany can't actually laugh".
In fact, the German economy is no longer tense.
It's really normal for Germany not to laugh, because energy ** continues to rise, 25% of German companies chose to reduce production last year or simply move their enterprises and factories to those countries with cheap energy, such as China and the United States, that is, China and the United States are taking over Germany's manufacturing industry.
A bunch of German companies have set up factories in China, such as BMW, BASF, and the German Merck ......
It's just that these enterprises can go, but the small enterprises in the industrial chain have nowhere to escape.
In Germany, small and medium-sized enterprises, which account for about 99% of the total number of enterprises, contribute about 54% of the added value and pull about 62% of employment, linking 80% of the total employed population and 60% of exports. They are the backbone of German industry and services. Most importantly, German SMEs not only contribute significantly to German companies, but also take a leading position in the global market, according to relevant statistics, Germany accounts for 47% of the 2,764 medium-sized global leaders.
Now the energy is high, which directly hits the lifeline of these enterprises. Many of these small and medium-sized enterprises only focus on market segments with products and businesses, relying on Germany's ** chain to eat, and can usually make money while lying down, and can only go bankrupt when they can't bear the crisis.
After these trivial capillaries withered, Germany's automobile industry and machinery manufacturing industry became a tree without roots, and if it wanted to survive, Germany had no soil to survive, so it had to move out.
In February, the Dynamic Incentive Program was launched, especially for chemical and energy companies. We are still discussing today that the collapse of Germany's last oil development company in the past few days basically symbolizes that there is no turning back for the energy transition of the past two decades. However, five years ago, I thought that the ** natural gas that could be used forever was cutoff, and the nuclear power in full swing in France next door was completely scrapped, and now I am counting on solar and wind energy (unstable), and in winter, I rely on buying Qatar and the United States** natural gas, completely losing the guarantee of energy reserves and energy security, and completely abandoning my martial arts.