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Many people know that China has developed rapidly in the past two decades, but to what extent? Even the most optimistic forecast will still be shocking.
Especially in some high technology threshold, in the past firmly controlled by overseas fields, to say the truth, if not recently Japan's mainstream media have successively disclosed some detailed reports about China, many people will not notice that our country has quietly put a lot of "carat neck" technology, into the power that others are now looking at.
If they hadn't taken the initiative to say it, even we ourselves wouldn't have believed that China has become so strong.
A phenomenon that has caused widespread discussion is a continuous report by mainstream media such as Japanese NHK and DPRK News, that in the end of 2023 to the beginning of 2024, China's performance in several key fields has shocked the Japanese political and business community.
This shock is not because they don’t understand China, but because China’s steps are too fast, too intense, and they have to face the fact that China is no longer the country that runs on cheap labor.
The most typical example is the Tokyo Auto Show. This exhibition has always been the vane of the Asian auto industry. In the past few decades, it has been almost the home of Japanese brands. Old faces such as Toyota, Honda, and Nissan occupy the C position, but by October 25, 2023, the times have changed.
BYD from China not only made its debut with its latest new energy vehicle, but also the flow of people in the exhibition area far exceeded that of Toyota Honda. The headline of the Japanese media at that time was very direct, saying "China has completed Japan's 50 years in 10 years". This expression is not an exaggeration, but the impact they really feel.
The reason the Japanese media will write this is largely because China is too fast in the field of new energy vehicles, the Japanese in the past have always thought that they are leading in hybrid technology, and Toyota's Prius is their pride.
But I didn't expect China to skip hybrid and directly invest in pure electric technology on a large scale. It also achieved autonomy in key components such as batteries, motors, and electronic controls. BYD is even making chips, and battery supply is no longer dependent on the outside world. The entire industrial chain is almost closed-loop, which is unimaginable in Japan.
At the beginning of 2024, Japan's Asahi Shimbun published an analysis article on China's latest aircraft carrier. The focus is not the aircraft carrier itself, but the take-off method of the carrier-based aircraft, electromagnetic ejection.
The third Chinese aircraft carrier "Fujian" has completed the real-time testing of the electromagnetic launch system, which means that China has become the second country after the United States to master this technology on a global scale.
Electromagnetic launches are considered to be one of the peaks of aircraft carrier technology, traditional aircraft carriers rely on steam launches, complex structure, low efficiency, high maintenance costs, and electromagnetic launches not only more energy-saving, but also more accurately control the launches strength, which has a direct impact on the type of ship carrier, take-off frequency and combat efficiency.
The U.S. Navy's "Ford" is currently the only aircraft carrier in the world that officially deploys electromagnetic ejection, with a cost of more than 10 billion dollars. China can launch similar technology in a shorter time than the United States, which makes the Japanese media feel incredible.
The reason why this incident was shocking is that Japan learned through the intelligence system that China was developing an electromagnetic ejection system as early as 2015. At that time, they didn't take it too seriously and felt that this technology was too difficult, and China was unlikely to get it done in a short time. But reality quickly hit the face.
We not only completed the system tests, but also conducted the five-generation ship-carrying aircraft’s electromagnetic launching exercises, a speed that forced them to re-evaluate China’s military-industrial capabilities.
Another example is drones. DJI drones have overwhelmingly led the global market share. This is not news, but what really makes the Japanese feel pressured is that there is no company in Japan that can compete with them.
They even rely on China’s drone technology for agricultural spraying, terrain exploration and disaster surveillance, producing a word called “technology dependence enhanced” in the report, meaning that they are increasingly inseparable from Chinese products and technologies in key areas, a situation that was difficult to imagine a decade ago.
Japan is shocked by China’s strength and a very direct manifestation is that their universities and research institutions have increased their attention to Chinese students and research achievements in recent years.
Reports from the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University frequently cite data and research results from China universities, especially in materials science, information engineering, new energy, etc. Japanese academic circles used to have reservations about China research, but now they have to accept the fact that China's scientific research level has indeed improved, and it can even lead the way in some cutting-edge fields.
China's manufacturing industry is also quietly changing, it is no longer the role of the previous low-end assembly, such as the high-speed rail, the Japanese have long noticed, especially the high-speed rail projects exported to Argentina, Indonesia, Egypt and other countries, many have taken the original Japanese wish to fight for orders.
Japanese media specialized in analyzing China's high-speed rail export model, and found that China can not only sell equipment, but also provide a whole set of services for construction, maintenance training, and financial support, which makes it difficult for Japanese enterprises to compete.
There is also a small detail that can show how genuine Japanese feelings about China are, that their corporate recruitment direction has changed, and many Japanese large companies, including Sony, Panasonic, SoftBank and other companies, have begun to emphasize Chinese skills in their recruitment.
Some companies have even directly indicated on recruitment websites that they prioritize recruiting candidates with a study or work background in China, read and sell news reports that this trend has spread in many areas of Japanese manufacturing, information technology, financial services and so on, indicating that they have seen the Chinese market as a core battlefield.
These are all the contents reported by the Japanese media, without any exaggeration or accidental phenomenon. In the past, we were used to listening to experts talk about how strong China is when watching news in China, but this time it was said by the Japanese media themselves, and it was said in many fields in succession that this "recognized" strength is more convincing.
In fact, Japanese society didn't have no warning of China's rise, but they didn't expect the pace to be so fast and the scope to be so wide. When they stood out in Asia, they probably didn't take China too seriously.
But now it's different. Japanese media reports are no longer simply information disclosure, but with a strong sense of crisis, they are reminding their own enterprises and governments that they really need to be ready to face a rising China in an all-round way.
We are not blasphemous, nor do we sell ourselves, but the opponent has admitted, this is not an illusion, but a fact.
China's strength has been achieved step by step. We are down-to-earth and naturally have the confidence to continue to move forward bravely.
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The Japanese Chinese view of the New York Times
Do you think it’s made in China?
"China's Rise and the Transformation of International Order" China Institute of Strategic Studies