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Machine tools play an extremely important role in the country's industrial development.
It can not only provide fine tools and production templates for the people in the field of people's livelihood, but also play a key role in the field of military industry that can directly affect the country's military strength.
There was once a saying that "China's process of manufacturing aircraft carriers is also inseparable from Japan's machine tools", indicating that China's machine tools are not as good as Japan's machine tools.
Is this really the case? Is it true that the machine tools in the mainland are not as good as those in foreign countries?
The answer is, of course, no, but the mainland did have a period of time when it was indeed "stuck" by machine tool powers such as Japan and Germany.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, although the mainland's industrial facilities were limited in development due to the protracted war, the overall industrial level was relatively backward.
However, with the help of the Soviet Union, a large number of industrial cities, mainly Shenyang, the old industrial base in northeast China, have shown vigorous momentum.
In addition, there are industrial machine tool factories and research institutes of the "Eighteen Arhats" and "Seven King Kongs", so that the industrial level of the mainland has reached the same level as the world level in only five years.
But in the 70s of the 20th century, other countries accelerated the process of industrial development, while the mainland stagnated.
Until the early 80s, the mainland could only rely on the introduction of machine tools from Japan and Germany to produce, learn and imitate.
However, because there was a generational gap in technology, and Japan and Germany intended to encrypt and hide the technology, the research work on the mainland at that time often encountered a situation that Japan's machine tools could only be repaired by Japan's technicians.
Even if a screw is loosened, it costs a lot of money to bring in Japan "experts" to repair it, and there is even a saying that "if you move, it will be locked".
Although the mainland's scientific research personnel did not relax at that time, how could the gap in industrial development of more than 10 years be able to catch up and surpass it overnight.
During that time, there was a rumor that although the mainland was a big country with pens, it could not produce qualified pen balls and could only rely on large imports from Japan.
In fact, there is a certain truth to this statement, and there is also a large part of the moisture. Because at that time, the mainland did want to import balls from Japan, but the actual situation was not that it could not be made, but that it was not made.
Before 2006, the mainland has been focusing on the research and development and manufacturing of heavy industrial machine tools, so the basic light industry parts are in a stage of importation.
However, after 2006, the mainland put forward the concept of "independent innovation and independent development", and the mainland began to develop and innovate almost regardless of the cost in all walks of life.
Many fields that were once monopolized by foreign technology have also begun to be gradually broken by the mainland one by one.
In terms of the development of machine tools, the mainland began to focus on the development of CNC machine tools after 2000.
Although it is only a relatively low-end basic machine tool, a large number of basic education and first-line fine operation have accumulated a large number of reserve talents for the mainland.
After 2015, Continental has mastered more than 62% of the world's low-end CNC machine tool research and development patents, and marched into the high-end CNC technology industry.
Someone once said, "The terrible thing about China is not that it has a huge population base, but that there is a huge desire to forge ahead among these people." ”
In just three years, the mainland's achievements in the field of high-end CNC machine tools have brought pressure to the old industrial powers such as United States, Japan and Germany, and United States simply imposed an embargo on manufacturing equipment including high-end CNC machine tools on the mainland in 2018.
Immediately afterwards, the United States began to boycott and embargo the mainland's chip industry, and Japan also began to follow United States at this time to restrict the mainland's chip industry, and also threatened that China's machine tools could not operate without chips, and they could not build their own aircraft carriers.
Coincidentally, Germany also issued a series of embargo measures on high-end machine tools on the mainland at this time.
The reason why Japan and Germany dared to do this was because nearly half of the world's precision machine tools at that time relied on Japan's chips, and the mainland needed precision machine tools in the production process of key precision parts such as turbofans and engines required by aerospace and warship missiles at that time.
The reason why these countries did this is because Japan has long learned from Western industrialization, accumulated a lot of industrial development experience and mature industrial system, and they think that the mainland will definitely be restrained by their "ban".
However, it is no longer a hundred years ago, the traditional way of thinking and competition has become obsolete, and the country they are facing is also a China that is constantly evolving with each passing day.
However, China is already a "potential power" with a complete industrial chain and related knowledge system.
Since 2021, although the United States, Japan and Germany have imposed various restrictions on the mainland, the numerical control of machine tools in the mainland has still maintained growth, not only has not been affected, but has also reached a growth rate of 11.2%.
In 2022, China will use its own CNC machine tools to produce a new generation of CNC machine tools, creating a total production volume of 182.3 billion, creating the highest world record that year.
However, we must admit that compared with the 65% overall CNC machine tools in countries such as Japan and Germany, we still have a certain gap.
But we have developed our own system of industrial production, and the door closed by these countries to the mainland has become a "cage" for themselves.
When Japan announced a ban on mainland machine tools and chips, it once wanted to lock the Japan machine tools being used in the mainland by means of remote control.
But Japan soon discovered that those machine tools in Japan were quickly "relocated", because the mainland immediately replaced them with its own machine tools.
Not only that, part of the machine tool orders that were originally communicating with the mainland have also become empty talk, replaced by machine tools produced by the mainland.
Cheap, affordable, and easy to maintain in our own homes, and more importantly, the funds for the purchase of machine tools are also "left hand to right hand", put into our own pockets.
According to a report by the Japan Industrial Association, Japan lost more than 100 billion yuan in business orders almost every month within six months of its ban.
On the other hand, the machine tool enterprises in the mainland, while increasing internal production, have gradually improved the relevant industrial chain, and directly seized the market of Japan enterprises in the Asian machine tool industry with lower prices.
Today, the mainland not only does not need to rely on Japan's machine tools to manufacture aircraft carriers, but even the nibs of ballpoint pens are not imported from Japan.
Therefore, the big words of Japan and Germany can only be listened to as a joke, after all, the mainland not only knows that "science and technology are the primary productive forces," but also knows the truth that "striking iron requires its own hardness."
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