As the leader of domestic mobile phone brands, Huawei once occupied only half of the domestic mobile phone market (including Honor) at its peak. Overseas markets, especially in Europe, continue to expand, and Apple ranks first. Precarious.
Although Huawei spent huge sums of money every year to develop Kirin chips, and 5G chips, at the critical moment when Huawei surpassed Apple, the United States launched multiple rounds of sanctions against Huawei and cut off Huawei's chip manufacturing. Huawei was forced to sell out. After losing Honor, I can only use Qualcomm 4G chips. The market share fell from 50% to "Others", and the market share of HiSilicon chips also dropped to 1%, which has to be lamented.
It is difficult to make cores, but the good news is that domestic chips have always been at the forefront of public opinion, and our country is catching up. Huawei Yu Chengdong once made it clear that Huawei mobile phones will return as kings in 2023. By then, Huawei chip manufacturing and 5G The problem will be completely solved!
In fact, there is another industry that is more difficult than chip manufacturing. It has been "stuck" by the United States and Japan for a long time. We spend hundreds of billions of yuan on imports every year, but we cannot even create copycats. It is the precision scientific research instrument industry! According to data, 90% of the scientific research instruments used in our country come from foreign companies. Among the top 20 scientific research instrument companies in the world, not a single Chinese company is on the list! And our annual cost of importing scientific research instruments is as high as 300 billion yuan!
And scientific research instruments are the foundation of technology research and development. If the United States suddenly cuts off the supply of our scientific research instruments, then our entire scientific research system will be completely paralyzed! The United States is also well aware of the importance of scientific research instruments, because the Ministry of Commerce once made a report, which clearly pointed out that although the instrument industry only accounts for 4% of industrial output value, it can affect 66% of GDP. Taking away scientific research equipment is equivalent to draining the bottom of a country’s economy!
In fact, the United States has also considered sanctioning the instrument industry. During the trade war, the U.S. Department of Commerce drafted regulations to ban the sale of all products that may be involved in military use, including digital oscilloscopes , which once again sounded the alarm. The alarm bell of "stuck neck"!
Since the research and development of precision scientific research instruments is so important, why doesn’t my country break through the monopoly of the United States and Japan early? There are two main reasons. First, we started relatively late. After all, Western countries modernized many years earlier than us, so there is no doubt that we have natural advantages in scientific research instruments. Moreover, we had been advocating economic globalization before the trade war, so no one would realize that scientific research instruments would get stuck in the future.
More importantly, the pie in this market is too small. The annual sales of industry giant Thermo Fisher and are only US$6 billion. In the eyes of capital, doing this business is simply thankless. Making games, Are community group buying, live streaming and other popular industries not as popular as this one?
Therefore, we hope that in the future, the country can increase its support for the scientific research instrument industry, so that companies and individuals in the industry can make money, thereby attracting more scientific research companies and talents to enter this industry, and finally break through the gap between the United States and Japan. monopoly! In addition, we must give up our illusions. If we want to truly rise, independent research and development is the only way to go. We have succeeded in aerospace, shield machine , space station and other fields, and the scientific research instrument industry cannot stump us either!
