Facing the blockade and suppression of Chinese enterprises, seeking breakthroughs, seeking breakthroughs,
Huawei breaking
The picture shows that the staff are operating advanced production facilities in the Huawei production base located in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province. (Picture source: Visual China)
After two years, the Mate series, the representative of Huawei's high-end models, has finally ushered in an update.
can make calls with only 1% of extremely low battery power, use Beidou satellite communications without signal, and first launch anti-fall glass so that the mobile phone is not afraid of falling... Recently, the Huawei Mate 50 series launch conference, which is watched by more than tens of millions of people In addition, Huawei has brought a number of leading "black technologies". Due to well-known reasons, Huawei has become one of the few manufacturers that will release 4G flagship phones in 2022, but this does not affect the attention of all sectors to this phone at all.
For some time, the United States has increasingly used national power to use various unconventional means to curb China's rise of science and technology and maintain the United States' technological hegemony. The blockade and suppression of Huawei reflects the storms that Chinese companies have to face on the road to becoming bigger and stronger. The United States curbs the international competition trend reflected by Huawei, which in turn requires Chinese companies to dare to use international rules to fight. Looking to the future, we must insist on combining proactive actions with forced and driving, and do our best to do a good job in scientific and technological innovation, a major event that concerns the rise and fall of the country.
Forge ahead in adversity, Huawei launched Mate 50 to sound the clarion call for regaining high-end market share
Huawei is a private technology company that produces and sells telecommunications equipment. Huawei mobile is one of its three core businesses and belongs to Huawei consumers business.
In 2003, Huawei began to expand into the field of mobile phone communications. In the early days, Huawei mobile phones mainly provided supporting services for Huawei's technical systems. In 2010, two mergers and acquisitions of Huawei's acquisition of US assets aborted, and the telecommunications industry faced an industry ceiling. As a B2B company, Huawei decided to transform and advance into the B2C field. Soon, Huawei clearly proposed the "cloud-manage-end" development strategy. In 2014, Mate7 mobile phones sold well and became an iconic product among domestic high-end mobile phones, thus laying the foundation for Huawei mobile phone mid-to-high-end brands.
Senior consultant Zhong Xinlong, CIDI Think Tank Institute of Information Technology and Software Industry, told reporters that based on factors such as pricing strategies, commercial marketing, product focus, and brand image, first-tier mobile phone manufacturers will incubate a certain distance in the long-term market development. The sub-brands of Du usually focus more on the mid- and low-end mobile phone market line, while the parent brand focuses on the high-end flagship route, such as Xiaomi 's sub-brand Redmi , vivo's sub-brand IQOO, and OPPO's sub-brand realme.
In December 2013, Huawei adopted a dual-brand strategy: split the Honor brand and position it in the mid- and low-end market. In June 2014, Huawei Honor released the world's first octa-core 4G Cat6 mobile phone Honor 6 flagship product, which attracted attention. In 2017, Honor Mobile ranked top 1 in China's Internet mobile phone brands with sales of 49.68 million units and sales of 71.6 billion yuan.
After years of development, Huawei has gradually grown into the world's third largest smartphone manufacturer, close to Apple and Samsung . In the first half of 2020, Huawei had a share of 44.1% in the domestic smartphone market at a price of more than US$600 in the domestic smartphone market with a price range of more than US$600. Slightly better than Apple.
From May 2019 to August 2020, the United States has successively imposed multiple rounds of sanctions on Huawei, resulting in no high-end chip supply after September 15, 2020. Under the chip shortage crisis, Huawei's mobile phone business revenue declined, and it was forced to "suspendant to survive" in November 2020 and sell Honor.
"When the chip supply is limited, Huawei can only adopt the method of self-rescue by cutting off the arm and packaging and selling part of its business. Generally speaking, when large enterprises face severe crises, they will consider splitting. Huawei split this time It is a choice that has to be made." Zhong Xinlong said. After the sale of
, Huawei no longer holds any shares in New Honor Company. Online Huawei Mall and offline Huawei stores have completely removed Honor products.The supply chain of New Honor has been fully restored, and has completed the signing of a new supply agreement and fully resumed cooperation with Honor's past suppliers including Qualcomm , Microsoft , Medtech , AMD , etc. .
"Under the current constraints, after two years of hard work, Huawei has delivered a brand new answer." Zhong Xinlong said that the development of the enterprise may be affected by some external factors, but this does not mean that it will stop moving forward. Under adversity, companies should do their best to strive to do their best, and Huawei has been forging ahead.
Zhong Xinlong believes that the launch of Mate 50 has only sounded the clarion call for regaining high-end market share. If Huawei wants to regain its high-end market share, it still needs more practical innovation and leading technological breakthroughs.
The United States' blockade and suppression brings pain to the development of my country's high-tech industry, but it is also accelerating the process of independent innovation and domestic substitution
"No retreat is the road to victory." This is the theme of the Huawei Legion formation conference on October 29, 2021 .
On May 15, 2020 local time, the US Department of Commerce issued a news release that it plans to upgrade its regulatory measures against Huawei. Foreign companies will be subject to regulation as long as they use US technology, software, equipment, etc. to produce chips for Huawei, and must first obtain the United States approval. A year ago, the United States included Huawei on the "entity list" of export controls.
Huawei Shenzhen headquarters has a profound picture. In the center of the picture, a fighter , with bullet-scarred , was flying hard in the air, with a line of big words printed below: "No scars are covered, where can we get thick skin and flesh? Heroes have suffered many hardships since ancient times."
, in the view of Huawei founder , Ren Zhengfei, Huawei, which the United States suppressed, is like this return plane, "flying while repairing, and striving to fly back." Because he made preparations in advance, he was sure that the engine and fuel tank of this aircraft were still good.
"Many years ago, it was still a season of calmness. The company made the assumption of extreme survival. It is expected that one day, all advanced chips and technologies in the United States will be unavailable, and Huawei will continue to serve customers." 20195 At around 2 a.m. on the 17th of the month, Huawei HiSilicon President He Tingbo wrote in an open letter to employees: "For this assumption that I thought it would never happen, thousands of children of HiSilicon have entered the most technological history. The tragic Long March creates a 'spare tire' for the company's survival. "
Huawei was forced into a corner, and the "spare tire" turned "right" overnight. He Tingbo said that in the future, there will be no more than another decade to build a "spare tire" and then change the tire. The buffer zone has disappeared. As soon as every new product is born, it will have to synchronize the "technology independence" solution.
From the establishment of the ASIC design center in 1991, to the establishment of HiSilicon in 2004, and to the planning of its own operating system " Hongmeng " in 2012, Huawei has been building its own "Noah's Ark" to ensure the security of the supply chain. In the past decade, a considerable portion of the research funds exceeding 800 billion yuan have been invested in "spare tire" technology. The term "spare tire" has therefore been given a new meaning, referring to independent technologies that can replace external supply and ensure normal operation at critical moments.
For a long time, Huawei's server chip business has been monopolized by Western manufacturers such as Intel. After the supply cut, Huawei quickly began to produce large quantities of self-developed Kunpeng chips to fill the space, ensuring the development of Huawei Cloud and other businesses.
"Although the US blockade and suppression brings pain to the development of my country's high-tech industry, my country's independent innovation seems to be hindered and long, the future is bright. Blockade and suppression will only accelerate the process of independent innovation and domestic substitution." Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Researcher of the Institute of Industrial Economics Liu Jianli analyzed that if foreign products have always been available, companies generally will not take the initiative to replace domestically produced products unless they have to. If the United States wants to cut off supply and decouple, domestic manufacturers will surely take the lead, and chip manufacturers and equipment manufacturers will have opportunities for development.
"It should be pointed out that our independent innovation is innovation in an open environment, and it is by no means a breakthrough behind closed doors.Looking at the history of human science, open communication is a key path to explore the frontier of science, and creating a scientific and technological division will only hinder global scientific and technological progress. "Liu Jianli said.
The operation and management of cross-border supply chains is no longer a pure business problem. After becoming bigger and stronger, enterprises must learn how to better participate in international competition under the new situation in practice
"The United States curbs Huawei 5G from one side It reflects the impact of China's rise on the US's dominance in setting international rules. "Director of the Institute of International Relations of Tsinghua University , Yan Xuetong , wrote an article saying that in recent years, the technological gap between China and the United States has shown a narrowing trend, and even surpassed the United States in some fields. This inevitably makes the United States worry that China will surpass technological innovation. The United States, because China's innovation capabilities exceed the United States, it means that China's comprehensive national strength will surpass the United States.
"The reason why some Chinese companies have become targeted by the U.S. authorities is precisely because they develop fast and good enough. This is a problem that China will inevitably encounter after its development. After becoming bigger and stronger, enterprises must learn how to better participate in international competition under the new situation in practice. "Jin Bei, a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told reporters.
In the face of the "technical war" launched by the United States against China, we must be good at using international rules to safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises.
2020 On August 28, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology adjusted and released the "Catalogue of Technologies for Prohibition of Exports in China", adding 23 new technical entries that restrict exports, especially in response to the incident in which the United States intends to acquire TikTok restricts the export of some information technology. 2021 In June 2019, the " Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law of the People's Republic of China" was announced and implemented, focusing on countering sanctions, anti-interference, and countering long-arm jurisdiction , etc., to enrich the legal "toolbox" to respond to challenges and prevent risks.
" is In the era of increasingly intensified strategic competition among major powers, the operation and management of transnational supply chains is no longer a pure business issue, but a major international political economy issue. The seller holds production-oriented power on the supply side, and the buyer holds consumer-oriented power on the demand side. We can fully utilize the desire of relevant companies upstream of the supply side for the Chinese market to hedge the seller's power in in in the United States. " Professor Li Wei from the School of International Relations, Renmin University of China, said.
Recently, the US government proposed to form a "chip four-party alliance" to curb the development of the semiconductor industry in mainland China. However, the South Korean government is skeptical about this and believes that the US's suggestions cannot Fully accept. Because Korean companies have key facilities in mainland China, and mainland China is the world's largest semiconductor market.
Li Wei analyzed that although the United States has put huge pressure on Huawei on both supply and demand of the information and communication technology industry, However, with the rise of China's economy, China's technological countermeasures and market countermeasures are becoming increasingly powerful, especially as China grows into a huge buyer, and the interests of the US business community will inevitably suffer hugely due to the "technical war" launched by the United States. They will put pressure on the US authorities to avoid the government's will torture and destruction of the entire supply chain system.
The US government's supply cut to Huawei has attracted many domestic opposition. American company Qualcomm as Huawei One of the core suppliers has been lobbying the US government before, calling on it to lift restrictions on Huawei's sales of chips. According to research by Boston Consulting, in the long run, if the United States completely bans selling chips to Chinese customers such as Huawei, this is completely Decoupling will reduce the revenue of US chip manufacturers by 37%, and reduce their global market share by 18%, which has a significant adverse impact on the US's global leadership of semiconductor .
Liu Jianli analyzed that the United States has entered the Chinese market for Qualcomm and other companies. Implementing restrictions means that the competitiveness of these companies is damaged, which provides an opportunity for Chinese companies to enter the relevant supply chain system and develop and strengthen themselves. This situation has emerged in many fields.
The more complex the external environment, the more it can inspire the fighting spirit of the Chinese people to unite and overcome difficulties
The history of scientific and technological progress in New China is a history of struggle for self-reliance and self-improvement. For more than 70 years, in the face of blockade and suppression, our country has always pursued the policy of independence, self-reliance, independent innovation, self-reliance, self-reliance, and self-reliance, and has continuously broken through and contained the confinement. Many major achievements such as two bombs and one satellite, , manned space flight, early warning aircraft , etc. Forced out. Nie Rongzhen, who once served as the leader of the Central Science Group, pointed out when reviewing China's scientific and technological development experience: "The first is self-reliance. Our policy of self-reliance should be said to be forced out, which is a great thing."
" Facing the outside world With technology blockade and suppression, the confidence and will of the Chinese people to develop science and technology industry have never been shaken. The more complex the external environment is, the more it can inspire the fighting spirit of the Chinese people to unite and overcome difficulties." Liu Jianli said.
shield machine is used in infrastructure and energy fields such as subway, railway, water conservancy, etc., and is known as the "king of engineering machinery". In the 1840s, the shield construction method and its excavation equipment were born in the West, and then it continued to develop and mature in Germany, France, the United States, Japan and other countries. In the 1960s, my country also tried to independently develop excavation equipment, but due to factors such as weak basic industry and lack of talent teams, domestic production work has stagnated for a long time. In the late 1980s, with the large-scale launch of subway construction in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places, foreign excavation equipment and tunnel construction technologies continued to pour into my country, and the problem of being controlled by others became increasingly prominent.
"The shield machine represents a country's high-end equipment technology level and is at the core of the underground engineering industry chain." Zhang Shuixun, deputy director of the Research and Design Institute of Railway Construction Heavy Industry Boring Machinery, told reporters that Railway Construction Heavy Industry uses continuous independent innovation and It has broken the foreign monopoly for more than ten years and has become a global industry leader. At present, domestic brand shield machines represented by Railway Construction Heavy Industry have occupied two-thirds of the global market share, and shield machines have changed from foreigners' "money printing machines" to Chinese people's "competitive weapons".
five-axis CNC machine tool is an important tool for my country to build an industrial power. It is called the "heavy weapon of a big country."
"Guangyang Group's main contribution to my country's high-end CNC machine tool industry can be summarized as 'independent and controllable, replacing imports'." Yu Dehai, chairman of Dalian Guangyang Technology Group, introduced that as the only in China that only supports the domestic CNC system , it only supports the domestic CNC system . Five-axis linkage CNC machine tool manufacturing enterprise, Guangyang Group has mastered the independent intellectual property rights and production capabilities from high-end five-axis linkage CNC machine tools to key components of machine tools, and can independently design, manufacture and sell all kinds of high-end Five-axis machine tool and its key components products.
"We are doing it bit by bit in the process of blockade and suppression." Looking back at the process of independent innovation of enterprises, Yu Dehai said that 20 years ago, they needed to buy two CNC machine tools , but domestic companies did not have the ability to produce them, so they had to do so. Choose to purchase imported products from a developed country. Unexpectedly, the other party's premise of selling machine tools is that it must accept an additional clause: the installation location, use purpose, and processing objects of imported machine tools are all limited by them, and any changes must be approved by them. Once we move the machine tool by ourselves, it will automatically lock. Death is reduced to scrap iron. It is this "humiliation" experience that forces the road to innovation breakthrough.
"Today, we are closer, more confident and capable than at any time in history to achieve the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Realizing the dream of a strong country in science and technology is the general trend, and no suppression can stop China's scientific and technological development and progress." Liu Jianli analyzed, The institutional advantages of the new national system under the conditions of a socialist market economy, the strong material and technological foundation brought about by the continuous leap in economic strength, the huge market capacity that is conducive to the rapid iteration of new technologies, the talent team with continuous improvement in scale and quality, and the continuous enhancement of market entities R&D capabilities all provide a solid foundation for us to strive to achieve scientific and technological self-reliance.
Break through blockades and independent innovation, shift from habitual follow-up to pioneering guidance, and achieve more "from 0 to 1", we will surely move towards the goal of building a world science and technology power.
Source: China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News
