I am a returnee engineer. As a senior R&D technician who has been serving the Chinese manufacturing industry for a long Time, especially for the equipment manufacturing industry, I have been “inseparable” from the Chinese manufacturing industry for nearly 18 years. After coming back from overseas, I was full of ambition and enthusiasm, thinking that the advanced scientific ideas and world-leading testing technology could really make some contribution to the Chinese manufacturing industry. But the facts prove that the original idea is so naive.
Original sin a do not pay attention to the core technology, too much attention to marketing
Manufacturing and the results of manufacturing – products, chasing the market, gaining market share, gaining market respect is not wrong. But anything once over, to the extreme there is a big problem. For thousands of years, with the exchange of goods, in fact, there has been a market economy in China, but the characteristics of the market economy is not the modern capitalist society defined “this look”. Since ancient times, most of the brands of good products rely on the accumulation, rely on the power of market communication. Jingdezhen’s ceramics, West Lake’s Longjing is not the market economy to let you and the world know? Jingdezhen’s porcelain, West Lake’s Longjing hefty reputation, is not the core technology and quality to win, one after another, pound after pound sold out of the word of mouth?
Please do not overplay the so-called marketability, please do not rely excessively on the so-called marketing. When the marketers are flying around, in fact, from another perspective, your goods are really not good.
Which of the hundred-year-old stores are not dependent on the core technology and quality to win? Even if the new technology, new technology generation, the same can not leave the quality. Otherwise such new technology and new technology will not be respected, and finally an empty! The root is inverted, and finally back to the original. The root is the root, the branches and leaves are the branches and leaves.
Original sin two is “managed to death” of the Chinese manufacturing
I am engaged in advanced manufacturing research abroad, Germany, France, the United States, Japan, large and small suppliers have seen countless. There are some suppliers with a scale of a thousand people, ten thousand people, some suppliers a few people, a dozen people. Traveled all over the world’s most advanced manufacturing countries, powerhouses, but not in the Chinese suppliers to hear a word more, this word is the so-called Chinese entrepreneurs hanging on the lips of the “management”.
In Germany and Japan, quality parts and components manufacturers do not have many factory and company leaders and cadres, and even the famous machine manufacturers do not have so many managers floating around. Nor do they have overlapping organizations and departments. A bunch of ministers, managers, and this general, that general.
In manufacturing countries, technology is the most respected, the ability to understand and create technology is highly respected. You make the company’s products sell well, without the need to sell them, you must be paid more than others. You invent a certain tool to make the product production quality stability greatly improved, the output increased significantly, foreign business owners dare to get half of the profits with you to share. This is the performance of respecting the essence of things, which is quite good. The boss will calculate, if it is not you, half of his profit will be no shadow, why not dare to share it.
And our Chinese manufacturing enterprises? A bunch of management cadres, people floating in the work, no edge no spectrum of management can be irresponsible every day, month to month, year to year. Who wants to be managed by people who work well? Creative and smart people are busy optimizing your products and thinking about how to make the new products more popular with the market and customers.
Original sin three: mutual distrust between enterprises and employees
Companies and employees, labor and management, are at odds with each other all over the world. However, the labor-management relationship between most industrial countries is not as unclear as that of Chinese enterprises. In Chinese manufacturing companies, job-hopping and disloyalty are rare in the world, as is distrust of subordinates and employees by bosses and leaders.
It is difficult to gather a group of professional people with professional ethics in Chinese manufacturing, and most of them are recruited for the sake of their jobs. Therefore, if we judge Chinese manufacturing companies by Japanese companies, the team of Chinese companies is more like a group of farmers rushing to make a small amount of money, rather than a well-trained industrial team. In Chinese manufacturing enterprises, for the sake of two hundred dollars more, you can dump a good job in a moment, see the enterprise in difficulty, few people are willing to step forward, with faith and belief to support themselves and the enterprise to move forward together. When the vices become the rule, the destruction is not only the consistency of Chinese manufacturing enterprises, integrity, technology accumulation, or the destruction of a number of manufacturing people’s spiritual Home.
Industry, especially big industry, must emphasize consistency, planning, and technical team upgrading. Because the problem of migrant workers and migrant workers type of thinking in the domination of most Chinese manufacturing enterprises, so whether it is product quality or industrial team innovation and creativity, the face of industrial powerhouse quality products are mostly unbeatable! They can only rely on the low quality and low price to grab the low-end market.
Enterprise management has more problems, they do not have the most basic trust in the enterprise staff, of course, can not return to the staff of the enterprise’s most basic identity and trust, blind to talent, no confidence in the future, to do business at all, there is no long-term plan. Recruiting conditions are almost eager to the extreme, most of them emphasize the product industry experience now, simply do not want to make potential excavation and continuous training of employees, state-owned enterprises so, private enterprises more so.
Original sin four spoil the procurement staff
Made in China there are many bad habits and bad customs that people can hate. The most important thing that should be flogged is the problem of the extreme low quality of procurement and purchasing personnel.
Perhaps made in China because of the low level of industry, customers are hard to come by. Put some slight market monopoly, there is a brand effect of the enterprise procurement staff spoiled. Some enterprises, especially private business owners, are willing to select procurement personnel from the middle of the Family or cronies, in the name of preventing corruption. Some state-owned enterprise leaders even intentionally give the procurement work to their cronies, but also told: “This thing fat vacancy yo, you have to do a good job, to take it easy yo.”
Your employees old Zhang old Li can eat kickbacks, engage in corruption. Is your brother-in-law, sister-in-law is not a person? People can be greedy, they can be profit-oriented forgetfulness. In order to prevent corruption, the bidding, the result is the more bidding the more corruption. The bidding that excludes users and technical personnel, and the fake justice that has no supervision of the bidding, will only let corruption wear a veneer of legality.
Original sin five disrespect for intellectual property rights
These factors are not the only ones that have penetrated deep into the virus made in China. If not given detoxification treatment, the future of China’s manufacturing will still not improve, the foot pain to treat the foot, headache to cure the head of the way can not solve the fundamental vices of the Chinese manufacturing has been a long time. I would like to point out in particular that the imitation problem, the copycat problem and the speculation problem of Made in China actually boil down to a serious disrespect for knowledge and intellectual property!
A considerable number of companies have disregarded the original technology and disrespected the technical solutions to an outrageous extent. Older technology companies have been scared of being cheated and usually don’t take it seriously, and not paying or working is the only accurate choice. But newly established technology-based companies, R & D design companies look at the big companies in favor of their own, who dare to neglect it? Staying up all night for months with a detailed technical proposal from the mailbox once sent out, and then five years without any news. What else can be the result? Be cheated of technical solutions. Such a scenario, I think many friends engaged in R & D and design have encountered, right?
Original sin six: far-fetched nationalism
I have lived and studied overseas for more than a decade, and have traveled to almost all industrial and technological countries in the world. Throughout the world’s industrial powers, there is no other industrial country that loves to play the national pathos card as much as China does. Whether it is from the name of the enterprise title, or the name of the product from Harbin, Heilongjiang to Haikou, Hainan, from Urumqi to Shanghai, nationalist products abound. What exactly do these companies mean? No confidence in your business? To your product delusion through the national feelings to please the sad national people? In reality, patriotism is fake, selling a few more products for a few silver dollars is real.
Quality products, responsible corporate value aspirations are in line with all mankind. Business is business, the product is the product, pull so many national feelings why? Some very ridiculous Chinese manufacturing enterprises, I do not know is to eat that kind of Medicine, from slippers to cell phones, to rice cookers, and then condoms, national and populist color in the manufacturing industry is pervasive.
Original sin seven: power seeking rent
There are human commercial activities, there is market behavior, what is meant by market economy, what is meant by business, this is not a complex problem. Many simple problems have become incredibly complicated in China.
You are a FAW system of a boss, you can ask relatives outside the opening of a parts factory, the power of their own shares in the form of a large number of benefits in this supplier, the money naturally will not be paid into the real name of the bank card, in this supplier shareholder directory, but also absolutely no power to see the shadow shareholders of this one. Of course this is the main factory and customer inclusion and protection of parts manufacturing companies, generally speaking is not possible from other quality manufacturing companies to purchase the same parts, even if other companies are repeatedly asked for quotes, to do the program. The analogy I made is so prevalent in China for companies large and small that it forms a variety of systems in the Chinese economy.
Department of automobiles, telecommunications, petroleum, engineering machinery, steel, railroad equipment, coal, agricultural machinery, electricity, rubber, etc., etc., each department of the manufacturing industry, are power-seeking, held by people with backgrounds. What is the use of such a market economy?
Originally should have the most dynamic market economy of private capital, individuals and small groups entrepreneurial factor can only be sidelined to do the most thin profits, the most difficult work, money-making business either belongs to the exclusive control, exclusive sales, or is firmly controlled by a variety of departments.
Buy a few kilograms of screws, sell a few sets of pincer tools can be subterfuge, such a Chinese manufacturing what can be worth bragging about? Speaking of which, I suddenly sympathize with the grassroots enterprises that copied other people’s products. It is really possible. So all the people of e-commerce, entrepreneurship can only engage in e-commerce. Either to open a clothing store, snack bar, can not get down on the “store transfer”, continue to let the real estate scourge of another entrepreneur.
Conclusion
“Qin Dynasty bricks”, “Han Dynasty tiles”, “Song and Ming ceramics”, “Qing Dynasty tea” …… The soul of great manufacturing in the past seems to be getting farther and farther away from us. However, without the support of ideals and beliefs, without the spirit of craftsmanship, the so-called “Made in China” is just a wild ghost without a soul on the roadside of the cottage…
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