1783-BMS10CA When the “talent dividend” fades, the wave of automation strikes, the recovery of the old manufacturing powers pulls the global manufacturing industry to turn, forming a new situation of intelligent and automated manufacturing characteristics – the development of low-end manufacturing is blocked; The high-end manufacturing industry is developing rapidly and the demand for technology is increasing. Force “demographic dividend” power to “talent dividend” power.

The wave of globalization and the advent of automation

1783-BMS10CA The Times are developing rapidly. The world economy, culture, science and technology have undergone the baptism of the first and second industrial revolutions. The development of global integration has become increasingly profound, and the world has become a closely connected whole.

For every country, economic globalization is a double-edged sword, which is both an opportunity and a challenge. In particular, for developing countries with weak economic strength and relatively backward science and technology, economic globalization will exacerbate the income gap in the short term due to the “demographic dividend trap” and other reasons, but it will help narrow the income gap in the long run. Today’s social and economic development can not be divorced from the global economic environment, based on the development of the national economy on the basis of active participation in global economic activities, in the international market to seek prospects and ways out of economic development.

1783-BMS10CA With the wave of economic globalization, the development trend of the global manufacturing industry is constantly changing. With the change of existing technologies and the continuous emergence of new technologies, the development of global manufacturing to intelligence and automation is the general trend. The rapid development and wide application of computer technology has provided a foundation for the development of high-end manufacturing, and the combination of automatic control and computer technology has brought automated production to a new level. Therefore, intelligent and automated production has brought a new situation to the development of global manufacturing industry: low-end manufacturing industry that requires a lot of manpower is blocked; The high-end manufacturing industry is developing rapidly and the demand for technology is increasing. Force “demographic dividend” power to “talent dividend” power.

1783-BMS10CA The three principles of building factories have helped the global manufacturing industry shift

Built in raw material producing countries

The United States steel industry has a long history of development, and the early steel mills are concentrated in the old industrial areas of the northeast. The industrial area’s proximity to coal and iron ore, and the use of the Great Lakes water system between the United States and Canada to transport iron ore to Pittsburgh, led to the development of a strong machinery industry.

1783-BMS10CA Germany’s Ruhr Industrial zone is a typical traditional industrial area, but also a typical representative of raw material producers. With rich coal resources, close to iron mining areas and water sources, the Ruhr region became a developed industrial zone in Western Europe and even the world.

Most of the reasons manufacturing is based in raw material producing countries is because of the difficulty and high cost of transporting raw materials. Earlier producers of raw materials were colonies of the few manufacturing powers at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

1783-BMS10CA Established in an intermediate third party manufacturing country

At present, the most typical third-party manufacturing country in the world is China. Since the reform and opening up in the 1970s, on the one hand, China has actively attracted foreign investment, and many foreign-funded enterprises have settled in China. On the other hand, manufacturing has developed rapidly in China’s coastal areas. These foreign-funded and joint ventures rely on a large number of low-cost labor forces and specialized industrial clusters from rural China to give full play to their low-cost advantages and seize market opportunities. China has also gradually formed a strong international competitiveness and become a production outsourcing base for the international manufacturing industry. “Made in China” is famous all over the world.

The current international situation shows that China’s demographic dividend period is fading, labor-intensive manufacturing has a better choice, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries with lower labor costs have become a strong opponent of China’s labor-intensive manufacturing.