Seeing that Dan Bing and Tu Lei did not stay in Lunduo. Fortunately, the next day, the women did not wait for Mangshi, and the women came back. Everyone attended the dinner held in the palace together. The queen also awarded Shen Ying a medal.

When returning to the hotel to rest, Shen Ying still fiddled with the medal and asked Fan Wubing what medal was it?

"It's probably the kind of ceremonial nature. Fan Wubing said casually. "There are many people who visit the British royal family every day. When the royal family thinks it is worth keeping in touch with guests, the queen will usually give away some worthless medals or something. On the one hand, it can prevent the royal recorder from getting paid for nothing, and on the other hand, it will leave a deeper impression. Maybe everyone will have a chance to cooperate. So, this medal is just like the heirloom that Fang Shiyu's mother gave out, it's innumerable. "

"Cut it, you will be stunned, and the good mood of others will ruin you." Shen Ying said dissatisfiedly.

In the TV news that I opened at hand, China-related topics are being discussed. Last year, in the white paper of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan, the statement that China has become the world’s factory was officially mentioned for the first time. Recently, this has gradually become an international description. A common term in the Chinese economy.

When the British TV station mentioned this topic, it quoted a research report of a British company, saying that China was in the 21st century, just as the UK was in the 19th century. Moreover, China is performing better and better.

Fan Wubing frowned when he heard this topic, obviously he didn't agree with this statement.

In his view, this derogatory term, the West uses the world factory to summarize today's Chinese economy, based on the historical experience of Western industrialization.

China was caught off guard by this, but the argument of the world's factory has gradually been accepted domestically. People use the term world factory to express several different meanings. For example, China is showing some of the characteristics of the world factory, China has become the world factory, and China should become the world factory.

However, the world factory has always been full of temptations and concealed pitfalls.

"What is the world's factory?" Fan Wuyao asked.

Shen Ying shook her head, wondering what Fan Wubing wanted to gather his brother.

The term "world factory" has its specific historical background. After the Industrial Revolution, Britain relied on advanced technology, a joint-stock company system, financial center status, and colonies all over the world. And a powerful navy, established a global trade network centered on the British Isles, and. The United Kingdom plays the role of a factory in the international division of labor, and other countries play the role of raw material supplier and consumer market.

Products made in the UK are sold all over the world, and its manufacturing scale and manufacturing capacity are sufficient to affect the global output and prices of consumer goods.

At that time, the world's factory status was supported by Darfur's imitation weaving industry, extractive industry, iron smelting industry, machine manufacturing industry and shipping industry.

Britain imports raw materials from all over the world, processes them, and sells finished products to other countries. Most of the products are exported. As Britain expands its colonies and becomes an empire that never sets, Britain dominates a global capitalist trading system. .

At that time, Britain had the most advanced technology in the world, the most advanced form of industrial organization, and the most complete division of labor system. In addition, Britain had the status of the world's factory. It has also created London's status as the world's financial center. In turn, London has provided complete financial services for British manufacturing and trade.

Through gunboat diplomacy, or colonial rule, Britain established a colonial empire spread all over the world. Although Britain was an advocate of free trade, a large part of this free trade system was achieved through the colonization of backward countries. Yes, trade activities were mainly carried out within the British colonial system.

"At that time, the United Kingdom was a veritable world factory. The United Kingdom, which accounted for only 2% of the world’s population, controlled one-half of the world’s industrial production and a quarter of world trade in the first seventy years of the nineteenth century. Fan Wuyao explained, “Later, the rise of Germany, the rise of the United States, and the rise of Japan were generally called the center of gravity of world economic growth, and they were all called the world’s factory at a time, but people were using this When talking about words, use analogy meanings. It does not have all the characteristics of the UK at the time. To be precise, these countries are the world's manufacturing centers."

In contrast to China, after more than 20 years of reform and opening up, China's industry, especially the manufacturing industry, has achieved remarkable results. In the past few years, the annual growth rate of China’s industry has reached 12%. The export of industrial products has grown rapidly. The export value of some products has ranked first in the world. China’s output ranks first in the world. China’s share of world trade has not only grown rapidly, but China’s position in the value chain of the global division of labor has also been taken. One, which is increasing rapidly.

Chinese products have spread all over the world, from European and American countries to developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, you can see products made in China everywhere. China's double-digit growth rate has been maintained for many years.

In addition, China has become the largest recipient of foreign direct investment for two consecutive years. Multinational companies have regarded China as the most important link in the global industrial chain and regarded China as one of the most important processing bases.

However, as far as the overall level of China's manufacturing industry is concerned, it is far from reaching the position of Britain in the world at that time.

In terms of share, even if compared with the United States and Japan, there is still a big gap, far less than the United Kingdom that year. The United States' industrial output value accounted for more than 20% of the world's total, and Japan's manufacturing industry accounted for more than 20%. Is 15%, while China only accounts for 5% of the world.

In terms of its position in the manufacturing value chain, China's manufacturing industry has not yet shaken off the end.

“China’s manufacturing industry is still focused on the export of labor-intensive products. It has not mastered the main core technologies of today’s manufacturing industry, but only assembles products in the last link of the global production chain. In terms of global marketing, most Chinese products have neither mastered Channels, not to mention its own international brand. It can be said that Made in China is a **** and sweaty link in the global industrial chain, but it is also a link with meager profits.

Fan Wubing said depressedly to Shen Ying, “To a large extent, China’s manufacturing industry is an assembly industry. While importing a large amount of raw materials and energy, it also imports core components and patented technologies from abroad. The United Kingdom was the world at the time. China is the most advanced country in science and technology. Therefore, China and the United Kingdom were not the same in terms of advanced science and technology in the world at the time. While the manufacturing technology is low, the scale of China's local manufacturing industry is too large."

From a deeper level, China's financial market is under-educated, which hinders the manufacturing industry from developing to a higher level.

Judging from the examples of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan, financial centers have all risen with the growth of the manufacturing industry and provide services for the manufacturing industry. However, the domestic financial reform requires a long process. During this period, China's manufacturing industry Some necessary conditions for development, such as the corporate system that matches the modern market economy, the capital market and the financial service market, are relatively lagging behind, thus affecting the development of China’s manufacturing industry.

"In fact, China is still far from the process of the world factory. One of the signs of the world factory is industrialization, but China has not yet achieved industrialization." Fan Wuyao said, "According to the definition of the National Bureau of Statistics, industrialization means agriculture. The employed population must be less than 20%. At present, let alone the level of Britain in the world, even if it is to catch up with the level of manufacturing in the United States and Japan, China still has at least several decades to go."

After hearing what Fan Wubing said, Shen Ying couldn't help but think deeply, and then asked, "Listening to what you said, it seems that the topic of World Factory is not a good thing?"

"Obviously it's not a good thing." Fan Wubing nodded and said, "Who are the people in Japan, don't you know? At present, the domestic expansion is a bit faster, so it is inevitable that people will be jealous. These people are just afraid. China is not chaotic, and it will eventually suppress their limelight~lightnovelpub.net~ So I always think about reminding the world to pay attention to China. Suppressing China prevents China from showing up and stealing their own limelight! Except! "Do you think they are complimenting you?" "

Fan Wubing's words made Shen Ying ponder for a long time.

Indeed, as Fan Wubing said, China has the comparative advantage of becoming one of the global manufacturing centers.

For example, as the trend of economic globalization continues to deepen, multinational companies will further refine their production and operation activities, and find the most suitable production base for different production links of a product in the world. This has led to an unprecedented acceleration in the degree of international industry transfer, and the labor-intensive links of product processing continue to spread to developing countries, making developing countries such as China may become an assembly and export base for capital and technology-intensive products.

Or, China has a good industrial foundation and supporting conditions. It has a wealth of high-quality and low-cost labor, in a foreseeable long period of time. Labor costs will not rise significantly, and China is integrating into the world economy and has a relatively complete infrastructure for participating in the international division of labor.

Therefore, in the foreseeable future, China will be the most attractive manufacturing base in the world. In the process of capital transfer with the global background, China is the most important gravitational pole.