Electronic transformer exports "quality wins"

Recently, Lu Zheng, a well-known economist and member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who has conducted in-depth studies on industrial development, pointed out that the real economy is particularly important to China because the accumulation and improvement of a country’s overall economic strength must be based on its real economy. Based on.

The real economy is the foundation of a country

At present, the United States is suffering from the financial turmoil caused by the subprime mortgage crisis. The community is arguing that the U.S. economy will be declining. Lv Zheng believes that although the financial crisis has led to the recession of the U.S. economy, this is only a short-term one. The U.S. real economy has not changed its fundamentals and the United States has not shaken its dominant position in the world economy. He believes that this is an important manifestation of the role of the real economy in supporting the development of a country.

Among the current top 500 global companies, there are 31 top US companies in the top 100, and 38 in 1998.
With the development of China's electronic industry, the electronic Transformer industry has made great progress, especially in the past 20 years, the rapid advancement of science and technology, the wide application of electronic technology in various fields, the growing demand for consumer electronics products for electronic users, as electronic transformers The development of the industry has brought unlimited vitality.

Products from "traditional" to "new"

The electronic transformer industry in China has achieved rapid development in 20 years:

First, the economic growth rate of the electronic transformer industry has accelerated.

An electronic transformer is a component that provides support for an electronic machine and serves electronic circuits. According to incomplete statistics, there were nearly 3,000 factories producing electronic transformers in 2007, with an annual sales income of 25 billion yuan, and hundreds of product varieties, which can be used for supporting various kinds of complete machines and have become one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronic transformers. 60% of the output of electronic transformers is used to meet the needs of the international market. Through the implementation of the strategy of “winning by quality”, the export of electronic transformers has gradually taken shape.

Second, the electronic transformer industry process equipment is improving day by day.

In the past 20 years, the production process of electronic transformers has been improving, from backward manual operations to today's fully automated mechanization. Electronic transformers' production methods are continuously improved and improved on the basis of absorbing advanced foreign experience and combining with actual production conditions in China. Such as the production of micro-transformers and coils in recent years, the introduction of foreign advanced equipment and production lines, basically get rid of the state of manual operation, high production efficiency, product quality stability and consistency.

Finally, electronic transformer products move from "traditional" to "new."

Twenty years ago, electronic transformers were dominated by large, heavy, and thick traditional products. With the development of microelectronics and technological advancement of active devices, the volume of electronic products has been greatly reduced, and the weight has been greatly reduced. The demand for traditional ancillary products has dropped by about 50%, gradually replacing them with new types of complementary products (chips and miniaturization). The demand of the market has promoted the development of electronic components and components including electronic transformers to light, thin and small directions. The production process of electronic transformers is undergoing a tremendous transformation. In the past 20 years, electronic transformers have also been developing in the direction of high frequency, low loss, light weight, and small size.
R-type transformer has the characteristics of low leakage magnetic flux, small no-load current, light weight, thin type, etc. It is a new type of electronic transformer. Since 1993, under the rigorous research of engineering and technical personnel of electronic transformer industry in China, it has passed more than 10 years. Explore the development and manufacture of R-type transformer cores and coils production equipment, to make a contribution to the new type of R-type transformers made in China.

Piezoelectric ceramic transformer is also a new type of transformer, which has been widely used in foreign countries. The production of piezoelectric ceramic transformer has changed the traditional production method of transformer. The main raw material core and enameled wire have been replaced by piezoelectric ceramic materials, making the processing technology of the transformer. A fundamental change has taken place. Piezoelectric ceramic transformers are small in size, light in weight, less than 4mm in thickness, high in energy conversion efficiency, do not generate electromagnetic interference and are not affected by external magnetic fields, and have good flame retardancy. They are suitable for high voltage, low current, low power, and ultra-thin Type equipment. At present, China's research on piezoelectric ceramic transformers is gradually deepening, and some companies have been able to carry out small-scale production and supply.

Take the road to technological progress

"There is a transformer with electricity." With the continuous enrichment of electronic products, the prospects for the electronic transformer industry will be even brighter. In the future, China's electronic transformer industry will present the following development trends:

First, institutional reforms have deepened economic growth.

With the further implementation of the state’s policies to encourage and support the non-public ownership economy, non-public ownership enterprises have emerged and have shown rapid growth. These companies have led the industry’s technological advancement, broadened sales channels, promoted market prosperity, and enhanced the industry’s economy. vitality. It is expected that at the end of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan”, the total output of the industry could reach more than 5 billion yuan, the product sales revenue should be more than 37 billion yuan, and the profit more than 1.8 billion yuan.

Second, the growth of foreign exchange through exports has promoted the strengthening of corporate management.

After China’s accession to the WTO, the international market for electronic transformers is basically in a stable state. In 2007, the export value of electronic transformers was around US$1.3 billion. During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, electronic transformer exports will increase, and it is expected to reach US$2 billion. Will continue to maintain a surplus.

Export foreign exchange requires companies to implement green environmental regulations and manufacture "green" products that do not contain harmful substances. The company will speed up the process of "green" process technology, put forward new issues in the application of "green" material parts, improvement of lead-free assembly technology, and implement it.

Third, the market economy will promote industrial technological progress.

Electronic transformer enterprises will certainly take the road of technological progress in the future development. Although traditional old products have a market and output, the profit margin is very small, and it is impossible to form a strong competitive power. The main profitability of transformers lies in a new generation of high-end products, the rapid rise of passive integration technology, and mini-chips The comprehensive upgrading of machine products provides transformer companies with a breakthrough point for achieving leap-forward development.

In recent years, the development of the electronic transformer industry, such as power ferrite materials, soft magnetic alloy materials, amorphous crystalline magnetic materials, nano-alloy magnetic materials, piezoelectric ceramics, nano-insulating materials have achieved fruitful development, this is an electronic transformer The technological progress of the industry has created favorable conditions, and electronic transformers will develop in the direction of high-frequency, low-loss, and chip-type along with the demand for miniaturization of the whole machine.

The real economy fields, such as machine manufacturing, integrated circuits, software, medicine, aerospace, atomic energy, equipment manufacturing, and modern agriculture, are still in a leading position in the world and have strong competitiveness. Therefore, the financial crisis will not shake the real economic foundation of the United States, especially the scientific and technological forces. Lu Zheng pointed out that the current US dependence on foreign technology only accounts for 5% of its technological sources. It can be seen that the United States is still an innovative country and remains a powerful industrial producer and modern agricultural power.

Lu Zheng pointed out that the dominant position of the U.S. economy in the global financial and monetary system has not changed. This is determined by the real economy of the U.S. financial and monetary system. In this regard, including the European Union and China, it is impossible to replace the United States at this stage, and then fundamentally subvert the international financial and monetary system formed after the Second World War.

Lu Zheng believes that a country’s economy must be based on a competitive real economy, and it cannot rely on the capital market to develop its own competitive strength.

Changes in business development conditions

For China, at present, it is necessary to insist on using the real economy as a basis to promote healthy, stable, sustained, and rapid economic development. It is also necessary to attach importance to changes in the conditions for the development of China’s real economy and the contradictions it faces.

Lu Zheng believes that China is already in the heavy chemical industry stage. However, the continued rapid growth of heavy chemical industry has aggravated the contradiction between supply and demand of resources. According to reports, this contradiction between supply and demand has been relatively large before the first half of this year and has only recently eased. He pointed out that although the prices of international crude oil and iron ore have fallen, the trend of tight supply and demand in China's resources has not changed. At present, the status quo of China’s industry is still in the process of accelerating the heavy chemical industry. The industrial added value of heavy industry accounts for 69% of the national industrial added value, while the light and textile industry accounts for only 31%, which is also an important reason for the tight supply and demand of resources. one.

In addition, the characteristics of China's industrial structure, urbanization of population, and the construction of large-scale infrastructure have also aggravated the contradiction between supply and demand for resources. According to statistics, China’s population grew by only 14.35% from 1990 to 2005, but the consumption of energy, power generation, steel, and cement has increased at a double rate. This trend will continue and will show cyclical changes. It will become an important factor affecting the long-term development of China's economy.

Lv Zheng believes that under the constraint of such resource supply, the price increase of resource products has become irreversible, and the result must be an increase in production and operating costs. At the same time, due to the general oversupply of downstream companies' product output, the price rise for this product has been very small. At present, China's mechanical processing and textile and Other industries have an average utilization rate of about 85% of the average industrial production capacity, and a low of 70% or less. Extrusion at both ends makes the enterprise in a very passive situation.

At present, the development of China's real economy is still facing the problem of rising labor costs. Lu Zheng pointed out that with the adjustment of the three rural policies in China, the income of farmers in agricultural production has been increasing in recent years. According to statistics, compared with 2000, the average wage of state-owned enterprises rose by 130% in 2007. The increase in labor costs has become an irreversible trend, and it will be difficult for companies to subordinate wage levels to socially necessary labor (ie, the labor maintains its own reproduction and the reproduction of the next generation labor force and purchases must-have information). Guarantee the supply of labor.

Lu Zheng pointed out that the current development of Chinese enterprises has entered the stage of rising cost of production factors. After the low-cost advantage of factors of production has gradually weakened, to maintain the sustained and rapid economic development, it is necessary to adjust the existing low-cost strategy to cultivate new competitive advantages based on technological innovation, and then realize the transition from comparative advantage to competitive advantage. , or the coexistence of comparative advantage and competitive advantage.

Accelerate the pace of transformation of the real economy model

According to preliminary statistics, China has more than 100 kinds of products with the highest production capacity in the world. Therefore, in this global financial crisis, the impact on China’s economy is relatively small. Lu Zheng believes that this is related to China's financial openness and financial policies. He said: "It is like setting up a firewall to separate China from the world financial crisis." But he stressed that, more importantly, the fact that the financial crisis is a solid foundation for China's real economy has played an important role.

At present, public opinions in the Western countries generally hold that in this round of financial crisis, China has two trillion U.S. dollars of foreign exchange reserves, so it should shoulder more responsibilities. Lu Zheng believes that from the analysis of value, 25 to 30 percent of the total US GDP is created by industry. By the end of 2008, China's industrial added value had only reached one-half of the value added by the United States, which was $1.8 trillion.

According to the evaluation of purchasing power, even though China is equal to the United States, the number of employees in China’s industries exceeds 100 million, while in the United States there are only 20 million, and China’s labor productivity is one-fifth that of the United States.

Then, what is the accumulation of China's foreign exchange reserves? Lu Zheng pointed out that China’s foreign exchange reserves are accumulated through the trade surplus of labor-intensive products. For a long time, China has always been a low-value-added product as the leading export product in international trade.

The current situation of international trade in China, on the one hand, is that comparative advantages are changing, such as rising labor costs; on the other hand, the competitive advantage has not yet formed. Therefore, in the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” and even in 2020, China’s economic growth and structural adjustment must focus on seeking breakthroughs in such fields as aerospace, nuclear energy, shipbuilding, high-speed rail equipment, high-performance CNC machine tools, and large-scale integrated circuit equipment. And in these technology-intensive industries, the gap between developed countries and the developed countries is continuously narrowed.

He suggested that in the coming years and during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, China’s industrial development and structural adjustment should, on the one hand, insist on developing labor-intensive industries, and on the other hand, it must vigorously develop technology-intensive industries. This is an important issue. Strategic Choice.

The Way of Development in Economic Cycle Adjustment

Lu Zheng believes that even if there is no US financial crisis, the pattern of high-speed economic growth in China will change as well. From the perspective of development, the current Chinese economy also needs to enter a period of adjustment.

According to reports, China's large-scale fixed-asset investment since 2002 has gradually formed a production supply capacity. After 2003, the average growth rate of large-scale fixed asset investment is above 25% every year. Now, when the downstream demand of the industrial chain is reduced, the economic operating characteristics quickly show an oversupply of electricity and a continuous decline in coal prices. China's economic cycle has entered a phase of adjustment, and the unlimited expansion of production capacity will be difficult to continue. Therefore, these issues need to be resolved from the following aspects.

First, increase the adjustment of the industrial structure. Lu Zheng pointed out that the current macroeconomic policies should not "popularize all sentient beings," so that all enterprises will weather the storm. The downturn in the economic cycle is an opportune time for China to eliminate backward production capacity, especially in resource-intensive industries, so that production factors are concentrated in large enterprises. At present, relevant departments should expedite the elimination of small thermal power plants, small steel plants, and small cement plants, promote this round of industrial restructuring, and ultimately set China's industrial and national economy to a new level. Therefore, this round of structural adjustment must focus on improving the efficiency of the allocation of production factors rather than making all companies barely maintain.

Second, in addition to expanding the scale of investment in fixed assets, increasing infrastructure, and accelerating the construction of people’s livelihood projects, we must also increase the technological transformation of our country’s enterprises. He agrees with the country's policy on the transformation of value-added tax, because it is conducive to encouraging companies to upgrade their equipment. He pointed out that only by constantly increasing the technological transformation of enterprises, it is possible to eliminate backward technologies and backward equipment, so as to achieve expansion and reproduction at the most advanced technological level when a new round of growth comes.

Third, strengthen the road to technological innovation and development. There have been studies showing that the pace of world scientific and technological progress is currently slowing down. The real economy lacks new economic growth points. The publicity and understanding of the wave of scientific and technological revolution in previous years have been exaggerated. The relevant analysis shows that the information technology industry, bioengineering technology, and new energy in the three major fields of the new scientific and technological revolution are still in continuous improvement and have not achieved a revolutionary breakthrough. This is also an important factor in the relative slowdown of scientific and technological progress. One of the features.

At present, the international real economy slows down and has a close connection with the pace of technological progress. Since the real economy cannot find new growth points, a large amount of social surplus capital cannot find a way out after the profits are diluted, and speculations will be made on oil, grain and other futures markets. It can be inferred that the economy of the developed countries represented by the United States is likely to enter a relatively long recession period because of the slowdown in the pace of technological progress and the lack of new growth points in the real economy.

This is not entirely true for China. Lu Zheng believes that there is still a huge gap in technology between China and developed countries. It is precisely at a time when the economic growth of developed countries’ technological progress is slowing down that China should make use of such a good opportunity to continuously introduce, digest and absorb advanced foreign advanced technologies in the next 12 years. Only in this way can we shorten the technological gap between China and foreign countries in development.