Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

For the affairs of the financial company, Li Weidong specially wrote a detailed plan, intending to seek policy support from the state.

In front of the meeting room of the National Development and Reform Commission, Li Weidong stopped, straightened his collar and cuffs, and then stepped in.

In addition to a few leaders in the meeting room, the Institute of Macroeconomics, the National Investment Project Review Center, and the Innovation-Driven Development Center also sent people to the conference room. In addition, the Economic Herald, Reform Daily and other official media also sent reporters. There was a kind of momentum of think tank seminar on the scene.

Chairman Li, let me introduce you...

After flipping through the introduction, just as Li Weidong was about to take a seat, a person who looked like a secretary hurried in and whispered something in the ear of the leader.

The head man's face changed slightly, he looked at his watch first, and then said, Go and arrange it right away.

The secretary left in a hurry, and the leader walked up to Li Weidong again, and said, Chairman Li, some accidents have happened, and the superiors are also very interested in this briefing, but he has a lot of things to do and doesn't have time to come in person, so I plan to Attend this briefing session by video. We will immediately send people to prepare video equipment, and the briefing will be delayed for a few minutes.”

The higher-level leaders of the National Development and Reform Commission thought there were only a few people, so Li Weidong asked, Which leader is coming to the meeting? Li Weidong asked immediately.

The other party said a name, Li Weidong nodded silently, thinking quickly in his mind.

When a superior leader arrives, the content of the previously prepared explanation has to be overturned and comprehensively streamlined. The leader's time is precious, but he doesn't have so much time to listen to your beeps. He has to choose important content to say, and he has to impress the leader as much as possible.

In the next few minutes, Li Weidong quickly reorganized the reporting language.

The video equipment was ready, and a few minutes later, the explanation session officially began.

Leaders, let me briefly introduce my plan. After investigation, our Puppy Group found that there are many small and medium-sized enterprises in the upstream supply chain, and their development is limited due to lack of funds. As small and medium-sized enterprises, bank loans are relatively cumbersome.

So we plan to set up a financial company to raise funds from financial institutions, and then invest the funds in the form of loans to these small and medium-sized enterprises to provide them with assistance, so as to promote the development of the entire supply chain...

Li Weidong gave a quick introduction, and someone immediately started to ask questions: Chairman Li, I have read your report in detail, and I have a question. The problem of cumbersome loans for small and medium-sized enterprises does exist.

But financial institutions can also do things like lending by financial companies. Moreover, financial institutions are more experienced in risk assessment and capital supervision.

The implication of this person is that for lending, there are professional financial institutions with more relevant experience and more controllable risks. Even if it is a policy, it should be handed over to them. Why should I hand it over to you, a non-professional?

Li Weidong immediately replied: What we do is completely different from what financial institutions do. Financial institutions issue loans for profit. Everything is profit-oriented. They may not make money or have high risks. They may not be willing to do it. .

Our Puppy Group is in business, and the upstream supply chain for ourselves does not take profit as the primary goal, but to build a larger and more stable supply chain system. What we seek is the development of the entire industry. Of course, from another perspective, the development of the industry will also bring us profits.

Another person asked: Chairman Li, you mentioned risks just now, and my question is about risks. The financial industry in our country started late, and the regulatory system is not perfect. Wherever you go, there will be a lot of risks, you are in the manufacturing industry, how do you view potential financial risks?

The subtext of the other party is that if other large financial institutions cannot avoid risks, why should you avoid risks as a manufacturing company?

Li Weidong had expected that someone would ask questions about financial risks, so he immediately replied: My view on risks is different from that of financial institutions. Financial institutions consider risks at the currency level, and everything is based on money. measure.

And I look at risk from the perspective of the supply chain. As long as the supply chain is stable enough, then any link in the entire supply chain is risk controllable. So what we want to maintain is the resilience of the entire supply chain, not the gains and losses at the monetary level.

Li Weidong answered a few more simple questions, but he knew that these answers to questions and doubts could not impress the leader of the video conference. If you want to convince others, you have to start from the level of national development.

So Li Weidong took the initiative to say: In recent years, the domestic economy has developed rapidly, and the wages of ordinary people have also risen, which has caused the labor costs of enterprises to continue to increase. I can feel this most in the manufacturing industry.

The increase in labor costs has also caused many foreign-funded enterprises to transfer their factories to countries with lower labor costs. This is not a kind of industrial transfer. I think the leaders must have noticed this, right?

The Japanese scholar Akamatsu put forward the theory of the flying geese 30 years ago, and the industrial transfer after World War II has been confirming this theory. According to this theory, the next industrial transfer will be from China to Vietnam, Cambodia, India and other countries with cheap labor.

But we have not become as rich as Japan and South Korea. We are still in the developing stage. If the industry is really moved out, it is tantamount to handing over the rice bowl to others, and we will starve ourselves! So how do we solve the problem of industrial relocation?

Some people say to develop the technology industry, improve productivity, increase the added value of manufacturing, and use higher profits to make up for the profits lost by industrial relocation. But don't forget that we have 1.4 billion people, and our population is larger than that of all developed countries. All the high-tech industries in the world may not be able to support our 1.4 billion people!

These few words of Li Weidong immediately aroused the interest of the video leader.

Li Weidong went on to say: It is impossible for us Chinese to keep exchanging socks for airplanes, our workers cannot always receive low wages, and it is even more impossible for our manufacturing industry to remain in a labor-intensive state.

Wage rises are irreversible and an inevitable result of economic development. Our labor costs will only increase. This will indeed make our manufacturing industry lose its international competitiveness. After all, capital is in pursuit of profit.

But labor costs are not the only factor in the cost of manufacturing. If the wages of workers are low enough to bring about manufacturing, then Africa would have long been the largest continent in manufacturing! Which round will we get China to eat the bowl of rice in the manufacturing industry!

We are able to develop the manufacturing industry because we have other advantages, such as an efficient system, sound infrastructure, sufficient energy supply, hardworking people and so on. But we have the above things, and other countries can also have them.

We can improve administrative efficiency, and other countries can do it through scientific management and learning from us; we have a sound infrastructure, and other countries can also build infrastructure as long as they are willing to invest money;

We have sufficient energy supply, and other countries can also buy oil and gas from the Middle East; we Chinese are very hardworking, but people in other countries may not all be lazy, there will always be people who are willing to work hard for a better life.

But there is one thing that is unique to us, and that is huge size! We have a population of more than one billion, which not only provides sufficient labor for the manufacturing industry, but also has developed into a huge market. I think this is our core advantage.

Manufacturing has always been a field where quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes. For example, to produce a certain product, we in China can produce 1000K because we have huge production capacity. And when the product is produced, even if it cannot be sold in the end, it can be digested through its own market, at least it will not lose money.

And other countries dare not produce the same amount, because they are not big enough, they do not have such a large production capacity, so they dare not bet too much, and their market is not big enough, once they produce more, if they cannot sell Get out, and the whole industry will be over. So they only dare to produce 50K, or even less.

One side is producing 1000K, and the other is producing 50K, so the production cost must be different, and the R\u0026D expenses shared equally for each product are also different. The purchase of raw materials and large-scale production will cause cost differences in each link. Add up all items, The final result is the price advantage.

In other words, for the same product, because our output is larger, the cost will be lower, and we can have a price advantage in the international market. And what if this advantage is extended to a supply chain, an industry, or even the entire industrial system?

That will mean that our manufacturing industry will always be in an advantageous position in terms of price. No matter what industrial products, as long as our Chinese manufacturing participates in it, we will be able to occupy a dominant position, or even a monopoly position! It is also for this reason that I have been talking about the supply chain just now.

Chairman Li, listen to what you said, as long as we have made in China, then other countries don't need to develop manufacturing! Someone continued in a slightly mocking tone; However, in recent years, the development of South Korea's manufacturing industry The manufacturing industry in Southeast Asia is also on the rise in recent years!

Li Weidong sighed lightly, and replied: If it continues to develop, the development of China's manufacturing industry will indeed block the way for backward countries. The theory of flying geese proposed by the Japanese has become invalid when it comes to Chinese manufacturing. The basis of the theory is that all participants must be wild geese.

If there is a giant dragon in the wild geese, then all the wild geese will be eaten, and naturally there will be no theory of the flight of wild geese, and this is what will happen. Globalization has gathered all the wild geese, but a newborn dragon has been mixed in. This dragon is not as big as the wild goose, but now, this dragon has grown up!

Unless there is another industrial revolution, so that the productivity can jump exponentially, the backward countries can complete the process of industrialization, otherwise, they can only be vassals of Chinese manufacturing, which will be the fate of new manufacturing countries.

As for South Korea's manufacturing industry, their luck is really good. In the past 30 years, they have taken almost every step right, so they can use the advantages of advanced manufacturing to create short-term high profits. The advantages cannot be sustained, can they still have such an efficient manufacturing industry?

The road that South Korea has taken is not so easy, and the road is full of uncertainties. Their investment in advanced manufacturing must never make a wrong step. With the size of South Korea, once they make a wrong move, there will be no chance to start over.

Li Weidong's words caused everyone present to fall into contemplation. Everyone understood the truth, not to mention that it was more convincing when said from a successful entrepreneur.

A few seconds later, someone said again; Chairman Li, I quite agree with your point of view. Quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes. A large enough volume is indeed an inherent advantage in developing the manufacturing industry. But apart from us, India It also has the same advantage!

Li Weidong smiled disdainfully, and then asked back: It's not that I look down on India. Does India have a complete basic industry? It can't even develop the most basic industry, so what can I do to take the road of manufacturing!

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Small countries have few resources and small size. If they want to enter the advanced manufacturing industry, they can only rely on all-or-nothing, so they must not make a wrong step. Once they take the wrong path, not only will they miss the best time, but they will not have so many resources to invest.

Even Japan in the 1980s had a population of hundreds of millions and its per capita GDP was several times that of the United States. However, when Japan mistook the technology tree several times, it fell into a lost 30 years, and the manufacturing industry shrank in an all-round way.

And those countries that are far inferior to Japan in size and background, once they go astray, the result will inevitably be the collapse of the entire industry.

In the past fifty years, many developed countries in Europe have lost some of their advantageous industries, and it is precisely because of this reason.

In contrast, South Korea's luck is better. They have never chosen the wrong path, and the technology tree is right, which ensures that South Korea will develop into a developed country in just a few decades.

For example, many companies in Japan bet on plasma TVs, while South Korea bet on LCD screens. As everyone knows, Japan’s plasma industry has become cold, and South Korea has successfully developed the panel industry.

At the beginning of the 21st century, it was widely believed that the industries of Japan and South Korea were highly overlapping, and South Korea gradually developed after inheriting Japan's industrial chain. People also regarded South Korea and Japan as competitors.

However, around 2020, the academic circle gradually realized that the industrial chains of China and South Korea are really highly overlapping. In other words, South Korea's advantageous industrial chain was gradually overtaken by China, and the market was also eroded by China.

South Korea's traditional advantageous fields mainly include semiconductors, electronic products, home appliances, shipbuilding, automobiles, panels, etc. These are also fast-rising industries in China.

Moreover, China's industrial rise is so fast that South Korea has not reacted. The sudden trade deficit in South Korea in 2022 will directly stun South Korea.

In contrast, when major countries engage in advanced manufacturing, the fault tolerance rate is much higher. Going the wrong way will at most cause some loss of time and money. If you start over, if you can't get ahead, you can still exceed the average.

In the past few decades, the United States has produced the most useless technological products. The United States also has a lot of products that are quickly replaced after a flash in the pan, but the United States is still the largest country in science and technology. without.

The technology tree can be wrong, but as long as there are enough points, one of them will always be right.

As for India, although it has a population of 1.4 billion, it does not even have a complete basic industry, let alone a manufacturing powerhouse. What's more, India is not friendly to the manufacturing industry and has set up various obstacles. Indians say that they do more and do less, so they are more suitable to be waiters for Western countries.

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Li Weidong wanted to get the policy and set up a financial company. In a few months, billions of funds flowed into the upstream industry chain of the home appliance industry, and a large group of small and medium-sized enterprises were able to upgrade their technology.

Home appliances are an industry with relatively mature technology, and it is not difficult for upstream industries to upgrade their technology. Sometimes it is only necessary to introduce more advanced equipment to produce better products.

However, the introduction of equipment requires funds, but small and medium-sized enterprises are precisely the most difficult group to obtain funds.

Bank loans have always been unfriendly to small and medium-sized enterprises, which is the same in all countries. This is the choice of capital.

When looking for investment, the conditions offered by the investor will be more stringent, and there is a tendency to swallow up the enterprise, and small and medium-sized enterprises dare not seek skin from tigers.

Now that there are financial companies willing to borrow money, everyone naturally wants it. Being a business has never been against settlements. Many small businesses will even borrow some usury loans on the road to development. After all, Puppy Finance is a regular company. Although the loan interest is higher, it is still much lower than usury.

Several billions of funds were lent in a few months, and many people who didn't know the truth thought that Li Weidong was doing charity. With this money, what can you invest in to earn more than interest? The risks and benefits are not worth it!

However, when Li Weidong began to use asset-backed securities as collateral to get loans from banks, everyone realized that it was his own pattern of sales. Puppy Finance invested billions of dollars, and got out tens of billions of loans. The interest earned is extremely cost-effective.

All eyes are on the interest, and no one realizes that Li Weidong's real purpose is to control the entire upstream industry chain of the home appliance industry.

It wasn't until a few years later, when the United States launched a trade war to decouple the industrial chain from China, that it was discovered that the entire upstream supply chain of the home appliance industry was more or less related to Li Weidong.

At that time, more than 200 billion accounts payable and accounts receivable were in the hands of Puppy Finance. Li Weidong formed an upstream supply chain strategic alliance with one sentence, making the decoupling of the industrial chain a joke.

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In the laboratory, there is an electric car that has been completely disassembled into parts. On the hood of the car, the Tesla T logo still remains on it.

Li Weidong and BYD's President Wang stood side by side, staring at the pile of auto parts in front of them.

Tesla's battery technology is not more advanced than ours, but it is much better than us in terms of software. If I give me another two years, we will definitely surpass Tesla! Mr. Wang showed a confident expression.

We are making progress, and Tesla is also making progress. It is impossible for him to stand still and wait for us. Don't underestimate Musk. It's a revolutionary new technology. Li Weidong reminded.

I know, but I am still confident that I will surpass Tesla in the near future! Mr. Wang continued: When it comes to new technologies, as far as I know, Tesla is developing a technology related to aluminum alloy die-casting, which should be Related to body casting.

It is an integrated die-casting technology for the car body. The car body is cast out at one time through a large die-casting machine, which can save hundreds of parts and save the process of sheet metal stamping and welding, which can improve production efficiency and greatly Reduce the cost by a large margin. Li Weidong replied.

You have more information than I do! Mr. Wang wisely didn't ask the source of the information in detail. After thinking for a while, he said: This technology sounds feasible, but there is a technical difficulty, that is, the components are When it is heat treated, it is easy to deform.

So we need to overcome the difficulty of high-strength toughness heat-treated die-casting new materials. Once this barrier is overcome, the integrated die-casting of the body will be solved. Li Weidong paused, then continued;

I have already started to make the layout in this area. The downstream production of integrated die-casting machines has long since had no technical barriers. The problem is the upstream new materials. I have invested in several scientific research institutes, among which Shanghai Jiaotong University has made phased results.

Mr. Wang gave Li Weidong a white look, and then said with a smile: I understand, the scientific research institute came to you for funding with the results, so you came to me and shared the scientific research funds equally!

Li Weidong nodded: How about it, can you afford the money?

Yes, definitely! If we can make an integrated car body, it will be a revolution for the automobile industry, and I can't lag behind others. Mr. Wang paused, and then said: But since we want to make an integrated body If it needs to be transformed, then it will be thorough, not only to make an integrated body, it is best to integrate the battery and the body together, and make the battery body integrated!

After hearing these words, the astonishment in Li Weidong's eyes flashed. What Mr. Wang said is not the CTB technology that BYD will make in the future!

As expected of a battery fairy, he really knows how to draw inferences from one example. This one-piece die-casting technology has not been developed yet, so he thought of CTB technology! Li Weidong thought to himself.

On the opposite side, Mr. Wang went on to say: I think about it carefully, this integrated body also has a big disadvantage, and it may not be very friendly to consumers.

You mean the maintenance fee is expensive! Li Weidong said.

You thought of it too! Mr. Wang nodded approvingly, and then continued; Although the integrated body can save parts, it will also greatly increase the cost of maintenance. Originally, only parts need to be replaced, maybe If you want to change the body, it will eventually be passed on to consumers.

Let the insurance company increase the car damage insurance premium! Li Weidong smiled, and then said: Actually, there is a solution to this. First, we can make the car stronger. Second, we use technology. Some assisted driving technologies can reduce the incidence of traffic accidents, thereby reducing maintenance, which naturally reduces maintenance costs.”

Assisted driving is also software, and that is Tesla's strength! Mr. Wang sighed.

Li Weidong nodded approvingly: The sense of technology is Tesla's strongest point, but the sense of luxury is what Tesla lacks. The average consumer spends so much money on a car and always wants a little luxury. emotional.

There must be some leather upholstery, if you only see a pile of plastic, it would be a shame! We can work hard in this area. As long as the sense of technology is similar to that of Tesla, and the sense of luxury is better, we will not worry about killing Tesla!

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The production of automobiles has roughly gone through five stages. The first stage was before 1913, a manual workshop-style production model, where workers could knock out a car with a sledgehammer wrench.

Until 1913, Ford invented the assembly line production, which greatly improved the production efficiency of automobiles, and automobile production also entered the second stage.

However, with the improvement of people's living standards, there is also a demand for high-quality cars. The American-style rough assembly line production can no longer meet the market demand. At this time, the Japanese lean management model began to rise.

Japanese companies headed by Toyota adopted the production mode of multiple varieties and small batches, improved quality and reduced costs through management, and quickly seized the market. This is the third stage of automobile production.

After entering the 1980s, German Volkswagen began to implement modularization and platformization. The so-called modularization means common use of parts. For example, many parts of Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche can be used in common, which reduces production costs.

The so-called platformization is to use the same platform to produce different styles of cars. For example, the Audi Q5 production platform produces the Touareg for the public, and the Ma for Porsche. Such a platform can produce a variety of cars, which reduces research and development costs.

Volkswagen’s move has brought automobile production to the fourth stage. In order to reflect the advantages of modularization and platformization, automobile companies have developed towards multi-branding. Most of the mergers and reorganizations of some big brands occurred at this stage.

After entering the 21st century, Tesla entered the automotive industry. Although Tesla is an energy vehicle, it still cannot escape the production process of traditional automobiles, that is, the four major links of stamping, welding, painting and final assembly.

In terms of traditional production technology, Tesla is far inferior to traditional car companies. Traditional car companies have been making cars for decades, and the accumulated production and management experience cannot be learned in a short period of time.

Therefore, Tesla in the early days has been suffering from insufficient production capacity. At that time, many people said that Tesla was starving marketing, but in fact it really could not produce so many cars.

Fortunately, Musk has an unconstrained mind. He has developed an integrated die-casting technology, which has brought revolutionary changes to automobile production. This technology has greatly improved the efficiency of automobile production. The time it takes for Volkswagen to produce a car , Tesla can produce three cars, and car production has entered the fifth stage.

The new technology has greatly reduced the production cost of Tesla. Back then, local tyrants spent more than 800,000 yuan to buy Tesla, a company with a battery life of 300. Looking at the same model that sells for more than 200,000 yuan now, I have a deep understanding of being The feeling of big injustice.

However, don’t feel like you’ve made a profit for those who bought more than 200,000 cars. With Tesla’s production costs, there is still a lot of room for price cuts in the future.

Tesla's early integrated die-casting only integrated dozens of parts of the car body, which is considered version 1.0 of integrated die-casting technology.

The CTP technology developed on this basis is now the mainstream of new energy vehicle production, which can be regarded as the integrated die-casting 2.0 version.

The full name of CTP technology is Cell To Pack, which reduces or removes the battery module, and directly integrates the battery cell and battery case into the chassis of the vehicle body, which is commonly known as the battery sandwich in the media. In this case, a car can save 300 to 500 parts.

BYD has gone a step further in CTP technology and developed CTB technology, which is the concept of integrated battery and body, which can be regarded as version 3.0 of integrated die-casting technology.

This achieves the high torsional stiffness of the motor, and also allows a part of the body to participate in force transmission and energy absorption. In general, it makes the car more powerful and safer.

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President Wang took Li Weidong to another laboratory.

This is the hydrogen energy battery we developed! President Wang paused, and then continued; The difficulty of research and development is simpler than we imagined. From a technical perspective, mass production should not be a problem.

What about patent restrictions? Japan almost has a monopoly on patents in this area. If it is mass-produced, I am afraid that it will not be able to circumvent Japanese patents. Li Weidong asked.

Patents are not a problem either. Some Japanese companies have already invited us to cooperate, and they are willing to share their patents in hydrogen energy. Mr. Wang said.

Are the conditions of the Japanese harsh? Li Weidong asked immediately.

Based on the number of patents held by Japan, if they are really willing to open up to us, then their requirements are still within the acceptable range. Mr. Wang replied.

The patented technology that the Japanese are willing to provide should not include the production, transportation and storage of hydrogen? Li Weidong asked again.

Japan doesn't have many patents on hydrogen production, but there are some patents on transportation and storage. However, in our early contact, the other party is unwilling to disclose too much, but in terms of hydrogen energy battery applications, Japan is relatively Willing to share technology. President Wang said.

Li Weidong thought for a moment, then asked; That is to say, in terms of hydrogen energy application, Japan's technology is relatively mature, and it is willing to share. But in terms of hydrogen transportation and storage, Japan has a high probability of mastering the core technology, but still I want to eat alone. As for the technology of hydrogen production, the Japanese are also half-baked, not much ahead.

Our strategy department is also doing this kind of research and judgment. Mr. Wang nodded.

Hehe, it seems that we still have to get the right technology tree! Li Weidong smiled and sighed.

Technology tree? Mr. Wang hesitated for a moment, and then said; This is the saying in the game! Do you mean that the Japanese went the wrong way?

It is still too early to say that Japan's betting on hydrogen energy is the wrong technology tree. But the lithium battery we are developing now is definitely right. Lithium batteries still have great potential to be tapped. The development direction of solid-state batteries is We can see and touch the target!

Li Weidong continued: As for hydrogen energy, I think it will be difficult to become a mainstream energy source in a short period of time. Our research and development in the application of hydrogen energy can continue, no matter whether it is useful or not, first apply for all the patents that can be applied for, just in case A breakthrough has been made in the production of hydrogen, so let's eat what's ready!

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Since the 2010s, the topic of hydrogen energy has never stopped being hyped. Compared with traditional fossil energy, hydrogen energy does have advantages such as ideal calorific value, good combustibility, high utilization rate, less consumption, and environmental protection.

Japan is the first country to start large-scale research on hydrogen energy. Japan's research on hydrogen energy began with the oil crisis in the 1970s. As an energy importing country, Japan was greatly hurt by the oil crisis at that time, and Japan was a country with a particularly strong sense of crisis, so at that time Japan It began to lay out non-petrochemical energy industries.

In addition to fossil energy, other sources of energy that can provide large-scale energy are nothing more than hydropower, wind energy, nuclear energy, solar energy, and hydrogen energy.

Japan does not have big rivers, hydropower is hopeless, and solar power is unstable and unsuitable for large-scale industrial use, both of which are excluded by Japan.

Japan places high hopes on wind power generation, and Japan has been ahead of the world in research in this area, but Japan soon discovered that there is a fatal shortcoming in their development of wind power, that is, there is no place to install wind power generation equipment.

Compared with European countries, Japan's land area is actually not small. But the places in Japan that are suitable for installing wind turbines are precisely the places that are suitable for people to live in.

The noise in the process of wind power generation is very loud, so China's wind turbines are installed in uninhabited areas in the west, and then use ultra-high voltage transmission technology to transmit power to the east. If wind turbines are installed in residential areas, the common people will not have to sleep.

Later, Japan also tried to build an offshore wind power station, but the cost of building this thing on the sea is too high. The equipment invested in the construction of 10 billion yen is enough for 10,000 households to use electricity, and this does not include maintenance costs. , it is even more impossible to want to use it in industry.

Japan has the technology to engage in wind power generation but has no conditions, so it can only focus on nuclear energy and hydrogen energy. Japan once led the world in nuclear energy research.

Then there was the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, which caused anti-nuclear voices among the Japanese people, and nuclear energy became a product of political incorrectness. In the end, Japan can only bet on hydrogen energy, and the Abe government even made the development of hydrogen energy a national policy of Japan.

Hydrogen is a secondary energy source. Unlike petrochemical energy, it is not stored in nature. If you want to use hydrogen energy, you need to produce hydrogen first.

The method of producing hydrogen is not an industrial problem, nothing more than electrolysis of water, water gas method, oil and natural gas thermal cracking synthesis method, coke oven gas freezing method and so on. These methods can produce hydrogen, but they cannot be used in the field of hydrogen energy.

For example, hydrogen production by electrolysis of water needs to consume electric energy, so why not use electric energy directly? Why do you have to decompose hydrogen to generate electricity?

In the same way, the water gas method needs to use coal, and the thermal synthesis method needs to use oil or natural gas. If it is really to obtain energy, then directly burn coal, directly burn oil and natural gas!

So as long as there is no revolutionary breakthrough in hydrogen production, then the application of hydrogen energy is just taking off your pants and farting!

The transportation and storage of hydrogen is also a problem. After all, hydrogen is flammable, and a little spark can cause a big explosion. This will cause great safety concerns in terms of transportation and storage.

Turning hydrogen into a liquid is convenient for storage and transportation. However, the liquefaction of hydrogen requires a large amount of electricity, which is equivalent to transporting energy, but consumes more energy, which returns to the cost issue.

In terms of hydrogen storage and transportation, Japan has done a lot of research and has a large number of patents, which can even form monopoly barriers for patents. At the same time, Japan is also leading the world in the application of hydrogen energy, not only hydrogen energy batteries, but also has a large number of patents in other applications.

At the beginning, Japan planned to monopolize the cake of hydrogen energy. Japanese companies also clinging to patents, and Toyota Motor made a big bet on hydrogen energy batteries.

So other countries stopped playing with Japan, let Japan make hydrogen energy batteries by itself, and let us make lithium batteries.

After the development of lithium battery technology, Japan realized the problem, and then began to open up the hydrogen energy battery technology. I hope everyone will join Japan in developing hydrogen energy batteries.

Japan's goal is to popularize hydrogen energy, and the best way to popularize a new energy is transportation.

Humans installed steam engines on trains and ships, making coal the main energy source; humans installed internal combustion engines on cars and airplanes, and oil became the main energy source.

Once all cars use hydrogen energy, the application of hydrogen energy in other aspects will be a matter of course. That's why Japan is willing to share hydrogen energy application technology.

And when the whole world is using hydrogen energy on a large scale, the storage and transportation technology mastered by Japan will be an extremely huge market. Just imagine, a mainstream energy storage and transportation technology, all mastered by Japan, is enough to bring Japan back to its most glorious era.

It's just that the level of hydrogen production is always an insurmountable threshold. On the other hand, the performance of lithium batteries is getting better and better, and solid-state batteries have also begun to be used.

In the entire battery supply chain, Chinese companies have almost monopolized rare earth smelting and firmly controlled the upstream of the supply chain; Ningde Times and BYD have technology and production capacity, and have absolute say in the midstream industry chain; Toyota, Honda and other Japanese car companies It has been focusing on hybrid vehicles, lagging behind in the field of pure electric vehicles, and has no advantage in the downstream industry chain.

At this time, it is too late for Japan to turn around, and the reason is that Japan is not big enough. Once the wrong road is chosen, there is no capital to turn back.