Technology
China’s path to a high-tech Champion
Up to 2049, China wants to upgrade to the global high-tech Power. To achieve its goals, technology and Know-how wholesale purchased in the West – such as Kuka. Europe’s politicians are rubbing amazed the eyes.
China’s President, Xi Jinping, has a Vision: by the middle of this century, his country will be a leading global Power in science and high technology. On a high-tech conference at the end of may, Xi called for China should develop up to 2010, one of the most innovative countries in the world and by 2030, one of the global pacesetter in technological innovation. And then, in the year 2049 – in time for the 100-year founding anniversary of the people’s Republic – will be his country one of the leading high-tech Nations.
“Great scientific and technological skills are a Must for China to be strong, and to improve the lives of people,” said Xi and called for in his speech, new ideas, models and strategies in science and technology.
Wake-up call to the policy
Xi Jinping of the people’s Congress in March 2016
This determination, coupled with the Vision of a China-dominated global high-tech industry is preparing more and more people in Europe. Particularly in Germany, where the robot specialists Kuka again in a German flagship company of a Chinese group bought the scrolls for around 4.5 billion euros on the table. The German economy Minister Siegmar Gabriel appealed to European industrial groups to offer an alternative for Kuka, to the Chinese Takeover to fend off.
And the German EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger called for as a lesson of the Adoption of the Augsburg-based robot manufacturer in the Chinese domestic appliance manufacturer Midea, a European foreign economic law. “It has been shown that the policy has limited instruments,” said Oettinger. For “strategically important sectors of the economy” it is necessary to examine to what could be national or at the European level to be done in order to keep value added and research in the future in Europe.
Market of the future Collaborative robot: Kuka robot at a trade fair in Shanghai
Zhang Hong Biao can not understand the excitement of the politicians in Europe. For the financial experts at the Gaogong Industry Research Institute (GGII) in Shenzhen, a leading Chinese research Institute for the technology industry, is the Kuka-Takeover is not a big deal. “In the EU Kuka’t really count to those companies that have sensitive technologies. Kuka offers mainly solutions and concepts. Certain components are even purchased.”
The many German industry experts see it quite differently, as the China expert, Jost Wübbecke of Merics has expressed in the Handelsblatt critical to the Acquisition. He called Kuka as a flagship of the industry 4.0. For example, Kuka operates with its robots, already a factory of the future in the United States, in the in close exchange of data with the production process of the off-road vehicle brand Jeep bodies of the model Wrangler will be manufactured.
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Fear of technology Theft
Nevertheless, Zhang Hong – Biao, Europeans, and German does not mean would not need to be nervous-at least, as long as Kuka is listed on the German stock exchange. “Even if Midea should be the largest shareholder, there are still others who may join in the conversation. All important decisions are taken by the Board of Directors together.”
Of course, the Chinese market has great Potential. However, the international corporations would anyway be the superior, for all the time the Chinese companies. “In robotics, the Chinese are already here to replace in the middle and lower segments of the foreign products by their own,” says the GGII-technology expert from Shenzhen.
US government draws boundaries
This note on the immediate future, seems to confirm the skeptics, such as Günther Oettinger, the observed Chinese activities. The Chinese leadership set by the programme “Made in China 2025” reads almost like a Declaration of war to the ambitious plans of the German industry 4.0, say critics.
In the United States, the legislature is more. Always, when national interests or US key technologies are threatened by a Takeover from abroad, the “Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States” (CFIUS). The powerful body is connected to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, its members are recruited from the ministries of Finance, defence, justice, the interior misterium, and ten other departments. Last summer, CFIUS made headlines when it the 23 billion Dollar Takeover of the US chip manufacturer Micron Technologies by the Chinese state conglomerate China Resources crossed.