539 Deficit (II)
Throughout the history of the world, a country's technological blockade of another country, or the secrecy of its own important technical information, is not a rare thing, in the Cold War period known Batumi, of course, this kind of prohibition is also completely in the service of national interests, when the honeymoon period between China and the United States in the 80s, almost all Western countries tried to carry out advanced technology, especially military technology exchanges with China, the main purpose is naturally to make money. Even in the post-Cold War era, although the United States stubbornly enforced such bans, many European countries have resorted to circumventing the ban and selling some of China's advanced military technology for their own interests. For example, the Germans sold China's advanced marine diesel engines, and the French sold Chinese helicopters to the take-off and landing systems on warships.
Looking at the situation of Datang now, it is actually similar to the situation in the other plane. Datang has strict export bans on almost all categories of technical products, such as semiconductor products that are like Zenith Technology for people in this era, and even a light-emitting diode is not allowed to be sold, and even most of the European intellectuals who are familiar with Datang's industrial technology do not know that there is such a thing as the electronics industry. In terms of national defense and military equipment, Datang has actually opened up a series of things that are more than one generation of backward active equipment of the Tang Army for sale, and of course, the active equipment of the Tang Army is never allowed to flow into the market.
It's not just a technology that can be used in the military, in fact, Datang's restrictions on domestic technology products can be described as perverted. Datang does not want to export large-scale civilian production technologies, such as the most basic steelmaking, chemicals, machinery and other categories. There are some distinctions, such as ships and automobiles, many of which are allowed to be exported, but heavy equipment, such as steelmaking converters and other things mentioned by the previous cabinet members, are not allowed to be exported.
The formulation of this series of export bans at the earliest time actually reflects the fact that the people who have come to this plane are weak and have advanced technical level and concepts, but they are still very nervous and afraid of being infringed by the forces of their own plane, so in order to ensure their comparative advantage, the relevant prohibitions were made. At that time, there was also a characteristic, that is, a large number of equipment and machinery were still insufficient to meet the needs of their own countries, let alone to meet the needs of other countries.
But with the passage of time, the Tang Dynasty has developed into a large country with a population of more than 20 million and a vast territory, and it can be said that the Tang people can confidently say that unless there is any alien invasion and the inhabitants of another world invade, they can defend themselves well. At the same time, in the development of Datang in recent years, it has found an unavoidable problem. That is, compared with the social civilization of Datang, even the most civilized Europe is very backward, even if European countries have the money to purchase Datang's products, but they have no need to buy them at all, or the demand is relatively limited.
For example, just like buying a mobile phone to buy a mobile phone case to apply film, a person who doesn't even have a mobile phone naturally does not need to consume mobile phone film and mobile phone case. Today's Europeans are the same, their way of life is relatively simple, and they don't need too many complex technical products for production and life, so the demand for some export goods of Datang is relatively limited.
As far as the export of steelmaking equipment products is concerned, if the British company buys a set of Datang's steelmaking equipment, then the steel they produce obviously needs to be reprocessed, perhaps as a building material, then they need steel-rolling equipment; Maybe it's a special kind of machine, which naturally requires a cutting machine and a series of other products to build; If you want to produce ordinary tools, then at least you need to have molds.
In short, as long as the British make their own steel, they need more machinery and supporting products to complete other businesses, and these Datang can provide them with them, so that a dollar business can be made into a thousand yuan business.
Many discerning people have actually seen this problem, Datang no longer needs to maintain other countries' lives in modern times for its own sense of security or superiority, and only with a certain degree of similarity and comparability, then Datang can obtain greater export space and earn more excess profits. Indeed, the acquisition of basic industries such as iron and steel and chemical industry by European countries is bound to increase their national strength is extremely obvious, and it can also be reflected in the field of security, for example, the British may be able to build tens of thousands of tons of warships in the near future and challenge the dominance of Datang on the high seas and oceans, or the products produced by European countries may compete with Datang's products. However, from a confident point of view, even if the Europeans progress in national strength and military strength, then Datang's national strength and military strength will progress even more, and it will still be able to maintain a huge comparative advantage over potential threat countries. In terms of commercial competition, we should not worry about competition, and by enhancing our own quality, cultivating our own brand, and gaining competitive advantages, it is more valuable than relying on a deformed monopoly to obtain a monopoly.
Bai Nan also showed a more obvious tendency on this issue, and finally Bai Nan contributed to the lifting of a series of second-hand domestic equipment, as well as the ban on the export of hundreds of Datang goods. After this news came out, many domestic enterprises couldn't help but rejoice and celebrate, and it also became the first major benefit in the economic field brought by Bai Nam after taking over as president. Many enterprises are sharpening their knives and are ready to do a big job in the field of foreign trade. And, since most of the second-hand equipment is owned by state-owned enterprises, the SASAC has also set up some second-hand reselling brokerage companies to find foreign buyers of second-hand equipment.
On the issue of dealing with possible fiscal deficits, Bai Nan also demanded that in the future state investment, it is necessary to intensify the examination and approval, and at the same time design a more complete and better plan to increase the utilization rate of funds, that is, to spend less money and do more.
The new cabinet of Datang has done a lot of research and response to future financial problems, and Bai Nan also believes that it can basically ensure that Datang will not have serious financial problems in the future growth explosion period that will limit the country's development speed. In addition to financial issues, the Cabinet has also begun to design a number of new industrial development plans and regional development plans to adapt to the new development of the new era.