Chapter 945: New Industry, New Commerce

Yang Fan recalled some creative home furnishings he had seen online.

He felt it was really possible to come up with some novelties.

He glanced at Yang Qihang, then spoke to Yang Qing.

"Then I'll go back and give it a try."

Yang Qing picked up his tea and took a sip.

"Ximu isn't something you came up with, is it?"

"A new industrial model requires new thinking."

"We're old now; it's hard for us to grasp what the mainstream of the new market is."

"Trying to make new blossoms within the old framework is difficult, even impossible."

"This requires breaking conventions; the progress of the world is simply continually breaking conventions."

"Someone broke the farming lifestyle, moved to the city to work, and only then got the chance to enjoy industrial dividends."

"Someone broke the lifestyle of surviving by manual labor, and only then became an entrepreneur."

"Social progress is simply continually breaking, breaking, and breaking again."

"And the main force that breaks old cages and creates a new life is the youth."

"I think what you should do is lay a solid foundation for them."

"The times have changed; production and design have begun to separate, sales and production have begun to separate, and sales and after-sales have begun to separate."

"The old ways will gradually lose their value."

"Rather than you doing it yourself, it's better to support some young people."

"The emergence of Ximu signifies that new commerce and new manufacturing are beginning to take the stage."

"Many young people probably already have ideas, but they lack a standardized production base."

"In the future, low-tech products will mostly shift toward the Ximu type."

"So the future should belong to those with imagination."

"I don't know if you've watched those advice-giving streamers."

"A plush toy factory owner, following fans' suggestions, created toys like shark-dogs and shark-cats, which were very popular."

"In fact, everyone has long been tired of uniform products."

"They need more of this kind of distinctive, characteristic product."

"Such products are already beyond the capability of ordinary manufacturing."

"They need a new manufacturing structure."

"Tomato News succeeded because it respects individual creators."

"For such low-production-difficulty goods, the future path should also be to respect design creators."

Yang Fan thought for a moment and nodded.

"That way, relying solely on Ximu would be hard to achieve, because the scope is too broad and it's difficult to coordinate such a wide range of manufacturers."

"I'll go back and see if there are any such entrepreneurs."

"If not, I'll look among our several universities for people with this kind of entrepreneurial idea."

Yang Fan roughly understood that if the Yang family entered the entire industrial chain, the Yang family would in fact monopolize the new manufacturing industry.

Naturally, this would reduce others' motivation to enter the industry.

After all, nobody wants to compete with a giant like the Yang family.

Withdrawing is for a more vibrant market.

Yang Qing saw that he understood and nodded.

In business, greed is the biggest taboo; only mutual benefit and win-win can last.

Moreover, the new manufacturing industry involves too many interest parties.

The government is among them.

Being too greedy will make the Yang family a target of public criticism.

Even though it's still the exploratory stage.

"Once the new business model is widely adopted, companies like Ximu will occupy the entry ticket to the entire industry."

"Whether it's parts, material data, or template data."

"Only by entering the system can one join the business hierarchy."

"A company that cannot get into the Ximu database will find it hard to join this feast."

"As the traditional business market gradually shrinks, their survival will become increasingly difficult."

"So the future Ximu is equivalent to an alternative global economic cooperation circle."

"Put more clearly, whoever in the future masters a platform like Ximu can control the entire world's production activities."

"This is the manufacturing upgrade's greatest opportunity."

"This is also why we have been transferring traditional manufacturing to the Third World."

"Equipment lacking IoT and information connectivity, and smart manufacturing capability."

"Such equipment will simply not be able to join global large-scale production in the future."

"Equipment that similarly fails to meet our new manufacturing standards also cannot access our system."

"More importantly, only we currently possess a scaled, systematic foundation for new manufacturing."

"Global division of labor would actually affect efficiency."

More importantly, currently only we possess a large-scale, systematic new manufacturing base.

Global division of labor would instead affect efficiency.

Yang Qing spoke this future scenario for the first time.

The opportunities brought by the new industrial revolution were actually here.

Whoever occupies the high ground can in the future control the entire manufacturing industry.

Other countries will find it hard to enter this manufacturing field.

They can only seek their place in other links.

The world's factory will truly live up to its name.

But that's not right.

"Dad, if the future is fully mechanized, wouldn't it also become much easier for others to get into manufacturing?"

"After all, they're all machines."

"As long as you're willing to spend money, it can always be done."

What he said sounded reasonable, and Yang Qihang initially thought so too.

Yang Qing's mouth twitched; this guy was actually testing him in return.

"Economies of scale aren't that easy to replace."

"For example, making silk buckles here, it can supply the entire industrial chain."

"If it went elsewhere, say to the bicycle industry, it could only supply bicycles."

"And to build a full-industry industrial capability, you, being in manufacturing, should understand what cost it entails."

"That's not just a few trillion, but several quadrillion, or even higher."

"Especially new manufacturing equipment, which is not cheap."

"If we can't do it now, it will be even harder later."

"Unless we stand still, others will hardly get another chance."

Yang Fan asked another question.

"What if they completely cut off trade with us?"

"They'll just play by themselves."

Yang Qing snorted in disdain.

"In this world today, huge changes happen every day."

"Now is not the past; before, if everyone worked hard, there was still a chance to catch up."

"Now, if you pause even a little, others have already pulled far ahead."

"How difficult would it be to rebuild manufacturing? Ten years? Twenty years?"

"In ten or twenty years, the world will no longer be what it is now."

"Moreover, there is another important issue."

"That is, manufacturing is the foundation of a nation's technological progress."

"Especially now, technological progress and the manufacturing foundation are deeply intertwined."

"Without manufacturing, science and technology are merely castles in the air, hard to implement."

"If they cannot be implemented, it is hard to create value."

"Manufacturing and science and technology complement each other."