The East Asian model, the road to industrialization, why apart from Western countries, only East Asia has completed industrialization

Recently, many people are worried that the transfer of Chinese industries abroad will hollow out China\’s industries and lose its competitiveness. In fact, this kind of worry is meaningless and does not exist.

We know that the only places in the world that have truly completed industrialization are a few developed countries such as Europe and the United States, and the others are China, Japan and South Korea in East Asia. As for the level of industrialization in other places, it can be said to be rubbish.

Why is this the result? Western developed countries were the earliest to develop and complete industrialization. Although they brought great disasters to other parts of the world, they also spread the idea of ​​industrialization and allowed other parts of the world to start the process of industrialization.

However, after more than a hundred years of development and catching up, so far, only the countries and regions in East Asia that have truly completed industrialization have caught up, while other regions are still Lingering outside the gates of industrialization.

What the hell is going on? What are the reasons that lead to such a result? Although there are many explanations, they still cannot fully explain the reason.I will also try to explore the development code of East Asia, and please forgive me for any shortcomings.

First, a unique and long-standing culture has forged a different cultural core. The biggest cultural core of East Asian countries is actually the influence of Confucian culture, and Confucian culture has a very strong socialist ideology, which not only has a spirit of hard work and dedication, but also has a strong spirit of sacrifice and dedication. At the same time, it respects authority and has a strong sense of its own nation. Awareness of identity is the necessary spiritual core for East Asian countries to cross the threshold of industrialization. Because, among East Asian countries, except for Japan, which once obtained development opportunities through colonial plunder, other countries and regions basically have no conditions and opportunities to obtain development funds through plunder, and can only obtain development capital from the internal people. The people of Japan and South Korea all experienced extremely difficult stages of development in their early stages of development. And through endurance, East Asian countries obtained the initial capital to develop industry.

Second, the centralized national system provides political guarantee for the economic development of East Asia. The political systems of East Asian countries have the advantage of respecting authority and unifying government orders, which can achieve a unified market environment and smooth implementation of development strategies across the country. There are fewer constraints and they can better leverage the advantages of cost control.

Third, the consistency and sustainability of the economic development strategy. There are few changes in the political power structure of East Asian countries. Even if there are changes, there are few adjustments to the overall development strategy and they can be implemented continuously for decades. This shows that East Asian countries have political stability, little change in economic policies, and effective implementation of strategic goals. Continuity, with no interruptions due to political changes, has laid the foundation for the continued investment in the industrial capabilities of East Asian countries.

Fourth, foresight in industry selection. In the process of catching up with Western developed countries, East Asian countries have mostly implemented industrial priority development policies, which means focusing on some key industries and fields to carry out technological research and achieve technological breakthroughs in key areas, so as to achieve technological overtake in key areas. This led to the industrialization of the country.

Fifth, make rational use of the international environment for industrial transfer. In the process of developing their own industries, East Asia International has seized the historical opportunity of globalized industrial transfer, combined with its own conditions, developed an industrial system with its own characteristics, and also achieved rapid development of its own economy.

In short, the completion of industrialization in East Asia is an extremely complex subject. Here I can only briefly elaborate: the citizens of East Asian countries have a very unique cultural core, which basically comes from Confucian culture. The spiritual core of Confucian culture has a strong spirit of dedication, This is a national characteristic and a condition for seizing opportunities; at the same time, East Asian countries also have excellent political systems and continuous policy measures, and they choose appropriate strategic industries to make key breakthroughs in industrial development to achieve point-to-point development. Of course, this It is also achieved in the context of global industrial transfer.