Regarding the industrial powers, it has always been a controversial topic. Of course, the United States, Britain, France, Japan Germany, etc. These countries are industrial powerhouse is not controversial, but for example, South Korea, Italy, Switzerland and other countries are often mistakenly thought to be not an industrial powerhouse, in fact, not, for example, South Korea gives the impression that the entertainment industry is well developed, the movie, TV series and other cultural influences are more extensive. There is also Switzerland as a country, our impression is that the beautiful scenery, tourism and culture developed. Secondly, Switzerland's financial industry is also more developed. But when it comes to industry, we are less likely to pay attention to countries like Switzerland.
Regarding which countries' industries are underestimated, Korea should be counted as one. Korea's industrial base is relatively strong. In the traditional manufacturing industry, Korea's automobile industry and shipbuilding industry are relatively strong. Although it cannot be said to be a world leader, it is still among the top in the world. Secondly, South Korea is also good in the field of emerging technologies, electronics manufacturing chips, artificial intelligence development is also fast and at the forefront of the world.
In the heavy industry, South Korea's large consortium of enterprises can not be ignored. On the surface, it looks like the entertainment industry to support South Korea, in fact, South Korea's real power comes from the industrial power.
Switzerland is also an industrial powerhouse. We are more familiar with the Swiss watch. In addition, there are also mechanical, chemical and other fields are also more powerful. Switzerland's development is more balanced, developed industry, the service industry is also a lot of multinational enterprises, tourism and finance have a high reputation in the international community. In fact, like South Korea, Switzerland, this kind of neglected countries just because of other areas more famous overshadowed the strong industrial.
Canada
Many people's impression of Canada is that it is a sparsely populated, resource-rich country. But to the surprise of many people, Canada is also an uncompromising industrial powerhouse.
As the least populated country in the Group of Seven, Canada's industrial strength is not to be underestimated.
As early as 1962, Canada launched the Lark 1 satellite, making it the third country in the world, after the Soviet Union and the United States, to develop, build, and launch its own satellite.
Canada was the first country to participate in the International Space Station (ISS), and its space robot, the Canadian Arm, is technologically advanced and has long been used by the ISS and the U.S. Space Shuttle.
Since 1960, Canada's space technology companies have designed and built a wide range of satellites for the commercial market, and its commercial rocket technology is at the forefront.
(The Canadian robotic arm installed on the Space Shuttle Discovery helps Discovery carry out its STS-116 mission.)
Sweden
As a Scandinavian country with a population of just over 8 million, Sweden has always had a harmless face. But in reality Sweden is also an industrial powerhouse.
Currently, Sweden has its own aerospace, nuclear, automotive, and military industries, as well as a world-leading telecommunications industry and pharmaceutical research capabilities.
Sweden is also a world leader in software development, microelectronics, telecommunication and photonics.
(The Swedish Lion, a fourth-generation, single-engine, lightweight fighter, is one of the few countries in the world that produces its own fighters.)
Italy
Italy is one of the seven major industrialized nations of the West, along with Canada. After the Second World War, Italy developed from an agricultural country to a highly industrialized one. Its international trade and exports are among the world's leading countries.
Italy's industrial strength is strong, the annual crude oil processing capacity of 100 million tons, with the "European refinery" said, steel production also ranks second in Europe. Moreover, Italy is also a leader in the plastics, torque machines, automobiles, electric power, machinery manufacturing, electronics industry, shipbuilding, chemical industry, arms and other industries.
(Ferrari LaFerrari, the Venus of supercar fans. Italy can be said to be the home of the world's supercars, such as: Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini, all from the hands of the Italians)
Switzerland is certainly one. Switzerland and Germany are both German-speaking countries, and in ancient times the people were tough, full of professional mercenaries, belonging to the authentic "fighting nation". War is Switzerland's national industry, so this country is very good at making weapons, armor, and musket parts, handicrafts practitioners are very many. It can be said that their ability to deal with metal and machinery is among the best in Europe. Later, with the emergence of free Protestantism, Switzerland became a buffer zone between Protestantism and Catholicism, and since then Switzerland has become a neutral country, so it was seldom tainted by war, so the construction of the local economy was almost never damaged. Later, when the French brought in advanced watchmaking technology, the Swiss developed their watchmaking and mechanical industries so rapidly that the world's first watchmaking association, the Geneva Watchmaking Association, was founded in Switzerland in 1601.
Ancient Switzerland was famous in Europe for its mercenaries
240 years ago, Swiss watchmakers invented the writing boy robot, with a total of **** more than 6,000 parts all built by hand, which could write any word
Today's machinery, electronics and metalworking are also the first pillars of the Swiss industrial sector. These industries account for the average of one person employed in Swiss industry and 40 percent of total Swiss exports. Swiss watches and military knives and these are still small compared to the big. Switzerland's machine tool industry output value, in the national economy accounted for a high proportion of the total output value, about 1% or so, much higher than other industrially developed countries, such as the United States, Germany, Japan (in 0.1% -0.7% or so). If the weight of the sale of machine tools, Swiss machine tools per kilogram of the price of Japanese machine tools 2.8 times, the United States machine tools 3.2 times, is 10 times the Chinese mainland exports of machine tools.
Switzerland's electromechanical industry both well-known large companies, but also a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, such as ABB's power plants and power transmission and distribution equipment, Xunda elevator, Sura and Lida textile machinery, Fain Toure universal punch presses, the Archie Charmilles EDM machine tools, and Bühler's food processing equipment, maxon's low-power motors are international. These products are among the best of their kind in the world, and are favored by many professional manufacturers and customers around the world. However, since the traditional market of Switzerland is still in Europe, the popularity of these enterprises in China is still a bit different from that of Germany and Japan.
GF Archimichael's CUT P 350 precision CNC slow-feeding wire cutting machine
ABB Robotics
Swiss timepieces are only the tip of the iceberg of Switzerland's strong industrial capabilities (with Patek Philippe)
On top of that, Switzerland is also very good at medical rehabilitation, which is an aspect that is often overlooked. For example, Switzerland accounted for 2 of the top 3 pharmaceutical companies in 2018.
Switzerland's Hocoma produces rehabilitation robots that are second to none globally:
Switzerland has so many awesome companies, but only 8 million people. I have to say it's a small but mighty industrial powerhouse.
When talking about industrial powers, most people first think of the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Canada, Russia, which are very influential countries. Of course, there are also many underestimated industrial powers, today I will know a few and share with you, I hope to help you. (The subject finished Switzerland, the west will not be introduced)
Europe
1. Austria
Speaking of Austria, we first thought of the Vienna Golden Hall, one of the world's top music halls, where countless musicians have left their songs. In fact, Austria's industrial level is also very good, especially the mechanical industry and chemical industry in the world is very competitive.
Glock pistols, AUG assault rifles, and Mannlicher rifles (China. China was also one of the customers of Mannlicher rifles, and there were purchases during the Guangxu period), and Steyr heavy-duty automobiles are representative products of Austrian industry. After WWI, Austro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved and Czechoslovakia became independent, otherwise Austrian industry would have been stronger.
2. Finland
Finland is located in the north of Europe, one of the five Nordic countries, bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia, with the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west. At the same time, Finland is also a highly developed capitalist countries, but also a highly industrialized, liberalized market economy. The big name - Nokia, is Finland's sitting tenant, but also the iconic Finnish industrial enterprises.
3. Sweden
Sweden is a veritable industrial powerhouse, industrial categories are also very complete. In the aviation industry, the nuclear industry, automobile manufacturing, telecommunications, pharmaceutical research and development, software development, microelectronics, telecommunication and photonics field and many other areas of Sweden in the world.
Eagle-Lion fighter, the world's most cost-effective multi-role fighter, even with the U.S. F16 than no less; Gotland-class submarines the world's first submarine assembled with Stirling engine adiabatic propulsion system (AIP power system); Ericsson is the world's largest mobile communications equipment vendors.
4. Netherlands
The Netherlands is a highly developed capitalist country, known for its seawalls, windmills, tulips, cows, soccer and tolerant social culture. As an old capitalist country, Holland's industry is also very developed, Rotterdam has Europe's largest oil refining center; ASML's photolithography machine is famous all over the world; Philips' electrical appliances are a household name.
Africa
1. South Africa
South Africa, located in the southernmost tip of the African continent, has a "rainbow country" reputation. It used to be the only developed country in Africa and the second largest economy in Africa. The manufacturing industry has surpassed the mining industry and the sum of agricultural output since the 1960s, becoming a truly industrialized country. South Africa's health care was once among the best in the world, and the world's first heart transplant was done in South Africa in 1967. South Africa's arms industry is also very developed, and many classic weapons have emerged. The South African arms industry is also well developed, and has produced many classic weapons, such as the "Stone Falcon" helicopter gunship, the "Horn" main battle tank, the "Big Bobcat" armored reconnaissance vehicle, and the G6 self-propelled howitzer.
The Americas
1. Brazil
As the largest country in South America, Brazil is known for its samba and soccer, which makes its industry often overlooked. Brazilian industry in Latin America, the first in the 70s built a more complete industrial system, the main industrial sectors are steel, automobiles, shipbuilding, petroleum, cement, chemicals, metallurgy, electricity, textiles, construction and so on. Nuclear power, communications, electronics, aircraft manufacturing, military industry, etc. has crossed into the ranks of the world's advanced countries.
Embraer is a representative enterprise of Brazilian industry. Currently the company is now among the world's four largest civil aircraft manufacturers, becoming the world's largest producer of regional jetliners.
Asia
1. India
India is able to develop and produce its own weapons, including light weapons to tanks, aircraft, warships, aircraft carriers, strategic nuclear submarines, nuclear bombs, ballistic missiles, and most other weapons; India's IT industry is also very well developed, and comprehensively viewed the strength of India's industrial strength should not be underestimated.
2. Iran
Iran's full name is "Iran Islamic **** and the country" is located in West Asia, belonging to the Middle East countries. In industry, Iran is the Middle East's leading industrial powerhouse. Iran ranked 38th in the global industrial ranking, as can be seen from the data, Iran's industrial strength in the world can still be counted, but the shortcomings lie in the lack of R & D capabilities, most of the molded products still lie in the "cottage". At present, Iran has been able to independently manufacture tanks, fighter jets, ballistic missiles and other highly sophisticated products.
3. North Korea
North Korea is very poor, the industrial base and the industrial powers than a big difference, but looking around the world, North Korea is also considered an industrial powerhouse (Saudi Arabia is very rich, but the industry is really not compared to North Korea).
North Korea can domestic light weapons, main battle tanks; can also domestic self-propelled artillery and large-caliber towed artillery; can also build some miniature ships North Korea; ballistic missiles in the world can barely rank. In addition to the extremely high-precision of their own national air force units equipped with the relevant warplanes, North Korea's own military industry can provide, the North Korean army almost all of the standard weapons and equipment. Compared with the vast majority of countries in the world that can't even be self-sufficient in firearms and ammunition and have to rely on imports, North Korea's industry is still good. North Korea's industry is still good.
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When it comes to industrial powers, many people will first think of the United States, Japan, Germany, and some can also think of the United Kingdom, France, South Korea, or Canada (China is still an industrial power, not an industrial power). Few people notice Switzerland. Because Switzerland in the eyes of outsiders, industry is not strong, his most well-known industries, is the bank, insurance, and is the watch.
In fact, Switzerland's industrial strength is very strong. Switzerland is far more than just watchmaking, there are pharmaceutical, chemical, food and other industries. And these manufacturing industries have very high value-added products. Companies don't need a high volume of shipments to make high profits.
In the 2017 Global Manufacturing 500 list, Switzerland has eight companies on the list, ranking tenth in the world in terms of number. But the size of the Swiss economy is not even in the top 15 in the world. This also shows that Switzerland's manufacturing companies are still very strong.
In the field of watch manufacturing, Switzerland has given birth to a large number of globally recognized brands, including Rolex, Omega, Tissot, Longines, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin. These watches are often sold for tens of thousands of dollars, even hundreds of thousands, and some are sold for more than a million.
(This Vacheron Constantin watch sells for as much as 6.8 million yuan)
Switzerland is also very famous for its pharmaceutical industry,**** there are two pharmaceutical companies in the world's top 500 pharmaceutical companies, respectively, Roche Pharmaceuticals and Novartis Pharmaceuticals. On the 2018 World Top 500 list, Roche Pharmaceuticals ranked 169th with a revenue of 56.6 billion dollars, and Novartis Pharmaceuticals ranked 203rd with a revenue of 50.1 billion dollars. China, a large pharmaceutical country, has yet to have a pharmaceutical company enter the Fortune 500.
Switzerland's food industry is also growing quite well. In this field it has become a world-class multinational giant, which is Nestle. Currently Nestle's revenue is close to 100 billion dollars, and China's Huawei comparable. It is incredible that a company making food can be so big. Two famous food brands in China - Mrs. Lok and Yinlu have both been acquired by Nestle.
So combing down, Switzerland is more than just banks and watches. He also has a lot of industries that are doing quite well, so all things considered he counts as an industrial powerhouse.
There should be Switzerland, Switzerland, this inconspicuous country has a highly developed industrial system. His precision machinery and instruments manufacturing, chemical industry, chemical and pharmaceutical industry is definitely the world leader. During the Second World War, his Erlikon cannon shot down countless enemy planes in the German army, and the bearings they produced were indispensable to German weaponry, even now Switzerland's light weapons are also the world's top.
Italy
Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, South Korea, Israel, the Czech Republic, India
Definitely China ah, the world's most industrialized country, industrial GDP more than the United States, Japan, Germany and the sum of the future of the world only in terms of industry, there will only be two countries: China and foreign countries.
For example, there is a person in the Olympics, enrolled in all the projects, and basically all the projects can enter the top five, many projects can get a medal, there are many projects is the world's first. Instead, people said he was too big to be strong, because the country felt that as long as he wasn't number one, he was behind.
The seriously underestimated industrial powerhouse is China, the only country in the world with all industrial categories, and foreigners don't believe it when they say China is not an industrial powerhouse.