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Cowbee [he/they]Bonkers level.
It gives hope š
It does!
TheAlbatrossShoulda taken Mandarin in schoolā¦
Yah Iām trying a bit but now Iām old and stupid shoulda done it when I was young and impressionable.
All I really got so far is ęåéŗ»č¾£ and ä»äøåéŗ»č¾£ to help me and the boyfriend get the right food at restaurants lmao
Hell yea, lmao! Yea I canāt speak or read Mandarin in any capacity, Iām learning a different language currently.
Yah Iām trying a bit but now Iām old and stupid shoulda done it when I was young and impressionable.
All I really got so far is ęåéŗ»č¾£ and ä»äøåéŗ»č¾£ to help me and the boyfriend get the right food at restaurants lmao
Okay. Whats BYD?
A Chinese car manufacturer, tons of cutting-edge EVs for great prices. Massive amount of sales.
I think youāll hear more of it in the future, itās kinda like a ānewā Huawei.
I was surprised to spot a BYD dealership in the south of Nantes in France, thatās when the numbers start feeling real.
www.byd.com/eu/find-store
If you live in the US, protectionnism may prevent you from seeing a BYD car dealership. A.f.a.i.k. thereās none, perhaps because thereās a 100% tariff on chinese EVs, and/or for other reasons(, security is just another one of these lies we like to tell our citizens).
Canada also had a 100% tariff rate until a few weeks ago, theyāll now admit 49.000 vehicles each year at a 6.1% tariff rate.
In the EU, states put a 20-30% tariff(, a.f.a.i.k. their reasons are the existence of chinese subventions, suddenly free trade doesnāt benefit the states practicing it because it destroys the local companies, anywayā¦)
BYD is getting really popular here in australia, I see them all the time. Many other chinese brands are popping up as well.
Quite impressive considering the stigma around china being cheap, shit and communism here.
To be fair, the last part is true, China is run by communists. Thatās a good thing, though.
Without China, itād be ingrained in all of us that socialism can never work, and has failed everytime it was tried, probably for centuries/ever. Just another one of these lies. So many conditions had to be reunited for being given one last chance after 1991(, explosive growth that no country ever went through, being ābusyā in the Middle-East, a successful chinese strategy, ā¦)
Itās ironic that our (religious )values point out that a society should be judged by how it treats the poorest/weakest/l(e)ast of us, but weāll be anti-socialist with an āexploit or be exploitedā mindset.
Anyway š¤·
Well said!
One last thing(, thatās linked to EVs), have you ever heard of the āthree old thingsā ?
I discovered that āa few monthsā/āseveral weeksā ago, and iām still thinking about it from time to time : youtu.be/6E89qUXTX-k?t=2149
(files.catbox.moe/b1kfo4.mp4 if the video player doesnāt work)
Itās not as official as the five year plan, but itās confirmed here or there :
From aspirations to own watches, bicycles and sewing machines (the āolder three thingsā) of the late 1970s, to the color televisions, refrigerators and washing machines (the āold three thingsā) of the late 1980s, to the stereos, air conditioners and mobile phones (the ānew three thingsā) of the late 1990s, and to the computers, pianos and automobiles (the ānewer three thingsā) of today
As for the next five-year plan(, with brain-computer interfaces) :
This is how China's economic model works: Explaining Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
No, I hadnāt really heard much about that. And thanks for the link to the 15th FYP, I havenāt investigated it that much yet!
AdrianTheFrogTheyāre also the second largest battery manufacturer in the world, behind CATL, another Chinese company.
Okay numbers are good, but donāt pretend trying to do a single simple thing in an organization that large is not a snails crawl of a Herculean task
They probably hire engineers for other roles, because there are to many with that degree.
It would be nice if China recognized that cars arenāt the future at all. Every car produced has been a waste of resources and has created pressure for unsustainable suburban development. Every mile of road built represents 25,000 square feet of space that will never be reclaimed, never be useful again.
QinShiHuangsShlongChina absolutely does recognise that though? Why do you think they invest so much in public transport like HSR, sprawling subways and a huge bus network? They simply realise that the green revolution much like the socialist one is a process. You canāt just press the green button and do away with cars, you need to first build up the infrastructure to support every part of society not just the urban cores.
Since cars remain a necessity for many as China has a huge swathe of rural areas not yet catered to (to the the extent required) by public transport connections itās best to have the cleanest best version of cars until they are.
Itās the same logic behind why they built new coal plants even into last year. Coal is unfortunately still necessary to support the grid for now but the new ones are much more efficient and clean and therefore itās worth investing in their replacement with newer plants until they can be fully phased out.
Adding to what @[email protected] said, keep in mind thereās multiple different interests here. The bourgeoisie still make a significant amount of economic decisions in China, and theyāre heavily influenced by the west/capitalism. At the same time, the CPC guides those companies (either through voting shares or party connections) towards accomplishing the goals of the party.
So it is a contradiction. Should China do more to export trains instead of cars? Sure, but theyāre still somewhat at the mercy of the global market. And China is still the largest exporter of trains anyway.
China has incredible rates of building high speed rail, public transit networks, and smart, walkable city design. Cars are supplementary.
Is more engineers necessary better? Especially when it gets to 120,000.
I donāt think BYD would have 120,000 engineers on payroll if they werenāt nessesary.
Itās possible they would. Maybe theyād want to make sure the government wants them to stay operating at any cost, because if the government fails to do so theyāll have 120,000 unemployed engineers.
Thatās a whopping 0.00008% of china, I did that calculation because I thought it would be a bigger percentage than that. 120,000 is a lot! I guess that puts into perspective how big the Chinese population is.
Also the chinese govenment wants technological development, there goal is to be at the forefront of computers and carbon neutral technology. BYD is leading the electric car industry right now and China wants them to prosper, not shut them down.
.008%, you forgot to convert to a percentage
Still very small though
Nah, this doesnāt seem like a valid argument. A lot of companies these days have a ton of unnecessary employees
AntiOutsideAktionokay so weāre comparing apples to apples?
How much BYD engineers do you need to screw in a lightbulb?
Iāve heard theyāre running three shifts of engineers. So that the work gets done faster. Still a lot of engineers though.
From the article it wasnāt clear to me if all of those engineers were in R&D or if they had that many engineers in total
China is the future of the auto industry, if it isnāt already.
You canāt already be the future. Thatās called being the present.