为什么中国这么擅长制造无人机？ [美国媒体]

Why is China so good at making drones?

为什么中国这么擅长制造无人机？



Glenn Luk, Invests in technology and growth
Answered 21m ago
In the 60s and 70s, the manufacture of consumer goods began to move out to Asia. Export-oriented factories sprouted in Japan and later in places like Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong[1].
In the 80s and 90s after mainland China had begun to open up, many of these business owners smelled opportunity and moved their factories across the border. Many chose to re-locate to Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong. Over the next two decades, they leveraged the inexpensive, seemingly limitless pool of labor to scale up massively.

六七十年代的时候消费商品的制造开始转移到亚洲。出口导向性工厂在日本大量出现，后来遍及台湾，韩国和香港。到了八九十年代，中国大陆开始开放，很逗企业主嗅到了机会，将工厂搬到了中国。很多选择搬到深圳，就在香港旁边。在接下来的二十年时间，他们利用了廉价的无限的劳动力大进行大规模生产。



The same audio input/output components in the DVD player could be miniaturized into a cellphone.

DVD播放器里的音频输入和输出部件可以用于手机中。

The RF expertise you learned making cellphones could be leveraged into manufacturing smartphones.

手机制造中所习得的无线电频率知识可以用于制造智能手机。

In the beginning, these factories started out making clothing and simple plastic toys. After toiling away for years and years, one day they looked up and realized they were now manufacturing the most sophisticated consumer electronics products the planet had ever seen.

最初，这些工厂只是生产服装和简单的塑料玩具。在经历过多年的努力后，有一天他们发现自己已经在制造世界上最复杂的消费电子产品了。



The term shanzhai originally referred to cheap copycats of brand products and electronic devices, particularly mobile phones that took the name of ai-phone, Nakia and Samsong, but is now increasingly applied to the entire Open Manufacture system developed in Shenzhen in the last thirty years as an ad-hoc model based on easy and open access to electronic components, ready to produce key solutions ‘open boards’ and a network of relationships and providers …
… the mainstream of shanzhai products are niche products or items offering very specific bespoke features, such as large fonts for old people, cute shapes and designs for kids, multiple SIM cards, solar chargers and other more culturally specific solutions, such as a compass to locate Mecca for daily prayer. Unusual and crazy options can be readily available.
Now many view shanzhai culture in a positive light and as something more philosophical and inspirational. It has converged with the Makers movement, a global community of engineers and hobbyists that look for new and novel ways to use electronics.

山寨最初指的是对名牌产品和电子设备的廉价抄袭，尤其是移动电话，比如苹果手机，诺基亚和三星，但现在更多指的是整个开放的制造系统，过去三十年来，由于能够轻易的获得电子部件，能获得关键的解决方案，加上关系和供应商网络，使得深圳发展出了这套系统。



And there will almost certainly be more to come: Smash enough new ideas against the smartphone supply chain and you are bound to eventually stumble across the next great consumer electronics product.

当然还会有更多这样的例子出现：用新的想法去碰撞智能手机供应链，最终将产生新的伟大的消费电子产品。