How many billions?
I’m afraid you don’t know what this fund is? Domestic chip foundry SMIC customized a 7nm process EUV lithography machine from the Dutch company ASML in 2017. At that time, it paid a deposit of US$120 million (the one sold to my country is more expensive. Judging from public data, The price of each EUV lithography machine from ASML in the Netherlands is about 80 million to 100 million US dollars), but what I want to say is that this machine has not been delivered yet (obstruction from the United States).
The nominal GDP of the Netherlands in 2019 is about 810.704 billion euros, which is about 907.583 billion U.S. dollars based on the average exchange rate, which is less than 1 trillion U.S. dollars. It is not a problem to buy the entire Netherlands for several trillion U.S. dollars. Even if it is not several hundred billion U.S. dollars, converted into RMB, taking the median value of 500 trillion RMB as an example, it is equivalent to 71.43 trillion U.S. dollars, which is still nearly 80 times the total GDP of the Netherlands and about 3.5 times the GDP of the United States.
The more critical GDP is not the funds available to the government. The funds available to the government are fiscal revenue. In 2019, our country’s fiscal revenue will only exceed 19 trillion yuan, so it is impossible for our country to provide With tens of billions of funds coming out, there really is so much money, not to mention hundreds of billions, just one-tenth or tens of trillions invested in research and development, it won’t take a few years to catch up with the Dutch ASML lithography machine. .
If our country really spends tens of billions of dollars to buy it, others say that the Netherlands, the nominal owner of ASML, and even the United States, the real owner behind it, will sell it, because once our country spends hundreds of billions of dollars to buy it all, If the opportunity arises, then our country will have a serious shortage of development funds in other aspects, which will directly drag down the progress in other aspects. However, the tens of billions of funds allocated will be enough for the United States to make a qualitative leap (the United States has accumulated more than 200 U.S. debts over the past 200 years). But it’s only about 21 trillion U.S. dollars), so Americans want it.
Technology outside the lithography machine
Lithography machine technology is very important, but it is not just the lithography machine that lags behind in my country, but also the engine field, precision manufacturing field, medical equipment field, etc. If we are already lagging behind the rest of the world, does it mean that every technology requires huge amounts of money to purchase? It is obviously unrealistic. If the price is too high, it is not cost-effective for us; if the price is too low, it will not break your muscles and bones, and it is impossible for the United States to export to you. From the perspective of the United States, unless you pay more than you gain, Only when it is still high can it be possible to let go, otherwise we still have to rely on ourselves to do everything.
What is lacking is time
China does not lack talents. What China lacks is time. The United States has a history of more than 240 years since its independence on July 4, 1776. However, it has only been 70 years since the founding of our country in 1949, which is less than one-third that of the United States. If we count the time since the reform and opening up, it is even only one-sixth; the development of high-precision technology requires basic disciplines. Support, and the development of basic disciplines cannot be achieved overnight. It is already very good that our country can reach this level in just a few decades. Therefore, the time China lacks now, given enough time, our country can catch up with any other country. a country, which is also determined by our national characteristics.