The Walker’s View · 行者视角
Thinking from the field.
Sustained observation and writing on China’s SMEs and manufacturing. Only publicly published, traceable work is archived here.
The Internationalization of Chinese Enterprises Should Still Be a Sea of Stars
Facing high U.S. tariffs, Chinese enterprises need to shift from cost-driven thinking to creating customer value, and to pursue high-quality development through global layout.
Steel, Digital, and Ecosystem
Reading China's civilizational difference against Guns, Germs, and Steel, and sketching a new competitiveness model of "steel, digital, and ecosystem" alongside the modernization challenges that come with it.
The Ultimate Battleground of the AI Era: Optimizing the SME Ecosystem
In the AI era, optimizing the SME ecosystem is key to the competitiveness of Guangdong manufacturing. It requires breaking through organizational, conceptual, and cost barriers to build a collaborative ecosystem.
How Chinese Manufacturing Can Anchor the Next Decade
Chinese manufacturing needs to anchor its future through internationalization, innovation, digitalization, and consumption expansion. Reform, markets, and efficiency are the core supports.
The Responsibility of Large Enterprises
Large enterprises should empower their supply chains rather than squeeze them. Establishing a sense of corporate social responsibility is a necessary condition for Chinese manufacturing to become truly strong.
Digitalization and All-Factor Competition in Manufacturing
Data-driven decision-making strengthens manufacturing competitiveness; it has to be supported by an open ecosystem and a full technology stack.
Let New-Quality Productive Forces Reach the Market
New-quality productive forces need a market to stand on. China needs to deepen reform, complete its market mechanism, and build a consumption-oriented society — forming a unified national market.
SMEs Are the "1," Not Merely the "56789"
"56789" is a set of numbers repeatedly cited in reports. What truly deserves discussion is what small and medium-sized enterprises actually mean to Chinese society behind those numbers.
Guangdong Has Issued Another Policy to Promote the Private Economy
Guangdong has issued a policy to support the private economy along four lines — fair treatment, operating conditions, entrepreneur development, and internationalization — to push private enterprises toward high-quality development.
How Enterprises Should Understand the New Industrialization
The core of the new industrialization is a new market and new consumption, not a blind chase after high-end manufacturing.
Ceiling Fans Across the Ocean: How a Small Company Built a Brand in America
Through deep market research and forward-engineering design, Qizheng successfully brought its smart ceiling fan brand CARRO into the US market — a model case of small-enterprise internationalization.
Local Industrial Clusters: Decline and Renewal
As the economic structure shifts, local industrial clusters face the risk of decline. Using the Chenghai toy industry as a case, this piece examines the cultural foundations and pathways for cluster upgrading.
Saying "Oh I Love You" Is Not as Easy as It Sounds
Concentrated detergents account for less than 6% of the Chinese market — far below the figures in Europe and the United States. The "Oh I Love You" brand shows how Chinese manufacturing can rebuild brand power through the digital economy.
How SMEs Should Develop in an Era of Stock-Based Growth
In an era of stock-based growth, small and medium-sized enterprises should abandon opportunism, focus on their core business, and use lean management to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Going Global: A Difficult Choice
For Chinese enterprises, going global is not merely a migration of capital and industry. It is cultural export and an exploration of a shared human civilization.
Vertical Industrial Integration Will Reshape the Industrial Landscape
Vertical industrial integration reshapes traditional manufacturing by knitting together traffic, algorithms, and supply chains. Guangdong manufacturing should leverage its scale advantage to rebuild the value chain.
What I Mean by "Manufacturing Takes the Lead"
For Guangdong, "manufacturing takes the lead" should be a four-in-one strategy: entering the mainstream of industrial civilization, earning the right to interpret industrial development, upgrading through the digital economy, and rebuilding commercial ethics and culture.