Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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Internationally, the Japanese economy still stands out. In terms of gross domestic product, China and Japan were roughly equal in the 1960s, but by 1980, Japan was four times larger than China. At the end of 1980, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry announced that the country's automobile production had surpassed the 10 million mark for the first time, reaching 11.04 million vehicles, accounting for over 30% of the world's total automobile production, surpassing the United States to become the "world's number one". Automobiles are iconic commodities of industrial civilization and modern national competition. Therefore, during prime time, American television stations aired a two-hour TV special titled "Japan Can, Why Can't We?" with the theme of comparing the industries of the United States and Japan. The host of the program said: About ten years ago, Japanese people were notorious for manufacturing fake and inferior products, and the term "Made in Japan" became a catchphrase for mocking inferior products.