Embedded Talent Demand Analysis

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Author: Xia Jiashan (personal opinion only)
China's rapid development is inseparable from high technology. The country has been advocating "independent innovation" for many years and will continue to do so in the future. High-tech products represent the level of development of a country, but China is still a long way from being a developed country, at least 20 years. Obviously, among electronic products, printers, copiers, and digital cameras are all monopolized by Japan. On the street, 6 out of 10 cars are Japanese. Others, various chips are from Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. And, the digital products we see and use in daily life are also from Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. Perhaps, some people say that China's Lenovo, TCL, Haier, Huawei, ZTE, Skyworth... are also brands of home appliances, computers, and mobile phones in China (and even the world). However, they do not have any core technology, and all the chips they use are from abroad. To give a simple example, Lenovo bought 30 or 40 chips of various sizes from abroad. These 30 or 40 chips can fit into two cigarette boxes. When they arrive in China, they are made into circuit boards, chassis, connecting wires, and power supplies by various factories, and then packaged into a beautiful computer with Lenovo brand that we see now, and then exported. Assuming that the price of this computer is 5,000 RMB, the cost of those 30 or 40 chips (plus various capacitors and resistors, which are also imported from abroad) is about 2,000 RMB! In this way, 2/5 of the gross profit of selling a computer is earned by foreigners, which means that they bring a small package of chips, but we have to load a large truck to exchange with them. More importantly, our labor is hundreds of times that of theirs. This is just from the hardware aspect. In terms of software, we don’t have our own software. All operating systems and tool software used for development are foreign! There is a saying that first-class companies make standards, second-class companies make brands, and third-class companies make products. We are engaged in embedded development, and the materials we read are all in English. These materials are standards, which means that we can only be led by others.
China is a country with a vast territory and abundant resources and a large population. As far as the market for any product is concerned, no country has a market as large as ours. Therefore, companies around the world are targeting China, with a population of 1.3 billion and a period of rapid economic development. People's purchasing power is getting stronger and stronger. It is better to open the market of China alone than to open the markets of several countries. Therefore, companies around the world will enter China as long as they can, and to varying degrees, they have offices and R&D institutions in various parts of China. Among these companies entering China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau are the easiest to enter mainland China. There are many Chinese people, and there are all kinds of labor-intensive factories, and they are all cheap labor; thus, the Chinese market, factories everywhere in China, and cheap labor are the most ideal choices for companies around the world.
Against this background, major companies around the world have also set up R&D institutions in the mainland, which will inevitably require a large number of R&D personnel. Although there are many college students in China, and they still can't find jobs, many companies can't recruit suitable people. Why does this happen? This is determined by China's education system. In China, it is difficult to get into a university, but easy to graduate, and it is difficult to get into a graduate school, but easy to graduate; but in foreign countries, it is easy to get into a university, but difficult to graduate. Because, in foreign countries, graduation projects are taken very seriously and the assessment is extremely strict. They start preparing for graduation projects two years before graduation, and contact internship units before each holiday. Their graduation topics are all very difficult! In this way, after they graduate, through the holiday internships during their studies, plus the final graduation project, they have laid a good practical foundation. In addition, their various colleges and universities maintain R&D and design relationships with external companies, so their teachers will be able to grasp the actual needs of society and lead them to do projects! In China, everyone who has been to college should know what is going on!
Among various R&D institutions, embedded development occupies a major position. The industries involved in embedded include mobile phones, digital cameras, routers, switches, ATMs, IPTV, IP, GPS, POS machines, barcode scanners, etc., various electronic products.
The application field of embedded development is so wide that a large number of talents are needed to enrich it.
2012-9-18 Xia Jiashan Written in Songjiang, Shanghai

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