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Serious Chinks Finally Learns To Make Ballpoint Pens! It's Harder Than Sending Chink To Moon!

JohnTan

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A Chinese steel firm has made an unlikely breakthrough in the country famous for replicating just about every technology as soon as it hits the market.

After five years of research and development, Taiyuan Iron & Steel has produced a ballpoint pen. Specifically, the tip of a ballpoint pen.

Extraordinary as it sounds, it's a first for a company in the country which manufactures nearly 40 billion ballpoint pens every year.

It's also a point of much pride in China. Around this time last year, many Chinese were unaware of their country's inability to create such a common item.

It became headline news when Premier Li Keqiang complained about it on national TV. The "world's factory," which churns out smartphones, stealth fighters and WeChat, couldn't manufacture a tiny metal ball.

The problem was two-fold. China simply didn't have a machine with the precision to cut a tiny ball-bearing accurately. While it supplied the world with 80% of its ballpoint pens, all the balls came from Switzerland.

The steel, according to Xinhua, must be "easy to cut but not liable to crack."

It also doesn't produce steel of high enough quality to make the casing that surrounds the ball. It all comes from Germany or Japan.

China currently spends about $17 million a year on Japanese steel for ballpoint pens alone.

Compounding the fact is the process and formula for a steel ball that can write continuously for 800 meters is considered a trade secret.

Li has actually been making noises about it for several years. In June 2015, Chinese state-run broadcaster CCTV even hosted three manufacturing CEOs in an hour-long talk show about what the country could do about it.

Facing them was the CEO of penmaker Beifa Group, Qiu Zhiming.

One of the three CEOs, Dong Mingzhu, make a great show of anger at profits going to Swiss companies and promised Qiu her air conditioning company Ge li would build him a machine within a year "and sell it to you for half the price."

Qiu nervously thanked Dong for her offer.

And Li stayed on point. In December 2015, at a seminar in Beijing, he made sure everyone knew Chinese pens felt "rough."

On January 21, 2016, the Hong Kong Economic Journal declared:

"The day China can produce a 100% homemade ball pen will be the day it truly qualifies as a first-class industrial power."


Yesterday, Taiyuan Iron and Steel announced it had cracked it. In June last year, to be exact.

But Qiu's company, Beifa, has just ordered the first batch of Chinese-made pen tips.

Result – national pride restored:

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-has-finally-figured-out-how-to-make-ballpoint-pens-2017-1
 

bleed_edge

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This is no lucrative business so most Chinese are uninterested. Only those who can find nothing better to do will be doing this.
 

virus

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pls dont ask for too much

sg prata man cant even make his own prata

KFC dont even know what a chicken look like
 

Jah_rastafar_I

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Well the Chinese finally did it but we all know the double standards in here.
 

whoami

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Well the Chinese finally did it but we all know the double standards in here.

Cry baby booooo Jah Jamban at its best kpkb double standard again n feeling ass hurt as always.
 

Jah_rastafar_I

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Cry baby booooo Jah Jamban at its best kpkb double standard again n feeling ass hurt as always.

Seems that your job is to follow me around cry baby m&d whoami. Btw you shouldn't even be posting here what good are you m&ds except for leeching from Chinese and complaining of racism? :rolleyes:
 

whoami

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Seems that your job is to follow me around cry baby m&d whoami. Btw you shouldn't even be posting here what good are you m&ds except for leeching from Chinese and complaining of racism? :rolleyes:

On the contrary u cina r leeching fm Malays and yet u complaining of racism. Plse ask ur kind to migrate out of Msia to Sinkieland or Middle finger.
 

Jah_rastafar_I

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On the contrary u cina r leeching fm Malays and yet u complaining of racism. Plse ask ur kind to migrate out of Msia to Sinkieland or Middle finger.

leeching from m&ds? Pray tell how? m&ds give Chinese money? :rolleyes: You bloody m&ds only know how to leech from Chinese and complain of fake racism.
 

eatshitndie

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already posted this in another thread....

how to threaten the u.s. when tiongs can't even make the tiny balls that go into making ballpoint pens? for decades tiong ballpoint pen makers have been buying tiny stainless steel balls from japan and switzerland. the simple tiny unsophisticated balls are not easy to produce. they require manufacturing precision and processes that tiong steel mills and factories have been incapable of for several decades. it is decades-long shame that the prc gov has kept to itself all these years. until today. the taiyuan steel mill finally claims to have produced the first batch of tiny stainless steel balls that can roll with spherical precision to allow ink to run smoothly on their surfaces. the first batch of orders for such balls is finally placed within china, after decades of foreign supply dependency. let's see how they roll. their hopes may be shortlived.
 

Narong Wongwan

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Go China go!!!!

Yes better go coz damn chinks need 50 years at least to catch up.

Go space behind time by more than 50+ years.
Aircraft carrier also behind dunno behind how many years....technically built by Russians.
Finally caught up with ballpoint pen roller ball.....entire Chinkland let's celebrate!
 

JohnTan

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Knowing the chinks, they probably would fuck it up somehow and end up having to write in pencils for a week while waiting for emergency shipments of ballpoint pens from Japan.
 

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China's assimilation of the world will soon be complete.
 

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Talk so much for fuck? LHL cannot even do fuck. Make these ball bearings? Dream long long.
 

frenchbriefs

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If u watched the movie 2001 a space Odyssey or read the book,sometimes the catalyst or missing link between man and ape is something as simple as a black oblong object or in this case a tiny spherical ball bearing of a ball point pen.it is the moment when a chimp weilds a femur bone in its hand it realises it's no longer just holding a thing,it is weilding a tool,a fulcrum and lever,a weapon of destruction.chinks has taken the next step of evolution.it is no longer just one of the few nuclear power in this world,it has joined an exclusive class of ballpoint powers.
 

Narong Wongwan

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Re: Chinks Finally Learns To Make Ballpoint Pens! It's Harder Than Sending Chink To M

If u watched the movie 2001 a space Odyssey or read the book,sometimes the catalyst or missing link between man and ape is something as simple as a black oblong object or in this case a tiny spherical ball bearing of a ball point pen.it is the moment when a chimp weilds a femur bone in its hand it realises it's no longer just holding a thing,it is weilding a tool,a fulcrum and lever,a weapon of destruction.chinks has taken the next step of evolution.it is no longer just one of the few nuclear power in this world,it has joined an exclusive class of ballpoint powers.

Honestly I dunno if you being sarcastic or really por lampar.
Comparing chinks with apes indeed hahahaha.
Chinks will need another 5000 years to evolve
 

Jah_rastafar_I

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Yes better go coz damn chinks need 50 years at least to catch up.

Go space behind time by more than 50+ years.
Aircraft carrier also behind dunno behind how many years....technically built by Russians.
Finally caught up with ballpoint pen roller ball.....entire Chinkland let's celebrate!

alamak Chinese dog. Why belittle Chinese accomplishments? You wearing the butt skin of whites on your face? How many years sinkland will take?
 
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