Recently, the United States increased its sanctions against Chinese enterprises and included 59 Chinese enterprises in the "blacklist", including two connector Enterprises - AVIC optoelectronics and aerospace appliances.

According to the White House website, on June 3 local time, US President Biden signed an executive order on the grounds of "responding to the threat of Chinese military enterprises", which included 59 Chinese enterprises, including Huawei, SMIC international and China Aerospace Technology Group Co., Ltd., on the investment "blacklist", and prohibited Americans from investing and trading with listed companies. The report points out that the grace period of the ban is 60 days and will officially take effect in the early morning of August 2 local time. Investors will have a one-year buffer period to completely withdraw their capital.

It is worth noting that in the list of Chinese enterprises sanctioned by the United States, there are two connector Enterprises - AVIC optoelectronics and aerospace appliances.

According to the data, AVIC optoelectronics is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the R & D, production, sales and service of highly reliable optical, electrical and fluid connectors and related equipment, and providing system interconnection technology solutions. Its main products include electrical connectors, optical devices and optoelectronic equipment, cable components and integrated products, fluid devices and liquid cooling equipment. It is mainly used in aviation, aerospace and other defense fields, as well as civil high-end manufacturing fields such as communication and data transmission, new energy vehicles, rail transit, consumer electronics, industry, energy, medical treatment, intelligent equipment and robots.

Aerospace electric appliance is the national enterprise technology center, the national precision micro and special motor engineering technology research center, the national innovative enterprise and the demonstration enterprise of scientific reform. It has successively undertaken the research and production tasks of national major projects and major special supporting products such as manned spaceflight, lunar exploration, Beidou and Mars Exploration. Aerospace appliances master a large number of core key technologies in the field of medium and high-end electromechanical components such as connectors, micro motors, relays and optical communication devices.

There are many kinds of connectors, including high and low ends. AVIC optoelectronics and aerospace appliances mainly produce high-end connectors and equipment. These two enterprises occupy a place in the connector industry with their own strong strength. At the same time, the two enterprises are also military enterprises. In this round of sanctions, the United States added them to the sanctions list on the grounds of "responding to the threat of Chinese military enterprises".

Does being sanctioned mean being controlled all the time?

In fact, it was not. The day before the Biden government announced the sanctions, the mobile operating system Hongmeng OS 2 independently developed by Huawei had just been launched. This news aroused strong repercussions all over the world. The Global Times editorial pointed out that the launch of Hongmeng system is of great strategic significance to China. For a long time, the operating systems of global Internet terminal devices have been dominated by apple and Android. The emergence of Hongmeng system will be the real beginning to break the American monopoly.

The same is true for connector enterprises. The more blockade, the more independent and innovative enterprises can be promoted; The more restrictions, enterprises will go farther and farther on the road of independent innovation and development.

At present, most domestic connectors can replace imported connectors. Although the alternative types are still mainly middle and low-end, we can see that in recent years, the development of domestic connector industry has paid more and more attention to independent innovation and gradually moved closer to the international stage.

Forging iron still needs its own hard work. Therefore, under the background of the continuous deepening of Sino US trade friction, domestic connector enterprises should adhere to the development path of independence and innovation, find a breakthrough in the dilemma, be more frustrated and brave under the pressure of the United States, and continue to empower China's development and the substitution of domestic connector imports.