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A few tiny butterfly wings fan the air disturbance, may lead to Earth after a long time the other occurred in a distant storm. This is the meteorology in the "butterfly effect." With increasing globalization, the Internet fast transmission of information, the formation of international division of labor and supply chain industry chain, have also accelerated in economics, sociology, and even political significance of the "butterfly effect." Japan earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear leakage emerging nuclear power failure led to many Japanese companies work stoppage, reduced production, the dance of the "butterfly wings", established in Japan for many years will the global industrial chain, supply chain, the extent damage, which led to the how much the global economy, "butterfly effect" mean?

From Japan March 11 an earthquake, tsunami, nuclear radiation triple disaster, twenty five days later, the death toll rose to twelve thousand and eighty-seven people, missing persons is more than more than fifteen thousand five hundred people. Also continued to spread nuclear radiation, near to the close of China, Taiwan, much to the United States and Canada. Fukushima nuclear power plant vertical pits, cracks, resulting in a large number of radiation leakage of sewage into the sea, the sea spread out over the water, sea water near the plant material as measured by the radiation 4,000 times the legal limit. There are profound effects, since the 1960's Japan as the world's second largest economy, and Asian countries and the world's major developed countries have investment and trade, science and technology with the core values of great industrial, full of technology in the global formation chain and supply chain industry is facing a crisis breaks.

Latest trends of modern science and technology on behalf of home appliances, automobiles, computers, mobile phones, until Boeing seven hundred eighty-seven aircraft and other products and electronic components; the quality of life on behalf of Japan's Meiji milk, White Rabbit brand drugs, sashimi, etc. This is a disaster in both the misfortune. Over the years, supporting the resource-poor countries, Japan, the developed economies, the main core value is its technology. While the electronic, semiconductor widely used in the global car industry but also global, but the key core components and technologies are still dependent on Japan. Logistics and supply chain experts, Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Business Professor Hong Yan said the Asia Week, after globalization, the industrial chain and supply chain become the lifeblood of the product often has not a factory, not even a country to complete. But also because of Japan's global electronics, semiconductor and automotive industries occupy the upstream and the core technology components and products, and indeed affect the whole body.

Of Japanese factories around the world for decades, in response to tariffs, demand for energy, labor, prices and other factors, local production decreased. Yan Hung said that the Japanese industrialists in the complex chain transfer to a large part of North America, Southeast Asia and China, through the establishment of production lines in the host country, directly produce the legal sense of "local" sold to local consumers. "However, the core, the most profitable parts or products, or to stay in the Japanese mainland, such as automotive precision parts, integrated circuits, semiconductors, engines, etc. The front and rear sensors, an obstacle will be audible, by sixty-five Hitachi production; American-hybrid, in which the cell produced by Japan. "It is reported that Honda's factories in China need to use ten percent of the Japanese system components, and the rest is also used in many parts Jiucheng Japan-made parts, which makes the plant in April after running out of inventory production planning may be greatly affected.

Even the aviation giant Boeing, its high hopes for Boeing aircraft is also subject to seven hundred eighty-seven Japan, it is possible because the Japanese supplier of discontinued and further delay delivery. As the twenty-first century, Boeing's first new model, 35 percent of the aircraft parts from Japan, including Japan, Toray's carbon fiber composite material is completely impossible to replace. This material is very light, but the intensity can reach ten times the iron, replacing the previous aluminum, accounting for about half of the body material. Boeing seven hundred eighty-seven biggest selling point is through the use of one-fifth of the material to reduce body weight, which greatly enhance performance, it can be said without Toray's carbon fiber is not seven hundred eighty-seven aircraft. Yan Hung pointed out that although there is no calamity Toray plant, but the company's upstream businesses affected to varying degrees, the production process will allow Boeing to delay the aircraft in the international market are difficult to predict the impact. In fact Boeing has seven times seven hundred eighty-seven delay in delivery of aircraft in the Chinese market, the airlines have been voting with their feet: Eastern unsubscribe altogether twenty-seven hundred eighty-seven four Boeing aircraft, to seven hundred thirty-seven aircraft. If Japan's industrial chain relationships because of delays in delivery once again, it is very embarrassing.

The same problem for Japanese suppliers have been cut-off threats of GM plants in the United States, Volkswagen's factory in Spain, Volvo, Sony Ericsson mobile phone companies and so on. Yan Hong believes that the earthquake hit not only the confidence of investors in the Japanese factories, and even the confidence of the entire Asia. He said: "The first nuclear power plant in Fukushima disaster directly affects ten million kilowatts of electricity, subject to traffic, power supply, the Japanese production decline, the supply of strand breaks related industries, coupled with Japan is almost zero inventory, in Japan for products, parts and components related to the bottom of the global industrial chain business, the impact will show up in late April, but must not underestimate the possible harm. "

Although the earthquake and tsunami hit the eastern Japan direct area is not large, mainly Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate, Ibaraki four counties of the coastal areas. But in this flat coast, gathered in Japan's major automobile and motor manufacturing base. As Japan's largest exporter of consumer electronics products in the Sony in a statement after the earthquake that led to power rationing measures as raw materials and procurement difficulties, the company started off at five plants in central and southern regions until you can resume production. The world's largest car maker Toyota said day, all Japanese automobile assembly line will be suspended a week, while Honda has extended the cut-off time.