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Why Can't China Build a Good Bulldozer?

China builds more bulldozers than any country on Earth. Shantui, a company most people have never heard of, produces 2 out of every 5 crawler dozers made in the world. More than Caterpillar. More than Komatsu. Over 10,000 units per year. Exports to 170 countries. And yet no major Western mine runs their machines. The story starts with Soviet technology transfers in the 1950s, a Komatsu license deal in 1980, a 27-year joint venture that dissolved in 2021, and a 962-horsepower bulldozer with a 12-month warranty trying to compete against a Cat D11 with a 60,000-hour rebuild cycle. It's the same story as Russia's Lada. Licensed technology gives you a running start. It also gives you someone else's ceiling. But there's a twist. Japan had the same problem in the 1960s. Komatsu declared "Maru-C" — encircle Caterpillar — and spent 30 years closing the gap. China is running the same race, 50 years later. And with 5G remote-controlled dozers, the world's first pure electric bulldozer, and BYD rewriting the playbook for Chinese manufacturing, the ending might be different this time.