标题: A Taiwanese Bike Maker in China [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 10-1-2009 09:51 标题: A Taiwanese Bike Maker in China 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
(1) Andrew Batson, China Inc. Looks Homeward as U.S. Shoppers Turn Frugal. Wall Street Journal, Sept. 30, 2009.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125417559519247515.html
(a) Note:
(i) Tandem Industries 廣東天任車料有限公司
http://tandem.cycleb2b.com/tandem.html
(ii) Tom Tseng 曾伟立
(iii) Shunde 順德區 (中國廣東省佛山市市轄區之一)
(b) Quote:
"China's exports, after growing for years at a steady 20%-plus rate, recorded a year-over-year drop last November. They kept falling, and in August were down 23% from a year earlier.*
(* My comment: Taiwan is about the same.)
"The consumers of the U.S. and Europe each pump more than $9.5 trillion a year into the global economy, even at their current recession-diminished pace. China's much poorer households spent in aggregate just over $1.5 trillion last year. Per-capita disposable income in the U.S. was $35,486 in 2008, versus $2,270 in China. So even such a huge and growing country is in no position to replace the U.S. and Europe as an engine of global growth.
"The company [doll-maker Mei Ye Plastic Products Co.] had some initial hiccups. For the domestic market, the designers' first instinct was to make the dolls with yellow-toned skin and black hair, to match their Chinese owners. The response wasn't so good: It turned out many Chinese girls preferred dolls with pink skin and blond hair.
My further comment: The second quotation states in part, China has per-capita disposable income of $2,270. However, an article in the current issue of BusinessWeek says differently. See
(2) Carol Matlack, The Peril and Promise of Investing in Russia. It's still risky, but for global corporations, the country is simply too big—and too rich—to ignore. BusinessWeek, Oct. 5, 2009 (cover date).
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_40/b4149048673765.htm
(Foreign investments are uneven in Russia. St. Petersberg got a lot. "In contrast, the area around Vladivostok, in Russia's Far East—despite its strategically attractive proximity to China, Japan, and the western U.S.—has drawn little foreign investment. A reputation for corruption clings to the city, cemented in part by the arrests of two former mayors of Vladivostok on charges of abusing the office for personal gain.")
Note: The above quote and the illustration (with heading "Annual Disposal Household Income 2008" which shows China had mere $1,641) are the only two places in the BusinessWeek article that mention China.
My comment: Wasn't the official figure for 2008 $4.4 trillion? See
China's GDP grows by seven-year low of 9% in 2008. Xinhua, Jan. 22, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/22/content_10700833.htm
("Gross domestic product (GDP) reached 30.067 trillion yuan (4.4216 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2008, Ma Jiantang, director of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), told a press conference")
My comment:
(a) 多晶硅 polycrystalline thin-film used in photovoltaics (solar cells)
(b) Ten days ago, Financial Times has an illustration about steel production worldwide. I lost it and will present it tomorrow.
(3) Jessie Jiang, Campaigner: Sheri Liao; Turning China Green --Without making Beijing see Red. Time, Oct. 5, 2009 (cover date).
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1924149_1924155_1924436,00.html