'铁锈地带' 俄亥俄吸引中国投资 创造就业

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莫干生 and 卡拉, '铁锈地带' 俄亥俄吸引中国投资 创造就业. VOA Chinese, Nov 6, 2016
www.voachinese.com/a/Ohio-china-investment20161105/3583151.html


, which is inspired by

Ylan Q Mui, A Chinese Billionaire Is Staking His Legacy — and Thousands of American Jobs — on This Factory in Ohio. Washington Post, Oct 26, 2016.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/n ... jobs-on-this-factor

Note:
(a) The Wikipedia page for Moraine, Ohio says little. That is why I turn to other sources.
(i) History of the City. Moraine, Ohio, undated
http://www.ci.moraine.oh.us/inde ... history-of-the-city
("The area now known as the City of Moraine was so named because of the vast amounts of sand and gravel deposited over the terrain by the prehistoric Wisconsin glacier")
(ii) moraine (n)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moraine
(iii) In Miami Valley, a river called Great Miami River (also known as Miami River) runs through it. To its east is Little Miami River. Both Great and Little Miami Rivers empty into Ohio River.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Valley
*Dayton is at the confluence of Great Miami River and Stillwater River (joined from the west) and Mad River (from the east) )

(Cincinnati is located between these two river mouths. Miami is the name of a Native American tribe there.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_people
(section 1 Name)
(iv) Both Moraine and Dayton, Ohio are on the right bank of Great Miami River. The former is four-mile air distance southwest of the latter. Distance Between Cities,
www.distance-cities.com/distance-moraine-oh-to-dayton-oh
(v) Why "Wisconsin" in the quotation of (a)(i)?
(A) Ice Age National Scientific Reserve, Wisconsin. In Geology Fieldnotes. National Public Service (NPS), undated (under the heading "Park Geology").
www.nature.nps.gov/geology/parks/icag/
(B) Wisconsin Glacial Stage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, undated (under the heading "Geology")
https://www.britannica.com/science/Wisconsin-Glacial-Stage
("It was named for rock deposits studied in the state of Wisconsin")

There is no need to read the rest of this Web page.
(C) last glacial period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_glacial_period
(popularly known as the Ice Age)

section 3.3.2 Wisconsin glaciation: "At the height of glaciation the Bering land bridge potentially permitted migration of mammals, including people, to North America from Siberia. It radically altered the geography of North America north of the Ohio River. At the height of the Wisconsin Episode glaciation, ice covered most of Canada, the Upper Midwest, and New England, as well as parts of Montana and Washington [state].

* You only need to know Wisconsin is only part of the global phenomenon. There is no need to read the rest of this Wiki page.
(D) View of the map depicting the ice cap (from the angle of north pole). China was exempt.

Wisconsin glaciation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_glaciation
(map)

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(b) "Now Cho Tak Wong is in charge of the factory. The billionaire chairman of Fuyao Group, the biggest maker of automotive glass in China, Cho rose from rural poverty by riding the same wave of globalization that devastated Moraine — a living example of the reversal of fortune that has turned China into the United States' chief economic rival in public debates and political rhetoric. * * * But the next chapter of globalization is already unfolding inside Fuyao's factory, as the balance of power in the world economy tilts once more. Now it is China that experts fear is losing steam, forcing the country's wealthy investors and corporations to seek out profits overseas. * * * Yet it [the Fuyao factory at Moraine] probably will never be enough to replace what [jobs] has been lost over the past generation [in Moraine]. Nor is it likely to restore the momentum that is slipping away in China's economy. * * * the [Moraine] factory that he [Cho] has spent two years and a half-billion dollars renovating. * * * The plant is Fuyao's single biggest investment anywhere. As many as 2,500 people are expected to work here when the plant is at full capacity * * * Twenty-five years ago, more than 1 million people in Ohio held factory jobs. Now, that number is less than 700,000.  GM shut down its plant in Moraine [into which Fuhao moved in 2014] just before Christmas 2008, amid the Great Recession. About 1,000 workers lost their jobs that day * * * State officials [of Ohio] * * * courted Fuyao with more than $10 million in grants and incentives, one of their biggest packages on record."
(i) company website: "福耀集团 [Fuyao Group] （全称福耀玻璃工业集团股份有限公司 [Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co Ltd]），1987年在中国福州注册成立，是一家专业生产汽车安全玻璃和工业技术玻璃的中外合资企业，也是名符其实的大型跨国工业集团。 1993年，福耀集团股票在上海证券交易所挂牌 * * * 。2015年，福耀实现营业收入135.73亿元，实现归属上市公司股东净利润26.05亿元。
(ii) founder and chairman of the board CHO Tak Wong 曹德旺; headquarters 福建省福清市 (where the founder was born).
(iii) Since 2014 Fuyao North America Inc is based on Moraine, OH.

(c) "Cho wrote in his self-published autobiography"

心若菩提. 人民出版社, 2015.
(d) "But even the company's [Fuyao's] most generous offer is unlikely to match the pay U.S. manufacturing workers once enjoyed. Cynthia Harper said she made $30 an hour at the plant when it was owned by GM — more than double what she earns now as a production line worker at Fuyao. * * * Direct investment [from China] in foreign countries skyrocketed from $13.7 billion in 2005 to $187.8 billion a decade later — an increase of 1,294 percent, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Consulting firm Rhodium Group estimates that the United States alone received a record $18 billion during the first half of this year. * * * Fuyao said that while 90 percent of its employees are American, 10 percent are Chinese nationals."