本帖最后由 choi 于 4-12-2017 15:51 编辑
(3) Robots in the Rustbelt; Factories are upgrading, but still lag behind the rich world.
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"WONG CHAP WING, a native of Hong Kong, runs a factory in Dongguan, an industrial city north of Shenzhen. Hip Fai, his privately held firm, stamps metal parts for things like printers and copiers. The energetic septuagenarian started dye- and mould-making in 1966
"Mr Wong looked into shifting to a cheaper location inland but decided that the savings were too small. * * * Looking at the antiquated equipment and the throngs of workers in his factory, it seems this greasy and noisy place, too, may face extinction. Turn a corner [in Mr Wong's workshop (see company's website whose url is at footnote], though, and you spot the future: a hybrid assembly line where shiny Japanese robots are mingling with human workers. * * *
"Mr Wong spent 200,000 yuan on each robot but expects to get his money back within three years because his reconfigured assembly line is much more productive. Looking back, 'I could not imagine my factory full of robots,' he reflects. 'I came here for the cheap labour.'
Note: "東莞協揮精密五金廠,成立於2001年,是全附屬香港協揮實業有限公司。位於廣東省東莞市塘廈鎮,是一家綜合性五金模具及部件製造服務生產商。 公司創辦人黃集榮先生自1966年已在五金製造業服務至今,其中從1973~2001年期間,分別在大型公司任職,憑藉其在五金製造業超過40年的行業經驗,于2001年創立協揮實業有限公司。"
http://www.hipfai.com.hk/
(4) Macau Writ Large; A plan for the territory to attract many more tourists.
(Officials now want to diversify its [Macau's] business model [away from Casinos and gambling alone] to entertainment and family attractions, as Las Vegas has done")
(5) Welcome to Silicon Delta; Copycats are out, innovators are in.
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"The city [Shenzhen] imposes few limits on freedom of movement (though only a minority of its population has an official fukou, or household-registry certificates), is relaxed about employment contracts and does not discriminate against outsiders. ' People are the greatest source of our growth,' Mr Xu [Youjun, vice-president of the Shenzhen division of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,] concluded.
"Between 1980 and 2016 Shenzhen's GDP in real terms grew an average annual rate of 22% and today stands at 2trn yuan. The city's Nanshan district, home to about 125 listed firms with a combined market value of nearly $400bn, has a higher income per person than Hong Kong. Unlike Beijing, which has many top-flight universities [this explains a lot, universities, like agriculture, do not contribute much to GDP, especially considering the humongous sizes of old universities in Beijing], Shenzhen has only a handful of lacklustre institutions of higher learning; but so many graduates from all over China flock to the city that they make up a greater share of its population than do graduates in Beijing.
(6) The Dragon Head's Dilemma; Hong Kong's best future is to remains China's superconnector.
(7) A China That Works; The delta shows what the country achieve by setting entrepreneurs free.
Quote: The PRD is more open to the world and to the private sector than any other place on the mainland. Zhejiang * * * has about 33,000 foreign-invested firms, and Shanghai about 75,000, but Guangdong has over 110,000 [but one has to consider the population sizes]. In Liaoning, an industrial province in the northeast, SOES account for about 31% of total industrial revenues, and in Shanghai for more than 36%, but in Guandong the share is less than 14%.
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