Foreigners Bid Adieu to China, As Chinese Set Up Shops in U

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(A) Foreigners are leaving.

Latest news first.

(1) Jenn Abelson, Local sneaker firms are making it in Indonesia;
Eager to expand new footwear foothold as costs in China climb. Boston Globe, May 29, 2010.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/05/29/local_sneaker_firms_are_making_it_in_indonesia/

Note:
(a) Tangerang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerang
(about 20 km west of Jakarta)
(b) New Balance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Balance
(founded in 1906 and based in Boston, Mass.)
(c) Reebok
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebok
(An Englishman founded a company in 1895, which was renamed in 1960 as Reebok, Afrikaans for "roebuck" (n. a roe male deer); headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts and Bolton, England; Adidas of Germany bought Reebok in 2005)
(d) Canton, Massachusetts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton,_Massachusetts
(about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of downtown Boston; incorporated on February, 23 1797 from the town of Stoughton; The name "Canton" comes from the early belief that Canton, China was on the complete opposite side of the earth)
(e) Opus College of Business is part of University of St. Thomas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_St._Thomas_(Minnesota)
(coeducational, Roman Catholic; based in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota; founded in 1885; named after St. Thomas Aquinas, a medieval Catholic theologian)


(2) Keith Bradsher and David Barboza,
Strike in China Highlights Gap in Workers’ Pay; News Reports Allowed; Sentiment Is Growing That the Laborers Deserve More. New York Times, May 29, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/business/global/29honda.html

(3) Dexter Roberts, As Wages Climb in China, Factories Move;
A labor shortage is trimming margins for exporters, who are moving to Vietnam, India, and elsewhere. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 13, 2010 (title in the print).
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_21/b4179011091633.htm

Note: Neo-Neon Holdings Ltd 真明麗控股有限公司
http://china.neo-neon.com


(B) Chinese are building factories overseas.

Sheridan Prasso, American made ... Chinese owned. Fortune, May 7, 2010.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/06/news/international/china_america_full.fortune/
("'The gap between manufacturing costs in the U.S. and China is shrinking,' explains John Ling, a naturalized American from China who runs the South Carolina Department of Commerce's business recruitment office in Shanghai")

Note:
(a) Spartanburg, South Carolina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartanburg,_South_Carolina
("located 98 miles (158 km) northwest of Columbia [S.C. capital], 80 miles (130 km) west of Charlotte[, N.C.], and about 190 miles (300 km) northeast of Atlanta. Spartanburg's population was 39,673 at the 2000 census")

That is what paragraph 6 means ("And by being closer to companies like Coca-Cola"), because Coca-cola's headquarters is at Atlanta, Georgia.

(b) American Yuncheng Gravure Cylinder plant 运城制版集团美国分厂, a subsidiary of Dongguan Yuncheng Plate Making Co. Ltd 东莞运城制版有限公司特版公司
http://www.dyteban.com/

* gravure (n; French, from graver to cut, engrave): "PHOTOGRAVURE," which is in turn defined as "a process for printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods"
(c) Tianjin Pipe (Group) Corporation 天津钢管集团股份有限公司
http://www.tpco.com.cn/
(d) impolitic (adj): "not politic: UNWISE"
(e)
(i) pig iron (n): " crude iron that is the direct product of the blast furnace and is refined to produce steel, wrought iron, or ingot iron"

(ii) pig iron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_iron
(Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 3.5–4.5%, which makes it very brittle and not useful)

Quote: "The traditional shape of the molds used for these ingots was a branching structure formed in sand, with many individual ingots at right angles to a central channel or runner. Such a configuration is similar in appearance to a litter of piglets suckling on a sow. When the metal had cooled and hardened, the smaller ingots (the pigs) were simply broken from the much thinner runner (the sow), hence the name pig iron. As pig iron is intended for remelting, the uneven size of the ingots and inclusion of small amounts of sand was insignificant compared to the ease of casting and of handling.

It is hard to imagine without a picture:
http://brainiedeal2.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/31/

(f) Clemson University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemson_University
(a public, coeducational, land-grant university located in Clemson, South Carolina; founded in 1889)
(g) Top-Eastern Group 大连远东集团有限公司
http://www.top-eastern.com/

founder Jeff Chee 齐树民
(i) Latrobe, Pennsylvania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrobe,_Pennsylvania
(40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh)
(j) Seneca, South Carolina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca,_South_Carolina
(k) drill bit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_bit
(l) The "sharp" in "sharp smell" is an adjective defined as "affecting the senses or sense organs intensely: * * * (2): ACRID"

acrid (adj): " sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : IRRITATING"
(m) In the article, Mr. Jeff Chee said, "There's good, experienced people and good know-how already here."

There is no "there're" in English. So both "there is" and "there are" are contracted to form "there's." But a purist may avoid the contraction in the plural form.
(n) bugaboo (n): "an imagery object of fear"

All English definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(o) The web version does not include some photographs and captions that appear in the print.


(C) My comment: Maybe this outcome is what Guangdong party chief Wang Yang has wanted.

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劳工问题或推动中国增长模式转型. VOA Chinese, May 31, 2010.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/20100531-Higher-Wages-for-Chinese-Workers-95275029.html

Note: 人口红利 demographic dividend

My comment: The report per se is all right. What is valuable is the insight
of Wall Street Journal, which the VOA report cite. Most likely, it refers to
(1) but (2), which just comes out online, is good also.

(1) Andrew Peaple, China's Rising Workers. Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704366504575278072956457804.html
("In the past 10 years, the population of 20-to-39-year-olds -- from which
most manufacturing labor is drawn -- has fallen 22%, Merrill Lynch says")

My comment: Shouldn't this alarm Beijing?  Taiwan (as well as Japan) is
confronting population aging, but nothing is like this. And of course,
population in US and India continue to grow.

(2) Norihiko Shirouzu, Honda Offers Strikers in China 24% Pay Boost. Wall
Street Journal, June 1, 2010 (available now).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703406604575278501916351546.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines

Quote:

"Compared with Japan and the U.S., where auto-plant workers tend to have
only a high-school education or less, Honda's workers are well educated,
with as many as two years of post-high-school technical education

"Because of the relative absence of labor unrest in China, Honda makes do
with only one source of transmissions there, the Foshan factory that
supplies roughly 80% of demand, according to Mr. Fujii. The rest are brought
in from Japan. Typically, Honda insists on at least two suppliers of parts,
partly to protect against any industrial action that might cripple
production.

"Labor experts say that the Chinese central government and local authorities
have been in a quandary over how to respond to the strike at Honda.

【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: (A) Foreigners are leaving.
: Latest news first.
: (1) Jenn Abelson, Local sneaker firms are making it in Indonesia;
: Eager to expand new footwear foothold as costs in China climb. Boston Globe, May 29, 2010.
: http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/05/29
: (以下引言省略...)

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(A) Foreigners are leaving.

Latest news first.

(1) Jenn Abelson, Local sneaker firms are making it in Indonesia;
Eager to expand new footwear foothold as costs in China climb. Boston Globe, May 29, 2010.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/05/29/local_sneaker_firms_are_making_it_in_indonesia/

Note:
(a) Tangerang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerang
(about 20 km west of Jakarta)
(b) New Balance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Balance
(founded in 1906 and based in Boston, Mass.)
(c) Reebok
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebok
(An Englishman founded a company in 1895, which was renamed in 1960 as Reebok, Afrikaans for "roebuck" (n. a roe male deer); headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts and Bolton, England; Adidas of Germany bought Reebok in 2005)
(d) Canton, Massachusetts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton,_Massachusetts
(about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of downtown Boston; incorporated on February, 23 1797 from the town of Stoughton; The name "Canton" comes from the early belief that Canton, China was on the complete opposite side of the earth)
(e) Opus College of Business is part of University of St. Thomas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_St._Thomas_(Minnesota)
(coeducational, Roman Catholic; based in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota; founded in 1885; named after St. Thomas Aquinas, a medieval Catholic theologian)


(2) Keith Bradsher and David Barboza,
Strike in China Highlights Gap in Workers’ Pay; News Reports Allowed; Sentiment Is Growing That the Laborers Deserve More. New York Times, May 29, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/business/global/29honda.html

(3) Dexter Roberts, As Wages Climb in China, Factories Move;
A labor shortage is trimming margins for exporters, who are moving to Vietnam, India, and elsewhere. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 13, 2010 (title in the print).
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_21/b4179011091633.htm

Note: Neo-Neon Holdings Ltd 真明麗控股有限公司
http://china.neo-neon.com


(B) Chinese are building factories overseas.

Sheridan Prasso, American made ... Chinese owned. Fortune, May 7, 2010.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/06/news/international/china_america_full.fortune/
("'The gap between manufacturing costs in the U.S. and China is shrinking,' explains John Ling, a naturalized American from China who runs the South Carolina Department of Commerce's business recruitment office in Shanghai")

Note:
(a) Spartanburg, South Carolina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartanburg,_South_Carolina
("located 98 miles (158 km) northwest of Columbia [S.C. capital], 80 miles (130 km) west of Charlotte[, N.C.], and about 190 miles (300 km) northeast of Atlanta. Spartanburg's population was 39,673 at the 2000 census")

That is what paragraph 6 means ("And by being closer to companies like Coca-Cola"), because Coca-cola's headquarters is at Atlanta, Georgia.

(b) American Yuncheng Gravure Cylinder plant 运城制版集团美国分厂, a subsidiary of Dongguan Yuncheng Plate Making Co. Ltd 东莞运城制版有限公司特版公司
http://www.dyteban.com/

* gravure (n; French, from graver to cut, engrave): "PHOTOGRAVURE," which is in turn defined as "a process for printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods"
(c) Tianjin Pipe (Group) Corporation 天津钢管集团股份有限公司
http://www.tpco.com.cn/
(d) impolitic (adj): "not politic: UNWISE"
(e)
(i) pig iron (n): " crude iron that is the direct product of the blast furnace and is refined to produce steel, wrought iron, or ingot iron"

(ii) pig iron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_iron
(Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 3.5–4.5%, which makes it very brittle and not useful)

Quote: "The traditional shape of the molds used for these ingots was a branching structure formed in sand, with many individual ingots at right angles to a central channel or runner. Such a configuration is similar in appearance to a litter of piglets suckling on a sow. When the metal had cooled and hardened, the smaller ingots (the pigs) were simply broken from the much thinner runner (the sow), hence the name pig iron. As pig iron is intended for remelting, the uneven size of the ingots and inclusion of small amounts of sand was insignificant compared to the ease of casting and of handling.

It is hard to imagine without a picture:
http://brainiedeal2.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/31/

(f) Clemson University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemson_University
(a public, coeducational, land-grant university located in Clemson, South Carolina; founded in 1889)
(g) Top-Eastern Group 大连远东集团有限公司
http://www.top-eastern.com/

founder Jeff Chee 齐树民
(i) Latrobe, Pennsylvania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrobe,_Pennsylvania
(40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh)
(j) Seneca, South Carolina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca,_South_Carolina
(k) drill bit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_bit
(l) The "sharp" in "sharp smell" is an adjective defined as "affecting the senses or sense organs intensely: * * * (2): ACRID"

acrid (adj): " sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : IRRITATING"
(m) In the article, Mr. Jeff Chee said, "There's good, experienced people and good know-how already here."

There is no "there're" in English. So both "there is" and "there are" are contracted to form "there's." But a purist may avoid the contraction in the plural form.
(n) bugaboo (n): "an imagery object of fear"

All English definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(o) The web version does not include some photographs and captions that appear in the print.


(C) My comment: Maybe this outcome is what Guangdong party chief Wang Yang has wanted.

--

choi

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劳工问题或推动中国增长模式转型. VOA Chinese, May 31, 2010.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/20100531-Higher-Wages-for-Chinese-Workers-95275029.html

Note: 人口红利 demographic dividend

My comment: The report per se is all right. What is valuable is the insight
of Wall Street Journal, which the VOA report cite. Most likely, it refers to
(1) but (2), which just comes out online, is good also.

(1) Andrew Peaple, China's Rising Workers. Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704366504575278072956457804.html
("In the past 10 years, the population of 20-to-39-year-olds -- from which
most manufacturing labor is drawn -- has fallen 22%, Merrill Lynch says")

My comment: Shouldn't this alarm Beijing?  Taiwan (as well as Japan) is
confronting population aging, but nothing is like this. And of course,
population in US and India continue to grow.

(2) Norihiko Shirouzu, Honda Offers Strikers in China 24% Pay Boost. Wall
Street Journal, June 1, 2010 (available now).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703406604575278501916351546.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines

Quote:

"Compared with Japan and the U.S., where auto-plant workers tend to have
only a high-school education or less, Honda's workers are well educated,
with as many as two years of post-high-school technical education

"Because of the relative absence of labor unrest in China, Honda makes do
with only one source of transmissions there, the Foshan factory that
supplies roughly 80% of demand, according to Mr. Fujii. The rest are brought
in from Japan. Typically, Honda insists on at least two suppliers of parts,
partly to protect against any industrial action that might cripple
production.

"Labor experts say that the Chinese central government and local authorities
have been in a quandary over how to respond to the strike at Honda.

【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: (A) Foreigners are leaving.
: Latest news first.
: (1) Jenn Abelson, Local sneaker firms are making it in Indonesia;
: Eager to expand new footwear foothold as costs in China climb. Boston Globe, May 29, 2010.
: http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/05/29
: (以下引言省略...)

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Compare
(1) Bella English, New experience: Interns pay to work; For-profits finding
flood of candidates in poor job market. Boston Globe, May 31, 2010.
http://www.boston.com/jobs/news/articles/2010/05/31/in_tight_job_market_interns_pay_to_work/

(2) Tracy Jan, NU co-ops offered 4-year degrees; Some ask if shorter program
hurts students. Boston Globe, Dec. 9, 2009.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/12/09/northeastern_to_offer_students_in_co_op_program_4_year_degrees/

【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: 劳工问题或推动中国增长模式转型. VOA Chinese, May 31, 2010.
: http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/20100531-Higher-Wages-for-Chinese-Workers-95275029.html
: Note: 人口红利 demographic dividend
: My comment: The report per se is all right. What is valuable is the insight
: (以下引言省略...)

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