Comments on: China’s boom too good to last.

By: China ship building. Will the boom continue? « Stranded on the Largest Island

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:19:18 +0000

[...] Over the next couple of years it will be interesting to see if China is able to maintain the growth in the ship building sector, or if it is going to price itself out of the market like we see in other sectors of industry. See the article ‘China’s boom too good to last’. [...]

By: Mariner

Mariner — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:19:27 +0000

It is interesting that you mentioned that, because I hear it more and more. One of the companies I used to work for did a study about production costs in China. It was a mechanical, but not simple product. They found that the production costs in China were not lower than in Switzerland, where they had been producing so far. Add to that the problems with quality and reliability (delivery times and schedules), so they basically decided not to make this move to China. I think we will see this more often, and also companies actually moving out like in your example.

By: China Law Blog

China Law Blog — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:49:44 +0000

Weird thing is that we have a client who makes a relatively low tech home improvement item that just switched its manufacturing BACK TO Taiwan because it found that China’s quality problems ended up costing it more to manufacture in China than in Taiwan!

By: John Michael Cullen

John Michael Cullen — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:33:01 +0000

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By: MyLaowai

MyLaowai — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:24:26 +0000

So very true. If it wasn’t for the cheap labour, there really would be sod all to come here for.

And you’re correct – they have nothing in the way of imagination. You see that every day, everywhere. The concept of competing on the basis of quality or service or anything except price is utterly alien to them. They are unable to recognise problems before they occur, and usually struggle to see problems even after they occur, thay lack the ability to innovate, to plan further ahead than lunch, and there is a complete inability to comprehend the fact that the date in the the rest of the world is no longer 2000BC. And don’t get me started on their inability to take any kind of responsibility for anything whatsoever…

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Good post.