First, thank you for your good article. very intelligent analyse.
but the information
"You still will find much higher quality electronics in Taiwan to this day, but China will offer a similar product cheaper" in your passage is partial uncorrect any more in my opinion. Maybe it was true 5-10 years ago. But nowadays, it's really different especially in some hi-tech fields.
im an engineer and worked for an international company for many years. now i start my own business . In Shanghai most of my friends are senior engineers and chiefs who are doing R&D(research and development) work or management for very famous global companies, such as Intel, microsoft, philips etc. and most of these kinds companies have set up research and development centre in Chinese mainland. So it can prove that we have good people and techonology now. We can produce many good quality and hi-tech products expect simple cheap productions. many chinese who have high education background and business experience have their own design house in integrated circuit(IC) field. They can provide good technology servie and development for customers, including chinese manufacturer and foreign customers. I familiar with that, because our company is doing a project according to an European customer's request. In fact, our techonogy and serviece is as good as European or American companies. but because we are in China and because the labor cost is more cheaper than thoese countries, so most people think we only produce cheap and unqualified things. That's not true.
I'd like to share some information for you. Because of some policy changes in China,many taiwan and foreign companies already moved their factories from Canton province(Shenzhen is there) to Yangzi river district(Shanghai is its centre and including Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province).Shanghai is a commercial and financial center. Most international companies' headquarters in China are here. So you can find many good manufaturers in its neighbour areas.
sorry to write so much. I just hope that people in other countries can open their mind to China. please don't just think chinese businessmen are scammers. I have to admit there are many scammers in China,and I hate them too. But there are a lot of scammers in any other countries too. Most of the chinese businessmen are the same with you.
Because of the language and cultural differences, we can't understand each other very well. But we should try, we should discuss, like the forum's slogan "connecting through discuss".
Tanks greedyboy's sharing again.
What an article
Linear Mode
November 2008
