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>There's nothing inherently Chinese about opening a factory quickly. I'd say there is one, the available population to work. India is really the only country t
by starky 7y ago
>There's nothing inherently Chinese about opening a factory quickly.
I'd say there is one, the available population to work. India is really the only country that could come close just based on pure population and I don't see there being a drive to do that.
Rather anything that came close would have to be a combination of Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, etc. all working to grow their manufacturing bases to come anywhere close to what China can do when it comes to setting up factories in the near future. Longer term maybe some African countries will industrialize that way, but I don't see a place meeting the scale of Shenzhen/Dongguan manufacturing ever again.
I recently got back from visiting a factory in SEA, and spoke quite a bit with the people there about how the area is growing from a manufacturing standpoint. They have definitely taken notice of what is going on with China at the moment and are trying their best to take advantage of it, but it isn't even close to what I've seen in China.
- throwaway2048 7y agoAccording to [1] about 80 million Chinese are employed in the manufacturing sector. That is not an insurmountable amount of employment for many countries, especially when you consider that Chinese production largely is based on cheap labor rather than heavy automation. [1] https://piie.com/blogs/china-economic-watch/manufacturing-employment-china https://piie.com/blogs/china-economic-watch/manufacturing-em...
- thefounder 7y ago80 millions of qualified, cheap people is a big number
- starky 7y agoNot insurmountable? That is over 1/4 of the population of Indonesia, the 4th most populous country in the world.
- throwaway2048 7y agoIt hardly has to all come from one country.
- noselasd 7y ago> I'd say there is one, the available population to work. There's also the infrastructure. In china it's very easy, fast and cheap to get anything you need for a factory, and get it quickly, be it specialized CNC machines, parts for a mechanical crane, a truckload of leds, - or really anything in the whole chain of running and operating a factory - including expertise people at every level.
- nobodyandproud 7y agoHas India shed its bureaucratic ways? My understanding—dated—is that the amount of red tape to deal with is enormous.