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Hardware Manufacturing in China's 'Hot Zone'

Posted by michael on from the slave-labor-makes-everything-cheap dept.

solferino writes "'Anything you can make for $100, we can make for $40,' Chen says, summing up his commercial philosophy. An interesting profile in Wired magazine of the computer hardware manufacturing 'hot zone', situated around the pearl river delta in mainland china, just outside Hong Kong. The factories are mostly financed and operated by Taiwanese business interests. The article looks at life and business in the city mainly from the point-of-view of these 'foreigners'."

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  1. Environmental issues? by 21mhz · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    ...manufacturing 'hot zone', situated around the pearl river delta...

    Reading this gives me creeps, even though I'm not a radical tree-hugger. Seriously, what are the policies of the Chinese government on industrial pollution? Let them all dump as long as cash flows in? Or something more sensible?

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  2. Around the river? by immortal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wonder how many polutants (i.e. mercury) and other toxins are getting dumped into that river. In a few years, slashdot will be posting news about 3 eyed fishes and three legged babies.

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  3. Anything Wired can write, Slashdot can link to by kristan · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Maybe it's just me, but Slashdot is fast becoming a table-of-contents for Wired magazine. As soon as articles (from the magazine) are posted, they immediately show up as stories in Slashdot.

    I understand linking to the odd interesting article, but in the last week of Slashdot we've had: Geek-Chic Power Houses

    Hardware Manufacturing in China's 'Hot Zone'

    See Ya .su

    Could I just suggest each week Slashot post an article called "This month's Wired magazine TOC"? Or, maybe someone has written a screenscraper that autmatically submits all Wired articles?

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  4. Re:Chinese Business and Politics by EnderWiggnz · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    you havent been paying attention to china then.

    china has stabilized their command-economy and is now moving into capitalist mode. (note i *never* said "communist")

    and their national companies are bigger, meaner, more effecient, *and* more corrupt than our multi-nationals.

    if they unleash that, we should all learn mandarin.

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