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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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