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China Aims To Move Up the Food Chain
krou notes reporting in the Christian Science Monitor that the current economic crisis is helping China's push into higher-end manufacturing by shaking out low-profit companies. The hope is that, instead of just assembling iPods, Chinese companies will be able to invent the next big thing instead. In this move China is following the well-worn path taken by Japan and the Asian tigers before it. "Last month, the National Development and Reform Commission announced revised plans to transform Guangdong and neighboring Hong Kong and Macau into a 'significant innovation center' by 2020. One hundred R&D labs will be set up over the next three years. By 2012, per-capita output in the region should jump 50 percent from 2007, to 80,000 yuan ($11,700). And by 2020, the study predicts, 30 percent of all industrial output should come from high-tech manufacturing."
this makes me happy that I'm learning mandarin. å好ä
I look forward to the new and inventive ways to hide toxins in consumer products.
Wah, i am gonna miss the cheap copies of electronics. Damn it. :-D
you mean safe like loaded with high fructose corn syrup or aspartame?
Yes, much like those repressed, authoritarian Germans, I don't think we'll ever have to worry about innovation coming from such societies.
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Recursion and a stack overflow?
None of the Asian tigers has replaced the US as a center of innovation.
Yeah, no one in the world wants to buy a car that isn't US-designed! Same for TVs and stereos!