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Chinese Tech Companies Building Factories In India

Posted by timothy on from the shifting-bottlenecks dept.

jfruh writes: Over the past two decades, China's relatively high skill, low cost workforce made the country a powerhouse of tech and electronics manufacturing. But in a sign that things might be changing, several large Chinese companies, including Foxconn and Huawei, are investing billions to start manufacturing in India. Xiaomi is expected to announce its first India-made phone today, as well. The article says that Foxconn's planned factory in Maharashtra "would create employment for at least 50,000 people, state chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said after the signing of the agreement at which Foxconn CEO Terry Gou was present."

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  1. Foxconn is Taiwanese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Foxconn is a Taiwanese multinational headquartered in New Taipei, Taiwan.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn

  2. Re:Africa after That? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anybody is malleable, conformist and submissive when the best hope of eating and keeping a roof over your immediate+extended family is with the big manufacturing corporation. It happens everywhere, it's not exclusive to cultures where it is expected to submit to authority and your elders.

  3. Re:Africa after That? by rmdingler · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Cheap labor remains an important consideration when moving manufacturing facilities.

    But. Africa. Regional political unrest can undermine labor costs, raw material availability, and friendly tax packages.

    For the next industrial emigration, manufacturers are going to want cheap and easy.

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