Despite Chinese wages growing exponentially, China's share of global manufacturing also grew in the same period.
Despite Chinese wages growing exponentially, China's share of global manufacturing also grew in the same period.
Wait so you're telling me you can continue to be a manufacturing superpower even when you pay your workers well and give them a good standard of living? But neoliberalism told me that was impossible!
33To be fair, under liberalism this truly is impossible.
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I think the right side chart being of manufacuring value added rather than raw volume is the reason why this has been possible. Expanding the volume of low value added goods has limited results and also leads to the market quickly saturating. Chinese government has adopted a conscious strategy of moving up the value chain. For example, businesses which have strategies for this get easier access to credit.
I am just surprised that western bourgeoisie agreed to the technology transfer agreements that helped in this. I guess the race to the bottom that the competition among them fosters is maybe why.
17China used its large market to play the capitalists against themselves. First to new market wins, so Western capitalists were begging to get in no matter what.
I do think that as China moves up the value chain, they should still improve and automate their low-value manufacturing. That way, they can never get cut off from needed goods. I don't know whether this is exactly what they are planning. If someone more knowledgeable could chime in, that would be great!
2099 percent sure that China is doing this as well.
13OP has posted in the past about how China uses robots for automation more than any country in the world (even the so called developed ones). I think the rate of adopting automation will keep on increasing.
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