New Breakthroughs In Manufacturing

Once cheap and seemingly unlimited supply, Chinese workers are becoming more and more expensive and harder to find.

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In order to attract workers, a shoe-making enterprise specially changed a batch of new machines, but still encountered workers shortage.

The attractiveness of China's manufacturing is decreasing because of rising costs.

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It is turning to Southeast Asia, and industrial manufacturing is returning to the United States.

However, the market is lost.

The new story of production base turning into a star market has just started.

A rumor that lingers for four years will become a reality at the end of October: Adidas will close the only factory directly under China in Suzhou, Jiangsu.

Adidas also informed the other 10 foundries that it would terminate the OEM contract.

The official explanation is "strategic considerations for re integration of global resources".

But it is widely interpreted that, like its old rival, Nike, the vane type "migratory bird" company moves the manufacturing base out of China in pursuit of lower costs, and more producers will follow.

Besides the manufacturers of clothes and shoes, China is also losing its attraction in the field of industrial products, and the United States has become a new destination for these investments.

In its 2011 Annual Report, Ge put forward the need to withdraw the home appliance production line from China and Mexico to the United States; Ford motor will invest 16 billion US dollars to increase factories and production lines in the United States; Caterpillar, the world's largest excavator and bulldozer manufacturer, invested 120 million US dollars in a new manufacturing plant in Texas, in 2011, and Google's new player, "Nexus Q", is also produced in the United States.

"The pfer of manufacturing in the US has just begun."

Hinch Levy, a professor of engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the Southern Weekend reporter.

Not long ago, he spent two months investigating 108 companies in the US and multinational business organizations, of which 14% planned to move some manufacturing businesses back to the United States.