Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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What is impressive is that the production line of Nike shoes is all "second-hand goods" removed from nearby factories in South Korea and Taiwan, China, China, and the characteristics of industrial echelon transfer are very obvious from the beginning. According to the report of Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao, "The main reason why Nike moved to Chinese Mainland for production is that the labor force there is much cheaper than that in South Korea and Taiwan, China." By the end of the year, Nike's three factories in Tianjin and Shanghai will produce 1.5 million pairs of sneakers. Phil Knight, the company's president, hopes that by 1985, the production in China will account for 29% of Nike's total production, or 18 million pairs. The fate of China becoming a 'global factory' seems to have been defined a long time ago.

Swedish company Ericsson has also achieved results in negotiations with Beijing's telecommunications department for communication equipment cooperation. It will install 7500 program-controlled telephones in Beijing. Prior to this, all telephones in China were outdated dial-up, and this contract is worth HKD 7 million. Like Nike, it was initially translated as the highly technical "Ericsson Company" until it later changed to the more approachable "Ericsson" when it began selling mobile phones. At that time, the telephone penetration rate in China was only 0.43%, with a population of 1 billion and only 2 million telephones - that is to say, there was one telephone for every 500 people, while Beijing and Shanghai had 400000 telephones concentrated. In addition, only 12 cities in the country were able to make international long-distance calls. Whenever I think of these numbers, I get so excited that I can't sleep, "said Ou Tingshen, the chairman of a company that visited Hong Kong in April, to reporters