The Atlantic Monthly | July/August 2007
China Makes, The World Takes
by James Fallows
A look inside the world’s manufacturing center shows that America should welcome China’s rise—for now.
And a data that, certainly, calls the attention is the Foxconn company - that was founded by the Taiwanese Terry Guo- the one who has 240 thousand workers. We are speaking of a factory, city, dormitory, all together.
Most of the employees work 12 hours daily in two turns and their pays are around the US$115 to the month. For us this salary can seem to low, but for the Chinese that comes from the rural area it seems that he is worth the effort to them.
In that sense, Fallows considers that at the moment Shenzhen is like Chicago in the middle of century XIX.
Another data that calls the attention is the case of Liam Casey, an Irish young person whose offices at the hotel Sheraton Four Points of this city. Casey dedicates itself to outsourcing, that is to say, to connect the Chinese world with the western one. It makes businesses by US$125 million to the year.
The author also visited a company that is called Inventec that produces 32 thousands laptops to the day, and is not the unique thing that does.
Other companies that make laptops in China are Quanta, Compal, Wistron and Asustek.
Follows says that the power of China is in the manufacture, and soon he prepares photos in the city of Shenzhen.
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