明天的课肯定又有一轮争论！

麦香奶茶

刚刚预习了这个文章。我肯定明天上课的时候，见识短浅的德国人或土人或印人要好象很懂似的讨论一番。那个老师选了这个文章，估计也想丛中大作文章。
而我，则一定做好反击的准备！
大家支持我！！！

The allure of low technology
China's misguided attempts to become a high-tech economy

The country's success in putting a man into space this October, only the third nation to do so, was more than just a boost to notional pride. It signalled the Chinese government's intention to turn the world's workshop into a tenological powerhouse. With an abundance of cheap engineers, growing research spending and plenty of useful foreign intellectual property on hand (and not terribly well protected), many of the necessary building blocks would appear to be in place. To the consternation of many firms in the rich world, China has already become a big exporter of electronic componets, DVD players and digital cameras. Chinese manufacturers, such as Legend in personal computers and Ningbo Bird in mobilephone handsets, have sized leading positions in China's domestic market. A few-such as TCL, a TV manufacturer; Huawei, which makes telecoms switching gear; and Haier, a white-goods group- are building a global presence.
This is threatening to inflame already raw trade relations with the rest of the world. The prime minister, Wen Jiabao, recently called on America to open its high-tech sector to China in return for trade concessions. Meanwhile, in a bald display of protectionism, foreign computer- and chip-makers have been banned (sinde December 1st) from selling some wireless products in China unless they incorporate Chinese encryption standards sourced from 11 named Chinese firms. if the rule is enforced, Dell, Intel, Sony and others may have to choose between sharing technology or curtailing shipments to China.

胖胖鸭

我拿什么拯救你，我的英语。。。。。。。tired.gif

香草玫瑰

Originally posted by 麦香奶茶 at 2005-11-21 09:34 PM:
刚刚预习了这个文章。我肯定明天上课的时候，见识短浅的德国人或土人或印人要好象很懂似的讨论一番。那个老师选了这个文章，估计也想丛中大作文章。
而我，则一定做好反击的准备！
大家支持我！！！

The all ...

奶茶原来是英语授课的.

麦香奶茶

So will china become the next technology superpower? Actually, probably not- at least, not anytime soon. Its successes so far are restricted to a handful of firms, most are eithrer protected or exceptional, rising through cracks in China's planned economy. On December 10th, at a seminar in Beijing on Chinese technology organised by china Economic Quarterly, a research poblication, Ming Zeng, a professor at Insead, near Paris, and Beijing's Cheung Kong Business School ( and a noted optimist on Chinese firms) admitted:" I spent five years hunting for examples of successful high-tech companies in China. After all that work, I can only find three or four."
Overall, China's technology base remains limited and the capital infrastructure needed to produce advanced, high-tech goods largely absent. And while more and more high-tech goods are made in China, almost all the value is being captured by foreign companies . Writing in the quarterly, Daniel Rosen, a visting fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, argues that, on close inspection, "China's high-tech exports turn out not to be so very high-tech-nor, indeed, very Chinese".
Of $325 billion of exports in 2002, China's Ministry of Commerce rated only 20% as genuinely high-tech. And those were mostly mature commodities, such as DVD players and laser printers. The brains of these machines, namely their semiconductor chips, were almost all imported-reflected in China's high-tech trade deficit of around $15 billion. What's more, 85% of its high-tech exports between January and August 2003 were accounted for by foreign enterprises in China.

布哈林

你们要争论什么啊

麦香奶茶

It si the same story with semiconductors, and industry China has exlicitly targeted for development. The country is a voracious consumer of chips and an increasingly important location for siliconwafer plants, providing an extimated 19%  of world capacity this year. Yet its indigenous industry remains tiny and low-tech. Foreigners control most of the chip plants in China. These, in turn, concentrate on low-cvalue assembly and testing rather than design and manufacture.
While foreigners own virtually all of the intellectual property and most of the high-tech manufacturing capacity in China, piracy will remain an issue. Currently, General Motors, Toyota and Nissan are each embroiled in disputeds over stolen copyrights. But Peter Nolan, a China specialist at Britain's Cambridge University Judge Institute of Management, says that the counterfeit issue is overblown, arguing that foreign multinationals generally "have sophisticated ways to protect their hard-won technology". Mr Nolan argues that China's ability to upgrade technology through joint ventures has been exaggerated. So moves to tip the playing field by asserting Chinese standards are actually a sign of weakness rather than strength. (TNND，作者肯定妒忌中国！TNND，明天谁说中国坏话我跟谁急！！！）
Why has China been so slow to climb the technology ladder? History is one explanation. Under communism, most technological development was state-directed and a disaster. State-owned enterprises still grapple with legacies of poor management and a lack of sophisticated systems. Most privated companies are too samll yet to pour much money into innovation.
Meanwhile, global corporations are widening the gap. "The idea that you can naturally move from being a small, low-level producer to become a Merck or a Boeing is a fantasy," says Mr Nolan. A dysfunctional financial system is also to blame. Capital is routinely misallocated, venture funding still rudimentary, and mergers and stockmarket listings are at the government's discretion.

麦香奶茶

But perhaps the biggest constraint, ironically, is also China's strength: its massive pool of low-cost labour. Arthur Kroeber, managing editor of china Economic Quarterly, argues that China has no real incentive to develop high-tech processes since, unlike Japan and South Korea, which were forced to grab markets from the West by sophisticated engineering and continuous process improvement, "China can compete fro the next 50 years on labour costs."
While politicians in Beijing shout about China's need to develop technology, the smartest Chinese firms are taking advantage of the labour supply and actually reducing their use of technology. A study by Boston Consulting Group shows that Chinese manufacturers were more productive and made more profits if they reduced the technology used in production and returned to more people-heavy processes. Vincet Lo, a Hong Kong entrepreneur who has invested in mainland cement plants, says that his factories, though primitive compared with the hugely automated ones built by France's Lafarge, have won local contracts precesely because they employ lots of people.
China should seize this advantage with both hands. Its labour will remain cheap for decades. Only labour-intensive industries can generate thte millions of new jobs needed each year to maintain the social stability sought by the leadership in Beijing . Meanwhile, China can gradually build up the educational, legal and financial infrastructure needed for faster technological development in the longer term.

麦香奶茶

Originally posted by 布哈林 at 2005-11-21 09:45 PM:
你们要争论什么啊

就是根据这篇文章讨论经济。这次主题是中国。
班上有些见识短浅的土鬼印度鬼，老标榜自己国家怎么样，我以前都不说话了。以前上课还说台湾是一个国家。我都没怎么争论。如果明天欺人太甚，我一定要反击的！
最烦就是那些以为懂一点点就乱指手画脚的家伙！

麦香奶茶

我现在明白为什么开始老师好象不太想让我上这个课，原来是这个原因啊！
我当初报名上这个课，他说我只能在WARTELIST上，因为我不是经济系的学生，可是有的别的人，学的也不是经济，是其他专业，老师却让他们在正式的报名表上。后来报这个课的人数没满，他只能让我上。
哼！

香草玫瑰

支持奶茶,明天好好反驳他们!