Seems that salaries in China are once and for all uncompetitive…
That’s to be added to the fact that foreign companies already highlighted difficulties to work efficiently with their Chinese partners (communication, quality respect, IPR…) & to the fact that re-localizing industries closer to the consumer (i.e. Eastern Europe for Western European consumers) would cost less in term of logistics & shipping-transportation.
So, is it the next trend for foreign industries in China???
Adidas, the second-biggest sportswear company in the world, feels that Chinese salaries are now too high and it will transfer some production to more competitive countries, its chief executive said in an interview on Monday."Salaries, which are set by the government, have become too high" in China, Herbert Hainer told the business weekly Wirtschaftswoche.
Chinese production of Adidas sportswear, about half of the group’s total, "is going to decline," Hainer added.
"We have already opened our first factory in India. Countries like Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam will be added," the Adidas boss noted.
"Production will also return to former Soviet republics and eastern European countries," but not to Germany, Hainer said.
中国的上升工资推动adidas在别处看
看起来中国的工资永远地不是竞争。。。
国外的公司在中国制造业已经加亮有一点难工作跟他们的中国搭档(通信,品质敬重,知识产权。。。),而且也觉得放工厂离消费者近(比如说,在欧洲东边为欧洲西边的消费者)更便宜为后勤和运送。
所以是不是下一个步为国外的工业在中国???
据香港太阳报报道,中国最低工资调整频率之快、调整幅度之大,连全球第二大运动用品品牌、北京奥运指定赞助商adidas也忍受不了。 adidas行政总裁海纳昨接受德国媒体专访时透露,由于中国人工太高,正计划将生产线迁往印度或越南等更具竞争力的国家。海纳向德国《经济周刊》表示:「中国政府所订的薪金已太高了。」目前
adidas在中国生产的运动服装,占该集团总数的一半,但海纳指出这个数字将会有所下降。海纳又说:「
adidas已在印度成立首家工厂,并将在老挝、柬埔寨和越南等国设厂。此外,生产线亦会移往前苏联加盟共和国和东欧国家。」广东、上海及北京等大多数省市今年都打破最低工资标准两年一调的惯例,今年在去年已调整一次的基础上再次提高最低工资标准。
Vocabulary - 词汇:
永远地 = yǒngyuǎn dì = once and for all
竞争 = jìngzhēng = competitive
加亮 = jiā liàng = to highlight
知识产权 = zhīshíchǎnquán = intellectual property rights
消费者 = xiāofèizhě = consumer
Source - 来源:
Yahoo! News
早报网

Salary increase in China, good news for the workers.Guangdong miss 2 millions workers… so if a few factory close…. should be no big probleme for China.It is just part of the normal developement of one countries…. long time we do not do basic clothes in Japan, south corea, Taiwan…. and now it is leaving China… it just mean that China developpe…For the "difficulties to work efficiently with their Chinese partners (communication, quality respect, IPR…) " that is another problem… and a big one.
Comment by killy-the-frog — 2008-07-29 @ 4:40 pm