Our Guy in China C4 9pm.
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anonymous said:
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Indeed, inexpensive too. Would imagine about 3.5k over here. I know there is an off road equivalent(perhaps a tad more powerful)made in New Zealand which retails around £5.5k. ETA: The above mentioned are not foldable.
Edited by Laurel Green on Monday 21st November 21:53
KTF said:
Not really sure what the point of this is. Not really learning much?
Not really learning much? I learnt a lot (for a semi-documentary) and I've been to China.Some of the points I learned:
- China's huge manufacturing output isn't about lots of big factories with automation, it's about having a huge amount of people doing very manual work in small factories (e.g. the moped engine testing guy putting his ear to the motor to check for faults!).
- The level of fake goods out there is every bit as bad as the rumours (e.g. Land Wing!)
- The Ghost Cities so popular with the Western press aren't failures because they're currently empty, they're actually awaiting the urbanisation of millions of rural Chinese over the next 20 years - that's some forward planning!
- Just the sheer scale of the place e.g. Felixstowe docks, the largest docks in Britain is 13.5 square miles, the port he visited was 1,400 miles square, they have a bridge that is 20 miles long!
I first visited China in 1986 and was amazed at the use of manpower to get things done. One morning I saw a three lane highway being cleaned - by a line ( across all three carriageways) of middle aged women with brushes!. At the time there were very few cars and those that were on the roads were all for government officials. The `observers` in those days were many.
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