Tags : Manufacturing in China

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Processing Trade, Productivity and Prices: Evidence from a Chinese Production Survey
Video Abstract In this paper, we use a detailed production survey in the Chinese manufacturing industry to estimate both revenue and physical productivity and relate our measurements to firms’ trade activity. We find that Chinese exporters for largely export oriented products like leather shoes or shirts ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2018/amber-li-processing-trade-productivity-and-prices
Bloomberg: Robots Displace Workers as Wage-Spiral Pressures Profits in China
Many Chinese manufactures struggle in today’s economic environment, thanks in no small part to rising labor costs. “Time is running out fast for Chinese manufacturers to adapt,” Albert Park, told Bloomberg. Park, Director of HKUST IEMS, headed the international committee for the China ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2017/bloomberg-park-china-robots-displace-workers-wage-spiral-pressures-profits
Quartz: It’s not just the US: Chinese factories are turning to automation as wages rise
Quartz reported that IEMS Director Albert Park suggested due to the high worker turnover Chinese manufacturing firms have to pay workers higher salaries in order to retain them. The article mentioned some of the findings of the China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES), and it highlighted the fact that 40% of ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2017/not-just-us-chinese-factories-turning-automation-wages-rise
Can Robots Save Dongguan? — Barriers and Incentives to Automation in World’s Factory
Key insights Huang Yu (HKUST), whose work focuses on Dongguan, China’s manufacturing hub in the Pearl River Delta, identifies three aspects which encourages managers to upgrade and purchase robots: improve productivity, upgrade quality and develop own brands. While industrial upgrading has desirable effects for ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2017/can-robots-save-dongguan-huang-yu
The Plight of Manufacturing and the Future of Jobs in China
Video Abstract In this presentation, Prof. Park discusses the current challenges facing China’s manufacturing sector and discusses how Chinese manufacturing firms in the Pearl River Delta are coping with slowing demand and rising wages. Analyzing firm and worker data from the China Employer-Employee Survey ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2016/plight-of-manufacturing-and-the-future-of-jobs-in-china-albert-park
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