Cheap labor is not the only factor in China's economic development. China has long ceased to be a "cheap labor" country Here are the stats From Kanthan blog
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S.L. Kanthan
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Excerpt from the article:“Bloomberg and most economic experts in the US do not understand manufacturing, which is not purely determined by cheap labor.
Look at the charts below from The Economist and Financial Times The first one shows how wages in China have grown exponentially over the last two decades – and much higher than other emerging Asian countries.
However, paradoxically, China’s share of global manufacturing has also grown during the same period. Last year, China’s trade surplus in goods was nearly $900 billion – a staggering amount. The lesson here is that India can afford to pay high wages and still succeed in manufacturing.
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