An overview of Heavy industry in Guangzhou Executive summary Guangzhou is selected as the case city in this report because of its unique geographical and economical position in the world. Among a number of industries in this city, heavy industry plays the most significant role in its economic growth. To provide a better understanding of heavy industry in Guangzhou, this report applies PEST model and also presents both the current challenges and advantages that the heavy industry face. As a typical emerging city, Guangzhou can provide some applications about how to overcome barriers in the process of upgrading industry. Introduction Guangzhou is not only one of the most prominent urban cities in China but also famous world’s factory. Supported by unique geographical location and culture, and encouraged by preferential policies, friendly economic environment and relative advanced technology, this city will make itself as important global center. With 12.78 million populations and 105,909 RMB CDP per Capita, Guangzhou ranks the third largest and the biggest south city in China. There is no doubt that heavy industry plays vital important role in boosting its economy growth, contributing to employment and spurring development of linked industries. While the heavy industry has developed dramatically over the past years, a set of new opportunities and challenges are emerging. Due to worse environment, intensive competition from domestic and global market and unbalanced industrial development, Guangzhou has to make profound changes in this industry. The region has created more room for green and efficient heavy industries by wiping out or transferring existing low value or outdated industries. Through analyzing an overview of heavy ind... ... middle of paper ... ...gzhou will not be overtaken due to the focus of government. Moreover, with the support of upstream or downstream industries, it can finish its upgrading more smoothly and quickly. It is true that Guangzhou faces some domestic and international competitors that rely on heavy industry. In my point of view, Guangzhou has more unique advantages: 1) the geographical location helps it build close relationship with South Asian Market and the Pearl River Delta speed up its value chain 2) the long trade history and inclusive culture makes it more experienced and be good at absorbing advanced technology and concepts; 3) the strong and enthusiastic government offer preferential policy and available funds to ensure the transformation of heavy industry. Guangzhou has potential to be global heavy industry hub if both market and government work together to support it continuously.
From 100 CE to 600 CE the Chinese had many cultural and political life changes and continuities. A political change was in the end of the Classical Chinese period when the Han Dynasty fell. A cultural change during 100 CE to 600 CE was the paper invention that led to passing down cultural rituals. Not only were there changes but there was also continuities in the Chinese political and cultural life. An example of a cultural continuity is the increasing power of Buddhism. A political continuity is the ruler of the Chinese wanting the people to be protected with for instance The Great Wall of China.
manufacturing a competitive advantage. According to 2013 analysis done by consultant AlixPartners estimated that cost of manufacturing in China will equal cost of manufacturing in U.S. due to labor cost in China has been increasing in past 10 years. The low cost energy and labor equivalence recently is contributed to 500,000 jobs created in manufacturing sector since 2010 (Ludwig & Spiegel, 2014).
Despite the development of new machineries, the demand for worker remained relatively high due to the growing numbers of cities. By ...
Besides the modernization of agricultural, in the Deng era, there was a shift from central planning and reliance on heavy industry to consumer-oriented industries and reliance on foreign trade and investment. Some of the new factories were purchased from other countries; some of them were built with local resources. Capitalist enterprise was ac...
This essay will discuss the issue of migration. Migration is movement by humans from one place to another. There are two types of migration, it is immigration and emigration. Immigration is movement by people into the country and emigration is movement by humans, who want two leave countries voluntary or involuntary. Economic, religious, education social and problems are reasons of migration. Mankind often migrates to modern, rich, multicultural countries, towns with high economy and good standard of living such as Prague, Germany, London, Los-Angeles, New York and shanghai. I would like to draw on the city Shanghai.
The picture in China during the recession had been quite different than in the U.S., as demand for steel to build cars, bridges, and appliances helped prop up global steel prices. However, demand in China has slowed and brought fears of China exporting ...
China’s economy is one very large indicator of its role in globalization. “In 2010 China became the world’s largest exporter” (CIA World Factbook). Without China many places such as the United States of America would be without billions of goods imported from China annually. An influx of companies moving their manufacturing to China has allowed people to flock to cities and find jobs. China’s economy has grown exponentially over the last few decades. In the last three years China’s economy has grown by nearly ten percent every year. Despite this influx of money to China it has also resulted in many drawbacks. For example, China’s environment has been obliterated. China burns more coal than every country in the world combined. Beijing has been so badly polluted that there are actually companies that sell cans of fresh air to people, and gas masks are a common sight. On January 12th 2013 Beijing’s air pollution reached a record setting 775 PPM. To put that into perspective, the scale for measuring pollution is 0-500 PPM. This set an all-time recorded high. In Los Angeles a high ...
The factors of production include land, labor, capital, and enterprise. Sweatshops must extract natural resources during the production process, which refers to one the factors of production: Land. Land not only including soil, but also means gas, river, oil, coal, and so on. Running a factory must involve all those things. When a country has plenty of factories, then the natural resources in that country will be overexploited. Moreover, heavy industrial will cause air pollution because they combusted large amount of coal. Usually factories occupy huge place, therefore company will cut down all the trees in the forest. For example, Shanghai has very serious smog problem. According to “Aqicn”, a real-time Index of air quality website for over 60 courtiers, the PM2.5 index in Shanghai is between 100 to 169in the last two
China has come a very long way in the past 25 years. China has grown at nearly 10 percent a year over the past 20 years. China's explosion on to the world investment, production and trade scene is the product of its size, growth and openness. This is leading to tremendous changes in the global economy.
China is potentially a huge market for small diesels. Sales of diesel-powered agricultural machinery and vehicles had grown by more than 10% annually since 1985, and this growth rate was forecast to continue until at least the year 2000.
China has approximately 20% of the world’s population, which is around 1.3 billion people (Morris, 2009, p. 111). Also, China has become one of the worlds biggest manufacturing countries within 30 years (Fawssett, 2009, p. 27). However, such rapid development has come at a cost, which has created various environmental problems. Coincidentally, China has 16 cities on a list of the 20 worst polluted cities in the world (Fawssett, 2009, p. 15). Therefore, this essay will explain the reasons for China’s environmental problems, then evaluate the claim that the Chinese government and people, are tackling these environmental problems. First, crop farming techniques over the last hundred years, and their consequences will be explained. Followed by, how peoples choice in food has changed over the last hundred years, and how this indirectly affects the environment. Then, how a capitalist economy is linked to agriculture, and finally what the Chinese government and people are doing to tackle these problems.
Though China is the world's fifth-largest country in terms of area and the second largest country in Asia, it is the most populous country in the world. There is over one billion Chinese people which is 19 percent of the world's population and the population still keeps growing. From 2000 to 2010, Chinese population growth is about 6.2% and if we compared the population from 1960 with 2010, the population had grown more than 100%. While half of Chinese people live in the rural areas, the urban population is growing rapidly. In January 2012, urban population has exceeded the rural population for the first time. Now about 100 million rural people become migrant workers which move in and out the cities in search of work. This has caused many problems in China , since in the past and the present day, such as traffic jams in the city, pollution, and most importantly the shortage of food and shelter. This might affect the Chinese economic as well.
Urbanization (or urbanisation) is the increasing number of people that live in urban areas. Urbanization has been the result of economic growth for most countries. In fact, every developed nation in the world has gone through urbanization and this is no news to Chinese leaders. To turn the nation of China from being a developing nation to a developed nation, China encouraged the migration of citizens from the countryside to move to large cities and fuel the industrializing nation. Though urbanization has been a process many countries have gone through, China’s urbanization plans are very distinct compared to western examples. The main reason for China’s urbanization distinctions is its sheer magnitude and pace. In this paper, we will review this mass migration, the economic growth, China’s environmental concerns (specifically air pollution) due the urbanization and the focus on industrialization, and we will briefly see China’s newest seven year urbanization plan.
...st and stand in the world. It is predicted that China will one day be the largest economy growing country in world. They continually growing and rebalancing their world to be the best. The growth of economy will depend on the Chinese government comprehensive economic reforms that more quickly accelerate in China transition to a free market economy. The consumer demand, rather than exporting the main engine of economic growth; boost productivity and innovation; address growing income disparities; and enhance environmental. (Morrison, 2014,para2)
...e will dissipate. With each new day, China continues to invent new technologies and expand their global markets. China is only getting stronger, and if the United States wants to remain a contender is this race to be the best, we must stay alert and continue to not only keep up, but outperform the Chinese.