You will head off to Dongguan checking out some industrial developments especially featuring a big-scale factory that specializes in the production of toys exploiting extentive numbers of labors, lots of lands, and large scale of automations, which has been displaying a significantly high productivity of manufacturing industry in China.
Discover China
Over the years, China has built the reputation as the factory of the world. During
this trip, we will be able to look into this title as we visit high tech industrial
developments and the smaller, relatively low-tech manufacturing plants in the city of Dongguan.
Our list of manufacturing plants feature factories that utilize large amounts of
human labour coupled with automation, which generate staggeringly large outputs on a daily
basis. We will also visit the smaller plants less automated plants, which are more widely
used due to the significantly lower costs towards businesses in terms of implementation and maintenance.
What value has small factory actually produced for China and the people there?
Afterwards, you will pay a visit in a typical low tech factory. You will see how this kind of small factory be highly demanded due to economic needs, and how such business mode can still survive in China? What value has small factory actually produced for China and the people there?
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