§1.2 China: from copying to innovating part 2

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§1.2 China: from copying to innovating part 2

Program

1. Throwback
2. The factory of the world: notes
   
3. The new China
   
4. Big Brother
5. Let's make your homework
   
6. The end
   
   

During the notes
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Why are the Special Economic Zones
located on the east coast?

1. The climate is good for industry
2. The prices for minerals are cheap there
3. There are harbours, which is great for the transport of products
4. The government decided the location

Why were SEZ (special economic zones) established in China around 1980?

1. To promote foreign trade and to get a better economy
2. To promote internal competition.
3. The main aim was to modernise fishing villages.
4. It was an economic dream of former boss Mao Zedong.

How did Shenzen look like 40 years ago?

1. Like Hongkong
2. Agricultural fields
3. Mining
4. Dessert

Assignment:

Check your clothes or materials you use and look if the products come from China.

1993 before SEZ

2019 after SEZ

High population density at the coast (Pearl River Delta: megalopolis)

Factory of the world

After 1980, industry also grew in other cities near Hong Kong. Millions of migrant workers went to these cities.

Bad working conditions:

• long working days
  
• high work pressure
  
• low wages
  
• unhealthy work
  

The new China

• China used to make only simple products just for export.
• Now, there is a rapidly growing domestic market. 
• China is also taking a new step, from ‘producer’ to ‘innovator. The high-tech industry is developing its own products based on high-quality technical knowledge. 

Globalization/mondialization

In today’s world we are far more connected than ever before.

• IPad: designed in the US and assembled in China. 
• Trainers: they were probably made somewhere in Asia. 
• Switch on the TV and you will see American series, Japanese cartoons or matches from the English or Spanish football league. 
• Tourists from all over the world come to visit Amsterdam.

Multinationals

•  Multinationals are companies with offices in many different countries. 
• For example, McDonald’s

International division of labour

Three stages:

1st stage:  design the product (R&D)

2nd stage: manufacturing the goods in factories --> emerging countries

3th stage:  marketing (advertising) and distribution (sales) 

NICs

The term Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs) is a collective term for countries where industry is developing quickly and is now important for the economy. 

• Export
• Foreign investment.
• Labour-intensive products 

Why settle in China?

A low wage country

• Products can be made really cheap
• They sell the products in rich countries
  

• China became a NIC.
  

SEZ 

The new China

Growing domestic market.

Upcoming high tech industry

Industry is moving more in land

Global cities

Global city(metropolis, global city) = is a really big city that plays an important role on the global scale in economics, culture and politics

Characteristics:

• many highly educated and well-paid people from all over the world

Mega city  = city has more than 10 million citizens

    Goede vestigingslocatie voor bedrijven door agglomeratievoordelen.  uitwisselen kennis en creativiteit  verspreiding producten en technieken vanuit deze steden.

Big brother systeem

Social media like Instagram and Tik Tok is banned in China.

China is controlling its people: "the Big Brother system."

Learnbeat

Go to 1.2B: make the assignments 6, 7 and 9