Robert Quek
Not any more. Now, it is skill labour.
“Cheap China” was the much used shorthand descxtion in the early years of its industrial development, during the period that followed Deng xiaopin’s policy of “reform and opening” in 1978–79 and his Southern Tour (Nanxun) in 1992. It was the period that saw a massive creation of employment, from the large inflows of FDIs from Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Chinese diaspora, Japan, Europe, and US, as well as the establishment of large number of SOEs and indigenous private enterprise manufacturing companies.

现在不一样了,现在是技术劳动力。 “廉价中国”是其工业发展早期经常使用的简便描述,是在邓小平在1978-79年实施“改革开放”政策和1992年南巡讲话后的时期。在这一时期,大量的外商直接投资涌入,来自台湾地区、香港、中国侨民、日本、欧洲和美国,同时也建立了大量的国有企业和本土私营企业制造公司,大规模创造了就业机会。