Boycott of Chinese goods fails in festive season, sale hits record high...

[SBUS-CXK]

Not unexpected.
Well,,,most Indians r (hyper)nationalists only on internet/social media.
Give thm 2 rupees rebate n thr nationalism goes to gutter.

China export Indian goods absolutely according standards of India, also accord with the habits of the people of India... It is not surprising...

Huawei to start smartphone production in India from next month

Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies will start manufacturing handsets in India from next month, joining compatriots like Xiaomi and Lenovo to set up factories in the world's fastest growing smartphone market.

The world's third largest smartphone maker has joined hands with contract manufacturer Flextronics International to produce handsets at a facility in Chennai.




The facility will make three million units initially and provide 10,500 jobs, Huawei announced today.

Targeting a 10 per cent share in Indian smartphone market, Huawei also plans to expand its Indian retail network by raising the number of outlets it partners to more than 50,000 by the end of the year.

While inaugurating the Chennai facility from here, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "The investment in electronics manufacturing, which was around Rs 11,000 crore, has risen to Rs 1.24 lakh crore. It is a great sense of satisfaction, as indicated to me, this (Huawei) will be 40th manufacturing unit in the country."

Huawei will start production of its Honor series phones at the plant from October 1.

Chinese telecom companies have been setting shops in India after a slump in growth at home market. Recently, LeEco announced contract manufacturing facility with a capacity of 60,000 phones a month, rising eventually to 200,000.

"Today, we announce the start of manufacturing of our Honor phones in India with Flextronics. This underlines our long term commitment for India. Spectrum auction is coming and we will like to commit to Indian industry that we will make available all out latest technology product including 4G, 4G plus and 5G products," Huawei India Chief Executive Officer Jay Chen said.

He said that Huawei is the third-largest smartphone maker after Apple and Samsung.

"We have partnered with Flextronics who work with us globally to make our Honor series smartphones in the country. Initially we have tied up for 3 million units and will scale up as per demand. This project will create 3,000 direct employment opportunity at Huawei and 6,000 indirect jobs," P Sanjeev, Vice President -Sales (India Business Head for Huawei & honor Consumer Business).

He said that hiring of 3,000 people will be completed by the end of this year, taking Huawei's direct workforce to around 12,000 in India.

Flextronics will hire an additional 1,500 people to work on the Huawei project.

"We have capacity to make 10 million phones in India. We will scale up production as per requirement of Huawei. Flextronics will hire 1,500 people dedicated for servicing Huawei smartphones," Jeff Reece, President, Networking Solutions, Flextronics said.
Reece said that Flextronics will provide after-sales

services, shipping of phones to retailers and reverse logistics when devices from customers for repairing needs to be picked up.

"We will set up 45 experience centres for Huawei initially," Reece said.

Sanjeev said that Huawei has tied up with 350 distributors to sell smartphones from over 50,000 retail counters in the country covering all the districts.

"We have been aggressively competing in India. Now I can say we are ready in all aspects for giving massive push to our business in India. We believe India will overtake the US as the second largest smartphone market in 2017. If we have to grow our rank globally, we need to focus on India," he said.

Huawei will sell both Huawei and Honor phones through offline channel partners.

IT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said that Huawei's focus on research and development will add value to country's manufacturing ecosystem.

"We have been shown the kind of product Huawei's plan to make in India. Those kind of product will help start-up built their services on top of that," Sundararajan said.


Chinese products are considered below average in India & are only sold cause of it's low cost..

Why do I see Indians in the PDF and TOI difference so big???

PS: I just from TOI to PDF.

 

[AndrewJin]

China export Indian goods absolutely according standards of India, also accord with the habits of the people of India... It is not surprising...


Why do I see Indians in the PDF and TOI difference so big???

PS: I just from TOI to PDF.

What kind of people deserve what kind of products.
Huawei is mainly selling low end phones in india.
But Huawei's major products in China are those models worth $300-600.

 

[RoadRunner401]

Not unexpected.
Well,,,most Indians r (hyper)nationalists only on internet/social media.
Give thm 2 rupees rebate n thr nationalism goes to gutter.

L O L, this works all over the world not just India

 

[wiseone2]

This anayalsis has already decreased the middle class threshold by using PPP.

If India uses our middle class criteria, the number will be less than 23.6 million people.

what is china's criteria for middle class ?

 

[bipi@342]

Well, cheap goods are irresistible to vast majority of Indians, and they just can't find the replacements for Chinese products. Apple sold $58 billion worth of their expensive products in China in 2015, but it barely managed $1 billion sales in India for the same year, including many refurbished iPhones.




Interesting, with more than 10 times population, Indians spent less than half on clothing than Vietnam? What do they wear?

No refurbished iPhone is allowed to sell in India ,it's a policy decision. india is not China

 

[AndrewJin]

what is china's criteria for middle class ?

PWC Global Wealth Report 2015

Allianz Global Wealth Report 2015
China tops for middle class, latest Allianz global wealth report says

 

[AMCA]

Turns out to be like I was the only who actually boycotted!!

 

[AndrewJin]

Well, cheap goods are irresistible to vast majority of Indians, and they just can't find the replacements for Chinese products. Apple sold $58 billion worth of their expensive products in China in 2015, but it barely managed $1 billion sales in India for the same year, including many refurbished iPhones.




Interesting, with more than 10 times population, Indians spent less than half on clothing than Vietnam? What do they wear?

Chinese smart phone companies mostly sell their cheap models to indian market, because their purchasing power is very tiny, PPP doesn't work there.

Same with iPhone.

 

[endyashainin]

Turns out to be like I was the only who actually boycotted!!

You are a rare Indian because you've actually taken action. You should get a medal for doing something, instead of talking, which is what the vast majority of your countrymen do.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but I admire your attitude. It must be incredibly frustrating to live among your fellow Indians, who would rather talk endlessly than getting things done.

 

[indopak]

Turns out to be like I was the only who actually boycotted!!

Boycott has hit at local level. Also watch ndtvindia report today, boycott hs hit atleast 30%.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Turns out to be like I was the only who actually boycotted!!

The problem is that basically every manufactured product in the world has something to do with the Chinese supply chain, even if it does not say Made in China. The components inside will almost certainly have come from China or passed through some part of our global supply chain.

Which means the only real way to boycott China would be to boycott all manufactured products completely, including the computer and smartphone you are using.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Indians love to talk, talk, and talk, but they never do. Indians are quick to make promises but they never deliver.

They talked and talked about a boycott of Chinese goods, and then they talked some more...







http://www.firstpost.com/india/boyc...ive-season-sale-hits-record-high-3051882.html

Boycott of Chinese goods fails in festive season, sale hits record high

PTI
Beijing: Calls for boycott of Chinese goods in India following China's opposition to a UN ban on JeM chief Masood Azhar have failed as sales of Chinese products in the country hit a record high during the festive season, official media in Beijing said on Friday.

"Diwali, one of the most important Hindu festivals and one of the biggest shopping seasons in India, is coming at the end of October, but encouragement to boycott Chinese goods has been spreading in the last few days on Indian social media, and even a few Indian politicians are exaggerating facts," an article in the state-run Global Times said.

"However, regardless of the passionate boycott in India and Indian media's hysteric reports of a "doomsday" for Chinese products, Chinese goods have never been condemned by Indian government and are popular across the nation," it said.

"The boycott has not achieved success. Sales figures for Chinese products on the top three Indian online retailers in the first week of October hit a new record. Amazingly, the Chinese mobile phone company Xiaomi sold half a million phones in just three days on the Flipkart, Amazon India, Snapdeal and Tata CLiQ platforms," the article said.

Referring to the boycott calls over China's technical hold on moves to bring about a ban on Azhar as well Beijing obstructing India's membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group, (NSG), it said.

Representational image. Reuters

"Chinese products are often the victim when regional situations get tense, and this phenomenon has been existing for quite a few years. Now Chinese goods are on the stage again due to the Kashmir issue," it said.

"The bilateral trade relationship is one of the pillars of the Sino-Indian relationship. The trade volume was over $70 billion in 2015, and China's investment in India soared to around $870 million in 2015, six times what it was in 2014," it said.

India has been expressing concern over the trade deficit which last year touched $46 billion.

"To some extent, the economic relationship is the barometer of the political relationship. There shouldn't be huge fluctuation in terms of economic cooperation if the political relationship keeps steady between the two," it said.

"For the dragon and elephant, enhancing economic ties would be a preferable way to promote the comprehensive bilateral relationship. The more economic cooperation exists, the more opportunities there will be for Chinese products to enter the Indian market.

"India is a big potential market, and people using smartphones and doing online shopping has become the irreversible trend in the new era," it said.

The commercial cooperation between these two countries could also be focused on e-commerce, service and financial investment.

Another article in the same daily said India has to upgrade its industrial structures to address $46 billion trade deficit.

Official data during September showed India had exported goods worth $922 million to China, while importing goods worth $5.4 billion from China.

"The huge trade deficit with China has become an increasingly unharmonious factor in bilateral ties between the two countries, requiring China and India to take practical measures to narrow the trade imbalance when leaders of the two nations meet in India over the weekend for the Brics Summit," the article said.

"The two countries have made concerted efforts to narrow the trade imbalance, including signing a five-year trade and economic cooperation agreement in 2014, but it seems that such moves have had only limited effects. What we need to do now is find out the root causes of the trade imbalance," it said.

The major imports from China include electronic components, telecom instruments, chemicals and pharmaceutical products, while India's major exports to China include ore, plastics and cotton.

"The imbalanced bilateral trade structure is actually a result of the fact that China and India are at different developmental stages in terms of industrialisation. It won't be easy to reduce India's trade deficit with China simply by relying on measures such as seeking greater access to the Chinese market for India's raw materials and agricultural products - India also needs to upgrade its industrial structure," it said.

"In other words, India seeking to solve the problem of the China-India trade imbalance cannot anchor its hopes on efforts such as persuading Chinese people to consume more Indian goods at a time when more and more Indian young people are keen to use Chinese-made goods such as smartphones," it said.

"Efforts such as encouraging Chinese smartphone makers to set up production lines in India may be the most effective way to reduce the trade deficit, which is partly the result of a price gap between India's imports of finished goods and its exports of raw materials," it said.

"But sadly, it seems that India is not on the right path, as the country is trying to reduce its trade deficit with China through trade protectionism," it said, adding that there had been 322 anti-dumping cases in India so far, of which 177 cases involved Chinese products.

"Besides, a social media campaign urging people to refrain from buying China-made products has recently been building in India. Such moves will not help contribute to reducing India's trade deficit, but could damage bilateral ties instead," it said.

is Modi planning to isolate China as well?
what is the problem with this guy? is he not satisfied with his rants against Pakistan?

The problem is that basically every manufactured product in the world has something to do with the Chinese supply chain, even if it does not say Made in China. The components inside will almost certainly have come from China or passed through some part of our global supply chain.

Which means the only real way to boycott China would be to boycott all manufactured products completely, including the computer and smartphone you are using.

wouldnt it be easier for the Indian population to ban this Butcher of Gujrat and Kashmir?
this guy just lives on violence, rants and hate.

 

[rott]

The problem is that basically every manufactured product in the world has something to do with the Chinese supply chain, even if it does not say Made in China. The components inside will almost certainly have come from China or passed through some part of our global supply chain.

Which means the only real way to boycott China would be to boycott all manufactured products completely, including the computer and smartphone you are using.

Can we retaliate in ssome way?

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Can we retaliate in ssome way?

No need. India doesn't make anything, and we are going to invest everywhere regardless.

We are also going to veto their NSG and UNSC seat application regardless.

So basically, no need for retaliation.

 

[endyashainin]

No need. India doesn't make anything, and we are going to invest everywhere regardless.

We are also going to veto their NSG and UNSC seat application regardless.

So basically, no need for retaliation.

Let them boycott. I can't wait.