China continues to produce more steel than the rest of the world, COMBINED

[Shotgunner51]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-faces-new-pressure-from-eu-to-curb-steel-overproduction-1472971334
China produced 466 million tons of steel in the first seven months of this year, or half the world’s total output, according to the Brussels-based World Steel Association. It cut production a marginal 0.5% from the year-earlier period, while the rest of the world cut output 1.2%.

You mean rise of protectionism in the west? Sure there are, I saw that too, hilarious aren't they? I wonder who are practicing free-market capitalism these days, and who are trying to hide state-sponsored incompetence behind trade barriers.

Instead of resorting to protectionist measures, Brussels should let incompetitive industries simply CLOSE down. Remember their shipbuilding industry? I expect China steel to increase global market share from 50% to further more.

 

[AndrewJin]

You mean rise of protectionism in the west? Sure there are, I saw that too, hilarious aren't they? I wonder who are practicing free-market capitalism these days, and who are trying to hide state-sponsored incompetence behind trade barriers.

Instead of resorting to protectionist measures, Brussels should let incompetitive industries simply CLOSE down. Remember their shipbuilding industry? I expect China steel to increase global market share from 50% to further more.

Yes, most people, either deliberately or fooled by western corporate media, confuse over-capacity with production.
China does have over capacity problem.
But I don't see any trend that the percentage of China's production will decrease.
Some steel company in Australia has closed up....
We will see more such cases....
But in China, driven by the demand of increasing urbanisation rate from 50% to 70-80% (1-1.5% increase per year), steel production won't fluctuate too much.

All I see is metro construction is at least 10 times faster than one decade ago.
Remember the BYD Skyrail? The market is worth several trillion yuan in China's several hundred smaller cities with relatively lower urbanisation rate.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

Yes, most people, either deliberately or fooled by western corporate media, confuse over-capacity with production.
China does have over capacity problem.
But I don't see any trend that the percentage of China's production will decrease.
Some steel company in Australia has closed up....
We will see more such cases....
But in China, driven by the demand of increasing urbanisation rate from 50% to 70-80% (1-1.5% increase per year), steel production won't fluctuate too much.

All I see is metro construction is at least 10 times faster than one decade ago.
Remember the BYD Skyrail? The market is worth several trillion yuan in China's several hundred smaller cities with relatively lower urbanisation rate.

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Umm.. Steel consumption depends on change in urbanization rate, not absolute urbanization rate, and the urbanization rate increase is pretty steady (even decreasing).

China does have huge overcapacity problem, even recognized by all state bodies. Firstly, its factories are not operating at full capacity, then the steel they are producing is often going in untenable projects, which are financed just to keep growth up.

I don't say all China's growth is stupid.

But, there are sectors of Chinese economy, that are extremely troublesome. Like ghost companies who keep borrowing and borrowing, and producing nothing for the market. Or projects undertaken simply to boost GDP.

China should learn from Japanese experience, and not let this problem go out of hand.

 

[AndrewJin]

New Countryside Movement
Rebuilt the beautiful countryside in China
Imagine how much cement, brick and steel they will need in China's several thousand towns!


2015-2030 Vision
Qingyan Town, Guizhou Province
Urbanisation at the town level

Villages in Gaofeng Town, China's poorest Guizhou Province

Villages in Dahe Town, Guizhou Province

Penglai Village, Niuchang Autonomous Township of Buyi, Guizhou Province

A town in Zunyi, Guizhou Province

 

[rott]

Ok thats what I thought too.

Here is a report:

http://studyinchina.universiablogs.net/2015/03/25/xiamens-population-soon-to-reach-mega-city-status/

Its probably a domestic classification that the quiz creator confused:

http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/139806/35-most-populous-world-cities-with-a-map

Xiamen and Fujian province is the ancestry of many Chinese in South East Asia like Singapore. They speak a lot of the Hokkien and Teochew dialects in Singapore...and the cuisine is well known. I like this cuisine a lot....hokkien mee, prawn rolls and the soups.

Hakka dishes are the most tastiest.

 

[AndrewJin]

Hakka dishes are the most tastiest.

There is an eatery called Sha County Snack 沙县小吃， found on nearly every street in China.....
Their food is mostly Hakka.
Cheap but clean and delicious
They have an association, you have to be a resident of Sha County to take part in this big business!
There are 20k-30k official members!
It means 20k-30k Sha County family businesses around China!

Their menu is quite big for a fast food style of eatery.
A/C is always provided, prices are cheap in any one of them including Shanghai!

This is my favourite.
3-4yuan, noodle with sesame sauce

wonton and noodle soup
5-6yuan

3-4yuan
steamed dumping

Back on topic, in Fujian Province where this county is located, will see even more projects in the next 1-2 decades compared to the last decade.
Urbanisation rate is 56% in Fujian Province, much higher than the national average, but still extremely low.

Expressways in Fujian Province
(this is where President Xi has spent 18 years in his political career from mayor to province governor)

Xiamen City's first sea tunnel linking Xiamen Island to Mainland

And let's not forget Fujian's tourism potential, currently suffering from lack of tourist infra.

@eldarlmari @Mista @Dungeness @Lure @AViet @Malik Abdullah @T-Rex @Zibago

 

[AndrewJin]

This is the 13th 5-year-plan outline of Fujian Province
issued by Fujian development and report commission
http://www.fjdpc.gov.cn/show.aspx?Id=105642

Infrastructure plan outlined in chapter 8:

Transport goal:
Railway: 5000km (200+km/h 3000km)
Metro in operation/construction: >500km
Expressway: 6000km
Class 1&2 national/provincial highway: 8800km

Key transport projects

Port and airport

Key energy projects
Pipeline natural gas to every county, 3600km pipeline by 2020
installed capacity 70,000MW
500kv high-voltage transmission corridors

Key water conservancy projects

Telecommunication projects
Broad network: urban 100M, countryside 30M



Chapter 11 Intensify All-round Cooperation

Free trade zones

Key One Belt One Road projects

Pingtan Experiment Area

Pingtan strait cross-sea railway bridge, total length 16.32km,main span 532m cable-stayed bridge, upper deck 6 lane expressway, lower deck 4 track highspeed railway.

@TaiShang @bobsm

Chapter 7 Urbanisation and Regional Cooperation
Goal: 67%

Development axis, mega urban regions

@Mista @eldarlmari @powastick @terranMarine @TaiShang @Two
@Dungeness @grey boy 2 @Götterdämmerung @AViet @anant_s

 

[AndrewJin]

Some goals of Livelihood Projects
Annual growth of disposable income 8%
Average education of labor: 12 years (from 10.5) (binding)
Education spending: 21% of budge from 18.6%
New jobs: 2.75 million jobs in 5 years
Life expectancy: from 77.04 to 78.29
Slum redevelopment: 400k units (binding)
Poverty reduction: from 200k to zero (binding)

@Mista @eldarlmari @powastick @terranMarine @TaiShang @Two @jkroo @Place Of Space
@Dungeness @grey boy 2 @cirr @onebyone @Kyle Sun @Chinese Bamboo

Wuyishan Mountains, UNESCO world heritage site

Quanzhou Bay Bridge before official inauguration in 2015

@Shotgunner51 @powastick @Jguo @long_ @GS Zhou @ahojunk @TaiShang

 

[TaiShang]

Hefei records launch of 19 projects worth $4b
China Daily, October 23, 2016

A total of 19 projects, with investment reaching 25.97 billion yuan ($3.84 billion), broke ground in Hefei Economic & Technological Development Area of Hefei, capital city of East China's Anhui province, on Sunday.

Among the plans is a 3.5 billion yuan new energy vehicle plant of the Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Co, or JAC. Upon completion, the factory will produce 100,000 new energy vehicles annually, with expected annual output value hitting 30 billion yuan, according to local authorities.

German carmaker Volkswagen AG and JAC reached a memorandum of understanding in Germany earlier to set up a 50:50 joint venture on new energy vehicles, although it's not clear whether the to-be-built new plant is related to that deal.

Other projects include a two billion yuan robotics hub of the Harbin Institute of Technology Robots Group (HRG), a leading robot developer in China.

It will be HRG's biggest robotics hub in eastern China and will include HRG's eastern China headquarters, a robot manufacturing plant and a R&D center for robotics technologies, said Han Jiecai, vice-president of HRG, at the contract-signing ceremony for the project in July.

Another project is a 1 billion yuan new plant for Lenovo's tablet personal computers.

 

[Nilgiri]

Hakka dishes are the most tastiest.

Actually I know Hakka very well, lots of my best Chinese friends are Hakka...yes their food is great.

I rate along with Sichuan as my favourites food-wise.

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

This is the 13th 5-year-plan outline of Fujian Province
issued by Fujian development and report commission
http://www.fjdpc.gov.cn/show.aspx?Id=105642

Infrastructure plan outlined in chapter 8:

Transport goal:
Railway: 5000km (200+km/h 3000km)
Metro in operation/construction: >500km
Expressway: 6000km
Class 1&2 national/provincial highway: 8800km

Key transport projects
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Port and airport
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Key energy projects
Pipeline natural gas to every county, 3600km pipeline by 2020
installed capacity 70,000MW
500kv high-voltage transmission corridors
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Key water conservancy projects
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Telecommunication projects
Broad network: urban 100M, countryside 30M



Chapter 11 Intensify All-round Cooperation

Free trade zones
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Key One Belt One Road projects
View attachment 345740

Pingtan Experiment Area
View attachment 345741
Pingtan strait cross-sea railway bridge, total length 16.32km,main span 532m cable-stayed bridge, upper deck 6 lane expressway, lower deck 4 track highspeed railway.

@TaiShang @bobsm

Chapter 7 Urbanisation and Regional Cooperation
Goal: 67%

Development axis, mega urban regions
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@Mista @eldarlmari @powastick @terranMarine @TaiShang @Two
@Dungeness @grey boy 2 @Götterdämmerung @AViet @anant_s

atually, most of the investments by the overseas chinese would had went to the coastal cities only.

Fujian:

1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiamen <=== this would be the most benefitted city because it is the ancestral city for a large portion of the hokkien-speaking overseas chinese in SEA.

'Being one of the major Hokkien-speaking cities in the world and the largest in China, Xiamen and the surrounding southern Fujian cities and counties such asZhangzhou and Quanzhou are the ancestral homes to large communities of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore, various parts of Malaysia as well as the Indonesian Riau Province. The city was a treaty port in the 19th century and one of the four original Special Economic Zones opened to foreign investment and trade when China began economic reforms in the early 1980s. It is endowed with educational and cultural institutions supported by the overseas Chinese diaspora.'

2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanzhou
3)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhangzhou
4)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putian <=== where i myself have my roots in
5)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuqing
6)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzhou

Guangdong:

1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou
2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongguan
3)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen
4)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huizhou
5)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyuan
6)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meizhou
7)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jieyang
8)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaozhou
9)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantou
10)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanwei

Hainan:

1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haikou
2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenchang

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

atually, most of the investments by the overseas chinese would had went to the coastal cities only.

Fujian:

1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiamen <=== this would be the most benefitted city because it is the ancestral city for a large portion of the hokkien-speaking overseas chinese in SEA.

'Being one of the major Hokkien-speaking cities in the world and the largest in China, Xiamen and the surrounding southern Fujian cities and counties such asZhangzhou and Quanzhou are the ancestral homes to large communities of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore, various parts of Malaysia as well as the Indonesian Riau Province. The city was a treaty port in the 19th century and one of the four original Special Economic Zones opened to foreign investment and trade when China began economic reforms in the early 1980s. It is endowed with educational and cultural institutions supported by the overseas Chinese diaspora.'

2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanzhou
3)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhangzhou
4)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putian <=== where i myself have my roots in
5)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzhou

Guangdong:

1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou
2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongguan
3)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen
4)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huizhou
5)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyuan
6)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meizhou
7)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jieyang
8)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaozhou
9)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantou
10)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanwei

Hainan:

1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haikou
2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenchang

惊呆!原来福建籍海外华人竟是如此彪悍的存在!

2016-07-05 中国侨网
　　当地时间6月30日，杜特尔特在菲律宾总统府马拉卡南宫宣誓就职，成为菲律宾第16任总统。杜特尔特近日表示，希望在他执政后，能扩大菲中两国之间的经贸合作。小侨（qiaowangzhongguo）一查资料发现，杜特尔特拥有华裔血统，祖父是华人，祖籍福建。

　　目前，至少有1580万福建籍华侨华人遍布在全球188个国家和地区。小侨发现，福建籍海外华侨华人可是相当“彪悍”的存在。他们当中，有在政坛如鱼得水的政客，有身家过亿的商界巨子，他们在住在国的影响力，那可是杠杠的！
　　现而今，越来越多的福建人走出国门，也续写着新的故事，他们到底有多厉害，请接着往下看--
　　这些领导人，都是福建老乡！
　　在政界游刃有余的福建籍华人可是不少。小侨发现，东南亚好几个国家领导人的祖籍竟然都在福建。

新加坡陈庆炎

　　陈庆炎和夫人
　　新加坡现任总统，祖籍厦门马垅小东山村，陈庆炎夫人祖籍在永春( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongchun_County )，两人都会说闽南话。
　　吴作栋

　　新加坡第二任总理，祖籍福建永春。在他还是副总理兼任国防部长时，曾担任新加坡永春会馆名誉顾问。2009年10月，已卸任的吴作栋曾回到永春湖洋镇吴岭村。
　　黄金辉

　　新加坡第四任总统，祖籍福建漳州。2000年5月1日，黄金辉曾携子孙一行18人往龙海角美黎明村寻根问祖。
　　王鼎昌

　　王鼎昌（中）
　　新加坡第五任总统、也是新加坡首任民选总统。祖籍福建同安县(in Xiamen)，1918年，王鼎昌祖父漂洋过海到新加坡谋生。

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

印尼
　　阿卜杜勒－拉赫曼?瓦希德

　　阿卜杜勒－拉赫曼?瓦希德（右）
　　印度尼西亚第四任总统，祖籍福建晋江市 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinjiang,_Fujian )，他曾经派人持其亲笔信到福建寻根。在任期间，他取消了部分歧视华人和其他少数民族的政策。
　　这些国家的首富 几乎被福建籍华商承包
　　祖籍福建的海外华商历来就是世界商帮中一直不容忽视的力量，尤其是在东南亚国家，他们的经济实力和影响力都非常大。
　　在印度尼西亚、菲律宾、马来西亚、新加坡这四个国家，首富的位子都牢牢把握在福建籍华商手中，在各国富豪榜上，福建籍商人也占有不少的席位。
　　菲律宾陈永栽

　　祖籍福建晋江，11岁时到菲律宾。1959年创业，10年后成立福牧农场，将其发展成东南亚最大养猪场。1970年代初期，他创办福川烟厂，迅速崛起成为菲律宾烟草龙头。再之后，他进入啤酒业、金融业、地产业、航空业等众多行业。
　　施至成

　　祖籍福建晋江，他从一家卖鞋的小门店开始，步步为营，将SM集团发展成全球最大的大型购物中心开发与运营企业之一，同时还涉足银行、房地产、制造业等多个领域，一人占据菲律宾股票市场20%的市值。
　　马来西亚郭鹤年

　　祖籍福建福州，这些年，马来西亚的首富几乎就没换过，一直都是郭鹤年。
　　40岁时，郭鹤年成为“亚洲糖王”，一人掌握全球超过5％的糖业市场。之后，他进军酒店业创立香格里拉酒店品牌，成为一代殿堂级企业家。
　　印尼
　　最近30年来印尼首富几乎都是福建人。

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

最近30年来印尼首富几乎都是福建人。
　　林绍良

　　祖籍福建福清 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuqing )， 林绍良20岁只身下南洋。印尼独立之后，林绍良在多个行业大展拳脚，建立起庞大的“林氏王国”，被誉为“亚洲的洛克菲勒”，也是李嘉诚崛起之前的亚洲首富和华人首富。

科拉松·阿基诺

　　菲律宾第十一任总统，祖籍漳州市龙海县鸿渐村 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhangzhou )，她是菲律宾及亚洲首位女总统，于1986年至1992年在位。第四代华裔，出身于菲律宾中吕宋打拉省有名望的许寰哥家族，1861年，曾祖父许玉寰（许尚志）南渡菲律宾创业，并逐步繁衍成“许寰哥”家族。许玉寰的长孙何塞·许寰哥二世，就是阿基诺夫人的父亲。

　　1988年4月，阿基诺夫人也曾带着两个女儿回鸿渐村祭祖阿基诺夫人去世后，她的遗像也被安放于许氏家庙，供子孙祭拜。

　　

阿基诺三世

　　全名贝尼尼奥·西梅翁·科胡昂科·阿基诺三世，现任菲律宾总统,

　　阿基诺夫人的独子,2010年就任菲律宾第十五任总统，2011年8月，他在访华期间，也到鸿渐村谒祖。

　　

　　阿基诺三世回乡祭祖（图片来自中新网）

　

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

　　

吴聪满

　　安德集团（AGI）董事长，祖籍泉州，16岁移居菲律宾，并在菲律宾东方大学攻读商。今日安德集团（AGI）超过1000亿比索的庞大商业帝国，业务涉及餐饮，酒，博彩，房地产等诸多方面。2015华人富豪榜57，全球富豪榜330，净资产48亿美元

　　

陈永栽

　　被誉为东南亚“烟草大王”，祖籍泉州晋江青阳，菲律宾商界传奇人物。前身名为普通银行的联盟银行是陈氏于1977年收购，现已成为菲国第八大商业银行。菲律宾航空公司董事长、联盟银行董事长、菲华商总会名誉理事长……获得了“银行大王”、“烟草大王”、“啤酒大王”、“航空大王”等众多称号，他的业务遍及十几个国家的十几个行业。2015华人富豪榜64，全球富豪榜369，净资产44亿美元

　　

郑少坚

　　菲华银行巨擘的商业传奇。郑少坚博士，祖籍泉州永春，幼年赴菲。18岁便担任家族企业面粉厂厂长，该厂后来占有了菲律宾20%的面粉市场；在父亲的支持下，于1962年成立首都银行，他锐意创新，迅速坐上了全菲银行业的头把交椅，并刺激带动了菲律宾银行业的整体成长。在银行业取得成功后，他又相继进入汽车制造、房地产开发等行业，并在这些领域同样占据龙头地位，被公认为是菲律宾最成功的“华人大班”之一。2015华人富豪榜64，全球富豪榜369，净资产44亿美元。

　　

陈觉中

　　快乐蜂餐饮集团创始人，祖籍泉州晋江，快乐蜂分店多达两千多家，普通菲律宾人每周至少光顾快乐蜂连锁店两次，就连菲前总统阿罗约也自称为快乐蜂的铁杆粉丝，他也被誉为快餐大王。2004年，陈觉中收购了永和大王85%的股份，成为这个著名中餐品牌的新老板。2015新加坡富豪榜10，净资产22亿美元

　　日本

孙正义

　　阿里巴巴第一大股，东日本风险投资公司软银集团，祖籍莆田，1981年创建软银集团。本人持有软银44%的股票。2014年9月16日，随着阿里巴巴登陆美股市场，孙正义的财富净值涨至166亿美元，跻身日本首富。软银公司持有阿里巴巴32.3%，5月31日表示其将出售一部分股份后，持股比例将降至２８％。

　　孙正义其本贯为一支孙氏，祖先来自中国福建莆田，是中国南北朝时期南朝的刘宋时一支孙氏始祖孙凝移居高丽王朝大邱。至其祖父孙钟庆，由朝鲜半岛移居日本九州。他是出生、定居日本的第三代华裔。

　　2015年的首富软银社长孙正义的全球排名则从第42位大幅跌至第75位，资产为141亿美元。

马来西亚

郭鹤年

　　马来西亚首富，祖籍福州市盖山，享有“亚洲糖王”“酒店业巨子”“香格里拉之父”的美誉，业务从白糖、酒店、房地产、船务、矿产、保险、银行、传媒到粮油，旗下资产最大部分都在香港，包括大量的香港豪宅、商场、酒店、办公室、南华早报集团、香格里拉酒店集团等等。2015华人富豪榜16，全球富豪榜110，净资产113美元。

郭令灿

　　马来西亚大型联合企业丰隆集团的掌舵人，丰隆创始人郭芳枫之侄，祖籍福建同安，生于新加坡。郭氏兄弟分家后，由郭令灿主管其父郭芳来所获得丰隆集团在马来西亚的业务，并加入马来西亚国籍。丰隆集团现已发展成为马来西亚最大华人企业集团之一，在马来西亚、新加坡、菲律宾及香港拥有13家上市公司。

　　。他财富中最大的一部分是来自在香港上市的投资控股公司国浩集团。他的商业利益还涉及金融服务、物业开发以及遍布东南亚的酒店，其丰隆银行仍在寻求收购国贸资本这家马来西亚银行。2015华人富豪榜45，全球富豪榜265，净资产56亿美元

　　

李深静

　　马来西亚IOI集团执行主席，祖籍泉州永春县东关镇，早年从事房地产及工业氧气，后来发展油棕业，成为马来西亚最大的上市种植公司，业务包括油脂化学、炼油、产业发展和娱乐休闲事业等。李深静也兼任马来西亚博特拉大学董事，马来西亚油棕公会理事，隆雪中华工商总会顾问等职。2015福布斯华人富豪榜第62名，全球富豪榜第352名。净资产 46亿美元

　　

杨忠礼

　　现时乃杨忠礼机构创办人及执行董事长，祖籍福建金门县，1983年马来西亚雪兰莪州苏丹殿下颁赐拿督勋街，1996年晋封拿督斯里勋衔。1985年最高元首陛下颁赐丹斯里勋衔。杨忠礼机构业务遍布全球，在海外，英国人喝的水、建筑用的洋灰；区域内，有马、新和印尼人民用的电；而国内，从居住的房地产、去吉隆坡国际机场的直透快铁（ERL）、通讯和上网的YES4G，还有酒店业、产业信托等，所涉及业务非常多元。2015华人富豪榜97位，全球富豪榜603位，净资产30亿美元。