below_freezing
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Exports constitute 40% of your GDP and you just imports raw material, equipment, and intermediate inputs and assemble them into a final product and export them. Most products that have the tag “Made in china” are just “assembled in China”. Unlike west, China is not counted as a country that is high tech.
Yes, you enjoy advantage over Philippines, not because of infrastructure and labour productivity, but because of your size and network. Infrastructure and labour productivity are recent phenomena. Your economy grew, hence you Infrastructure got better. It is not the other way around
Again, let us not compare India with China. This thread is about China
We are discussing about high tech/value products and not about how technology can reduce cost.
No that is perfectly valid. A computer with vacuum tubes is extremely expensive and would constitute "high value added".
Exports are not 40%. Total trade (that is, exports + imports) is 40%. You clearly do not have the mathematical ability to grasp the concept of "percent". What matters for economic growth is net exports, not total exports.
Economy of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
$7.301 trillion (nominal: 2nd; 2011 est.)
Exports: US$1.581 trillion (2010)
Imports: US$1.327 trillion (2010)
It doesn't matter what China is counted as. They can call China a primitive factor driven economy (like how they call India) for all I care but that wouldn't reduce our patents, scientific publications or number of world class companies like ICBC and Sinopec. If you have a problem, take it up with Ford, which is using Chinese machinery over German machinery for the first time in 20 years
Chinese producer wins Ford's biggest export order - People's Daily Online
or the world, which has Huawei ranked as the #1 telecom hardware company in the world beating Sony-Ericcson and #3 in patents granted
Top gear: China's Huawei outmuscles Swedish rival | Reuters
or take it up with the solar industry, of 9/10 companies are Chinese and 10/10 are Chinese owned.
Did you have a problem with that? Too bad. Your problem is with reality.