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Article: Export drop driving China to change.(News)
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- Plastics News
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- August 17, 2009
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Byline: Steve Toloken
Stung by the collapse of their export markets, Chinese manufacturers should not look for that big-volume business to return. Instead, they should explore new areas such as niche manufacturing markets, using better industrial design and looking to Chinese culture for inspiration.
That, at least, was the advice of manufacturers and industrial designers at a Hong Kong forum on reinvigorating the manufacturing industries in the Pearl River Delta. That heavily industrialized area around Hong Kong is sometimes dubbed the "workshop of the world.
It's a hot topic in Chinese manufacturing circles these days, how to cope with the ...