Demystifying China’s Manufacturing Success

Demystifying China’s Manufacturing Success

One might wonder how China has managed to reach the technological frontier in many sectors despite its low per capita GDP, and how it has kept the prices of the cutting-edge technologies it produces very low. In both cases, an important part of the answer is China’s massive scale.

China Puts New Restrictions on E.V. Battery Manufacturing Technology

The Chinese government said on Tuesday that it would restrict any effort to transfer out of China eight key technologies for manufacturing electric vehicle batteries, a move that could cement the country’s already dominant role in the production of electric cars. The plan could make it harder for Chinese electric carmakers to set up factories overseas, as the European Union has pushed them to do. Effective immediately, any overseas transfer of t…

Demystifying China’s manufacturing success

Zhang Jun singles out China's massive scale, inclusive education, and horizontal competition as key reasons for its manufacturing success