Chinese Economics Thread

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Brigadier
I really really really wished you did not ask me this. Up to now I have been living in continual bliss while under the state of denial.
I dont live in a town,but live 30 minutes south of the "Presidential Highway."and away from Clintonstan

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Presidential Highway between Clinton and Gore, New Zealand (ChristineV48, Jan 2016)
Clinton
the photos are worth looking at, and theres a nice food place for a dinner date mam

darn the sites down i see if i can find another one

wellll ..... the reason I asked you because you said "you couldn't find Hisense" ..... I was very surprised .... I see Hisense in every shop ... even Australian Open (Tennis) main stadium is called Hisense arena ... so I didn't really want to know where do you live (who cares anyway :) ) ... just roughly what country ... I dont see anything wrong with that ... .dont be too sensitive
 

broadsword

Brigadier
wellll ..... the reason I asked you because you said "you couldn't find Hisense" ..... I was very surprised .... I see Hisense in every shop ... even Australian Open (Tennis) main stadium is called Hisense arena ... so I didn't really want to know where do you live (who cares anyway :) ) ... just roughly what country ... I dont see anything wrong with that ... .dont be too sensitive

It is at Obama.
 

Lethe

Captain
I wouldn't say its cultural cultural but rather private capital and consumer market cultural. When it comes to leading consumer innovation there are huge risks starting with whether there will be market adoption, if so then there will likely be competition and fighting over standardization, possibly technological change curveballs and game changers, and an eventual race to the bottom in commoditization. It takes strategic vision, a lot of risk appetite, large investments, leadership persistence and adaptation over a relatively long time. Unless a company is primarily targeting its own country's consumer market where it may have home field advantages, or at least no disadvantages, it may just find the endeavor too risky. Beta vs VHS is the only genuine foreign-domestic competition example I can think of. Depending on the industry China's, as well as India's, companies may have the advantage over Japan or South Korea of targeting their own country's market rather than having to target another country or region.

I am not an expert, but my impression is that Sony remained essentially Japanese, responsive first and foremost to domestic market considerations -- and that this is what led them to fail to take notice and of and respond adequately to developments elsewhere.

For a specific example, I think the Japanese music industry was hostile to digital music -- well, that was the case everywhere of course, but my impression is that in Japan the structure of the industry served to discourage investment in iPod-style solutions. The other problem is that Japan already had its "next generation after CD" solution well-established in MiniDisc, which had been quite successful in Japan if not abroad.

Of course these things are not absolute. I have a Chinese smartphone (Xiaomi) and am very satisfied with it. It is a quality product at a very affordable price. But at the same time it is certainly a "follower" of established trends, and runs an American operating system and British CPU architecture, so there is still a long way to go before we can talk of China as being a leader in this space. At the same time I still own a number of Sony products, including a TV and waterproof Walkman that I use for swimming.
 

B.I.B.

Captain
wellll ..... the reason I asked you because you said "you couldn't find Hisense" ..... I was very surprised .... I see Hisense in every shop ... even Australian Open (Tennis) main stadium is called Hisense arena ... so I didn't really want to know where do you live (who cares anyway :) ) ... just roughly what country ... I dont see anything wrong with that ... .dont be too sensitive

Sorry. I was having a joke while making a political statement.
The highway has been renamed in honour of American Democractic politics.. And what did we end up with Gore for climate change Clinton/ O bama for their anti China stance. It was a pity the site was down because futher down the road there is a photo of a eatery displaying a Chinese translation of some english , to help the Chinese tourists.

Gore and his views on climate change prompted our then government to consider introducing a fart tax on cows. I ll see if I can see find a photo to show the Arginteans reacted.

AS for Hisense I asked my dad to goole JB Hi Fi Nz to see if there were any Hisense products and he said there was'nt.

Here we go

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Methane released by cows as a result of their digestive processes is a problem. It accounts for 25% of all methane emissions, and methane happens to be one of the worst greenhouse gases. Pound for pound, the comparative impact of methane on climate change
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over a 100-year period.

If the problem (and cows' role in it) wasn’t that serious, the Obama administration wouldn’t have
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to cut the methane emissions from the dairy industry by 25 percent by 2020. But while the American government might not have thought of this funny a solution for such a serious problem,
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has come up with quite an innovative (and amusing) one.

Meet the cow-fart-backpack that wants to fight climate change.



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The reasoning behind the device is the following – what if we could found a way to capture the nearly 300 litres (or 80 gallons) methane a day, an average cow emits, and turn that gas into useful biofuel? Developing the backpack, the institute's goal was to show that such a process is possible. And so it did.

The backpack manages to capture and collect the gases emitted through the cow’s mouth or intestinal tract via a tube inserted through the cow’s skin (which the researchers claim is painless). The gas is then condensed and ready to use to provide power for the farm on which the cow lives, for example, for activities such as cooking, lighting a home or even driving a car.
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, one of the technicians working on the project, the 300 liters of methane per day a cow emits, can be used to operate a fridge capacity of 100 liters at a temperature of between two and six degrees for a full day.

As of now, there are no plans to produce and use the backpack on a large scale, but the device surely shows an interesting way to approach a problem. Ingenious, funny or disturbing? You decide.



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while looking for the SCS news now
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/chinas-scs-strategy-thread.t3118/page-393#post-429219
I noticed about "supply-side structural reform" (the first time I've heard of it) in Yearender-Xinhua Insight: From plans to progress: the first year of China's supply-side reform
source is Xinhua | 2016-12-18 17:43:37
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Well. Sorry to bother you with such a tone-twisted phrase. China's official ecnomists created it to avoid using some sensitive phrase like 'Residual Value', 'Over Production', and/or 'Ecnomic Crisis', which should belong to your capitalist countries!:D
LOL
indeed I had been taught in a high school like 30 years ago there could be NO overproduction in planned economy etc.
 
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B.I.B.

Captain
I am not an expert, but my impression is that Sony remained essentially Japanese, responsive first and foremost to domestic market considerations -- and that this is what led them to fail to take notice and of and respond adequately to developments elsewhere.

For a specific example, I think the Japanese music industry was hostile to digital music -- well, that was the case everywhere of course, but my impression is that in Japan the structure of the industry served to discourage investment in iPod-style solutions. The other problem is that Japan already had its "next generation after CD" solution well-established in MiniDisc, which had been quite successful in Japan if not abroad.

Of course these things are not absolute. I have a Chinese smartphone (Xiaomi) and am very satisfied with it. It is a quality product at a very affordable price. But at the same time it is certainly a "follower" of established trends, and runs an American operating system and British CPU architecture, so there is still a long way to go before we can talk of China as being a leader in this space. At the same time I still own a number of Sony products, including a TV and waterproof Walkman that I use for swimming.

A Caucasian friend of mine reckons, even Chinese phones like Huawei 9 which is promoted as a phone in the same group as Iphone Samsung etc with the main retail shops in the West, still has the feel that its primarily aimed at the China/Asian market.
I didnt feel that, but now that he mentioned it Ive started to think about it.
 
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