The Manufacturers of China Rebuild Dream for Americans 

     There are many articles to condemn that Chinese companies in the United States stole Americans' High-techs, jobs and so on,  I feel there is something to say. 

     Indeed, for such arguments, the US government itself has gave a positive answer with a systematic investigation.

    May 2015, the U.S. National Committee on US-China Relations issued investigation report New Neighbors: Chinese Investment in the US by Congressional District:

     "The recent wave of Chinese FDI has brought new Chinese neighbors to towns across America: From 2000 to 2014, Chinese firms spent nearly $46 billion on new establishments and acquisitions in the US, most of it in the past five years. As of the end of 2014, we count 1,583 establishments by Chinese firms in the US, stretching across all regions of the country."

     "Chinese-affiliated companies now directly employ more than 80,000 Americans: The recent US expansion of Chinese companies means more than 80,000 Americans are on Chinese company payrolls, up from fewer than 15,000 five years ago. These figures do not include indirect employment during construction or at suppliers, which would add tens of thousands of additional jobs."

     "Chinese companies are contributors to American innovation and competitiveness: There is no evidence that Chinese investors are moving high value-added activities back to China." 

    “The United States is competing with dozens of other attractive economies including Europe, Australia, Canada, and Brazil for these new capital flows. Recent years have seen greatly stepped-up local-level effort by mayors, governors, and other local officials to attract these new investors to the neighborhood.”

    Clearly, the facts show that, this time, in terms of attracting the investment of China, the United States is wised up and won. 
     The criticism and suspicion for China's companies' investment in the United States do not meet the actual situation at all. It indicates that some people are mental immaturity with childish and irrational. They can not systematically and comprehensively look at the issue, with suspicious mind to look at the serious socioeconomic problems.   

    I once wrote many articles to discuss the nature of Entrepreneur and Enterprise, such as, Jun 25 2013 article My view on Entrepreneur and Enterprise inspired by Peter Shoore, July 4 2013 article My View on the Argument of Social Polarization, Sept. 12 2014 article The death of a Canadian business owner and recent April 29 2015 article Canada's economy is faced at vital crossroads. 

     My purpose is only one. The one that help people build a rational and a only right mind. The mind that enterprise is a lifeboat. The lifeboat is sharing by employer and all employees to struggle for survival in nowadays hardship living environment. 
    We should not just blindly criticize the social polarization of wealth, we must rationally view that, from the perspective of organizing and manufacturing of material wealth for humans survival, the wealth of entrepreneurs or the majority of the Rich is socially shared and in playing the role as public wealth.

    In the article Canada's economy is faced at vital crossroads, I indicate that: 

    Manufacturer (Company or Enterprise) is the basic cell and main driving force of the economy by integrating the intelligence, Capital, Knowledge, Technology, and Market together and playing the role as protagonists of scientific and technological innovation.

    Manufacturer is the organizer of large-scale socialized production, it organizing and training social members to create material wealth with providing jobs for social members make living and tax revenue for social governing, thus to create a stable community, by which that people can work and live to enjoy a prosperous life.

    Manufacturer is the cornerstone of social stability and sustained progress.

    In the article My view on Entrepreneur and Enterprise inspired by Peter Shoore, I indicate that:

    Enterprises are the important organization of social production to create material wealth for human survival, and the entrepreneurs invest their money to run the enterprises with a frugal living and risk taking, to provide employment for public living and revenue for social governing. Thus, their enterprises are to be shared publicly in playing the role as social wealth.

    From this point of view, the Entrepreneurs are the best civil servants, and the communists in reality.

    However, historically, in worldwide, it has been lacking of concerning and supporting for Entrepreneurs, even, until now, there great many people are with hostile attitude toward them. The law seems to have ignored this group also, but tended to protect employees without updating of the outdated traditional concept of ideology from the times of Industrial Revolution with ignoring that modern society has provided thoughtful social welfare and comprehensive legal protection.

    The outdated ideology and practice has badly affected the work ethic of employees and to have made Enterprises difficult for managing, even, encouraging some mindless employees' pranks boldly in the workplace without the fear of being punished. It is not only badly affecting the production efficiency, but more terrible, it even caused the closure of some Enterprises.

    Feb. 9 2014 Management is the Art of Playing Human Nature, I indicate that:

    Human behaviors are determined by dual natures: The culture nature of those acquired qualities, and the animal nature of those inborn instincts. 

    The Management is to finish purposeful tasks with the culture nature driven by meeting the animal nature with payment under the enforcement of regulations. 

    Therefore, the Management is the Art of playing human natures.

    The failure of the socialist practice was not fully due to the Autocracy Governance and the Planned Economy, but essentially was due to that it over relied on the human culture nature by madly suppressing the exertion of human animal nature under the enforcement of State Apparatus.

    The success of the capitalist practice is not fully due to the Democracy Governance, but due to the Market Economy that benefits society by meeting the greedy of human animal nature through gaining profit according to the needs of the society in the marketplace. 

    There were a lot of researches on the economic success of China, and most of them attributed the success to the magic of the Invisible Hand. But, that was not fully true with ignored the essence - it was that China has broken the egalitarian wage system, that implemented for decades in the socialist period, to have largely increased the share of work performance-related payment.

    In consideration of market competing, Adam Smith's Invisible Hand is mainly driven by human animal nature - selfish and greedy. 

    In the article My View on the Argument of Social Polarization, I indicate that:

    Adam Smith, in his famous book he Wealth of Nations, suggests that benefits society by playing selfish and greedy of human animal nature with free competing in the marketplace under the control of invisible hand. Whether you prefer or not, the fact is clear, that market economy has stimulated the prosperity of the material wealth to have ensured the basic needs of human survival.   

     World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012 has specially debated on Capitalism. Some people said that Capitalism was dead. I say that suppose Capitalism was dead, the world would be dead, too. Because of, currently, we have no proper social system or any alternative can well organize the production of social material wealth driving by human animal nature.

    Whether the socialism or the capitalism they are both the comprehensive social system, but in essential, in consideration of human survival, they are both the social production model of the material wealth.   

    Human needs a social model to maintain the production of material wealth for survival. The practice has showed that socialism was not work, whether you prefer or not, the capitalism is a only choice currently, and thus, the Social Polarization is inevitable byproducts. 

    The society urgently needs to establish a clear ideology that most of those Rich are the good organizer of the production of social materials wealth with their money. They are playing the role as civil servants. They are the communists in reality.   

     Social Polarization is unreasonable, in consideration of Universal Value; it should be or must be eliminated. However, in consideration of the need of human survival and human unchangeable nature of animal, its presence should be or say that it must be, or even say that it has to be, because of Capitalism – the market economy is the only feasible way currently.

     We can assume that if we launch communist movement again, depriving the property of those Rich, to equally distribute to the public, to implement the vision of Karl Marx：”From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” “Jeder nach seinen Fhigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen!” Critique of the Gotha Programme 1875. Then see that what will happen.

    More than 100 years of the communist movement, and more than 70 years of practice of socialist society, has clearly proved that is impossible. Although the vision of Karl Marx is perfect for human beings, but practice proved that it did not work. However, as striking contrast, the successful social practice is that of following the vision of Adam Smith, by meeting selfish and greed of human animal nature with free competing in the marketplace, to achieve the goal of benefiting humankind, 〈The Wealth of Nations) 1776.

    The argument of Social Polarization has been greatly promoting the hostile attitude of Employees toward Employers, to psychologically blow the work enthusiasm of the Employees, and to reduce the efficiency of production of material wealth. Thus, it is playing the role of destruction of the human society.

     Facing the unequally of Social Polarization, human has two choices:  

     Firstly, to tolerate social unequally, people have jobs to earn living, thereby, to live in a prosperous life as that of those who are living in developed countries.

    Secondly, to enjoy social fair, people have no jobs to earn living, thereby, to have to live in a needy life as that of those who are living in socialist countries.

    Answer is clear. The argument of Social Polarization must be stopped immediately.

    Forbes makes the World's Billionaires List every year, I think that they may be ignored the nature of the Rich and their money. The List has been playing a role to arouse public aware of Social Polarization from time to time. It may easily cause misunderstanding and to induce public hatred mentality toward the Entrepreneurs.

    The concept of Social Polarization is worth serious reflection. It is playing a bad role to harm the society in many ways. 

    Since, the greedy brain defectives in Wall Street foolishly triggered the financial crisis 2008, in the United States, as same as that of most other countries, the business failures have caused the sharp decline in job opportunities, people began to question the once proud of the American dream.

    Now, China's entrepreneurs invest the wealth that created by industrious people of China in the United States, to create jobe for the American people making a living. In this way, to rebuild the confidence of the American dream.
    Please recall the history of Railway construction in the United States, as well as that of in Canada, if there was no industrious work of the Chinese people, the railway would not be completed. There would be no prosperity in the United States and Canada today.
    Please frankly ask yourself, to look around the world, untill today, besides China and Germany, there few countries are able to effectively organize the construction of large public projects.

    Now, I reproduce some articles to show that how the manufacturers from China to help Americans rebuild their American dream.   

A Look Inside The Fuyao Glass Factory—And Why Chinese Companies Are Coming To The U.S.

By LEWIS WALLACE ? FEB 12, 2015

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John Gauthier, president of Fuyao Glass America, gestures towards a chart of leadership positions still to be filled at the company.

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Ruan-O’Shaughnessy opens the door to a classroom of dozens of attentive workers in safety vests—it’s the first day for the first 40 production workers, who were hired through a temp agency. She says the company’s already had 1800 applications just for temp jobs here that could turn into permanent, full-time jobs with benefits after 90 days.

Sitting in a bare office, John Gauthier, the president of Fuyao Glass America, says the symbolism is clear: the Recession is in the rearview for this company town.

“It means something to us here, to be able to come here and reoccupy this [and] bring this factory back to life,” Gauthier says. He moved from Mt. Zion, Illinois, where he was the manager of a glass plant that’s also been acquired by Fuyao and will remain open as a supplier to this plant.

Gauthier says entry-level workers can expect to be paid in the range of $12 to $14 an hour, which he says is similar to prevailing wages for area manufacturers, although he wouldn’t offer up a specific figure. Past experience in the auto industry is helpful for applicants, but isn’t required.

But this Midwestern story also reflects a trend: Chinese companies are opening up shops from Texas to Indiana, with more on the way. Experts say that’s partly because wages are on the rise in China, but in the U.S., real wages for manufacturing workers have been in steady decline,particularly in the case of auto parts workers. In Ohio, auto parts workers saw a wage decline of 9.4 percent from 2003 to 2013.

Thilo Hanemann is the research director at the Rhodium Group, a research firm in New York. He says China is also less dependent on cheap labor in general.

“The growth model in China is changing very rapidly and so companies are moving from low value-added goods, socks and underwear, towards more advanced goods and services,” he says.

Mike Fullenkamp, a supervisor at the plant, says he's been looking forward to Fuyao coming to town ever since the announcement over a year ago.

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So Chinese companies need more of the kinds of skilled labor available in the U.S. Plus, they want to be close to their customers—in this case, U.S. automakers. Between that and changes in U.S. and Chinese policy, companies like Fuyao calculate they can actually cut costs in the long-run by setting up here.

Mike Fullenkamp, a supervisor at Fuyao, says he loves what he’s heard about the head of the company, Chairman Cao. He’s got a reputation as a charitable guy.

“He’s very positive, very humble,” he says. “I mean he’s a man of wealth, but he earned it himself.”

The state of Ohio offered close to $14 million in grants and tax incentives to get the company here. The total number of jobs could top 1500, and Sinclair Community College is partnering with the company to recruit workers for the positions.

The new entry planned at the Fuyao Glass Factory will have a glass facade.

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Fullenkamp takes me outside the plant on a golf cart. He says not long ago, this place looked bad, a parking lot with cracked cement, overgrown with weeds.

“The guards said they used to see a buncha coyotes running across and all that,” he says. “We’ll probably still see that, but we’re trying to tame them down a little bit. Let ‘em know it’s our home now instead of theirs.”

Fullenkamp says the company hopes to have nearly 20 lines up and running, shaping and finishing glass for almost all the major auto makers, by 2018. At five o’clock, the workers on their first day file out to their trucks and SUVs and drive off—looking ahead through glass that could, soon enough, be made in Dayton.

Lewis Wallace is WYSO's managing editor, substitute host and economics reporter. Follow him @lewispants.

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Stella Li first joined  BYD 18 years ago as a marketing manager. She recalls that during her first time representing BYD at the International Consumers Electronics Show, she walked from one exhibition booth to another to make the introduction: “We are BYD. We will become the largest lithium-ion battery manufacturer in China.”

The response?

“They said, you’re already the third one to tell us that you’re China’s No.1.” Li chuckles as the old days flash back.

Today’s BYD, which stands for “build your dream,” is not only China’s but the world’s largest manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries, servicing global clients such as Samsung, HTC and Motorola. Yet Li’s job, overseeing the U.S. market as senior vice president, isn’t that much easier, as BYD is pushing hard to build a new reputation as a global brand of electric vehicles. With its electric bus the “K9” and electric taxis the “E6,” it has been knocking on the doors of the public transportation sector abroad.

Stanford University is among BYD’s biggest return clients for electric buses: having deployed 13 on campus, it decided to add another 10 to the shuttle fleet this year. The school now comes after Los Angeles Metro, which contracted 25 electric buses, as BYD’s No.2 customer in the U.S.

To put these numbers in perspective, a South Carolina-based competitor Proterra, founded in 2004, has delivered a total of 44 electric buses by mid 2014. In 2013, less than 0.4% of the 70,000 buses in the U.S. were powered by pure electricity, and another 13.2% were hybrid buses, according to the 2014 Fact Book published by the American Public Transportation Association.

BYD’s electric taxis have yet to see any major deal in the U.S., even though it’s recently made headways in London with a lease for 200 taxis, and has a couple hundred running in South America, Hong Kong and other parts of Europe. Li says in Chicago, five electric taxis have been delivered to Uber for test drive, and that efforts are also underway in New York City without disclosing further details. Uber has not responded to repeated requests for comment.

The company’s baby steps in America are in stark contrast with its takeoff back home in China, where it has 30% market share in new energy vehicles. Though overall profits have dipped due to the rapid decline of its gasoline vehicles business, sales of electric vehicles picked up quickly in 2014. The new electric-gasoline hybrid model, Qin, has enjoyed unexpected popularity since its release early last year. Units sold shot up from less than 2,500 in the first quarter of 2014 to more than 4,000 in the third quarter, making Qin the most popular electric model off BYD’s production line. In comparison, the pure electric sedan E6 sold a little over 600 units in Q3 2014.

Progress in the U.S. has been “much slower” than expected in Li’s opinion. In 2013 she forecasted delivery of 200 to 300 buses to U.S. customers by the end of last year. In March, a $12 million contract with Long Beach Transit was canceled amid questions over BYD’s local salaries and compliance with Federal Transit Administration procedures.

“The U.S. market is a very conservative one. The process of purchasing electric buses is quite slow due to budgeting and regulations,” says Li. “It’s also a new industry so it takes a lot of time to win trust.”

Stella Li, BYD’s senior vice president who oversees the North American market.

Speaking fast and with determined briskness, Li was dressed in a sports suit and a pair of bright-pink sneakers during the November interview. She was getting ready to run 400-meter-dash with other senior executives, at a company-wide track meet celebrating the 20-year-anniversary of BYD’s founding. Unable to speak English fluently when she first joined, Li now spends most of her time abroad and oversees the North American market, where the company has backed off from going directly to the consumers market and opted for institutional buyers instead.

But even without any regulatory hurdles abroad, insufficient battery capacity would still have bounded BYD’s feet. In the past year, battery production capacity was not upgraded in time to satisfy the rising demand domestically. For a few months in mid 2014, production of Qin had to be held off since all the battery capacity was deployed to fulfill a Nanjing government order for 650 buses ahead of the Youth Olympic Games, analysts say.

“BYD didn’t think [the electric cars business] would take off that quickly this year. It was a misjudgment. But perhaps nobody thought so,” says Leping Huang, an analyst at Nomura. As of December, the company claimed to have more than 10,000 back orders for Qin, while Nomura estimated another 2,000 to 3,000 back orders for buses. This battery shortage was a factor limiting the company’s overseas growth, in Huang’s opinion.

BYD has set a goal to upgrade its battery capacity by six times from a year ago by the end of 2015. It has also announced plans to adopt a new type of battery from 2015 that promises improved performance. However if the company has any technological advantage for the new battery’s mass production is still questionable, according to Scott Laprise, an analyst at CLSA.

But Li seems full of optimism. She’s already planned the next product for the U.S. market: electric trucks – garbage trucks, delivery trucks and even mixers, etc., she explains, though these trucks don’t yet exist as actual products.

“I’ve seen how the words of BYD, those that others saw as ravings, became reality step by step,” she sounds a note of confidence, referencing BYD’s rise to the top as China’s No.1 lithium-ion battery maker.

“We still have a bigger dream. We hope BYD would become a world-class brand known to every household.”rise to the top as China’s No.1 lithium-ion battery maker.

US anti-dumping duties force China's manufacturers into Ontario.