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Core Tip:Experts said China's fast-growing 4G telecom networks and the "Made in China 2025"development plan will lead to improvement in productivity and resource efficiency. Their potentialbenefits are even greater if they are extended to all stages
Free trade agreements that will transform China Inc

Models and an LG group executive display the South Korean company's latest products

 

Experts said China's fast-growing 4G telecom networks and the "Made in China 2025"development plan will lead to improvement in productivity and resource efficiencyTheir potentialbenefits are even greater if they are extended to all stages of the value chainsuppliers,manufacturersand customersas well as global markets.

Between 2010 and 2050, China's workforce as a share of the population will probably shrinkfrom 72 percent to 61 percentSointer-connected industrial operations will require a differentkind of workforce and skill-sets in manufacturingDemand for engineering and IT skills will likelyincreaseaccording to an October 2015 research paper of the Beijing-based Institute ofIndustrial Economicswhich operates under the aegis of the Chinese Academy of SocialSciences.

Zhi Luxundeputy director-general of the department of foreign trade at the Ministry ofCommercesaid market competition will put pressure on less qualified employees in Chineseenterprisesand Chinese units of South Korean and Australian companies may have to find newopportunities in other sectors such as services and agriculture.

"These shifts will lead to new business modelswhich will partly substitute old onesIn thiscontextthe two FTAs will bring about a profound transformation in the countryand present amajor challenge," said Zhi. "Higher productivity will allow higher wages and may help alleviatelabor shortages."

Rather than wait for the market call to get ready for battlelarge-scale Chinese manufacturerssuch as Yantai-based CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd have already taken the plunge by exportingmore offshore oil rigs and engineering vessels to compete with South Korean shipbuilders.

CIMC Raffles completed development of a $550-million deepwater semi-submersible drilling rignamed North Dragon at its Yantai production base in East China's Shandong province lastmonth.

The rig was built by CIMC Raffles for North Sea Rigs Holding AS of Norwayone of the largestoffshore oil producers in EuropeIt is the first China-made semi-submersible drilling rig capableof operating in the Arctic area with temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celsius.

The platform will be able to operate in seawater depths of up to 1,200 meters and drill to a depthof 8,000 metersCapable of withstanding sea stormsit can work in the North Sea and BarentsSea

Yu Yapresident of CIMC Rafflessaid South Korea is capable of producing icebreakersoil rigsand other specialized vesselsand China's prowess will not immediately impact South KoreanshipbuildersYetChinese companies must diversify to broaden their manufacturing expertiseand ensure their global market share is not taken by South Korean companieshe said.

"Major Chinese shipyards and heavy industry manufacturers today are keen to acquire Europeanand US maritime design and research firms in different sizesbecause this is a big part of theirtactics for gaining high-end technologies to produce core components and compete with rivals inboth home and overseas markets," said Yu.

Shipyards in China received orders for new vessels with a collective capacity of 23.58 deadweight tons between January and November in 2015, accounting for 28.7 percent of the globalmarket shareSouth Korea's shipbuilding industrya powerful rival of China'sheld 38.8 percentof the global market share during the same period.

 

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