The rise of China's techies.Workers aren't just making tennis shoes tennis shoes npl → zapatillas fpl de tenis tennis shoes npl → (chaussures fpl de) tennis mpl tennis shoes tennis in Dalian, one of the Chinese cities that are grabbing business as knowledge centers as well as manufacturing hubs. It has become a center for outsourcing by Japanese companies This is a list of companies from Japan. Note that 株式会社 can be (and frequently is) read both kabushiki kaisha and kabushiki gaisha (with or without a hyphen). See that article for more details. that want to tap China's low-cost brainpower brain·pow·er n. 1. Intellectual capacity. 2. People of well-developed mental abilities: a country that doesn't value its brainpower. Noun 1. . GE, Microsoft, and Sony are setting up operations, and young Chinese are working as data-entry technicians, call-center operators, and programmers to get onto the first rung of the high-tech ladder. For China to advance from basic software outsourcing to design, says a Chinese science planner, "we have to build more products from our own intellectual property," which will require improving the innovative capability of the younger generation." For this to occur, he says, changes to China's rigid, rote rote 1 n. 1. A memorizing process using routine or repetition, often without full attention or comprehension: learn by rote. 2. Mechanical routine. education system will need to be made. --Thomas L. Friedman [6/24/04] OPINION features excerpts of pieces by columnists from the Op-Ed page and other sections of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. All columns from the last seven days are available at nytimes.com; Op-Ed pieces (by columnists and outside contributors), plus Editorials and Letters to the Editor, are at nytimes.com/opinion. Please let us know what you think of OPINION at upfront@scholastic.com. |
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