Factory output climbed 19.2 percent from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said in Beijing. That was more than the 18.2 percent median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of 25 economists. Exports slid 1.2 percent. Imports rose 26.7 percent.
Ainan wrote:A Chinese achievement using German technology(Max Bogel) managed by Frenchmen(Systra) and manufactured in Germany by Germans(Siemens).
When the West finally collapses the world will enter a Dark Age once again.
yeahbut wrote:Ainan wrote:A Chinese achievement using German technology(Max Bogel) managed by Frenchmen(Systra) and manufactured in Germany by Germans(Siemens).
When the West finally collapses the world will enter a Dark Age once again.
Riiiight...because the West has never borrowed any inventions or technology from the Chinese- barring the compass, gunpowder, paper, and printing that is. Going back a bit further, there's the potter's wheel, the seed drill and the iron plough, and forward in time a few thousand years we have the invention of paper money, the blast furnace, and all kinds of cool weaponry including fire lances, landmines, hand cannons and aerodynamic rockets with explosive payloads. And as far as oil goes, "The earliest known oil wells were drilled in China in 347 CE. They had depths of up to about 800 feet (240 m) and were drilled using bits attached to bamboo poles.[1] The oil was burned to evaporate brine and produce salt. By the 10th century, extensive bamboo pipelines connected oil wells with salt springs".wikipedia
With no history or culture of invention, the Chinese would be as helpless as lambs without Western technology
Sixstrings wrote:[So I think the West will continue to be the cradle of innovation
mattduke wrote:Factory output climbed 19.2 percent from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said in Beijing. That was more than the 18.2 percent median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of 25 economists. Exports slid 1.2 percent. Imports rose 26.7 percent.
Chinese factory output climbes 19% in one year.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... eAjDY60ITY
Google's new phone to be built by Taiwanese company.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... stpop_read
Nearly 150 years after American railroads brought in thousands of Chinese laborers to build rail lines across the West, China is poised once again to play a role in American rail construction. But this time, it would be an entirely different role: supplying the technology, equipment and engineers to build high-speed rail lines.
The Chinese government has signed cooperation agreements with the State of California and General Electric to help build such lines. The agreements, both of which are preliminary, show China’s desire to become a big exporter and licensor of bullet trains traveling 215 miles an hour, an environmentally friendly technology in which China has raced past the United States in the last few years.
Sixstrings wrote:And so it goes, while we fiddle with our iPads and stroke our egos on facebook, China continues to take the lead on everything else.
Ludi wrote:Sixstrings wrote:And so it goes, while we fiddle with our iPads and stroke our egos on facebook, China continues to take the lead on everything else.
What are you doing to "take the lead" since you aren't spending time on iPads and Facebook?
americandream wrote:What makes you think he/she isn't? Bit presumptuous of you, innit?
mos6507 wrote:China is playing a long-term strategy and the US can't stop thinking short-term. So that gives China the edge economically, like a chess player who can think several extra moves ahead. The problem is that China hasn't properly factored in limits to growth, which has the potential to derail their plans, high-speed-rail or no high-speed-rail. So China's top-dog status is likely to be short-lived.
hillsidedigger wrote:It seems the U.S. would need to borrow money from China in order to pay them to do any rail work.
Sixstrings wrote: Facebook, on the other hand, is all about showing off pictures of yourself, blogging about yourself, notifying the world of your personal relationship "status," twittering the world about what you ate for lunch, etc.
efarmer wrote:This is a big mistake on our part, we need to take a huge idle auto plant
in the Midwest, and put a corporate team together to belch out passenger rail equipment, both light rail and heavy rail passenger cars.
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