Originally posted by AsnDragon at 16-2-2014 04:28
Weelock--- Personally, I think the sex trade in DG is more than 10% of it's GDP. Sure there are places like Chang An and Houjie that have thriving factories of different tech and textile sectors. Howe ...
An interesting argument!
I think maybe you are putting the tail before the dog, as the expression goes. DG became a manufacturing town not because of the sex trade but because of the proximity to the SAR. And because it's pretty much always been a shithole, so cheaper than SZ. The 5 star hotels were built to support the foreigners and Chinese businessmen that came to town, not to support the sex industry. You can see the same thing happening in northern cities that have built new factories. Go to Fujian province and look at the hotels they have built recently. There is no reason for hotels like that to exist in some cities, except for the factories that moved there 5 years ago.
DG is too expensive now to manufacture many things if you are smart in the ways of China. If you are a new new company or don't have experience in China, it's a relatively civilized and safe place to get things made. It's much less of a headache.
CEOs don't give a rats ass about the amount of sex available near their factories. They care about price, and they almost never have to go there. That's why it moved from Taiwan to China, and why it's now leaving China for Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
The sex trade follows the money, not the other way around. |
