Wednesday, November 02, 2005

China facing a scarcity of labor?

"China's high-tech success is not patently obvious"
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0f6a38e4-4b6f-11da-997b-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=2aaa1c16-afc8-11d9-ab98-00000e2511c8.html
Financial Times
November 2, 2005

The author argues that China might actually be facing a scarcity of manpower, rather than a glut of it. According to the author, "China has yet to show it can turn R&D into internationally successful products. [Further, the links] between state research centres and industry are often weak. "

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