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发帖数: 6973 | 1 VOA had a report on this. But Financial Times at the time had more, which,
judging from similar content with other news reports, suggests all media
outlets gleaned information from press release/study of IHS Global Insights.
The press release is not released to the public and thus not available
online ffree. IHS Global Insights is a privately held consultancy
headquartered at Lexington, Massachusetts and formed in 2001 out of merger
of several companies.
Peter Marsh, China Noses Back Ahead as Top Goods Producer to Halt 110-Year
US Run. FT, Mar 13, 2011 (title in the print).
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/002fd8f0-4d96
-11e0-85e4-00144feab49a.html
("Mark Killion, IHS’s head of world industry services, said, however, that
the findings from the latest data were far from bleak for US manufacturing.
'The US has a huge productivity advantage in that it produced only slightly
less than China’s manufacturing output in 2010 but with 11.5m workers
compared to the 100m employed in the same sector in China'”)
My comment:
(a) The print edition had a table. (The online version has a link with the
clause “closing of a 500-year cycle in economic history" which probably
points to the same table.)
World Leaders
Leading manufacturers since the Dark Ages*
500-1700 China or India
1700-1850 China
1850-1895 Britain
1895-2010 US
2010 China
* Statistics before 20th century are approximating.
(b) China might have been the largest manufacturing nation before 1850. But
when Matteo Ricci 利瑪竇reached Macao in 1552, it was apparent that artisans
in China could not make a lot of things the West was making.
Italian adjective "riccio" means "curly" (hair). |
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