My comment: I gather two news today. Two speeches during visits. Once this economic crisis is passing away, our responsibility as Chinese toward our country and toward Humankind is growing faster than we thought before. Growth, profits, and other tradicional aims of economics are fine, but they are not enough nowadays.
China has done a miracle along 60 years to raise the country from extreme poverty to a vibrant economy. We will owe it to our former generations forever. But it is not enough. Our economy is based on mass production. Only India will compete with us in the future for that sort markets due to amount of workers and amount of consumers. But it is not enough to uplift our standard of life. China as a whole has to improve dramatically our efficiency to compete more and more with Europe and Japan in the near future on the technologics arena. To stay relaxed or timid improvements is not an option for a 1,3 billions country. Efficiency in terms of less and less amount of resources to produce same amount of goods and services, or higher production with same amount of resources. Do not mess efficiency with costs. Costs must come later. When we design something (goods, companies, houses, or whatever) it will last at least some years. Along next coming years, costs will raise and will decline. We are into a transition period. What is cheap today can be scarce tomorrow and therefore expensive, or viceversa. I mean, costs should not be not the main indicator along design process, it would not be accurate. On the other hand, efficency nevel fails. Maybe the most efficient good, process, business, etc. is not the cheapest one right now, but it will not be expensive along its life cycle in the market. Efficiency is more and more the clue that will bring technological competitiveness to any economy. Efficiency at all levels. When engineers design products, when business managers and entrepreneurs design or start businesses up, and also when we acquire goods. Each of the 1,3 billions must be aware of the efficiency of daily when we are to acquire something and or when we are to use it. Transportation, cooking, acquiring a new house, etc. every activity must be considered in terms of efficiency, not just cost. How much water my washer machinse requires, how much energy my TV monitor use, how long are they life cycle, etc. I know that governments will raise standards more and more. The more demanding we all are the easier will be for the industry to deploy new standards. And then, the better it will be for our economy and for each of us. Peace and best wishes. Xi (1) Chinese president, premier stress energy resource technology education http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/18/content_12264841.htm (2) Premier asks NW province to continue developing with ecological safety http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/18/content_12263719.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
