Ford also unveiled three SUVs at the show, including the EcoSport, which is expected to be manufactured at the company's China factory in Chongqing.
The company is one of many from the U.S. and other countries that are closely watching China as factory workers slowly return this week from the country's long Lunar New Year holiday.
Jobs shared with Obama as to how easy it was to build a factory in China and how difficult it was to build a similar factory in America.
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The figures will be good news for them, but also for the world economy, as China's factory output is indicative of global demand for the country's consumer products.
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Asha production is ramping up in China and the Manaus factory of Brazil right now.
It is even building a new factory in China, to make machines for the local market.
Cutting out the middleman at the factory in China saved 10% on their finished garments.
PSi is looking into setting up a factory in China, at a customer's behest.
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Mr Cook promptly went on a highly publicised tour of a Foxconn factory in China.
The China data showed that factory activity contracted for the first time in seventh months in May.
Ever since, I have recommended Yizheng as a location to any company thinking of setting up a factory in China.
Mr Warnock had 20, 000 of the dolls made in a factory in China, and he said he is selling them by the thousands.
There are varying reports about whether workers producing for Apple at a Foxconn factory in China have gone on strike or not.
The company has expanded throughout Europe, into the U.S. and more recently in Asia where it opened a factory in China in 2006.
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"In my factory in China, the salary of workers has been increasing steadily over the last few years, " she told me during her recent visit to Bangladesh to look for opportunities here.
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Many factory workers in Guangdong are migrant labourers from other regions of China who spend their entire lives on the factory premises, which include dormitories and cafeterias.
Cambodia has benefited in recent years from rising factory wages in China that have pushed some apparel retailers to look for cheaper places to source their products.
For Japanese automakers and parts suppliers, this has been a summer of discontent, beginning with a work stoppage on May 17 at a Honda parts factory in southern China.
As one factory boss said to me last month, wages for factory workers in China are now five times higher than in Vietnam, so he's moved all his labour-intensive work out of China.
Searching for a new business startup endeavor following a short-lived career in private collegiate funding services, the trio dove into the niche industry, acting as distributors for an established company before traveling to China to establish their own factory and set the foundation for their own company White Cloud.
And we face challenges in a global marketplace that link the trader to Wall Street to the homeowner on Main Street, to the office worker in America to the factory worker in China -- an economy in which we all share in opportunity, but we also share, unfortunately, in crisis.
Despite the fact that these jobs were good factory jobs in China, and that they may simply lead to manufacturers to replace the workers with robots, consumers made a lot of noise over this and got Apple to subject itself to increased monitoring and pressed Foxconn into giving raises.
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Second, it already operates globally, in 26 countries, including an upcoming factory in Xiangtan, China supplying parts for windmills, for instance.
Today, Solomon says, the two brothers have a good distribution of labor: Solomon handles the factory work back in China and Ellis sells.
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The car, built on Mitsubishi-designed underpinnings, will be assembled into modules in China, then shipped to a factory near Oxnard, Calif. to be completed.
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GM's main foothold in China, a half-empty factory making Buicks for local bureaucrats, may be going nowhere much, but at least it is there, unlike Ford.
BEIJING A massive blast ripped through an explosives factory Monday in eastern China, killing at least 12 people and leaving others buried in the debris, state media reported.
The "factory economies" of China and other parts of Asia will be hit particularly hard from the double whammy of falling demand for their exports and lower capital inflows.
On the greener side of things, Ceradyne opens a factory this month in China to produce gear used in the production of polycrystalline silicon for the solar power industry.
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