Today, China faces higher labor costs and competition from increasingly sophisticated manufacturing machinery.
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Many of these jobs are health-care and engineering support positions, driven by the aging baby boomer population and the increasing automation of technology and manufacturing machinery.
Many of these smaller cities are becoming hubs for fast growing industries such as electronics, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and machinery.
Key industries in the region that are expected to benefit the most include: construction, machinery manufacturing, fabricated metal manufacturing, water transportation, professional and technical services, electrical equipment manufacturing, plastics products manufacturing and primary metals manufacturing.
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Meanwhile, China is moving up the value chain into high-tech capital goods and is poised to account for about a third of global manufacturing of advanced machinery and equipment within a decade, from about 8% today, Mr. Zhu said.
In recent years, Indian companies have invested billions of dollars in the United States -- in American machinery, manufacturing, mining, research, technology.
Some of the industries within manufacturing that have shown the strongest growth over the last 12 months have included machine shops, manufacturers of metalworking machinery, plastics product manufacturing and manufacturers of electrical equipment and components, Sageworks data shows.
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It is pushing for greater imports of high-tech machinery to improve manufacturing and more construction in the interior for urbanization.
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Machinery imports are particularly weak, indicating a downturn in manufacturing.
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