Those are the companies that are likely to be at the forefront of Chinese value-added overseas.
According to a growing body of research, somewhere between one-third and one-half of the value of U.S. imports from China is actually Chinese value-added.
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Like the UC-Irvine iPod study before it, the ADBI analysis found that just a tiny fraction of the cost of producing the iPhone is Chinese value-added.
What is more notable about these impressions is that all but a handful of the Chinese firms are essentially only capturing value in the Chinese domestic market.
U.S. business leaders and members of Congress want to see the Chinese currency appreciate in value as a way to reduce the U.S.-Chinese trade surplus.
Mr. Quelch: I think that Chinese companies will add value initially in the B-to-B (business-to-business) sector, not the B-to-C (business-to-consumer) sector.
And over time, as more of the Chinese economy gains its value from IP, then IP protections (in reality, not merely in the law) will grow stronger too.
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Though the Chinese yuan's value has been Topic A, key American manufacturers, like the automakers, focus on the yen, suggesting its weakness is the secret to Japan's productive prowess.
Francis Lun, managing director of Lyncean Holdings in Hong Kong, said the accuracy of the export number was in doubt, based on what is known about the value of Chinese goods passing through Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese territory.
Because the value of imported inputs accounts for about half of the value of Chinese exports, a stronger Yuan reduces the prices of imported inputs used to manufacture and assemble products in China for export to the United States and elsewhere.
One important role companies can play for this Chinese generation is creating shared value in culture.
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Chinese people place an immense value on education, and abhor anything that might distract students from their books.
In a sense, salt is merely reasserting its historic role as a medium of value: Ancient Chinese economies were based on it (and iron).
We can see the value added of that Chinese worker on the Foxconn line in this paper here.
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Some speculators are already placing their bets, swapping their dollars for yuan, on the assumption the Chinese currency will soon jump in value.
Many wealthy Chinese buy property as a store of value.
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Some analysts, looking at a recently released Chinese central bank report, think the Chinese will adjust the currency's value in the spring or the summer, but the evidence of the intention to do so is ambiguous at best.
"Chinese people put quite a lot of value on 'face, ' " says 23 year-old winner Cheng Pei Quan, who earned the nickname "The King of Collars" because he can sew 95 collars an hour, a third more than average.
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The probe comes after European manufacturers alleged that Chinese firms were selling panels below their market value.
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Most Chinese exports to the US are still lower value manufactured goods such as clothing and shoes.
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The move by China comes after European manufacturers alleged Chinese firms were selling panels below their market value, thanks to subsidies from Beijing.
Of material importance in the rumors is Yahoo's 39% stake in the Chinese internet company Alibaba, which adds uncertain value to Yahoo's holdings.
The Chinese government said it will gradually increase the value of the yuan compared to the US dollar over the next several years.
During America's boom, it was easy to get a mortgage for 100% or more of the value of a home, but Chinese buyers have had to put down a minimum deposit of 30%.
The fact that a 21 percent increase in the value of the Yuan was met with a 38.7 percent increase in import value means that the quantity of Chinese imports demanded increased by nearly 15 percent after the price change.
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Meanwhile, the value of land sales in 130 Chinese cities fell 13% in 2011 to 1.86 trillion yuan, with residential land sales plunging 24% to 1.24 trillion yuan last year, China Real Estate Index System said in a separate note earlier.
In America it was easy to get a mortgage for 100% or more of the value of a home, but Chinese buyers must put down a minimum deposit of 20-30%, depending on the home's size, and as much as 40% on second homes.
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The next phase of the industrial growth of China will, consequently, involve increased value content of the products produced by Chinese companies.
Following in the footsteps of a groundbreaking and widely-cited 2007 UC-Irvine study, which disaggregated the components of a Chinese-assembled Apple iPod and assigned its constituent value to the companies and countries responsible for their production, two researchers at the Asian Development Bank Institute applied a similar analysis to the Apple iPhone.
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