Economists also expected the mildest slip in manufacturing output but were horrified to learn of a 1.5% slide reducing annual output to growth of just 1.3%.
According to DigiTimes, Gou said the program will give the engineers an environment to learn the Chinese language and first-hand experience in the manufacturing process.
And while there are plenty of studies for and against the value of social media in B2B marketing in general and manufacturing specifically, it is unequivocal that how customers choose to learn is changing quickly for even the most marketing-driven companies.
Or consider the case of a manufacturing firm that builds a new plant with an estimated life of 30 years, only to learn a year later that the widgets the plant was built to produce have become obsolete.
And we also need to give more community colleges the resources they need to become community career centers -- places where folks can learn the skills that local business are looking for right now, from data management to high-tech manufacturing.