As an Indian who is working in Shanghai for the past 3 years .. let me tell you that this news piece is very shallow .. chinese labor is much more expensive than India, the enforcement of labor rules, preventing child labor and forced labor is much much more stricter than India, you can get away a lot easier doing these things in India than in china. The labor laws are very much in favor of laborers than in India. The 3 real reason which our biased media is missing is that they have 1). world class if not the best infrastructure in the world, Just a visit to china's industrial parks and you will see the massive difference between that and the indian special economic zones. Their industrial parks are super clean, amazingly organized, green.. and you will not even realize you are in an industrial zone. 2) In technological skill and automation the chinese are world class. In terms of quality they are amazing. The general stereotype of chinese quality is totally wrong .. they can make things in all quality based on the cost you pay.. we typically import the lowest cost items from china for cost and then complain about quality, the very same product at a higher price you will get in world class quality from china. The 3rd reason is the overall environment of world class engineers, expertise is various fields like tool making, chemicals, rapid prototyping ..in short everything required for product development is available in china at a world leading level. India needs to develop in all these areas. After 75 years of independence, sadly we can't even lay proper roads, and give proper drainage.. let alone roads we can't even lay manholes that are in line with roads. Sadly that is the level of our civil engineers/goverment who can't even ensure the quality of the laying manholes which do not protrude from roads and these become death traps for vehicles.

China is also the major consumer of those brands!! So China has the factories and the consumers.. leaving China means losing their buggest customer as well!! You get it now???

It's no longer cheap labour that drives companies to china. As Tim Cook himself said it's the quality of labour and efficiency of manufacturing. Companies didnot say they will leave China completely, they will only create alternate supply chains but China still will be major country to manufacture

Efficiency is a word that economist and businessmen admire.

I can still remember the joy of Indians when this channel told them factories are relocating to India from China 2 years ago hahaha

FYI those leaving China were merely production lines and only account for 20% , the core business are still in China ... Main reasons China has best infrastructures , complete supply chain, huge market with strong purchasing power , second largest economy and largest trading partner to 160 countries ....

You've just convinced me to invest in china. These figures are damn good.

I know there are small factories who try to avoid rules. But big manufacturers in China already follow all the regulations as much as they can. I know this first hand because I manufactured my products in China for many years. And I have people on the ground to control all the process. My family and I have been living in China Mainland for over 8 years. The government also very strict about these things, especially child labor. They care about making the next generation to be better not worse.

Total highway (4 lanes and above) lengths as of 2021: China🇨🇳 = 188,000 km India🇮🇳 = 1,600 km

Excellent video. A lot of double standards in the world

Good reporting but honestly, reason number 3 is not very true...well maybe yes a few years ago..entrepreneurs can get away with child labor and environmental restrictions etc..but the govn had strictly clamp down on such practices... I used have a factory there and many of my friends still do...the govn is very very stict now.

India is a place where union baji starts even before factory starts running.

You hit the nail when you said it's because if what china offers profits ,,a wealthy middle class population and a new consumer population as Chinese rise out of poverty ,meaning profits for multi national companies and they risk bring penalize by china if they leave

I'm sure India is very disappointed. Those foreign western companies promise of coming to India few years ago but did not materialised. Instead Chinese companies are the ones who came into India.

There are even more reasons beyond the one's mentioned that makes China an idea location for business. And child labour is no longer a common scene in China anymore,they have been tangible improvements in various sectors of the economy. This is evident from all people living in China and foreign governments and the officials have spoken about this.

I have been living China for long time ;The most important thing for investment is predictable cost, China's security, laws, infrastructure, stable water, electricity, transportation, and low corruption enable all investments to predict the cost, which is the most important

Chinese citizens have been lifted financially into the middle class. Therefore China's base of consumers is huge due to lifting their people out of poverty.

That was some terrific reporting by Molly. Well done!👍👌

Nice video. But let me talk about something major, I see both young and old making mistakes they shouldn't be making, I think everyone,both young and old, should have an investment plan that increases their financial return by three to six figures, the investment can be your retirement plan or your investment plan, whichever you want, but what matters most is that you have a profitable investment

The pay in China has increased 14 times is it in 20 or 30 years and is among highest in emerging markets in China. So, I don't think that it is generally cheaper, rather is more expensive than most emerging market countries in Asia for pay. I think Chinese people are hardworking & good team players, so productivity may still be rather good for the pay. I don't know, haven't seen figures on that.

I think we should add 2 more points there 1. Ease of setting up manufacturing ( supportive ecosystem and much less $$$ under the table dealing) 2. Political stability ( one party one rule is really important factor for investors) not saying it’s a good thing but it reduces risk.

I think the policies of these companies will be CHINA+1(which includes countries like India,Vietnam etc.) so that these companies can diversify their supply chain and not only dependent on china. They are not going to leave china entirely.

You conclude the world factory. I should add the world top consumer market as well.

All those factory leaving are previously reported by Wion now it slapped itself in the face for the false report by debunking itself.

"Prime Minister Modi launched the Make in India programme in 2014 with great fanfare. The programme has three key objectives: 1) increasing manufacturing growth to 12-14%, 2) increasing the share of manufacturing in GDP from 16 to 25% by 2022, and 3) creating 10 crore jobs in manufacturing by 2022. The manufacturing growth rate has averaged 6% over the last eight years, the share of manufacturing in the GDP has stagnated at 16%, and manufacturing jobs have been reduced by half."

Work culture,discipline,infrastructure,timely delivery,educational level of eople,meritocracy are the major factors in keeping the cost of production low in China.

I live and work in the USA, I only am familiar with American form of Forced labor. The USA tells a good story about the American dream, and attracts poorer immigrants. But the kind of forced labor in the USA, is based on the fear of getting fired, and people going homeless and hungry. People who have no money in the USA, have no rights.

No matter what India TV stations does to blackmail china, India will never ever measure up to china

Education, skill levels, professionalism, work culture and competitiveness of Indian workers in general are way below world class standards. We need to urgently integrate our education to world standards and fix accountability for education outcomes - and that holds good for learning and testing. We have so many good models around us to follow like Singapore, UK and USA. Cow model of education and Kota factories will not lead us anywhere. We better wake up to the fact that the average skill levels of our students is pretty meh even among SAARC countries.

Work culture - Discipline - Infrastructures - Timely delivery - Educational level of people - Meritocracy are the major factors China has them all. its hard to compete.. especially their world culture + education and supported by excellent infrastructures. it would take 50-70 years for other countries to be able to compete now.

That China still uses child labor, still uses cheap labor are things of the past. They automate their production chain. And the rise of their middle income class also means that children get to go to school, rather than working in factories.

before you become a manufacture hub, how about first get your daily air quality index in Delhi lower below 100 instead over 347 as today and with 2.3 million people di. e due to air pollution each year??

Not only those brands , lot of appliance and OEMs companies buy parts and made investments on tools. It is not easy to again replicate other geography

If only the cheap labour costs were reflected in the price you pay but in reality cheap labour= high profits margin because of the high price they charge the customer

The volatility in the market is alarming. How can i diversify my reserve across multiple markets while creating a comprehensive portfolio allocation that balances my concerns of risk aversion and returns that meet yearly inflation? I mean I've heard of people making up to $300k weeks during this crash and I'd like to know how.

You guys did a great piece on their sources of raw materials from Africa a while back. They say one thing in the media and forums like the WEF then go East, South and do exactly what they "strongly" disputed. Some companies will never see my $$$ if I can avoid it

China 🇨🇳, with 18% of the world's population, accounts for 37% of global manufacturing output in 2021. India 🇮🇳 with 17% of the world's population, just 2.1% of global industrial production?

big tax of U.S. that's why Branded Company left U.S.

Even if these international companies move out of China, majority of them won’t be coming to the democratic India, instead they go to Vietnam or Bangladesh etc…so it is not a matter of democracy or not…it is a matter of costs and profits…also factors such as infrastructure, education/skillsets and no non-sense of red tapes…

Branded companies cannot leave China at present , because no other country in the world is capable to provide such cheap , effective and efficient infrastructure as China is providing for them now.

Chinese are hardworking, intelligent and punctual. While Indians are big talker but no action. So companies are choosing China over India.

If political tensions or a major war escalate between USA and china.. what will these investors and companies do? Putting all the eggs in one basket is not a good idea, these companies needs to diversify ASAP.

In 2021, the added value of manufacturing in China and India was US$4,865.8 billion and US$446.5 billion respectively, and the added value of China's manufacturing industry is 10.9 times that of India. US is $2,200 billion, China is more than 2 times of US, China 's manufacturing added value equals US and Germany and Japan combined. A real number 1 Superpower of the world.

Because of efficiency and hard work of the Chinese people

most people do not know, for those factories moved to Vietnam, for example, the 80% of the value of the products are still belong to China, but labeled as Made in Vietnam, then 80% of profit sent back to China, Vietnam only get labor cost, which is tiny in the whole product value.

How come...few months back your channel was saying that they all are ditching china.. And now they are still there .... Kuch to garbar hay Daya..

The reason is not cheap labor or child labor. It’s the highly educated and skilled work force, it’s the state of the art infrastructure, it’s the almost entirely localized supply chain. As the host said, the on time delivery and huge local market are also key.

If China really don't care about its environment and labor welfare etc etc then you won't see such a big market in China. On the contrary, China has steadily increased the average income of its people. The average monthly salary for factory workers in middle sized cities is about 800-900 USD. And the environmental quality in China has hugely improved over the past 10 years. Child labor or forced labor? Not heard of.

as a country with huge 1.4 billion people a huge domestic market, India will certainly grow since it needs to produce for the needs of all its own people, however, since India cannot compete in the world market, therefore this growth will be slow. So definitely growth, but definitely slow, this situtation will remain for the next 500 yrs, after that only God knows, maybe there is no India in 50 yrs.

In raw a capitalist view, doing business in china is smart business; anything else would not be capitalism.

This is a good piece of news, as this puts a reality into perspective. No matter what the companies say to you on your face, the companies have a greater interest in profit margins. That is what Businesses are mainly intended for. So people need to understand this reality in fact.

This is why my MacBook pro 2021 M1 model was written: "Made in China"...

It's because they have the most and modern factories, it's a relationship that has been built up over 30 years. They have a very good if not the best logistic arrangement in roads, railway etc. And an insane large workforce

None of these brands will leave for the coming decades

China was the first democracy of Asia and the largest democracy in the world , not India (no India at the time ) 100 yrs ago. But China was poor and backwards, bullied by all western and Japan countries, luckily for China, at the time China had a period of 'awakening" and realized all these western democracy did not for China, so China turned to Marxism, it worked, India is still in dream of democracy, so no need to wake up, keep sleeping, and just enjoy your dreams.

With a larger and richer consumer group, China's market has expanded its charm to global companies, as they have boosted their presence to meet Chinese consumers' evolving demand over the past decade. China is now the world's second-largest consumer market, boasting a middle-income group of over 400 million people. Retail sales of consumer goods were 44.1 trillion yuan (about 6.97 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2021, seeing an increase of 1.1 times, compared with 2012. 7:06 Source: Xinhua News

Total high speed rail network as of 2021: China🇨🇳 = 49,000 km India🇮🇳 = 0 km

China's🇨🇳 exports to India 2021 = $97 billion India's🇮🇳 exports to China 2021 = $28 billion

The answer is trained workers to do the job, cheaper labor and machineries are already in placed in the factories.

Sad to say this, but reason #3 is pretty much the same in India too. However we were late to get attention from the world to manufacture. However I'm sure this will change in the next 10-20 years. And I earnestly hope that point #3 improves in India over the course of this time, though its a hard thing to do.

India needs to improve infrastructure progress in 3x speed to reach half of China's manufacturing potential.

No worries my fellow Indian citizens, our greatest PM Modi shall realise every Indian's dream of replacing China as the manufacturing hub of world most probably in the next life ok. So be patient

can someone tell me what happened to palki????????

before you become a manufacture hub, how about first get your global hunger index 107 to North Korea level at 97?

Chinese proverb: “We already know that only a thief can be born out of poverty. However, a poet can only be born out of love”.

China is a serious country, with medium to long term policies, where people's individual quality of life is increasing, wanting all kinds of locally made products, China's speed and precision can be seen not only in their trains, but in everything they build, are not only the world's leading manufacturer in terms of production quantity, but also in terms of value for money, are innate experts in how to bring an excellent quality product or service to millions of people, during the pandemic they did excellent, people always talk about how well Japan or South Korea did, but these countries are much smaller, China has 1.4 billion inhabitants and more than 9 million km2, its policies work to provide security and social welfare, that is why people invest in China.

It was initiated by corporate desire to make money. Academics persuaded government to promote out soursing labour roles and that USA can depend on knowledge economy. In fact if all companies go to USA the high currency makes the business unprofitable.

They have power, and talents that india doesn't have.

It would always be cheap to manufacture nearly anything in China and they have the workforce

It is due to the people, not only the quantity but also the quality, the quantity is projected to soon decline due to ageing, quality is going to improve. It is high time that China puts efforts in environmental regulations and welfare, this will decline their competitiveness but the people deserve it; even if China loses some of its production capacity it would still be an important market for products soon just like how the WEST is now. If other nations/regions can't match this combination of factors especially human quality and quantity then they will not have an easy time wooing companies to leave China for them.

A little request to the editor, plz speed up the video little bit when the anchor starts speaking. No offence but some anchors of yours speak very very slow.

Well researched. Thank you. Good reporting.

That's called the power, u love them or hate but u can't ignore them. That's what India should have been doing.

Because Chinese are focused and believe in action and work. They dont do bakchodi whole day 24/7 .companies look at the 80% quality at 60% price . That's high quality / price ratio

Legends says after this reports many indians were seen smashing their phones and laptops in anger 🤬🤬 😂😂

Can't help but notice how WION never misses an opportunity to hit at China. And this report, of course if companies leave China, who stands to gain? Definitely one of these countries would be India. And then some years down the line, we will be talking about the discrimination in India too. And there's plenty to talk about.

Keep it up! Just tells me what products not to buy, and where not to shop!😍

Moving a company or factor my out of a country is not as easy as moving one’s house. There are a lot of considerations at play: costs, stability of local government, skills, supply chains, taxation, supply of ready labour force…now, tell me which area is India good at or superior over other countries. There you have it.

i cried throughout this video, it s so sad what a country is trying so hard

politicians wanting to leave China does not equal to companies wanting to leave China. 🤣

We miss you palki Sharma the most outstanding anchor journalist in the world 🌎 from Philippines 🇵🇭

Well done Molly, getting better every day. Greetings from Brazil.

India needs to speed things up, now is the time with things falling apart in china. I try not to buy things made in china, but sometimes have no choice. Made in India i will ALWAYS buy before made in china.

dear wion please put some bgm

we are good at working you are good at talking that is why

This is why each and every business owner goes to China for timed target delivery . this news video great pr for Chinese manufacturing sector.. they are thanking wion i hope

What happened to Palki ?

I just failed to understand what issue are we addressing?

I look for products and produce that is not made in china. They are hard to find but I am able to live without them. I, being singular, do not have an impact on the Chinese economy but it makes me feel better. We should not be funding a communist society with our money.

Good analysis madam and your team. Cheap end manufacturers will leaving China to neighbouring Asian countries on acciunt of rising labour costs. African countries could have benefited but they dont offer collectively what China has

Very well narrated, all the best

It is not that simple. Specifically involving technology.

Because China's industry is very developed 95% of its products are self-sufficient

Manufacturing costs are very cheap in China when compared to other countries!!! The companies can cut production costs by a big margin!!! So, that's why companies have manufacturing plants in China. 👍👍👍👍👍.

Answers: Less bureaucratic, higher efficiency, great infrastructure, and higher productivity per worker.

But the survey or stats presented here a few yrs ago showed something else.

Good logistics and professionalism + big middle class that can afford intentional brands like Apple BMW ...

This video and hostess just revealed the failures of India's political and industry leaders. Even though India has cheap labor and massive workers and yet India's leaders could not lead or manage to compete.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉👍👍👍

Worker exploitation, low wages, poor working conditions. And no voice against these makes it possible for low costs manufacturing 😭

Thanks for educating us