Am pretty sure that just like me most who saw this 5 star documentary will be in shock and awe at the same time.
First of all kudos to Higher Grounds Production for delivering this sensational documentary and a big thank you to Chairman Cao for letting the documentary air in the present form. Respect.
Being in India, I resented Chinese products because they may come at an unbelievable price but quality was always an issue. Then came China 2.0 where their innovation at rock bottom cost is making the likes of Samsung go to boardroom more often. China is no more just a low cost threat but an eventual threat to the very existence of businesses in other nations. Look at how Xiaomi has in roughly a span of 5 days in India sold 5.3 million products via just 2 platforms including Amazon, offering a deadly combination of low price and engineering.
We can continue to say China must value its people fairly but they come from a different need. Their motivations are different than ours and they share the same drive to work for 12 hrs a day, 28 days a month which we cannot relate to.
Robotic process automation is replacing workers everywhere and combined with value China is offering discussions about wages, subsidies and voter appeasement will no longer make the cut in the days to come. Automation or no automation, China will continue to be cheap and best for the next decade.
This means double blow to other economies, Automation and China. Years ago India was a low cost hub for call centers but today hosts the 2nd biggest Silicon Valley of the world and yet never considered unfair in its practises as India is a democracy and speaks English too. China will be the next Germany of Engineering for few years and yet people will work the way they do now.