Why Are So Many Electronics Made In China?
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How did China become such a powerhouse of electronics manufacturing?
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Good video Linus. Yes, I would like to see more videos like this one.
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Sixthed.. 😅
But after scrolling through comments, I'm not sure.. 🤔
There was a fact that was left out, Another reason that China is so good at making electronics is because all of the rare earth metals needed can be found there. China produces roughly 90% of the worlds rare earth metal supply
Yeah and there is and entire lake filled with wasted material of this process. There the rain is acid and the air... I let you guess the quality of the air. The place is called Baotou.
You mean like Lake Eerie? Pennsylvania? New York?
Exactly. Without the stable, cost-effective and sufficient production or external supply of REM no other country will be able to overtake China's top spot as the main producer of electronics.
Way worse
theirs rare earth in other places, USA has plenty but china has no human rights. the conditions are so bad that suicide is extremely high. since human life is only worth $5 its a lot cheaper.
Pfff. Here in Ukraine minimal hourly wage is less than 2$, but it doesn't stimulate investment at all
Eugene InLaw Having a country that will reinvest into development helps. Also having other economic powers fighting over making investment into said nation as easy as possible helps.
The Communists weren't completely brain dead when they set up these systems.
Ukraine doesn't have 1.4b people either.
poor Ukraine,such beautiful and powerful country was crashed ,u should not give up nuck
They are scare of investing in a country that will fight Russia. Anyway, Ukraine is the paradise of Slav women.
Corruption and no motivation, a thing that plagues India to a large extent.
The camera they shot this video with is also from China.
Mind blowing!
And cost $250 000.
If they're still using the Sony I'm pretty sure it was made in Japan.
TalesOfWar They are on RED
TalesOfWar they are using RED 8k cameras
In which case I'm pretty sure they're made in the USA then.
Its a global model that will crumble as china demands better standard of living. its already starting to happen as manufacturing is moving to Bangladesh and other lower for the dollar labor markets.
In 10 years it will be africa, is that why they fuck everything up there now ? Oh wait i hear someone knockAWJKEDHAKWJHDCKAJHD
Bangladesh doesn't have electronics manufacturing factories (yet)
justin miller China is moving on to bigger and better things slowly but surely. They are investing a lot in other avenues and making smart decisions. The world will continue to function though as when there's a will, there's a way
Bangla is where a lot of the textile industry went but they ages off from being able to pump out smart phones.
Don't forget Vietnam. I once invested in the Vietnam ETF because Vietnam is leveraged to China. If China goes up 1x, Vietnam goes up at some higher multiple. Or by the same token Vietnam goes down more then China when the Chinese economy worsens.
Short answer : cheaper ...
Long answer: chhhhhhhheeeeeeaaaaappppppeeeeerrrr...........
Yes Chinese Huawei is "cheap" smartphone, Chinese DJI is "cheap" flying toy and TCL is cheap "TV"
@Doug Young "Cheaper" not "Cheap"
longer answer: cccccccccchhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaappppppppppeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr
😂，不过最近中国自主品牌有技术含量的产品变多了，相机稳定器之类的。
Cheaper faster
Employee wages is only some part of the equation in manufacturing, especially Industry 4.0 is rolling hot in China.
Hm are you chinese?
@@joshuarohbock5695 My points are more important than my labels.
I dont care either way its just an observation
Can you tell us what is industry 4.0
@@abhishekmaurya4665 Its not easy to define something, but I try my best based on my understanding: Industry 4.0 is an information revolution, where efficiency is improved based on better understanding , more utilization and better optimization of data.
Short answer : mass production...
Long answer: maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssss prooooooooooooooooooooduuuuuuction...........
@4:30 You forgot about the open source economy and subsidized - free - shipping for companies.
Of course we want more videos like this. Looking behind the scenes or talking about the bigger picture is always interesting. Keep up the great work!!!
when i look at my kid, it says made in china
O.o
so is linus kid
RIP 🤣
@@0xBasedChang Racist.
You can sell it to us like 5 dollar something.
Please do more of these kinds of videos about the forces that drive the technology industry.
Yes, I would love to see more videos like this!
Anyone else notice all the ads on the articles were for squarespace and then predict that it was going to be the sponsor?
Yes I would absolutely love to see more videos with broader topics like this one! Great job guys!
I think they should make some cell phones in America by middle class Americans with union wages. And upscale the price tag to go with it. If you want to Buy American, you can spend 2000 bucks on a phone that is identical to that 700 dollar Chinese iPhone.
Matt T Unions don't get you crap. My union got me 7$ an hour over minimum wage in China. They then take 1$ roughly off the top. All in a country with living costs that are massively higher than China has.
It's not really the Unions that ruin the prices on these things. It's the combo of wages, government regulation, business investment, and access to material.
People wouldn't invest in a company building phones in America because their profits just won't compare to those in China. When China has a stagnation of GDP they will begin the exact same issues.
scwirpeo exactly, that was kinda my point. All those things together would mean a product is many times more expensive to be made in America. It would be something of a novelty.
The first gen Moto X was assembled in the USA for the North American Market and Brazil for the South American market. The Moto X didn't sell particularly well.
In 2018, average payment for cellphone workers in China is 3.25 bucks/hr, 1$ can barely feed urself in big cities like Shenzhen. It is not 2005 and stop spread fake data, eat ur fries.
WHY? It'd still be cheaper and easier to make those phones in China than the U.S. Those old jobs can never return here. They're GONE FOR GOOD. China has unique advantages that America cannot recreate and never will. It's not as simple as "China beat America and took yer jerbs" but China does excel at certain types of manufacturing. And even if we made some phones in America, it wouldn't matter. We already make more goods now than we did 50 years ago because we automated all those old jobs. GM still makes cars in the States but they only need a quarter of the workers it took to produce the same output before. It's not just manufacturing jobs that got automated. Video stores died when Netflix and other sites came along. Bank tellers have been replaced by ATMs. Sears, Kmart, Radio Shack, and other stores have given way to online shopping. Even lawyers and accountants have been replaced by apps and software. Goods are worth less than services today. Your smartphone isn't really worth all that much. But the services that go into making the phone--programming, marketing, design work--are worth much more than the phone itself and we do all that work here in the U.S. Instead of trying to undo the last half-century of technological progress and go back to a romanticized past that never was, the politicians should have focused on making public college free and preparing Americans so they could access these new jobs.
Mexico's minimal wage is 80 pesos per day. That is roughly 4 bucks per day...
I would like to see more stuff like this. I'd like one about the metals and minerals.
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@@MechaWalnut
I'd love to see more phones and computers made here in the US
I know when i watching techquickie i will always hear at the start of the video: Thz for watching techquickie classic XD
Another thing is how well connected everything is and also how easy it is to transport products. That and also easy of availablity of basic resources like 24*7 electricity and water.
Conditions are getting better for workers under the current administration. As the GDP levels off, there's a growing middle class in China looking to purchase locally. Companies like Huawei and Xiaomi are leading the pack. Earlier this year Xi Jinping stated that he wants to prioritize EVs in the Chinese market. Chinese companies already have a monopoly on the batteries and most of the components that go into making EVs, so they could easily manufacture low-cost EVs and sell them internationally -just like Japanese automakers did in the 70s during the gas crisis. American companies are so tied to the oil industry that focusing entirely on EVs would destroy the economy. The only thing the US could do to stabilize the situation is force a trade war and hopefully bring back manufacturing jobs to the US. This won't work for very long though, because people will start to see technology improve in China while the US will be stuck relying on old machinery. China's trading network is growing with the new silk road, and the US's is collapsing in on itself. As GDP per capita grows, living standards will improve.
However, the real estate bubble is going to burst and wreck their economy. It will be a very sad day for China
Hey, fun fact, Xiaomi devices are manufactured in India.
+InfernosReaper People have been saying that since 2005. It's 2018 and they keep recovering because the government uses HPRs to control the market. This is something western markets *cough* Vancouver *cough* should do more of, but the local leaders are too caught up worrying about being re-elected that nothing gets done.
The best economies are no longer manufacturing economies. For example, the US has a better GDP per capita than every country in the top 5 for trade surplus, and a better one than every country in the top ten, except for Switzerland.
you have to look REALLY hard to spot an iPhone in Argentina, they stopped selling it like 7 years ago
and this year finally they kinda sell it, but the 8 Plus is at $1.800.. so yeah
"Why is Almost EVERYTHING made in china?"
Linus, please keep doing these kinds of videos. I'm sure many of us factor in your inputs whenever we read an article that is tech-related. 👍
If you live in the US consider yourself very blessed. You have major human rights! I lived over there in Asia for several years. I saw things that many here in the US could not stomach. Abuse, workers not being paid, the list goes on and on....
When did you last come to China?
+James Bradley We would be interested in hearing (reading) that list. Please go on.
this is great, please do more. if you get good pitches, I'd be interested in a vid on those, and/or interviews with people who specialize in these questions
Taiwan tho, has most of the pc component companies
More electronics are produced in Taiwan, Japan, and the United States than people would think.
I found this really interesting. Please make more videos like this!
China numba 1
yah dis true mr. big expensive american man.
TH-cam better ban this guy
youtube will ban you xD (because your a bot / guy who clicks on videos and just comments there)
r/Jeyoungsta
Justin Y. dang, you just offended some 23 million people
So many TechQuickie's lately... I like it! The more the better my knowledge!
i worked in china for a while as an adviser for an electronics company, during my time there i found out that the living conditions of all of the standard workers were horrible and everyone there looked dead and depressed
I say one thing in the internet so people can think that it's true. I'm a Chinese spy btw with 26 confirmed kills.
VantaBlack lmao kill me
VantaBlack btw if its real them dont think of killing me
If only you still live like a westerner in China.
Please make a video about why there is still an Audio delay while broadcasting in 2018. for example in news media
Fun fact: "Tq" is the equivalent in Spanish to "I♥️U"
Are you sure it isn't Tequila?
Awesome video Linus, except one thing. The map you showed at 1:28 is incorrect in several ways.
Next video:
Why are so many chip made in Taiwan? for example, Nvidia GPU and Apple A11x. please! :)
Because Western countries do not want China Mainland to be able to master the production technology of these chips.
TSMC
Because the CEO of Nvidia is from Taiwan. lol
Do one on coltan mining. Do the whole supply chain and circulation, not just production
*trumps voice*
China
This video is great Linus! Wish to see more videos like this!
the map of china at 1：34 which doesn't include 台湾（taiwan） and 藏南 (zangnan) is totally wrong !!!
yeah it would be nice to see more videos on Driving Forces
今生不悔入华夏啊！
Short answer: Hell yeah! I was waiting a long time to see a video like this. Good job! And keep it up
"Designed by Apple in California.Assembled in China" at least the Design was Apple's.
Yes, more like this please. Greetings from Shenzhen!
It's cheap SKILLED labor with a full logistic chain. You can argue there are countries that have cheaper, and I agree. But far as electronics goes, a easily accessible, large quantities of skilled labor is normally what the company is looking for during manufacturing. A full logistic chain also greatly reduce cost.
Yes, many Southeast Asian workers have lower wages, but they cannot produce qualified electronic products.
That rossman reference at 2:38
You should create a video on why Apple always sells poor products, always overly priced.
Here's why: th-cam.com/video/7h4tepFbMso/w-d-xo.html
Did you even see the link? Steve Jobs was the one who made their products expensive.
Because people buy them, and it makes them the most profitable company in the world.
Look at the link...
Jeremiah Yonemura
Then why is Apple's weakest laptop on the market capable of rendering a 2 min 4K void in only 3 min??????
Great video.
Funny you mentioned manufacturing in the US, foxcone are opening a plant here in Wisconsin, we will have to see how it will work out for working conditions and stuff.
Because they can exploit cheap labour and lax labour laws.
You say these things can be done in Southeast Asian countries.
LoL
You guys should look into Vizio they are actually built in Irving California . Not saying that there are no parts in them made in china but they do have workers in the US that build them.
You have left out the elephant in the room...the chineese government wanted to expand the state sponsored electonics industry to compete in miltary and consumer electronics which the western unsubsidised industry could not compete.. Like Japan high value physically small goods could be shipped to Western markets inexpensively from China...karea Samsung followed this course from this japanise model...the problem is Europe would not allow state subsidies so lost out whilst the US had inefficent state subsidies through the tax system which tech companies exploited whilst transfering production to China....now you know why trump is rebalancing the China trade agreements
Keep making videos like this, very informative . Thank you
Simple answer, it's cheap. Companies like cheap
BloodRider 14 I think majority of the world likes cheap.
VantaBlack Yeah, I'm watching this on a $200 phone. Few people like cheap as much as me.
Cheap and good regulation that protect corporation from labor union attack.
nice video, just like some kinds of videos that can talk deeply about this industry
China is an interesting beast, its a economic super power but also has some major human rights issues.
Manny you literally can't have it both ways, dude
Eugene InLaw actually, you can. Sometimes, they even go together. Worse working conditions, along with lower wages, makes an area very attractive to a company, as they don’t have to pay more to produce their product. We could even see something like this in America in the early 1900s/ late 1800s. This was when unions hadn’t came onto the scene, and working conditions weren’t very safe(triangle shirtwaist fire)
true, lot of people just like to talk about the dumb shit going on in pop culture, when the world has way more pressing issues. Would not say "too dumb"(ignorant more so) They are just taking what they can get, and they probably work way harder for way little wile people in the states bitch about stupid shit.
They'll eventually catch up, and when they do companies will find another country to exploit.
为什么美国退出联合国人权理事会？中国逼得吗？
Plz do such informative videos about the forces that drive the technology world
And the reason is...
Manufacturing costs
Fake Donald Trump lack of resources and professional workers
Interesting video, how about a video on the logistics of tech production from mining minerals to the store
Cuz money duh
What interesting is, soon that might not be the case anymore
China is growing fast, like really fast, and so the cost of labor will increase as chinese is changing from worker to owner
I want to see you guys dig deeper into this maybe, that seems fun
Which, until Africa catches up with where China is now, will be better for everyone else by allowing us to actually compete in the labour market and create local manufacturing jobs again. Well until automation takes over completely anyway.
And then the old people will blame all their problems on the 'lazy kids' and put a fascist in power, who will make the world sweat as the country unravels at the seams.
The fact is that more and more factories are moving to inside area of Canton (Guangdong) because Shenzhen is also changing from manufacturing city to business and technology hub . The wages of SZ labour is getting more and more expensive today too.
Please make a video on why there are all Chinese people playing pubg..and always saying "China no.1"
Aditya Sinha
But how can they be "No.1" when they can't poo in the loo? HHmmmmmmmm!
Because China is no. 1 of hackers in that game
Smart ass
Because this is the first time that some Chinese have seen foreigners in games.
gamamew damn true bro... 90% hackers are from china.
I got an over 9 minute long advert at the start of this video and it was just an LTT video about the OnePlus 6.
I'd be willing to pay more for electronics made responsibly. That includes using more eco-friendly processes and fair labor standards. That being said, I'm sure I wouldn't have to pay much more if, in addition, the owners of said companies weren't as greedy with their bonuses and ludicrous paygrades.
So you want to pay for responsible manufacturing, but you dont want the companies to profit from it so it cost you more? Meaning you want to pay less for products that cost more to produce...
I think it's called virtue signalling.
SSU have you seen their profit margins? theyre insane. dont act like itll cripple the company to cut profit margins as much as they raise cost of production.im sure apple and samsung could easily have plenty to spare after that
TalesOfWar So what are you supposed to do? Not care or have an opinion? Cool south park attitude, brah.
Cool Story bro.
Took my econ classes in undergrad, got top marks. Still bullshit, stay salty ✌️
More of these videos! Techquickie rules!
WE WANT MAX BACK!
I heard that if this comment reaches 100 likes, Max will come back
Mike Honcho let's hope so
just go to pornhub like every other nerd
What, you don't like the return of sausage-fest LMG?
Dude she went to Bosnia... What do you expect from LMG? Or Max for that matter?
Definitely would like to see this kind of videos
Made in Taiwan, assembled in China, and designed in California.
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*GRABS POPCORN AND SEE THE UPCOMING COMMENTS*
EDIT : As expected, it becomes a whole mess and people are just spitting crap on each other
Finally, some one else said it. Most products are assembled in China, not made, designed or Invented in China.
Uriel Suarez the Chinese also don't grow beams.
Taiwan has better worker rights and environmental policy than China. The quality of Taiwan products will almost always be better than anything from mainland China.
Actually. It’s created in Taiwan and thought in California. Taiwan is way more developed than US, and with better human right. I cant believe Apple does not move its HQ to Taiwan. Here we call the stupid decision 友军骗面
Alex Mercer I Oh yeah I missed the part that they're also copy cats
I have seen speciality smartphone which are to be used on oil and gas platform, produced in Norway. (Strict specification for use in flammable area). Neverless one of theses costed 5000-10000 $ a piece.
The PCBs are still coming from China, because there is no one other left.
Clicked so fast
K but Qatar and Arab Saudi like expensive
3:18 A squarespace ad
4:38 another squarespace ad
labor camps, no pollution laws, no human rights laws, no intellectual property rights. just a few reasons.
Some of those things you mentioned are under attack in the USA right now with the current adminsitration. Trump wants to get rid of a lot of pollution regulations for example. Lest we not forget the recent abhorent acts of taking children from their parents at the boarder and putting them in cages and actually losing track of some of them.
@TalesOfWar The pollution regulations are ones that most countries are not requiring of themselves or have been proven as not working or if they are the work they do is not cost effective and need to be re-looked at for better cost/effeciveness (which is not a bad thing)
The immigration work was worse under Obama which is where most of the photos use were from and OSHA does check on all of the facilities one of which was just recently shown while the lost children were from relatives and guardians not Bringing them Back to the Mandatory check-ins
Actually China is bringing in very strong pollution laws. They already have several in place in major cities, just look up how to own a car in Beijing or Shanghai and you will see how strict they are. There are also thousands of rent a electric car stations around the country which you just rent for a day using an app. Sollar, wind and nuclear power stations are also becoming the most common ways to produce energy in China. In the UK we have just built another coal burning plant... UK sucks right now
your channel icon disturbs me
Sure China has made progress in terms of environmental laws, but here's the problem with that:
They have ALREADY done severe and irreducable damage to their eco system from years of not having any regulations.
More of this please. Thanks
0:58 proud to be Australian
Brazilian minimum wage per hour is $1.16 :/
AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE!
actually,in Australia some restuarant doesn't pay this minimum wages
Australia is turely lucky country
$16.50 in NZ.
Definitely interested in more like this, thanks!
Because...children slavery...
Hey can you go into more detail about the supply chain portion in the next vid? Its actually my major as I will be getting an MBA in the field of Supply Chain.
cuz its cheap, there, didnt even watch the vid
Ross Scarlet better watch it, cause thats only one part
crappy English = crappy human
+sebastian
you wish, nowadays companies are expanding out of china and going for even cheaper labor countries. totally not cause its cheap :P
Where I live in Romania, the minimum wage for a full time job is around $450 or the same level as the Chinese minimum wage they showed in the video... no reason assembly can't be achieved locally in every country that isn't in the top 40 countries when it comes to minimum wage.
That’s only the obvious part that almost everybody knows.
We last Sunday I sent the files for a PCB to China and today they arrived. (Double sided, screen, resist, 4" x 3") $30 total including shipping for 10 off. How do they do that?
TAIWAN #1
AvanteCamarada Eh, that just depends on how that pesky little provincial rebellion goes ;)
haha pesky little province:)
ZHEJIANG #1
SCUNTHORPE #1 - can you guess why? XD
yes，Thailand no1
Yes, please more videos on electtonic economics
It’s cheap
yes, more of these videos please
2th
More videos like this please
7th
nope
did my best
i know but you are still not number 7
shame
a shame that u still didnt delete your comment
Wired has a great documentary on Shenzhen right here on TH-cam. I highly recommend it
One plus is better than IOS
Nick Gavras Tech everything is better then IOS
One plus is an OS?!
Dell is better than windows
David Hožič why do you involve your car in this argument?
You don't store essentially your whole digital existence in your car and it's far less likely to get hacked or exploited. Also, it should get updates just like your phone should if it's connected to a network. That's another massive hole in the IoT world.
Mass produced cheap quality Chinese pieces of junk..
Don't hurt Tim Cook's feelings...
Like the iPhone ;)
Or damn near every Android device or PC. The bits in most PC's not made in China are also the same bits found in Macs thats ren't made in China. Like the CPU's which are made in the USA or Israel.
TalesOfWar most part of a pc are made in China
Alex Mercer I Yeah you too then. :> it's not our fault for demanding and needing junk. The fact that China has a reputation for making cheap quality products and parts is what makes it junk in the first place. And America can't afford or don't want to do the dirty job that China does.
Maybe a video about memory manufacturers price inflating?
hi linus. i have been in the electronics industry since 1978. back in the 1990s when i worked for HP in there medical division they were shipping thing to china then for assembly. matter of fact this is the reason why i was laid off. they ship the whole department to china (we were making defibrillators).
I'm surprised, we can not add subtitles. I'm little bit disappointed about that. However the video is cool ! Thx
I live in Germany, and we have a cool phone company here called SHIFTPHONE.
While they also produce in China, they make sure that all employees have health and retirement care, good pay and humane working conditions. And they have pretty decent documentation of all that.
Their focus is on a low environmental impact, while still offering high quality smartphones. Not the absolute best in performance (that's why I'm waiting for their next model), but pretty decent.
I think that model makes more sense than to vilify all production in China.
Can't put it better than Louis ck did: "You are ok with people suffering so terribly that they literally jump of the factory roofs just so you can leave a mean comment on youtube while taking a dump."
I definitely would like to see more videos like this. 😁 Great Job!
I think people need to think about the complication of manufacturing products. Having lots of different factories in a dense area also means you can make more complicated products. There are also geographical considerations such as big portsports shipping lines and the ability of a less developed country to redevelop cities and towns for21st-century manufacturing. In the uk We can’t really read develop large areas of coastline because there aren’t any left and we can’t really change transportation or infrastructure quickly
I liked this video alot and I do like hearing about the things behind the products.
Definitely would want to see more videos about stuff like this!!
Videos that focus on the forces that drive the tech industry would be cool.