Ep 132 - Biggest China Manufacturing Changes of the Decade

In this episode, Rico and ChinaMike Reflects on China's Entrepreneur Landscape during the decade. They discuss different online campaigns, factory stories, lifestyle changes, security procedures, and other observations of many changes that have occured in the last 10 years.

Topics incl:

  • Crowdfunding craze, peak, plateau and current

  • Rise of E-commerce / Drop shipping SMEs

  • Rise of Amazon FBA/ Factories Adaptation to smaller orders

  • Chinese e-commerce sellers online local / abroad

  • Local online shopping off the charts / factories don’t need foreign buyers as much

  • Rise of the Chinese economy / cost of living / lifestyle / cost of goods

  • Rise of IOT / tech in general manufacturing / heavy government investement

  • Heavy government investment into making factories more environmentally / socially compliant on a global scale

  • Western Influence on younger generations / more interracial marriages/ factories being more educated

  • Trade War between US & China since Trump’s election

  • China cracking down on foreigners in their country

  • Mass Exodus of well established foreign businesses & people from china in the last 2 - 3 years