I lived and worked in China for 17 months. They bought several of my Mustangs and paid for my home and garage, lol.
Most have the wrong picture of how it is in China. They are way ahead of the U.S. in my opinion. I got to go places most do not while there since I worked for a Chinese company. You cannot just walk up to a place and get in you have to have an invitation letter.
I had to pass a physical each year there and could have absolutely no issues. You got an official document saying you did not have aids. If you did they took you straight to the airport and you were gone.
Ford does not build the Mustang in China I do not think. Yes China did save GM for sure the black Buick was the best seller there for years. When I was there the Ford Focus was biggest seller.
The people are not as poor as everyone thinks but the are frugal for sure. They use to go through my garbage and get anything that could be recycled out to sell.
I was the engineering manager at a large tool & die shop and we could do tooling in half the time or less than if in the U.S.. I worked in about every large dies shop in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and such. None can compare to what they have in China.
China does not wait for the business to come to them before they build. They have factory complexes already built and ready so when something comes up they can move in tomorrow.
Yes it is Communist but very lax. You can buy apartments but not really own them. I think it was like a 90 year ownership. I saw more high end luxury cars in China that all my life in the U.S.. I have a newspaper article about how many millionaires there were in Shanghai. Seems like one out of every 320 people in Shanghai is a millionaire.
The head designer at out plant was in his forties and he had three kids. Yes you can have more than one. He got bonus for jobs that came out on time and within budget. He was the best designer I have ever worked with anywhere. Twice as fast as anyone I ever knew. I worked with one in U.S. that came in second in the Catia design competition in U.S. and he could not hold a candle to the Chinese guy. His salary was over one Million U.S.D. a year.
You cannot take a classic car to China or that is what I was told. They do import a lot. My son works at BMW in S.C. head inspector and he said China is one of the biggest buyers they have.
The number of cars sold in China each year is more than the U.S.. It is somewhat limited by the government. License plates are like a lottery item there. You cannot just go out and get one. I managed to get one home hanging in my garage. I was told if they caught me at the airport with it they did not know me. A police officer that was a friend of a Chinese coworker got it for me.
The Chinese are neither poor or stupid and most live better than we do here.
They get more paid holidays in China than in U.S.. They also get a year end bonus of one months salary. I got it also. I was paid $9,000 a month after Chinese and U.S. taxes and I only have a high school education and two years of tech college and some engineering classes. Show me where I can get that in the U.S.?
There is no such thing as a check in China. They pay you with cash and the largest bill they have is 100 RMB or when I was there about $15.00. They would hand me a bag full of 100 RMB bills each payday, lol. I could not have a bank account there so I pinned the money to the curtains in my apartment. Each time I came home I would bring $10,000 in cash with me. Someone from accounting would go to the Chinese bank with me and I would have the stacks of RMB and they would run through counting machine the checks for counterfeits and counts. They would then give me brand new $100 U.S. bills. When I got the bills with the blue stripe I took to my bank in the U.S. and when the teller saw them she ask where I got them. They had not got the new bills yet but they were already in China, lol. All the tellers came to look at them and of course they ran them through the counterfeit machine and they were good.
Everyone should go live in China and get the real story. I enjoy it there. Yes the pollution is horrible but most comes from the people. The buses and taxi all use CNG. All the mom and pop street vendors use charcoal to cook with on the street. So you put millions of grills out there and it gets really bad. Government cannot just stop them it is their living. They do close schools and airport when it gets really bad. I have seen it so bad you could not see the street lights. When I came home I had sinus surgery to clean my head out. I did wear masks when out walking in town. I never saw a blue sky day while there.
I think I flew to China about 12 times. The flight to Africa is longer, lol.
Wish I had gone there years ago would have more Mustangs now, lol.