Why I think Chinese will change the world economy
Saturday, May 1st, 2010I decided to pen down this Chinese thingy because this has been bugging my work, life, politics views, my country and my identity.
The majority people of the world seems to have very negative thinking about Chinese people. Many thought that the Chinese are creating problems to the rest of the world, Chinese is the problem to the pollution, Chinese are rude, Chinese are smelly, Chinese are cunning, Chinese destroy the economy and etc…
Recently me and Low Kei were humiliated and ill-treated by a French waiter in a French restaurant. Additionally I experienced a series of disgusting Chinese issue in my company that sparked my head to create this post. Furthermore, I was inspired by one of Ahyap.com‘s post with regards to What’s so special About Chinese?
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Why “Chinese” issue is making drastic impact on my work and company now?
I’m working for a French power plant provider company as a subcontracting/tendering engineer (the retarded kind of engineer that is not so good in technical know-how) in France. The name of the company is Alstom, which I can proudly say that it is one of the prestigious power plant provider company in the world.
Being a tendering engineer allows me to understand some of the commercial business decisions made by the superiors (the asshole people
). I noticed most of the business movements had tuned to be more competent in order to compete against the Chinese. Eventually a few business units were created exclusively to compete with the Chinese.
Now what did the Chinese do?
Not long ago, Malaysia Alstom country president presented the volume comparison of power plants built by Alstom against the competitors. His slides was something like this (not exactly the same).
The power plant built by Chinese Dong Fang is relative more than the sum of power plants produced by the competitors. Not only Dong Fang perform exceptionally well oversea, they make the other key players cannot compete in China market (the numbers of power plant erected in china is relatively higher than the rest of the world for the past few years) .
What I found about Dong Fang Electric Corporation 东方电气集团 in Belfort:
According to some of the old people in Alstom, DongFang used to be the subcontractor to Alstom to build mega plants in China 30 years ago such as nuclear and Steam. From there, they tried to learn everything from scratch to produce their own equipments. Alstom used to laugh at their incapability and Alstom had to complete DongFang’s half successful work and equipments like Generators and Turbines. Now they are the major threat to the key players like Siemens, Alstom and GE
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My experience with the Guai Loh 鬼佬
We all know that the Guai Loh possess ‘expensive blood’ compared to Asians. They think they are the central of the world, they are the most sophisticated races in world. Needless to say, their working man hours is very expensive, they don’t really care about cost saving when they try to do business, they have to respect their individual lifestyle and so on… hence their Europe business profit normally is not good, Asia for them is very lucrative.
Now, their focus is on Asia market now. They even created a funny term for that! It is called… ROA business (Rest-Of-Asia business). Why they called it Rest-of-Aisa business but not A business (Asia business)? ROA means excluding China but include the rest of Asia because simply they can’t do Chinese business anymore. Lately I found out ROA will exclude India further.
Rest-of-Asia market is not an easy market for them. The major challenge now for these European company is to drive down their cost by more than 50%, because China is attached to ROA, and the Chinese sales man likes to knock on customers door and promote their extremely cheap product. No doubt, European equipments and solution has high efficiency, but the customer mindset now is to have cheap model with average performance but bankable solutions.
So, my job now involve in cost savings and apply construction procedures that shows significant cost savings! a lot of time I need to involve myself in the meeting with all the Guai Lohs to discuss the feasibility of different kind of solution
Because I am the only Chinese and Asian in the table hence I always encounter situation like this-
Guai Lo:
We have to compete with the Chinese! So We now must use the cheap CHINESE equipments!
But we know that Chinese people are STUPID and DUMB! if we buy these equipment from them, most of the time they can’t provide user manual for us! they are just too stupid to do good documentation!
Chinese people are lousy, and they are cheap, we can give them little money and complete the work
Chinese efficiency is poor!
after they uttered all the ugly words, then they will turn to me and ask… are you China Chinese?
what do I do? I have to humbly + calmly + stupid shack my head like this… 
, to please them
well inside my heart, I remember vividly ……
Yes, It was like a slap in the face to the Chinese….
How I wish I can jump onto the table and scream to them
FireMice:
中国人不是东亚病夫!
Chinois ne sont pas l’homme malade de l’Asie!! (French)
Chinese are not the sick man (cowards) of Asia!
Their ideas are not really impressive, because they think in order to compete with the Chinese, they have to source cheap materials and equipments from the Chinese. In the end, it is like finding Chinese to kick Chinese Ass… they forgot one thing, everything is Chinese.
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The World doesn’t understand us!
Chinese are now hungry of success, it seems that the most of the rest of the world still don’t understand Chinese and its capabilities.
Chinese lived in the dark for a period time when the other part of the world especially the West was growing fast to distinguish themselves as superior beings. But this is only noticeable for the last 50-100 years I think?
But Chinese has 5,000 years of ups-downs. The problem that the Chinese are facing now is only a tiny peak of an iceberg 
. It can sink the TITANIC down with your adorable Guai Lo Leonardo Dicaprio. Making a drastic changes in mankind history for Chinese is sap-sap-sui easy…
Don’t estimate us because in our BLOOD, we have a series of important stuffs started from thousands of years ago…. from the Confucius 孔子 to ….. First Emperor of china Qin Shi Huang 秦始皇…. to Journey to the West 西遊記….. to the romance of the 3 kingdom in red cliff
…. to the Art-of War by Sunzhi….. to the Legend of the Condo Heroes 射雕英雄传… to Bruce Lee….. 2008 Beijing olympic….. and now Jackie Chan..
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I’m sure we have more to come… thumbs up to Chinese!
aka Cow Girl! We used to work together in Genting Sanyen. She is a Finance manager and I was a baby engineer back then.
,and working hard with it until they vomited 
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