China : the Long March to Logistic Cyberspace

Abstract

Recent articles have been describing China as the “new workshop o f the world”. Whether China is the world's “factory” or “workshop” does not matter; the important is that China is now serving as the world's manufacturing basis. Immediate reasons point to lar ge, cheap labor force, but China's current economic success is certainly more compl ex than that. These conditions range from more calculated planning to more practical ref orm strategy. Opening up to the world brought in not only foreign capital but foreign experienc es. China has learned the benefits of local economic development through industrial clustering and the cluster Formation.