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when the essay mentioned the wages rising prodigiously, it didnt mention the productivity.

Multinational manufacturersMoving back to America
王者归来：跨国制造商重回美利坚
The dwindling allure of building factories offshore
境外建厂的吸引力逐渐减弱

“WHEN clients are considering opening another manufacturing plant in China, I’ve started to urge them to consider alternative locations,” says Hal Sirkin of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). “Have they thought about Vietnam, say? Or maybe [they could] even try Made in USA?” When clients are American firms looking to build factories to serve American customers, Mr Sirkin is increasingly likely to suggest they stay at home, not for patriotic reasons but because the economics of globalisation are changing fast.
“当客人们打算在中国建一间新的工厂，我会提醒他们---为什么不考虑在别的地方建厂呢？”波士顿咨询的员工 Hal Sirkin如是说。“在越南建厂怎么样？或者，可以考虑在美国本土建厂？”当遇到来自美国的咨询客户，Sirkin先生总会这样对他们说。在美国建厂不仅仅是出于爱国主义，更多是因为全球经济正在快速变化。

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Labour arbitrage—taking advantage of lower wages abroad, especially in poor countries—has never been the only force pushing multinationals to locate offshore, but it has certainly played a big part. Now, however, as emerging economies boom, wages there are rising. Pay for factory workers in China, for example, soared by 69% between 2005 and 2010. So the gains from labour arbitrage are starting to shrink, in some cases to the point of irrelevance, according to a new study by BCG.

劳动套利----利用廉价劳动力，特别的是贫穷国家的廉价劳动力，能够产生丰厚的回报。虽然廉价劳动力从来都不是跨国公司境外建厂的唯一动因，但廉价劳动力却是很重要的推动因素。但是现在，随着新兴市场的发展，新兴市场的人工成本已经大幅上涨。就以中国为例，从2005到2010年，工资涨幅为69%。根据波士顿咨询的调查，劳动套利的空间已经大幅缩水了。

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Labor cost is not the only thing, product demand also takes an important role in the positon decision. Profit is the firms only purpose.Global industrial chain may still be the mainstream of multinations.

it depends,
some of industries, like pollution, chemecial, mechinary industries amercia would rather leave them outside of homeland. Its cheap and will keep amercian nose cless. As far as i know, China was called "world factory" till last a few years. now, colonialism has started to seek other places, such as Vietnam, Africa, Thailand. However, it doest work well as expected. no countries has such easing regulation like China. As a result of this, procurement chains, china  main industrial sectors have been controlled by international groups already. This leads to the  Labour arbitrage more serious. The reason why America is thinking of going home, is not commodity price or whatever. It is concerning the ratio of input and output. In other word, it started to worry about Made in China's Quality in future whether it  can cater to the demand of American consumers.
Labour price are higher, and even much higher in futhers in America and Western countries. As a manager, it has to think about cost, financial issues.it is impossible to let labor intensive industries go back. The only way to figure out the cost issue  is by all means to depress labor price harder and harder....-_-

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很好的资料，制造业回流发达国家不知道会不会成为趋势，如果会对中国的影响还是不小的。