Interview in London, whenever a reporter referred to "the global financial crisis, how much impact on the UK economy", there will always lead to a lively discussion of the British, the optimism of the answer than expected - in recent years the financial services sector hit hard , but the outstanding performance of the manufacturing sector, Britain in the European economy, the relative robustness.
UK services sector is highly developed, but did not give up manufacturing is still the world number six, a big manufacturing country. Many British people in the industry, said in an interview with the Yangcheng Evening News reporter: the re-developed services sector, economic transformation and upgrading, this foundation of manufacturing the real economy can never be lost.
70% of the manufacturers this year, exports increased
In the first quarter of this year, the British economy to a negative growth of 0.1%. But in the eyes of many British companies, the United Kingdom there are two economies: one is domestic consumption, poor performance; the other is a manufacturing and strong performance.
Interviewed enterprises are still optimistic, because English is still by far the world's sixth big manufacturing country, manufacturing has become an important engine of the British economy continues to recover.
British the Delcam companies world-renowned manufacturing aided design software vendor, the company's Marketing Manager, Peter Dickin told Yangcheng Evening News reporter, as a manufacturing base supporting industries, the company continued to grow. British car industry export growth is also very obvious, there is a company last year earned 1.5 billion pounds a year; the UK aviation industry has been ranked second in the world, related businesses over the next five years, business is expected to double, Delcam software in the UK aviation industry sales is very good.
The statement of the enterprise has been the authoritative data clearly demonstrated. The latest survey of the British Engineering Employers' Federation , 2011 65% of the manufacturer's exports growth is expected in 2012 will have 70% of the manufacturer to achieve exports increased, especially the United Kingdom's exports to developing countries of its total exports from 15% to 25% in 10 years ago.
Advanced engineering to enhance the manufacturing value-added
China's transformation and upgrading, the United Kingdom to revive the real economy, with particular emphasis to enhance the competitiveness of manufacturing, and taken a number of measures to support the development of "advanced engineering", which include aviation, automotive and other class of high-tech industries. England in 2009 launched the "Advanced Engineering International Marketing Strategy to help manufacturers in the international promotion, attracting foreign capital investment to the UK, to enhance the added value of the British manufacturing industry.
International competitiveness is stronger, the market is more global, decentralized, less susceptible to the influence of a single market, which became another important reason for the UK economy is relatively stable. Peter Dickin told reporters, like lcam sales in the UK accounted for only 15 percent of its business, international business is more than 8%, to enable them to avoid excessive concentration of market risk in the financial crisis. "For example, our automotive, electronics, footwear design software, the growth in China is very good. Medical and health class design software, market development is very rapid in the United States."
China to speed up transformation and upgrading of many British companies think this is significant opportunity to increase cooperation. Stirling Dynamics is a famous British aerospace engineering and automation equipment company, the company's technical director, Andrew L Pfeil said in simulation training system, high-tech product development, "We are very happy with the Chinese engineering team cooperation, and promote the development of relevant industries in China . "
■ high-end interview with
The famous British economist Lee Hopley: the development of manufacturing exports beneficial to economic growth
Lee Hopley, the chief economist of the joint organization of the British manufacturing industry --- British Engineering Employers' Federation , called the spokesman of the British manufacturing industry. EEF headquarters in London, near the Capitol, the Yangcheng Evening News reporter interviewed the famous British economist.
Yangcheng Evening News: Why the UK more and more attention to the manufacturing sector?
Lee Hopley: the impact of the global financial crisis is undoubtedly severe. Since 2008, many developed economies have been hit hard. Many Western countries recognize the economic restructuring in developed countries consume too much, need to revive the real economy.
Economy although slowly signs of recovery, but there are still many bottlenecks. The British government still needs to reduce expenditure, consumption in the recovery process. British banking has many difficulties, not borrow, many companies, even if there is a new development plan will encounter financial pressure. In this case, the export of British manufacturing, especially the development of exports to emerging markets, economic restructuring, the United Kingdom to ensure that growth is very important significance.
Yangcheng Evening News: I heard that there are many UK manufacturing reflow the local community, so it?
Lee Hopley: 5-10 years ago, many British companies their production bases to move to areas with low production costs, the EEF's survey shows that indeed a number of UK businesses to consider their production bases to move back to the local.
This does not mean, as some have said, is because China and other costs rose sharply, lost its appeal. The competitiveness of products from quality, service, logistics and other factors, these considerations to move back to the enterprise, the cost of production is only one aspect, they may give more consideration to the re-layout problem, production can more easily monitor, forecast stronger. In fact, it is also a lot of British companies hoping to expand business in China, because they need such a large sales market in China, but only in the local in order to understand and adapt to the Chinese market.
Yangcheng Evening News: Do you think Britain should be how to strengthen cooperation in the real economy?
Lee Hopley: the key is to play to the strengths of both. China economic and trade between the UK is the complementary space of cooperation in the future will be even greater.
British companies are best at is to provide the entire solution, including design, quality control, customer service, many British industries in the world technically leading, such as the automotive industry, civil aviation, energy, the United Kingdom there are many unique characteristics of products, such as food, alcohol, etc, which hopes to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of Chinese enterprises, and will vigorously expand domestic demand, China's economy, can provide greater opportunities for cooperation.
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