China No. 1 Foreign Investor in Bangladesh, New Official Figures Show

[SBUS-CXK]

You know, if Bangladesh doesn't like Chinese investment because certain issues just let them be. Maybe they will prefer Arabs investments in Madrasa and religion education sector over Chinese infrastructure and manufacturing ones, meanwhile country like Indonesia is trying hard to get Chinese attention and prioritize them by setting red carpet investments agency in several cities in China for better access and reap billions US dollar FDI and other access to their technology. You know, not much Chinese got positive attitude about Indonesia toward them and the feeling is mutual here because of certain political issues like how our people and government look at their CPC involved in coup in 1965 even the suspicion is still lingering till today and their look down on us because 1998 riots and anti China pogrom in the past, but proffesionalism conduct is at play here resulting in good cooperation between Indonesia China.

Indonesia can make warships and airplanes. but Bangladesh cannot even build a bridge.
I don't know why Bangladesh is so arrogant.

 

[Max]

This is all good. Economic co-operation with China will flourish even more in coming years, no doubt. But China as a country lost all the respect in the eyes of common Bangladeshi people, may be even in the eyes of Bangladesh Govt.(but they will not reveal it due to diplomatic reason). Now people do not care what China do or give to Bangladesh. There was a time when Chinese projects in Bangladesh earned praise and goodwill feeling. Not anymore. I think China also does a lot of things in Vietnam and some of other countries, but warm feeling towards China is not there. Bangladesh-China relation also heading in a same direction. Govt. to Govt. will continue to co-operate in trade, investment or other things, but warm, friendly vibe and sense of solidarity will be absent.

Add Pakistan as well, they are losing fast in perception management. Govt may have good ties or forced to work with china due to geopolitical reason, but people are indifferent toward China due to Uighur and recent Chinese scam.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Add Pakistan as well, they are losing fast in perception management. Govt may have good ties or forced to work with china due to geopolitical reason, but people are indifferent toward China due to Uighur and recent Chinese scam.

Stop it. You are different from Bangladesh.

You have nuclear weapons, JF-17 and 054A. you can rely on your own strength to deal with international conflicts.

 

[TopCat]

"Bangladeshi workers seem less likely to complain" most likely because they know they are less productive.
I have seen a Bangladesh worker dig the roads slowly with one hand where others do it with both hands.
Therefore they are mostly assigned less demanding jobs.
In fact there are no Bangladeshi being employed in the construction of our new airport expansion.
So much for Bangladeshi being more productive than the Indians, South Indians I mean.
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May be the digger you hired are not real digger.. they are most likely illegal migrant and never dug anything back home.
if you need a real digger then hire properly through recruiting agents. you will be surprised how hard working Bangladeshis are. Ask Malaysia.

 

[Dungeness]

Thank GOD investors care more about their money than you do.

Good Luck with investing in India, where labor costs are double or triple that of Bangladesh.

But wait - there's more!

Their bureaucratic red-tape and labor laws (not to mention patriotic Hindu RSS thugs, who run India now) will make you want to pull out your hair. They don't give a sh*t about foreign investors. Every foreign investor knows about these issues, they invest mostly to supply locally in India.

Back-office is one thing, mass production is something else. Lazy inefficient workers, clockwatchers, you name it, they have it. Manufacturing jobs are highly looked down on in India, that is the LAST job anyone in India wants.

Their logistics also suck compared to Bangladesh. You pay octroi/toll just crossing from one state to the next, of which there is one every couple of hundred miles.

Like I said - Good Luck!

We will be waiting for you in Bangladesh Investment office (BIDA) when you are done.

Maybe, but there is nothing worse than the sentiment of whole populace can turn against us in the matter of days if not hours, should a 3rd party with agenda decide to play your lot like a toy, with a "sensitive" issue.

 

[sinait]

May be the digger you hired are not real digger.. they are most likely illegal migrant and never dug anything back home.
if you need a real digger then hire properly through recruiting agents. you will be surprised how hard working Bangladeshis are. Ask Malaysia.

I am just posting the most shocking that I have seen and I have experienced it in other areas as well.
Afraid it is not easy to be an illegal migrant here in tiny Singapore, no rural areas or slums to hide.
I was observing these, not my workers, from my shop in an industrial estate.
Though I did not employ any Bangladeshi, I have many friends who have.
Of course there are some hard working ones, but generally I would fare them below the South Indians.
It is common to find the South Indians doing the main jobs while the Bangladeshi stand around directing the traffic or otherwise less demanding jobs.
Or as the storekeeper while the South Indians manage the machines and welding work, in my friend's construction firm.

Below is one news item that I had difficulty searching that corroborates what I stated, that Bangladeshi command lower salaries as they are not as productive than the South Indians.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...-to-give-more-info-on-workers-from-bangladesh
May 3, 2016
Bangladesh is one of two main sources for workers in the construction, marine and process industries, and most agents doubt there will be a big drop in demand for its nationals as they sometimes command slightly lower salaries than workers from India.
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[TopCat]

I am just posting the most shocking that I have seen and I have experience it in other areas as well.
Afraid it is not easy to be an illegal migrant here in tiny Singapore, no rural areas or slums to hide.
I was observing these, not my workers, from my shop in an industrial estate.
Though I did not employ any Bangladeshi, I have many friends who have.
Of course there are some hard working ones, but generally I would fare them below the South Indians.
It is common to find the South Indians doing the main jobs while the Bangladeshi stand around directing the traffic or otherwise less demanding jobs.
Or as the storekeeper while the South Indians manage the machines and welding work, in my friend's construction firm.

Below is one news item that I had difficulty searching that corroborates what I stated, that Bangladeshi command lower salaries as they are not as productive than the South Indians.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...-to-give-more-info-on-workers-from-bangladesh
May 3, 2016
Bangladesh is one of two main sources for workers in the construction, marine and process industries, and most agents doubt there will be a big drop in demand for its nationals as they sometimes command slightly lower salaries than workers from India.
.

whatever dude..may be you yourself is a south indian descend and they provide better service for you.

 

[055_destroyer]

Am I stuck in the past? Who guarantees Chinese quality and how? Certainly not anyone in PDF.

It is a catch 22. Of course I can talk in terms of US market China-made items - what I see at Wal-Mart and Target etc. for general use consumer items. China-made items have become popular because of price only, some of it allegedly artificially made cheaper because of currency manipulation, as well-proven.

China is using American capitalist greed (and also ignorance) as a pure weapon because if a knockoff item is available at half the price on eBay people will buy it in numbers instead of American made. Ultimately most people do not think what is the cost of buying overly cheap product that (has to be) cheaply made, cutting many corners, and will not last as expected.

Sometimes people in the US will do this knowingly, by going to (say) a 99 cent store and buying low quality goods for temporary use.

On the other hand sometimes ignorant people (there is a huge portion of the American population like this) will buy a low quality China-made product because they don't know any better (pot metal item instead of forged steel, which is one-sixth the cost, but plated properly, looks the same). By the time you purchased it (and it promptly broke on the first try) you have been had and out the few dollars you spent. The price of stupidity.

Ultimately all these bad purchases add up. And these will drive US manufacturers out of business.

Quality control is something Chinese manufacturers have almost no idea of, very different from what my experience is on US and Japanese products. The Japanese concepts of Kaizen, TQM (and the good old 'trust' every American has on a reputable local manufacturer) are almost totally not taken seriously by manufacturers in China, the idea seems to be, "slap 'em together, head 'em out the door", with nary a regard for quality checks. I don't know who stamps 'QC' in Chinese products, because ultimately it does not mean anything to the China manufacturers, as everyone there is trying to make a quick buck.

Thanks to social media (and resultant preference for better made items), China will almost never gain a reputation for 'quality' in the US, as I see it. People here are VERY aware of where something is made, they will avoid Chinese products if they know.

Even quality made Chinese products will suffer from this 'Cheap Chinese' reputation. So making quality products in China is a dead-end.

When production costs go up in China, and Chinese products cannot be offered at artificially low prices anymore, that will ultimately spell huge problems for Chinese industry.

Your worst nightmare is here - he is not even laying off with the Japanese (Chinese are fair game),

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-takes-aim-at-toyota-2017-1



Talkin' about your country - Myanmar?

Another self denial so called guru

Copy and low quality?

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World first triple lenses concept that can take high quality low light shot without using a tripod.

https://www.dji.com/sg/mavic

World first foldable GPS, sensor portable phtotography drone.

World first foldable screen smartphone

 

[UKBengali]

Thank GOD investors care more about their money than you do.

Good Luck with investing in India, where labor costs are double or triple that of Bangladesh.

But wait - there's more!

Their bureaucratic red-tape and labor laws (not to mention patriotic Hindu RSS thugs, who run India now) will make you want to pull out your hair. They don't give a sh*t about foreign investors. Every foreign investor knows about these issues, they invest mostly to supply locally in India.

Back-office is one thing, mass production is something else. Lazy inefficient workers, clockwatchers, you name it, they have it. Manufacturing jobs are highly looked down on in India, that is the LAST job anyone in India wants.

Their logistics also suck compared to Bangladesh. You pay octroi/toll just crossing from one state to the next, of which there is one every couple of hundred miles.

Like I said - Good Luck!

We will be waiting for you in Bangladesh Investment office (BIDA) when you are done.

You aware that you are giving trolls ammunition that BD is a low wage sweatshop by incorrectly claiming that labour costs in India are 2-3 times that of BD?
It is around 50% more than in BD and declining due to faster wage growth in BD.

Please be careful what you type before posting.

You know, if Bangladesh doesn't like Chinese investment because certain issues just let them be. Maybe they will prefer Arabs investments in Madrasa and religion education sector over Chinese infrastructure and manufacturing ones, meanwhile country like Indonesia is trying hard to get Chinese attention and prioritize them by setting red carpet investments agency in several cities in China for better access and reap billions US dollar FDI and other access to their technology. You know, not much Chinese got positive attitude about Indonesia toward them and the feeling is mutual here because of certain political issues like how our people and government look at their CPC involved in coup in 1965 even the suspicion is still lingering till today and their look down on us because 1998 riots and anti China pogrom in the past, but proffesionalism conduct is at play here resulting in good cooperation between Indonesia China.

BD likes Chinese investment but not it's shameful policy on Rohingya.
China is investing in BD for business reasons as they want a slice of the fastest growing large economy in the world. They are bidding for the massive 16-18 billion US dollar contract for the 2nd BD nuclear power plant.
Make Indonesia more attractive for China and they may come and invest in your country.

 

[Nike]

You aware that you are giving trolls ammunition that BD is a low wage sweatshop by incorrectly claiming that labour costs in India are 2-3 times that of BD?
It is around 50% more than in BD and declining due to faster wage growth in BD.

Please be careful what you type before posting.



BD likes Chinese investment but not it's shameful policy on Rohingya.
China is investing in BD for business reasons as they want a slice of the fastest growing large economy in the world. They are bidding for the massive 16-18 billion US dollar contract for the 2nd BD nuclear power plant.
Make Indonesia more attractive for China and they may come and invest in your country.

You know what, Chinese FDI in Indonesia already more than your FDI stocks for decade, and that's China alone not including Hong Kong and Macau in which many Indonesians company got better cooperation with them

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/In...ia-s-No.-2-investor-with-infrastructure-drive

 

[Dungeness]

BD likes Chinese investment but not it's shameful policy on Rohingya.
China is investing in BD for business reasons as they want a slice of the fastest growing large economy in the world. They are bidding for the massive 16-18 billion US dollar contract for the 2nd BD nuclear power plant.
Make Indonesia more attractive for China and they may come and invest in your country.

Of cause Chinese are not doing this for charity. The question is why you couldn't build those badly needed roads and bridges before Chinese arrival, so you could enjoy "the fastest large economy in the world" status much earlier?

 

[UKBengali]

Of cause Chinese are not doing this for charity. The question is why you couldn't build those badly needed roads and bridges before Chinese arrival, so you could enjoy "the fastest large economy in the world" status much earlier?

BD does not have the skills but is acquiring them over time.
BD does do the smaller projects by itself and in 1-2 decades will be self-sufficient in roads and bridges of all types.

You know what, Chinese FDI in Indonesia already more than your FDI stocks for decade, and that's China alone not including Hong Kong and Macau in which many Indonesians company got better cooperation with them

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/In...ia-s-No.-2-investor-with-infrastructure-drive

Chinese FDI in BD is simply sky-rocketing right now.
A more than 2. 3 billion US dollar FDI proposal for an integrated steel plant is not shown in the FDI figures yet - plant itself will cost 3.5 billion US dollars.
There are many more Chinese investments as well.

 

[Dungeness]

BD does not have the skills but is acquiring them over time.
BD does do the smaller projects by itself and in 1-2 decades will be self-sufficient in roads and bridges of all types.

So please give the credit where is due.

 

[UKBengali]

So please give the credit where is due.

Where have we not?

China is an extremely important development partner for BD
- in fact I would say maybe the most right now as it is transferring military tech to BD to build ships and missiles.

We are disappointed with China for it's wrong policy on Rohingya as China could have restrained Myanmar and so the whole episode in 2017 need never have happened.

 

[Nike]

BD does not have the skills but is acquiring them over time.
BD does do the smaller projects by itself and in 1-2 decades will be self-sufficient in roads and bridges of all types.



Chinese FDI in BD is simply sky-rocketing right now.
A more than 2. 3 billion US dollar FDI proposal for an integrated steel plant is not shown in the FDI figures yet - plant itself will cost 3.5 billion US dollars.
There are many more Chinese investments as well.

Please dont use future tense, use the current figures