బెల్లీ డాన్స్లతో పాక్ ఆర్థిక వ్యవస్థకు నూతనోత్సాహం! - ట్విట్

పెట్టుబడిదారుల సదస్సులు... ఇటీవల కొత్త ట్రెండ్. వ్యాపార దిగ్గజాలను ఒక చోట సమావేశపరచడం, తమ దేశంలో/రాష్ట్రంలో ఉన్న అవకాశాలు, వ్యాపారానుకూల విధానాలను వివరించడం ఇలాంటి కార్యక్రమాల ముఖ్య ఉద్దేశం. పాకిస్థాన్ ఇలాంటి ప్రయత్నమే చేసింది. అయితే సాదాసీదా సమావేశాల్లా జరగలేదు. బెల్లీ డాన్సర్ల గానా భజానాతో జోర్దార్గా సాగింది. నెట్టింట విమర్శలపాలైంది.

బెల్లీ డాన్స్లతో పాక్ ఆర్థిక వ్యవస్థకు నూతనోత్సాహం!

Published : Sep 9, 2019, 11:30 AM IST

Updated : Sep 29, 2019, 11:20 PM IST

ఆర్థిక కష్టాలతో సతమతమవుతున్న పాకిస్థాన్ ఇటీవలే అజర్బైజాన్లోని బాకులో పెట్టుబడిదారుల సదస్సు నిర్వహించింది. తమ దేశంలో వ్యాపారం చేసేందుకు తరలిరావాలంటూ దిగ్గజ సంస్థల ప్రతినిధులను కోరింది. ఇక్కడ వరకు బాగానే ఉంది. అయితే... అదే సదస్సు వేదికగా బెల్లీ డాన్సర్లతో ప్రత్యేక నృత్య ప్రదర్శన ఏర్పాటు చేయించడం చర్చనీయాంశమైంది. ప్రధాని ఇమ్రాన్ ఖాన్ చెబుతున్న "నయా పాకిస్థాన్" ఇదేనా అంటూ విమర్శలు వెల్లువెత్తేందుకు కారణమైంది.
డబ్బులు కాదు సెల్ఫీలు వచ్చాయ్!

పాకిస్థాన్కు చెందిన సర్హాద్ ఛాంబర్ ఆఫ్ కామర్స్ అండ్ ఇండస్ట్రీ(ఎస్సీసీఐ) ఆధ్వర్యంలో బాకులో ఈనెల 4 నుంచి 8వ తేదీ వరకు ఈ సదస్సు జరిగింది. ఇందుకు సంబంధించిన వీడియోలు నెట్టింట చక్కర్లు కొడుతున్నాయి.

నృత్య ప్రదర్శనకు ఫిదా అయిన ఓ పెట్టుబడిదారుడు ఎంతో ఉత్సాహంగా బెల్లీ డాన్సర్తో సెల్ఫీ కూడా తీసుకున్నాడు. మరెంతో మంది నృత్యాకారిణిల ప్రదర్శనలకు ముగ్ధులయ్యారు.

ఇంతగా దిగజారడం అవసరమా!

పాకిస్థాన్ ఇలా పెట్టుబడిదారులను ఆకర్షించడానికి మహిళలతో నృత్య ప్రదర్శనలు ఏర్పాటుచేయడంపై ఆ దేశ పాత్రికేయురాలు గుల్ బుఖారీ మండిపడ్డారు. ప్రభుత్వ దిగజారుడుతనంపై ట్విట్టర్ వేదికగా విమర్శలు గుప్పించారు.

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— Gul Bukhari (@GulBukhari) September 7, 2019

గుల్ బుఖారీ ట్వీట్ ద్వారా విషయం తెలుసుకున్న నెటిజన్లు.. ఇమ్రాన్ సర్కార్పై మండిపడుతున్నారు. భారత్ చేపట్టిన చంద్రయాన్-2 మిషన్ను విమర్శించిన పాకిస్థానీ నేతలు.. పెట్టుబడిదారులను ఆకర్షించడానికి బెల్లీ డాన్స్ చేయించడం సిగ్గుచేటని ఓ వ్యక్తి ట్వీట్ చేశాడు. పెట్టుబడిదారులను ఆకర్షించేందుకు... బెల్లీ డాన్స్కు మించి పాకిస్థాన్ దగ్గర ఏముందని మరో వ్యక్తి అన్నాడు.

నిండా మునిగిన పాకిస్థాన్

పాకిస్థాన్ పీకల్లోతు ఆర్థిక కష్టాల్లో కూరుకుపోయింది. 2018-19 సంవత్సరానికి ఆ దేశ ఆర్థికలోటు 8.9 శాతానికి చేరుకుంది. గత మూడు దశాబ్దాల్లోనే ఇది అత్యధికం. ఇప్పటివరకు ఆ దేశాన్ని చైనా, యూఏఈ, సౌదీ అరేబియా ఆర్థికంగా ఆదుకుంటున్నాయి. ఈ కష్టాల నుంచి పాకిస్థాన్ను కాపాడడానికి 'అంతర్జాతీయ ద్రవ్యనిధి' 6 బిలియన్ డాలర్ల ఉద్దీపన ప్యాకేజీ అందించింది.

ఇదీ చూడండి: గర్భిణీని 5కి.మీ దూరం మోస్తూ ఆస్పత్రికి నడక

ఇంతగా దిగజారడం అవసరమా!

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— Gul Bukhari (@GulBukhari) September 7, 2019

నిండా మునిగిన పాకిస్థాన్

ఇదీ చూడండి: గర్భిణీని 5కి.మీ దూరం మోస్తూ ఆస్పత్రికి నడక

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Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, east China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of workers in lamp factory
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Guan Xueping, Chairman, Suzhou Rongweng Group (starting with shot 1, partially overlaid with shot 3):
"Our lamps belong to the first batch of products imposed with extra tariffs. The first time was an extra 10 percent and later another 15 percent. Our American clients came to discuss with us several times. Their companies could not bear the tariffs and they felt stressed, so they hoped we can reduce the price of our exports, so as to shift off their costs. We tried our best and agreed to give a 2.5 percent cut to relieve the pressure on American companies which suffered from added tariffs. In fact, I thought as since our Chinese manufacturers can't afford such a huge cost while the American companies importing from China also can't afford the extra tariffs, so, at last, the one who takes the bill would be the American consumers."
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3. Various of workers, machinery in lamp factory
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4. Various of Guan discussing with staff members
5. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Guan Xueping, Chairman, Suzhou Rongweng Group (partially overlaid with shot 6, ending with shot 7):
"In the past decades, we've established a strong industrial chain covering all categories and services. We could not find another country like China with such a comprehensive industrial chain. Besides, the labor in southeast Asia is problematic. According to a conservative estimation, the efficiency of labor in Vietnam is 80 percent of China, while this would reduce to only 60 percent of the Chinese-level in Cambodia. If we move to Southeast Asian countries, the overall cost of production will be around 10 percent higher than in China."
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6. Various of workers in lamp factory
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7. Various of lamp production line
8. Building of Suzhou Rongweng Group
9. Various of workers in plant
10. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Guan Xueping, Chairman, Suzhou Rongweng Group (starting with shot 9):
"We should trust our country and believe in our company. Thirty years ago, I didn't do business with the Americans, but I still opened the lamp factory. When thirty years past, if we are not doing business with the Americans, there will be somewhere else that needs our lamps."
11. Plant
12. Various of circuit boards
13. Zhao Jianhe, engineer of Suzhou Rongweng Group, talking to researcher
14. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhao Jianhe, engineer, Suzhou Rongweng Group (starting with shot 13):
"Different markets have different product standards. If we continue to produce the products [for the U.S. market], we are familiar with its standards. If we turn to other markets, we need to undergo a learning process. But we are not afraid. We can do what others can do."
15. Various of workers
16. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Guan Xueping, Chairman, Suzhou Rongweng Group (starting with shot 15, partially overlaid with shot 17):
"We have successful stories, such as the the illumination of Maputo Bridge in Mozambique. We completed this task early this year. It is a task of over 20 million yuan (2.81 million U.S. dollars). We also participated in construction projects in some European countries and in Belt and Road construction. In the past, 90 percent of our business was done with the U.S. Last year, we started to pay attention to our domestic market, which gave us orders of 40 million yuan (5.62 million U.S. dollars) last year."
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17. Various of workers in lamp factory, products
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18. Building of Jiangsu Guotai International Group
19. Various of workers in clothing factory
20. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Tan Qiubin, chief executive officer, Jiangsu Guotai International Group (partially overlaid with shot 21):
"Our group started a layout of overseas bases early in 2017. In fact, it aimed to seize the opportunity of the Belt and Road Initiative. We are stepping up the building of commodity supply bases in Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam, which is also a supporting mechanism to export our main products."
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21. Various of workers in clothing factory
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22. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wang Wei, chairman, Jiangsu Guotai Guosheng Corporation (partially overlaid with shot 23):
"We mainly do processing overseas such as in Southeast Asia countries, so that our Southeast Asia and China bases can supplement each other, which will make our clients feel at ease. If they need quick-response orders, we can provide them from China. If they consider the tariff-affected prices as a factor, then we have the factories in Southeast Asia to meet their needs."
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23. Workers in clothing factory
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24. Various of cityscape
25. Various of fast motion of port scenes
26. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Fang Wenbang, Director, Bureau of Commerce of Suzhou (starting with shots 24-25):
"Last year, the total volume of Suzhou's imports and exports exceeded 350 billion U.S. dollars. The processing trade occupied nearly 50 percent of Suzhou's GDP. So there will be a period of pain during the process of transformation and upgrading. The trade dispute between China and the U.S. is an external force that has accelerated the process. Originally, it costs us a lot to move the enterprises. Since the trade dispute, the enterprises moved their factories of their own accord, which provided space for us to introduce high-end, high-tech and high-quality enterprises."
27. Various of Gong Xiaoyan, chairman of Suzhou Innomed Medical Device Corporation, working
28. Screen showing device
29. Various of staff members working
30. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Gong Xiaoyan, chairman, Suzhou Innomed Medical Device Corporation (starting with shot 29, partially overlaid with shot 31):
"In February of 2017, we received a special approval for a national medical device innovation. Now, the project has entered into the clinical trial phase. Last month, we completed a green channel approval of another 'vein scaffold'. Looking back over the past few years, we quickly responded to the thirst for new products in the Chinese capital market and in the Chinese medical device market at that time."
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31. Various of 'vein scaffold' medical device
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32. Various of machine in operation, workers
33. Various of products
34. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Oliver Burgstein, managing director of Ruhlamat China (starting with shots 32-33, ending with shot 35):
"China has a big market. Since the opening up, China has kept growing at seven percent for over thirty years. Though the current growth is less than seven, about six percent, the market is still big. The current market has many advantages and the business environment here is good. Everything is stable, no matter in terms of law or operation. We need a stable environment for investments. Last year marked the 20th anniversary. We made a decision to buy a piece of land and build a new plant. This also showed our trust and confidence in the Chinese market, in Suzhou and in the industrial park."
35. Various of cityscape
Enterprises in Suzhou City of east China's Jiangsu Province are taking different countermeasures to deal with the impact of the ongoing trade dispute between China and the United States, with the local government also offering support to get through these tumultuous times.
Among those to have been shaken by the trade tensions is the Suzhou Rongweng Group, a manufacturer of lamps, who have exported various LED lamps to the United States since 1992. These exports to the U.S. occupy 80 percent of the group's sales volume.
Since last year when the U.S. listed lamps among the items imposed with a 25 percent tariff rate, Guan Xueping, the chairman of Suzhou Rongweng Group, and his American partners have felt great pressure.
"Our lamps belong to the first batch of products imposed with extra tariffs. The first time was an extra 10 percent and later another 15 percent. Our American clients came to discuss with us several times. Their companies could not bear the tariffs and they felt stressed, so they hoped we can reduce the price of our exports, so as to shift off their costs. We tried our best and agreed to give a 2.5 percent cut to relieve the pressure on American companies which suffered from added tariffs," said Guan.
"In fact, I thought as since our Chinese manufacturers can't afford such a huge cost while the American companies importing from China also can't afford the extra tariffs, so, at last, the one who takes the bill would be the American consumers," he added.
Guan said some of his U.S. clients wished he would move his factory to Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia or even India so as to avoid the extra tariffs. Guan recognized such a move be effective to certain enterprises, but would not prove beneficial to his company.
"In the past decades, we've established a strong industrial chain covering all categories and services. We could not find another country like China with such a comprehensive industrial chain. Besides, the labor in southeast Asia is problematic. According to a conservative estimation, the efficiency of labor in Vietnam is 80 percent of China, while this would reduce to only 60 percent of the Chinese-level in Cambodia. If we move to Southeast Asian countries, the overall cost of production will be around 10 percent higher than in China," said Guan.
In addition, Guan said the U.S. market was not among his main markets when he first started out his business, and says there are always new or emerging markets to focus on.
"We should trust our country and believe in our company. Thirty years ago, I didn't do business with the Americans, but I still opened the lamp factory. When thirty years past, if we are not doing business with the Americans, there will be somewhere else that needs our lamps," said Guan.
When one door closes, another opens. Facing obstacles in the U.S. market, Guan started to seek potential new opportunities in Europe. As the security standards are different in European markets, Guan's company started to re-register and test new products that meet the standards of the corresponding markets.
"Different markets have different product standards. If we continue to produce the products [for the U.S. market], we are familiar with its standards. If we turn to other markets, we need to undergo a learning process. But we are not afraid. We can do what others can do," said Zhao Jianhe, an engineer for the Suzhou Rongweng Group.
The company has started to explore more markets since the trade frictions broke out last year, so as to let the group walk on multiple legs.
"We have successful stories, such as the the illumination of Maputo Bridge in Mozambique. We completed this task early this year. It is a task of over 20 million yuan (2.81 million U.S. dollars). We also participated in construction projects in some European countries and in Belt and Road construction. In the past, 90 percent of our business was done with the U.S. Last year, we started to pay attention to our domestic market, which gave us orders of 40 million yuan (5.62 million U.S. dollars) last year," said Guan.
Some other larger enterprises in Suzhou, especially those in the clothing industry, have started to move their factories to southeast Asia. The Jiangsu Guotai Guosheng Corporation is one of those who planned a comprehensive transition before the trade war broke out.
"Our group started a layout of overseas bases early in 2017. In fact, it aimed to seize the opportunity of the Belt and Road Initiative. We are stepping up the building of commodity supply bases in Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam, which is also a supporting mechanism to export our main products," said Tan Qiubin, chief executive officer of the Jiangsu Guotai International Group.
"We mainly do processing overseas such as in Southeast Asia countries, so that our Southeast Asia and China bases can supplement each other, which will make our clients feel at ease. If they need quick-response orders, we can provide them from China. If they consider the tariff-affected prices as a factor, then we have the factories in Southeast Asia to meet their needs," said Wang Wei, chairman of the Jiangsu Guotai Guosheng Corporation.
Facing the impact of the trade dispute, the Suzhou government also came out with a series of policies and countermeasures, and supported local enterprises to the tune of over 500 million yuan (70.22 million U.S. dollars).
In addition, the China-U.S. trade dispute also forces the labor-intensive processing trade enterprises to transform and upgrade their methods.
"Last year, the total volume of Suzhou's imports and exports exceeded 350 billion U.S. dollars. The processing trade occupied nearly 50 percent of Suzhou's GDP. So there will be a period of pain during the process of transformation and upgrading. The trade dispute between China and the U.S. is an external force that has accelerated the process. Originally, it costs us a lot to move the enterprises. Since the trade dispute, the enterprises moved their factories of their own accord, which provided space for us to introduce high-end, high-tech and high-quality enterprises," said Fang Wenbang, Director of the Bureau of Commerce of Suzhou.
Gong Xiaoyan, an invited expert of China's Thousand Talents Program, opened a medical equipment enterprise in Suzhou in 2013 after obtaining his postdoctoral degree in the United States. At first, Gong aimed at the U.S. market and later on he found a stronger market response from China's domestic market.
"In February of 2017, we received a special approval for a national medical device innovation. Now, the project has entered into the clinical trial phase. Last month, we completed a green channel approval of another 'vein scaffold'. Looking back over the past few years, we quickly responded to the thirst for new products in the Chinese capital market and in the Chinese medical device market at that time," said Gong.
Thanks to the strong business environment, the Suzhou Industrial Park has attracted nearly 5,000 foreign enterprises from over 70 countries and regions over the past 25 years. More than 500 Chinese and foreign enterprises have set up research and development centers in the park, including German machine-solutions company Ruhlamet which last year celebrated two decades in Suzhou.
"China has a big market. Since the opening up, China has kept growing at seven percent for over thirty years. Though the current growth is less than seven, about six percent, the market is still big. The current market has many advantages and the business environment here is good. Everything is stable, no matter in terms of law or operation. We need a stable environment for investments. Last year marked the 20th anniversary. We made a decision to buy a piece of land and build a new plant. This also showed our trust and confidence in the Chinese market, in Suzhou and in the industrial park," said Oliver Burgstein, managing director of Ruhlamat China.
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