{"id":421785,"date":"2025-12-03T12:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/421785\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:39:18","slug":"factory-of-factories-chinas-manufacturers-join-wave-of-overseas-expansions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/421785\/","title":{"rendered":"Factory of factories: China\u2019s manufacturers join wave of overseas expansions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China\u2019s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in search of new, more lucrative markets. In this series, we examine China Inc.\u2019s next phase of \u201cgoing global\u201d and the complex, challenging international environment its companies have chosen to enter.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China, known as the \u201cworld\u2019s factory\u201d after decades spent manufacturing and shipping much of the world\u2019s consumer goods, is now going a step further: as a number of internal and external concerns create more incentives for the country\u2019s companies to diversify their revenue streams, they have begun exporting their factories, too.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Vince Li, an entrepreneur based in Guangdong province whose firm produces chemicals used for surface coatings in the automotive and furniture sectors, is one of many business owners to join the latest proliferation wave.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Having opened his first overseas factory near Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam this year, he admitted he was making the move after many of his peers.<\/p>\n<p>His factory in Guangdong used to receive ample orders from the domestic market, providing little motivation to expand overseas. But a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3334550\/whats-next-chinas-economy-2026-and-how-it-plans-tackle-challenges?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">slump in domestic demand<\/a> and moves abroad by his customers have changed that calculus.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIf we do not expand overseas now, we may miss our last chance,\u201d he said. \u201cMany of our domestic clients have set up production overseas, and if I don\u2019t follow suit, they\u2019ll choose other suppliers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The first phase is already in production, and the factory, Thuan Thai Hardware \u2013 which covers over 3,000 square metres (32,292 sq ft) \u2013 is expected to be fully completed next year, Li said. Even before the official opening of the factory, he added, he had already received orders from existing clients who had previously moved to Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China\u2019s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":421786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7779,26552,9710,4214,64,21767,19446,74,79964,69,79,8697,15980,96880,40865,748,159065,196941,65252,11843,67,132,68,15336,196940],"class_list":{"0":"post-421785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-asean","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-brazil","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-byd","14":"tag-cambodia","15":"tag-china","16":"tag-deflationary-pressures","17":"tag-donald-trump","18":"tag-economy","19":"tag-european-union","20":"tag-expansion","21":"tag-factories","22":"tag-guangdong","23":"tag-manufacturing","24":"tag-nexperia","25":"tag-outward-investment","26":"tag-overseas","27":"tag-thailand","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-vietnam","32":"tag-wingtech"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115655682680856020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}