文档介绍：American made ... Chinese owned: Full version
By Sheridan Prasso, contributing editorMay 7, 2010: 9:35 AM ET

(Fortune) -- About a mile past the Bountiful Blessings Church on the outskirts of
Spartanburg, ., make a right turn. There, tucked into an industrial court behind a row of
sapling cherry trees not much taller than I am, past pany that makes rubber stamps
and another that stitches logos onto caps and bags, is a brand-new factory: the
state-of-the-art American Yuncheng Gravure Cylinder plant. Due to open any day now, it
will make cylinders used to print labels like the ones around plastic soda bottles. But
unlike its neighbors in Spartanburg, Yuncheng is a pany. It e to
South Carolina because by Chinese standards, America is darn cheap.
Yes, you read that right. The land Yuncheng purchased in Spartanburg, at $350,000 for
acres, cost one-fourth the price of land back in Shanghai or Dongguan, a gritty city
near Hong Kong where pany already runs three plants. Electricity is cheaper too:
Yungcheng pays up to 14¢ per kilowatt-hour in China at peak usage, and just 4¢ in South
Carolina. And no brownouts either, a sporadic problem in China. It's true that American
workers are much more expensive, of course, and the overall cost of making a widget in
China remains lower, and perhaps always will.
But for hundreds