warning: machine translation of floating factory
The government Lula launched its second industrial politics, with disinvesting of a charge and tax incentives of the order of R$ 21,4 billion up to 2011. One of the main objectives will be to modernize the Brazilian companies, what more than necessary measure in a period of almost wild competition for the world-wide markets. They see what China, of far the most aggressive of all competitors, is making in the sector of industrial goods. They had mounted floating industries, this exactly, floating platforms, inside of ships, in the search to reduce the stated period of delivery of machines and equipment world measures.
The Chinese government embarks in ships parts and specialized man power, that goes mounting machines throughout the maritime trip. As some parts of these maquinários they are imported, instead of being waiting the arrival of the part in China, the ship goes anchoring in the ports where it is available during the trip until the final destination: the country of the purchaser of the capital asset. With this model of industry, China obtains to deliver in four the six months a machine that other countries delay about one year making to arrive at the hands of its customer. For another reason China today is not a great international competitor in the sector of machines and equipment. It leads, for example, the production of derricks for ports, already considered one of most advanced of the world.
The fact is that to understand China and its strategies it started to be vital to compete in the current world. Of a country before known by manufacturing cheap and bad products, today it searchs to advance in the international market developing products of high technology, still the prices well more competitive of what its international partners. Result of a country that grew of 1979 the 2006 to an average tax of 9,6% to the year. That today, ahead of the scarcity of energy provoked for the economic jump, it looks for to transfer industries of intensive energy consumption to other countries, as Brazil.
In the search to understand this global actor, the Foundation Dom Cabral decided to search the Chinese companies and its performance in Brazil. The first stage of the study resulted in the one assembly ranking with the 200 bigger company of China, intitled " The future owners of the power: Top 200 Chinese Dragons". Of this group, at least ten already they are acting in Brazil, also that one that is considered today the biggest Chinese company: Sinopec, an oil company (it sees relation below).
Responsible for the study, the professor Carlos Arruda says that the five bigger listed Chinese companies in ranking present a superior invoicing the US$ 500 billion. Beyond the Sinopec, the others four are: China National Petroleum Corporation, State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), Petrochina Company Ltd. industrial e and Commercial Bank of China. Segundo Arruda, good part of the 200 Chinese dragons has its origin in " on decisions of organisms, agencies or institutions to the government central". Many of them, however, are had as private companies of opened capital, with available actions in the stock markets of Hong Kong and New York. What it becomes complex the definition very of what is really public and private in the Asian giant
In its research, Carlos Arruda affirms to have noticed that the Chinese companies today search to associate the low cost with the technological innovation. It in the study says that, currently, " more than what the production capacity low custo" , the companies of ranking look for to be distinguished " if associating with technological partners of the whole world ". The professor cites the case of the Haier, one of the producing greaters of cooling of the China, that if became world-wide leader in the manufacture of climatized cellars. The company, in association with the Walmart (Sam's Club), " she developed cheaper products 50% of what the competitors, with technologies much more avançadas". Segundo Arruda, in little time the Haier conquered 60% of the American market.
Of these Chinese companies whom they search to incorporate high technology its products, the professor Carlos Arruda also mentions the Huawei, already present in Brazil in the sector of telecommunications. The Chinese company if associated with the Telephonic one (Alive) to develop and to launch the family of cellular telephones of third generation. The researcher of the Foundation Dom Cabral detaches that today in China it is possible to find universities mounted for companies for formation of man power specialized in advanced technology. As the step of the Dom Cabral will be to analyze the performance in Brazil of the Chinese companies. Between the 200 bigger company Chinese, the ten that already they are in Brazil are:
Air China (logistic transport/)
Bank of China (financial sector)
Baosteel (siderurgy and metallurgy)
China Metals and Minerals - Minmetals (siderurgy and metallurgy)
China Shipping of Brazil (logistic transport/)
Cosco Brazil S/A (logistic transport/)
Gree Electric Appliances Incorporation (eletroeletrônico)
Sinopec (oil and gas)
ZTE (telecommunications)
Huawei (telecommunications)
Beyond the politics
The government Lula, after the industrial politics, goes to advance for another area. Of the fiscal adjustment. In one day, it launched a disinvesting of a charge package tax and tax incentives of R$ 21,4 billion up to 2011. In the other, it must announce a fiscal squeeze, save more money to make a external saving. With this, two personages of the government will be satisfied. The minister Guido Mantega (Farm) will create the deep sovereign, will have money to stimulate Brazilian companies is e there, of breaking, will be able to act in the exchange market. The president of the Central banking, Enrique Meirelles, will gain one ajudazinha of the Treasury department, that goes to reduce a little the public expense more to make external saving. With this, he will diminish the public demand. The economic policy is a little more balanced. A little late, but still in time to prevent that the inflation makes estragos greaters in the country. |
