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  看看金融時報的這篇文章，通過采訪AGCO的CEO 之口，通篇充斥著對中國人民和中國政府的污蔑！

 

Manufacturer slams China’s global prowess
By Peter Marsh in London

Published: February 26 2008 02:00 | Last updated: February 26 2008 04:39

China’s prowess as a global economic power has been severely overrated by the west, according to a leading US-based industrialist, who says that many Chinese companies are over-reliant on copying rivals’ products and have employees who do not work hard enough.

Martin Richenhagen, chairman and chief executive of Atlanta-based Agco, the world’s third-biggest maker of tractors, also says corruption “remains a big burden” in China while the country suffers from opaque laws and having an over-protectionist government that hinders technological progress.

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He added that Beijing should do more to allow overseas companies to take majority stakes in domestic companies, if they wanted to avoid these businesses being left behind technologically.

“It is not possible to be an important exporter to other places but close your borders to others [taking controlling stakes in Chinese companies],” said Mr Richenhagen, whose company had sales last year of $6.8bn, with just 22 per cent of this figure coming from North America.

Mr Richenhagen has grown frustrated over the past 18 months with Beijing’s refusal to allow Agco to take a majority stake in First Tractor, a state-controlled company that is the country’s biggest tractor maker.

“A lot of Chinese are not hardworking at all,” Mr Richenhagen said, while, frequently, their employers were obsessed with copying other companies’ parts and products instead of leading innovation themselves.

“This has been the practice in the past and it’s not getting any better,” Mr Richenhagen said, who added that many Chinese companies went down this route since copying was “cheaper and easier” than developing new products and also did not require them to hire the most talented engineers.

Mr Richenhagen, a German executive with a background in the steel, lifts and flooring industries, said he based these views on about 30 visits made to the country over the past quarter century.

While it is rare for foreign business executives to voice such remarks publicly, Mr Richenhagen’s views will carry weight with other company managers who have also privately expressed frustrations about some aspects of the business environment in China.

In certain key industries such as power, cars and steel, Beijing has placed barriers in the way of allowing non-Chinese companies to acquire majority stakes in local businesses, even if the authorities have been happy to allow non-Chinese companies to set up joint ventures or build their own factories in the country that operate without any Chinese partners.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008