Lian Hoon Him is a partner and head of the operations practice that covers manufacturing at the management consulting firm AT Kearney in Hong Kong.
Lim said the challenge for Guangdong’s manufacturers is not necessarily to move into more advanced sectors, but to develop more efficient manufacturing processes.
“They need to redesign their end-to-end supply chain and manufacturing processes so they can produce items more cheaply and efficiently. This improves their manufacturing position, and could go some way to help in weathering a fall in export sales,” Lim said.
LCD televisions
The production lines at the manufacturing plant in Huizhou of TCL Corp, China’s third-largest TV maker, are still going at full tilt.
The plant is producing 5,000 46-inch and 8,000 32-inch LCD TV modules a day.