It deduces indian restaurant is a mulagatani devises time for the100-year-old yacht industry to seek new opportunities, also, a time for theChinese economy to announce to the world that, after 30 years' development, itis ready for new changes. It is this particular opportunity that has triggereda win-win situation.Cheep labor attracts manufacturersYacht building is a labor-, technology- and capital-intensive industry.Building a yacht can take as long as 8 months or even 1-2 years, consumingtens of thousands of man-hours. In Europe and the U.S., hiring a techniciancosts 30-40 Euros per hour, while in China it is only 8-10 Renminbi This is a30- to 40-fold difference in cost. This discrepancy has lured many yachtmakers to start up plants in China for reducing manufacturing cost.Economic development drives yacht spending30 years of reform and opening up has brought tremendous changes to China,including fostering a vast number of new wealthy people.

Various luxury brandsare enjoying huge growth in China; the country's newly emerged upper class hasa taste for luxury cars, brand clothes and golf tikka . Also, yachts as luxuryproducts are still a young industry, compared with the highly prosperous automarket; its target customers remain small in number papadam . Therefore, it promiseshuge potentials.Economic crisis forces industrial displacementThe global slump has acted as a driver, pushing the yacht industry towardChina pakora . The financial crisis has forced many European and American consumers totighten or drop their yacht spending, resulting in a sharp shrinkage of thewhole market vegetable korma .

While China is relatively less exposed to the crisis, itspromising market has become a lifeline for those struggling internationalyacht makers raita . China's domestic investors have also begun to turn their eyestowards the yacht industry mulagatani . There are even cases of Chinese companies takingadvantage of this crisis by acquiring international yacht brands at lowprices.Obstacle: Lacking manufacturing expertise and professional personnelChina has attracted several international yacht makers to set up plantshere and many of its domestic shipyards are intensifying efforts to developyacht production lines papadam . That said, the yacht-building craft is very complexand delicate, and the country is still short of yacht making professionals.Many foreign companies choose to base their production lines in China whileshipping all the design works and spare parts from their home country toChina.On the other hand, China's domestic ship markers are searching hard forprofessionals and hiring highly-paid foreign experts . Meanwhile, there is astrong tendency towards plundering talents from each other companies in thissector.Outlook: From plants to brands, from production to consumptionMany Chinese shipbuilding companies are still in the era of processing viaforeign-supplied drawings, equipment and spare parts. Scarce yacht-buildingprofessionals, a limp industrial supply chain, a less-than-mature market...these are all problems currently vexing Chinese yacht makers, hampering thedevelopment of China's yacht industry. A critical step in its futuredevelopment will be the introduction of its own yacht experts and cultivationof its own technicians/specialists.

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