Whether their leaders or ordinary people, they could all feel it: these were true friends!
You didn't fear failing to recognize quality; you feared comparing goods. It wasn't as though they had never hosted investment companies from other countries before. There had been plenty of Western investors in mining and the like, but what had the final result been?
Who were the jackals, and who were the friends? The answer was obvious.
Was this beneficial to the domestic economy? Of course it was! Leaving aside everything else, exports in light industry alone—from the simplest slippers to high-end household goods, electronic products, and more—instantly boosted countless domestic companies.
This was especially true for products in the mid- and downstream portions of various industrial chains. Never mind the leading companies, since their brand premiums were too high and they had little competitiveness in African countries. But brands such as Aoma, Xinfei, Little Swan, and other products that had already fallen behind at home were highly competitive there.
Products that had become outdated domestically were still relatively luxurious goods there. In other words, some of China's more outdated products were cheap and better suited to that market instead.
Every market had to be built up. As for how to make a product dirt cheap...
Without bragging, if you counted people from every country in the world, no one understood what truly dirt-cheap prices meant better than China.
The vast number of export orders brought not only profits. Shipping, infrastructure construction, and countless related industries were also being exported. As exports increased, domestic companies naturally multiplied, and so did demand for labor.
Wages rose, and the economy naturally began to grow as well.
Even though automated companies were continuously increasing, there were also countless more factories. Even if each individual factory required fewer workers,