O impulso inesperado da Apple para a ascensão industrial chinesa

O Gato Laranja

12/06/2025

A China se tornou uma potência industrial e, mais recentemente, uma líder global na produção de veículos elétricos. Essa ascensão notável, como apontado pelo Xataca Brasil, teve um catalisador surpreendente: a Apple. Embora não fosse a intenção direta da gigante da tecnologia, seus investimentos e práticas moldaram significativamente o cenário industrial chinês. "Parece completamente maluco, é verdade, mas foi exatamente isso que aconteceu", admitiu Patrick McGee, ex-correspondente do Financial Times, em entrevista a Jon Stewart no The Daily Show.

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Fonte: Xataca Brasil

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00:00Apple's unexpected boost to China's industrial rise

00:03China has become an industrial powerhouse and, more recently,

00:08a global leader in the production of electric vehicles.

00:12This remarkable rise, as pointed out by Chattaca Brasil,

00:16had a surprising catalyst, Apple.

00:19Although it was not the direct intention of the technology giant,

00:23their investments and practices have significantly shaped the Chinese industrial landscape.

00:27It sounds completely crazy, it's true, but that's exactly what happened,

00:33admitted Patrick Magui, former Financial Times correspondent,

00:37in an interview with John Stewart on The Daily Show.

00:41Today, it is difficult to find a product that is not wholly or partially manufactured in China.

00:47This ubiquity is no accident, and Apple has played a crucial role in its consolidation.

00:53Apple's Billions and the Formation of the Chinese Workforce

00:56In the early 2000s, Apple faced a major challenge with the production of the iMac G4,

01:03released in 2002.

01:05The parts came from up to six different Asian countries,

01:09making the process slow, costly and unfeasible for the ambitious project.

01:14From that point on, Apple began a massive investment in China.

01:18The company not only invested billions, but also financed and trained millions of Chinese workers,

01:25shaping the country's industrial model in the field of new technologies.

01:30China offered a vast and malleable workforce, willing to meet challenging deadlines.

01:36What was missing was the technical knowledge, and Apple provided it.

01:40Between 2016 and 2021, Apple invested $275 billion in China,

01:47professionalizing around 28 million people, including workers, engineers and managers.

01:54This monumental investment covered everything from machinery and tools

01:58to training workers who produce iPhones and other branded products.

02:02The American company not only hired third parties to manufacture its products,

02:08but also financed the factories themselves, their machines and the training of their employees.

02:14Consumer Day 2013 and the Apple scam

02:17In 2013, Chinese Consumer Day, an annual event, celebrated on March 15,

02:24which highlights the foreign company that most harmed local consumers, targeted Apple.

02:30As a result, the company's sales in the country plummeted.

02:35To reverse this unfavorable situation, Apple had a strategic idea,

02:40demonstrate to the country the volume of its investments in infrastructure and workforce training.

02:46This initiative was, ironically, the final push for the Chinese market to realize its own potential,

02:52a potential that was largely financed by a foreign company from a country

02:57with whom China today maintains complex relations.

03:01Apple taught future cell phone makers how to make good products,

03:06sharing knowledge and experience in areas such as battery production,

03:10precision technologies and microchip manufacturing.

03:14In the highly competitive Chinese market, this expertise spread quickly.

03:18It is no coincidence that 55% of the global smartphone market today is dominated by Chinese brands such as Oppo, Huawei and Xiaomi.

03:28From smartphones to electric cars, the evolution of Chinese industry.

03:34An electric vehicle, at its core, is not that different from a smartphone on wheels.

03:39The ability to manufacture high-precision electronics was a springboard for the automobile industry.

03:45Today, companies like Xiaomi and Huawei produce their own electric cars,

03:51in addition to smartphones, televisions and vacuum cleaners.

03:55Apple's massive investment in China has not only boosted,

03:58but also shaped China's high value-added industry.

04:02So much so that, when establishing its factory in Shanghai,

04:05Tesla sought professionals mostly with experience at Apple or its suppliers

04:10to replicate the same production methods, as guaranteed by MCG.

04:15The result we see today is not just the result of Apple's massive investment,

04:20but also from a State vision,

04:22initiated by Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s and accelerated by Xi Jinping since his rise to power.

04:28The West looked to China to manufacture cheap products,

04:31and ended up teaching her how to do it.

04:34Now the student has surpassed the master and wants his own slice of the global pie.

04:40Lessons from history. Don't repeat the past.

04:42The history of foreign investment in China,

04:46which result in knowledge transfer and training,

04:49is not new, although Apple's scale was unprecedented.

04:54In the 1980s, for example, American Motors Company, AMC,

04:59formed a joint venture with China's Bike in 1983.

05:02AMC invested $16 million, half of which was in technology and equipment,

05:09resulting in the manufacture of the Jeep Cherokee XJ,

05:12the first Western model produced in communist China.

05:16The following year, the Volkswagen group joined forces with Saik, the current owner of MG,

05:21creating Volkswagen Shanghai.

05:23Volkswagen currently has 39 factories and 90,000 employees in China.

05:29Many still see Chinese products as low quality or mere copies.

05:34However, the truth is that Chinese companies are, to a large extent,

05:39applying and improving the knowledge that was transferred to them.

05:43What the West taught, China now executes masterfully and on a global scale.

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