Dell Doubles Down In Xiamen, China
Dell Computer's China subsidiary, Dell China Company, Ltd., will be doubling its Chinese production capabilities by opening a second factory in Xiamen, China, according to this article in today's China Knowledge. This will make China Dell's third largest manufacturing base, behind theUnited States and Malaysia.
The two factories will contribute to 8 to 10 percent of Dell's global production capacity when the second plant goes into full operation. "China has become Dell's fifth largest market," said Stephen J. Felice, president of Dell Asia-Pacific and Japan.
Computers from the two Xiamen factories will be sold mostly in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea.
My co-blogger, Steve Dickinson, actually just arrived back in Seattle this week after a long sojourn to Xiamen to work on a factory buy out deal and to Rome, Italy, where he lectured to other lawyers on Chinese and International law.
Like just about everyone else who has been to Xiamen, Steve loved the place and as soon as he has fully recovered from his jet lag, I will get him to write something about the nearly completed factory deal and about Xiamen. We have a yacht client whose yachts are made at a 25 acre state of the art facility in Xiamen and they too also are always raving about the area.
Comments (6)
Read through and enter the discussion by using the form at the endOther Lisa - June 3, 2006 2:59 PM
I just got back from Xiamen as well. What a great place. Generally you just can't combine "pleasant & relaxing" with "Chinese city."
I've heard that the local government there is also a cut above, with an interest in sensible growth and historic preservation. Any comment on this?
China Law Blog - June 3, 2006 8:44 PM
Other Lisa --
Thanks for checking in.
I have never been to Xiamen, but I am going to try to stop by there soon. I have heard pretty good things also about their government being pro-business, but I have no first hand experience. I will check with Steve to see what he knows.
Dan
Other Lisa - June 4, 2006 11:54 PM
Dan, I get all of your posts through Feedblitz, so I don't come to the site as often as I would otherwise. But I keep up with the content.
I like getting the notices of new posts but actually would prefer to come and read them on your site. I'm sure I'm missing interesting comments and links by not doing so.
China Law Blog - June 5, 2006 6:40 AM
Other Lisa --
Thanks for all your compliments. I often wonder what to do with Feedblitz as we actually have a large number of subscribers to our blog through that e-mail service. We started out with full posts on it, then switched to only partial posts, but then switched back when a "best of" blog service told us that we needed to e-mail out full posts to remain on their best blogs list. I cannot even remember what blog service that was so we are again thinking of going back to just post summaries, leaving it to the reader to decide whether to come to the site for a full view.
Certainly some of the comments we receive here are every bit as good as the posts and they often elucidate or supplement the posts beautifully. Yes, I am using this comment to again urge everyone to comment as often as you can as your doing so helps bring different perspectives to our blog.
Steven - June 10, 2006 2:34 PM
Xiamen is indeed a pretty city. Here are some pics posted by someone else.
Some people also call Xiamen Amoi in English. I don't know how it came.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=223602&page=2&pp=20
China Law Blog - June 10, 2006 2:44 PM
Steven --
Nice to have you back and thanks for the great pics.