{"id":329,"date":"2010-05-24T20:58:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdnphoto.com\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2010-05-24T20:58:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:58:05","slug":"chinas-lack-of-innovation-lenovo-manufacturing-for-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2010\/05\/24\/chinas-lack-of-innovation-lenovo-manufacturing-for-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"China Name Brand Innovation for the Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100525_china_innovation_lenovo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100525_china_innovation_lenovo.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Post clipping from &quot;Lack of innovation is costing China money, prestige&quot;\" title=\"Washington Post clipping from &quot;Lack of innovation is costing China money, prestige&quot;\" width=\"950\" height=\"832\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1656\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"paragraph\">\n<p>I got prime access to a Lenovo manufacturing factory for a Washington Post <a title=\"Beijing tries to push beyond 'Made in China' status to find name-brand innovation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/05\/24\/AR2010052404126.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on China&#8217;s efforts to create name-brand innovation and recognition globally. Although not as big as other assembly centers in Shanghai and Shenzhen, it still pumped out thousands of desktop computers on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100521_lenovo_china_computers_manufacturing05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100521_lenovo_china_computers_manufacturing05.jpg\" alt=\"Lenovo mottos adorn the walls of the factory in Beijing\" title=\"Lenovo mottos adorn the walls of the factory in Beijing\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-334\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100521_lenovo_china_computers_manufacturing02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100521_lenovo_china_computers_manufacturing02.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors are given an introduction to Lenovo&#039;s history before the factory tour\" title=\"Visitors are given an introduction to Lenovo&#039;s history before the factory tour\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100521_lenovo_china_computers_manufacturing03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100521_lenovo_china_computers_manufacturing03.jpg\" alt=\"The Lenovo plant in Beijing sports a massive automated storage facility\" title=\"The Lenovo plant in Beijing sports a massive automated storage facility\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-332\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100521_lenovo_china_computers_manufacturing04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100521_lenovo_china_computers_manufacturing04.jpg\" alt=\"Teams of assemblers work around the clock at the Lenovo factory in Beijing\" title=\"Teams of assemblers work around the clock at the Lenovo factory in Beijing\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got prime access to a Lenovo manufacturing factory for a Washington Post article on China&#8217;s efforts to create name-brand innovation and recognition globally. Although not as big as other assembly centers in Shanghai and Shenzhen, it still pumped out thousands of desktop computers on a daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39,61,79,88,98,156,216,237,252,309],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings_category","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-clipping","tag-computers","tag-factory","tag-innovation","tag-lenovo","tag-manufacturing","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}