"Previously, Toshiba R & D base in the South China Sea in Japan." Toshiba Home Appliance Manufacturers (Nanhai) Co., Ltd. General Affairs Minister Wu Chung told reporters that if the South China Sea to develop new products, the company, the Japanese side to this need for technical support . Developed products, but also need to be sent to Japan to detect, resulting in development for a long time and high cost. Meanwhile, due to the design and production of separate, product design can achieve the intended target is a problem. To this end, the South Sea Company Toshiba set up their own R & D center, now has a full set of research and development facilities, and some aspects of the strength of R & D in Japan even more than technical force. "In the future, the company will focus on the main direction of development of the Chinese market, to understand and meet the Chinese domestic market, the development cycle must be followed by the production and marketing chain together." Wu Chung said. In fact, from 2004 began to set up production bases in the South China Sea, Toshiba had aimed at the huge growth prospects of China's home appliance market. The end of 2004, Toshiba and TCL invested to build the manufacturing and sales company unveiled to the public, the Toshiba side had said that in the future the biggest issue is how to expand the Chinese market. Now, with the Chinese market, rising labor costs, Toshiba would the investment focus shifted to other Southeast Asian countries? In this regard, the general manager Takahata Sarkozy said, in fact, in recent years, not only in the rapidly growing labor costs, raw material prices are rising, while the terminal sales prices are falling, they keep squeezing the profit margins of manufacturers, not only only our company, the domestic appliance industry in the face of this common problem. "In this regard, we are through internal potential to further improve production efficiency and further reduce costs to offset rising labor costs, material costs increases the impact, these are our current efforts, rather than considering the industry say that the transferred to other countries. " Talking about this year Sino-Japanese relations since the problems of the impact of Japanese companies, Takahata Qi said, because our products are mainly exported to Japan, the Japanese domestic market, while Japan basically not affected. "Toshiba's factory in China from south to north, and products are numerous and complex, global sourcing strategy is implemented, the yen exchange rate changes have a negative impact, but also have a positive impact." Toshiba (China) Co., PR Manager at Hu Wei interview with this reporter, said that from the earnings perspective, the current round of depreciation of the yen from the end of last year, the specific impact of the 2013 fiscal year to be reflected. From Toshiba's latest Annual Report, fiscal year 2012, its global sales of 5.8003 trillion yen, compared with 2011 decreased ¥ 300 billion, but net profit to rise, reaching 77.5 billion yen. Hu Wei said that as of March 31 this year, fiscal year 2012 Annual Report of view, does not affect the depreciation of the yen as big as we imagined. Face instability and labor costs rising year after year, Toshiba and other Japanese-funded enterprises Why Tiger still choose to stay in Shenzhen? Masayuki Sugimoto said to reporters, five years ago, the minimum wage is 700 yuan here, the current minimum wage is 1,600 yuan, has doubled the minimum wage, but does not consider TTEC move. Vietnam's labor costs are low, but the lack of copier mold conditions and production parts procurement, where a factory is a large global businesses can not be considered. Toshiba PA3534U-1BAS Battery
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