Indonesia is inaugurating Southeast Asia's first bullet train, a significant component of China's Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. This project is set to drastically reduce travel time between Jakarta and Bandung from three hours to 40 minutes. The high-speed rail, named "Whoosh," is of Chinese make and will seamlessly link Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, with Bandung, the densely populated capital of West Java province, reported the Associated Press.
  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    Chinese engineers are cheap, Indonesian workers are cheaper. Chinese workers are cheap too if they used a lot of those.

    • zephyreks@lemmy.mlM
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      9 months ago

      Chinese engineers in top cities (Beijing, Shanghai, etc.) get paid comparably to the West. An entry-level SDE at Alibaba in Beijing gets offered like 80k USD, which is close to the compensation in Toronto (~110k USD for an entry-level at Amazon), Berlin (~70k for the same position at Amazon), and London (~80k for the same).

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        9 months ago

        Huh. That's impressive, but I guess poor countries are also often unequal countries. Does that go for civil and mechanical engineers as well?

        • zephyreks@lemmy.mlM
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          9 months ago

          No idea, that's not my industry. There's a reason Chinese people value education so much. It's a key driver in upwards socioeconomic mobility.