Industrial Commoning
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The Chinese Model of Industrial Commoning creates a global development model
"China today exports more than products. It exports the capacity to industrialise.
Across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, countries are building power grids, transit systems, and manufacturing lines with Chinese equipment because it works and it is affordable. Panels, batteries, turbines, robotics, and vehicles arrive at a fraction of the price once charged by Western suppliers. These are not just goods; they are the means to produce modernity.
The logic is straightforward: if you can industrialise cheaply, you can also educate cheaply. Once a country gains access to low-cost capital goods, it gains the same leverage China used to upgrade its own population—turning factories into training grounds and logistics networks into learning systems. Cheap capital goods are the equivalent of cheap intelligence. They allow nations to lift the cognitive and technical floor of their citizens without waiting for a generational overhaul of schools, universities, or bureaucracies."
- Chor Pharn [1]