When costs for labor-intensive goods and services became too high in these countries, production was shifted elsewhere. This relocation of manufacturing has since been accompanied by the off-shoring of services whose information-intensive components have become tradable.
如今的开放国际贸易和投资体系使得公司能够把生产放在最有利于其国际竞争力的地方，中国本身也从中获益良多，现在，中国也开始转移劳动密集型产业了。