But manufacturing today is not what it used to be. It has become much more capital- and skill-intensive, with greatly diminished potential to absorb large amounts of labor from the countryside.
但今天的制造业已非昔日的制造业。今天的制造业资本密集和技能密集程度远远更高，因此吸收大量农村劳动力的潜力大大缩小了。