MOSCOW air jordans retro 11 wholesale , July 24 (Xinhua) -- Russian cargo ship Progress M-24M docked with the Pirs section of the International Space Station (ISS) successfully on Thursday, the Mission Control Center said.

"Progress M-24M's contact with the station took place in a normal mode, at the designated time," according to the center.

It docked with the ISS via a short-track scheme, which was introduced in 2012 and shortened the original two-day trip to six hours.

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Progress M-24M is the successor of M-23M, which undocked from the ISS on Tuesday and will be sunk in the Pacific Ocean on August 1 after being used for the geophysical experiment "Radar-Progress."

" More companies from Europe and the United States are returning home as labor and raw material costs rise in China. Provided to China Daily

More companies from Europe and the United States that used to outsource production to China are returning home as price gaps narrow.

For Dutch engineering and electronics conglomerate Philips NV, improved automation and smarter robots meant it made more sense financially to build a new factory in Drachten in 2012 than extend its operations in China.

Philips found the robots to be more productive than workers in Guangdong in southern China, where it discount jordan shoes wholesale , like many other foreign multinationals, had to contend with rising labor and raw material costs and occasional staff shortages.

General Electric Co took arguably a bigger gamble by opting to reshore some production from China to its Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2012.

There, GE was able to redesign one of its water heaters and slash the time it takes to get them to warehouses. Efficiency rose and material costs fell by more than 20 percent, enabling it to lower the US retail price of its GeoSpring heater from $1,599 to $1 china jordan shoes wholesale ,299. GE also returned production of some washing machines and refrigerators to the US.

Similar cases have been popping up over the past five years as more European and US companies find it makes more sense to return jobs and production home, a strategy known as reshoring.

These moves mostly involve companies that sell mainly to their domestic markets. And they indicate that China’s competitiveness as a global low-cost production base is waning.

""A number of German companies operating in China have told me that it makes less and less sense for them to manufacture their products here and export them to Europe,"" says Stefan Gessner, general manager of Linder + Wiemann GmbH, a German company that sources equipment for stamping tools in China.

""This is mostly because labor costs are rising while subsidies and other forms of support from the Chinese government are shrinking,"" he says. ""For those that decide to remain or expand here, it seems to be more a case of go local to stay local.""

Labor costs have shot up by as much as 500 percent in China since the turn of the century. In line with the changing expectations of Chinese factory workers jordan shoes wholesale free shipping , the average annual urban income jumped to 41,799 yuan ($6,850) in 2011, up from 24,721 yuan in 2007, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

Boston Consulting Group, which has published a series of papers on reshoring authentic jordan shoes wholesale , predicts that ongoing trends could ""virtually close the price gap"" for most products sold in the US in a couple of years. A similar argument can be made for Europe.

""Within five years, the total cost of production for many products will be only about 10 to 15 percent less in Chinese coastal cities than in some parts of the US where factories are likely to be built,"" BCG wrote in 2011.

""Factor in shipping, inventory costs and other considerations, and — for many goods destined for the North American market — the cost gap between sourcing in China and manufacturing in the US will be minimal.""

Small in scale

The number of reported cases of companies that have returned their manufacturing operations back home is limited. There are around 100 in the US, even fewer in Europe.

In July, the Financial Times described the trend among United Kingdom companies as ""modest"". Meanwhile jordan shoes wholesale online , French Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg said recently that ""only a few"" French companies have decided to go down this road, or given it serious thought.

Ioana Kraft, general manager of the Shanghai office of the European Chamber of Commerce in China, says,""I have not heard of any major reshoring moves recently (among our members). I recall one or two companies having done so in 2012, but nothing in 2013.""

Yet even such fledgling moves hint at the changing dynamics of the global playing field. The US, for example cheap jordan shoes wholesale , now has highly competitive energy prices and its workers are among the most highly skilled and efficient in the world.

According to Harry C. Moser, founder and president of the US-based Reshoring Initiative, a nonprofit organization, Europe is starting to follow in the footsteps of the trailblazing Americans. In this context, the trail being blazed can seem more like a retreat to safer shores.

""Europe is behind the US, but it’s starting to push hard,"" says Moser. ""It is spreading in the Netherlands and France and there is interest in the UK mens jordan shoes wholesale , Switzerland, Italy and Belgium.""

Local academics say they expect it to keep gaining momentum. ""This reshoring trend is quite prominent — and it’s going to continue in the near future,"" says Xu Bin, a professor of economics and finance at the China Eu. Cheap NFL Shirts   Cheap Nike NBA Hats   Cheap NHL Jerseys China   Cheap NCAA Hoodies Online   Wholesale Hats   Wholesale College Jerseys   Wholesale Jerseys China   Wholesale Jerseys From China   Wholesale Jerseys From China   Wholesale Soccer Jerseys