Hillpig Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Osborne and Johnson seem to doing a very good job in gaining new business and investment in China. 16,000 jobs pending in Manchester due to Chinese investment. How can Sheffield benefit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 They could come and sort out Sevenstone (or whatever the new name is) for us. The Chinese seem to be able to build some of the largest structures on earth in an amazingly shot space of time - one poxy retail development shouldn't present any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 How can Sheffield benefit? It can't, Sheffield doesn't want them: http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=836557 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Osborne and Johnson seem to doing a very good job in gaining new business and investment in China. 16,000 jobs pending in Manchester due to Chinese investment. How can Sheffield benefit? By opening Chinese factories to mass produce cheap consumer goods for the Chinese domestic market. The government will create special "enterprise zones" where employment law will be relaxed & taxes reduced, prompting massive inward investment from China in the form of modern factories and state of the art workers dormitories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Osborne and Johnson seem to doing a very good job in gaining new business and investment in China. 16,000 jobs pending in Manchester due to Chinese investment. How can Sheffield benefit? Doesn't investment mean an investor will take out more than they put in? ---------- Post added 15-10-2013 at 10:27 ---------- They could come and sort out Sevenstone (or whatever the new name is) for us. The Chinese seem to be able to build some of the largest structures on earth in an amazingly shot space of time - one poxy retail development shouldn't present any problems. Sevenstone is dead in the water and personally I don't want an expansion of an already drab city centre. I want to see a revitalised city centre when I can buy everything I need from independant shops, not chainstores, pound shop, bookies and charity shops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Doesn't investment mean an investor will take out more than they put in? Do you oppose investment in the UK Mecky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manlinose Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Doesn't investment mean an investor will take out more than they put in? in the long term that is the obvious hope of an investor - they put money in, hopefully get a return on the money invested and then sell for a profit at a later date it doesn't stop it being beneficial for third parties - in this case, particularly, the people employed as a consequence of the investment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Does anyone find a certain dissonance in The Communist Party being courted for their capital? Isn't politics weird? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Do you oppose investment in the UK Mecky? I oppose anything that detracts. Does priming the pump mean anything to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Glypta Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Doesn't investment mean an investor will take out more than they put in? That would be a bit like someone building a steel works in Sheffield then or perhaps a cutlery works. We wouldn't want anyone setting up a business and providing jobs if they got a return on their investment would we? Sevenstone is dead in the water and personally I don't want an expansion of an already drab city centre. I want to see a revitalised city centre when I can buy everything I need from independant shops, not chainstores, pound shop, bookies and charity shops You are going to have a long wait. Why would anyone invest in Sheffield when they see the mind set there? South Yorkshire still lives in an era of burning Maggie Thatcher effigies. The publicity the area gets just says invest elsewhere. And wouldn't these independent stores mean investors would be taking more out than they put in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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