The situation in the Pearl River Delta, sometimes called the world's factory floor, is only slightly better.

在被称为世界工厂的珠江三角洲，情况并没有好到哪里去。

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It has supplanted Southeast Asia's old role as the world's factory floor, and, together with South Korea and Japan, contributes to a regional financial support fund.

中国已取代东南亚以前的角色，成为世界工厂，并与韩国和日本一道出资组建地区财政援助基金。

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What changed from 1990 to 2005 is that many goods became a lot cheaper as China took on a greater and greater role as the world's basic factory floor.

当中国作为世界工厂基石扮演了越来越重要的角色时，从1990年到2005年出现的变化是许多商品开始变的便宜。

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Meanwhile, labor costs in China long the world's low-cost factory floor have been rising rapidly.

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The majority of the world's robots are bolted to a spot on a factory floor, sentenced to a repetitive choreography of welding, stamping and cutting.

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