单选题:根据下面内容,回答题 Rising wages-together with currency fluctuations

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Rising wages-together with currency fluctuations and high fuel costs-are eating away theonce-formidable "China price" advantage, prompting thousands of factory owners to flee the PearlRiver Delta. Much has been written about the more than doubling of wages at the Shenzhen factoryof Foxconn, the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, which produces Apple iPhonesand iPads and employs 920,000 people in China alone. "One can talk about a world pre-and post-Foxconn," says Victor Fung, chairman of Li & Fung, the world's biggest sourcing company and asupplier of Wal-Mart. "Foxconn is as important as that."
Foxconn's wage increases are only the most dramatic. Our analysis suggests that, sinceFebruary, minimum wages have climbed more than 20 percent in 20 Chinese regions and up to 30percent in some, including Sichuan. At a Guangdong Province factory supplying Honda, wages haverisen an astonishing 47 percent. All this is bad news for companies operating in the world'smanufacturing hub, and chief executives should assume that double-digit annual rises-if not on thescale witnessed this year-are here to stay.
Looked at another way, however, wage inflation provides companies with a once-in-a-
generation opportunity to rethink radically the way they approach global production-and theyshould do so sooner rather than later.
Why the urgency? After all, wage hikes in China are nothing new. Since 1990, they have risen byan average of 13 percent a year in U.S. dollar terms and 19 percent annually in the past five years.
There are two big reasons the situation is different now. The first has to do with productivity.Over the past 20 years, productivity increases have broadly matched wage increase, negating theirimpact. The pay rises came from a very low base, so while average Wages grew 19 percent a yearfrom 2005 to 2010, this amounted to only ¥260 a month per employee, a sum that could be offsetby more efficient production or switching to cheaper sources of parts and materials.
If labor costs continue, however, to increase at 19 percent a year for another five years,monthly wages would grew ¥623 per month, according to BCG estimates. Such an increase wouldripple through the economy in the form of higher prices for components, business services, cargo-handling and office staff.
The second reason relates to societal change. Until now, it has been easy to lure a seeminglyunlimited number of young, low-wage workers to the richer coastal regions and house them cheaplyin dormitories until they saved enough to return home to their families in the interior provinces. Inthe future, though, young workers will be harder to recruit. This is partly because there will befewer of them: Largely because of the country's one-child policy, the number of Chinese aged 15 to29 will start declining in 2011. Moreover, with living standards rising across China, fewer of today's rural youth will want to go to coastal regions to toil for 60 hours a week on an assembly line andlive in a cramped dormitory.
So what can CEOs do in this fast-changing environment? An instinctive reaction is to searchfor cheaper labor elsewhere. But this is short-sighted and would provide-at best-a short-term fix.Another option is to stay in China and try to squeeze out greater productivity gains.
According to paragraph 1 and 2, we can summarize that ( ). A.China will always boast a very impressive price advantage around the globe
B.Foxconn's rising wage is just a one-sided case
C.Souring wages has improved a widespread impact on foreign companies
D.Foxconn is a manufacturer of great significance to China

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