Quote from: drlukacs on November 28, 2019, 07:21:38 AM

I don't think this is a good idea. Foreign trade is very important for the 4.0 era, so that China has become the No. 2 power in the world based on its resources and cheap labor. so we should actively support poorer countries to trade more and what they need to do is improve the quality of their products to create credibility and there will be more demand from more countries. .
for example, in less resource-rich countries like Africa, they should focus on other things. be it a technology service or something that is not related to resources that can make money.

According to the Future of Jobs Report, World Economic Forum, there are five HR skills in industry 4.0 in the 2015-2020 timeframe. These skills if sorted are complex problem solving, social skills, process skills, system skills, and cognitive abilities. After 2020, cognitive abilities are expected to be the most needed skills, followed by system skills, complex problem solving, content skills, and process skills (http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_2018.pdf).

Entering the industrial era 4.0 forced humans to enter two worlds, namely the real world and the virtual world. The Internet of things, which is the spirit of this era, conditions humans in a personal and communal way, relying heavily on the virtual world, which is increasingly complicated and smart. the shift from cognitive ability from fifth to first in 2020 makes it a challenge for all humans on earth.

To deal with the industrial era 4.0, it requires human resources who have flexible cognitive abilities, good logic, sensitive to problems, mathematical abilities, and visualization. We must become smart industrial 4.0 human resources, if not smart we can become victims of the 4.0 industrial revolution, the possibility that what happens is that we are not real anymore now entering the virtual world, but will become 'supernatural', because our existence vanished by itself. We are lost from the circulation and civilization of the world.

For poor African countries, the challenge will be multiplied. The main factor is how to think about becoming a smart human being while only to survive is very difficult (access to fulfill basic needs is minimal). Africa needs many opportunities for improvement in the quality of primary life. Opportunities needed by poor countries are access to employment to improve living standards, which also means investment in African countries.

China is now investing heavily in Africa and binding Africa with policy (OBOR). Even though China aims for Chinese interests, let's hope that the standard of living of the African people will improve.