ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: Inside China’s $3.8 Trillion Export Economy

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A global economic powerhouse.

The world's manufacturing superpower.

In many of these fields, like green energy and robotics, China has now taken the lead.

China has made itself rich by being able to find markets overseas for its manufactured goods.

This is Shenzhen, China, where all of your electronics are made.

40 years ago, none of these buildings existed.

This city was a fishing village.

And today, Shenzhen is the electronics manufacturing capital of the world.

China did nearly $3 .8 trillion in exports last year and runs the biggest export surplus in history.

China has announced a record trillion dollar trade surplus.

Almost $1 .2 trillion in 2025.

But these headlines aren't telling the whole story.

I've spent the last few years filming across countries and places where almost all the goods come from China.

China now trades 50 % more with the Global South than with the US and Europe combined.

And in these markets, the customers have a problem the headlines rarely mention you use the banks at all making payments across borders

and participating in a global financial system

that wasn't built to serve them these markets are actually at

the center of china's economic story i came to china to

understand how it trades with the rest of the world

and the answer to that question lies in the electronics markets of shenzhen

in the historical trade ports of guangzhou and in the financial center of hong kong I live in New York,

where you just go, you know?

I'm here in Huashangbei, the electronics manufacturing capital of the world, and the thing I hear the most is this.

Cases, chargers, cables, boxed up, made in China on the label, and whisked away to every corner of the earth.

This is where it all begins, and where I, like these products, have to start my journey too.

This bustling market here in Shenzhen is representative of something crucially important for China.

Parts, accessories, cases, electronics, anything you could ever possibly need, it's available here at this wholesale market.

Wow.

Today, China's manufacturing scale is almost impossible to comprehend.

The Chinese economy has developed at an extraordinary rate.

China has quietly become the global powerhouse.

Will China soon become the world's leading economy?

The Chinese government targets 5 % annual growth, but a healthy economy grows by its people buying things.

And Chinese consumption is only 38 % of its GDP versus 70 % in the U .S and 60 % globally.

That gap has to be filled by something.

China has built an economy that produces far more than its own people can consume, which means it's structurally dependent on the rest of the world buying the difference.

Exports make up a fifth of China's economy, but accounted for nearly a third of its GDP growth last year.

And the response to China's export dominance has been a wall of trade barriers going up around China's most valuable markets.

The EU has slapped additional tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to protect its own struggling industry.

The trade war has increasingly been a West versus China story.

U .S.

tariffs, EU tariffs.

Donald Trump is raising tariffs against China to 125%.

A lot of people think about trade with China from an overwhelmingly U .S.-centric perspective.

But I think the actual story is with the Global South.

China now sells more to the Global South than to the U .S and Western Europe combined.

For the first time in 2024, countries in the Global South accounted for more than 50 % of China's total foreign trade.

And they now contribute more than half of China's trade surplus with the world.

Other developing countries — Brazil, India, Indonesia, and others — have imposed measures to protect their own growing industries.

But it's hard for them to compete.

So China's exports to the Global South are accelerating, and we can expect it to continue to grow.

And this is particularly interesting because it should work in the opposite direction.

There's an economic theory known as comparative advantage.

As countries get richer and wages rise, they should move up the value chain and shed low -value labor -intensive work to poorer countries.

they make light bags caps and hats shoes chairs all kinds of things.

But China is breaking the pattern.

Wages have risen enormously, yet China holds a third of the global textile market and remains its largest exporter, while simultaneously leading in EVs and electronics.

It's not just moving up the value chain, it's occupying the entire chain at once, from the cheapest goods to the most advanced.

India's textile industry is inventing a decisive growth phase as global sourcing patterns shift away from China.

While China has lost some low -end jobs, it can't let the low end go, even if the theory says it should, because it has hundreds of millions of workers who need those jobs.

President Xi has said it outright, quote, we must never de -industrialize.

So China will continue to compete on the low end while simultaneously competing on the high end.

So back to the global south.

As China's trade with this region continues to grow at both ends of the spectrum, it introduces a new problem.

How to get paid from all of these countries where the financial infrastructure isn't as well connected to the global economy?

I was recently in Lagos, Nigeria, where I visited Computer Village, the largest electronics market in Africa.

And throughout the market, you'll see brands that you might not recognize.

Techno, Techno, Infinix, Infinix, Infinix, Infinix, Infinix, Techno, Techno.

Everything is imported from China.

How does that work?

These are all brands from the phone manufacturer Tranchion, a Chinese company that is the largest maker of cell phones in Africa, but that doesn't sell a single phone inside of China.

It's the Chinese export economy at work.

We take for granted all the things that have to happen for these phones to get to customers.

Exporters need to build the right relationships, negotiations need to happen in different languages, the last mile logistics, and everybody needs to get paid.

None of these things are easy, but nothing can work if payments payments don't work.

So Nigeria buys a lot from China, but they have payments problems because most payments move across the SWIFT network.

With correspondent banks in the middle, it can be expensive, slow, and lead to delayed payments for many countries in the global south.

And that's an issue Chinese exporters are facing as their trade increases with these countries.

I was born and raised in Jiangsu province, where there are a lot of export businesses, bags, shirts.

At that point of time, people never think about collecting money because they always want to sell stuff.

And the major trading partners were still Europe and U .S.

That's Vincent Yang, a co -founder of the Hong Kong -based payments company Obita.

He used to work for Ant Financial and Alibaba.

But his understanding of these payments problems date back to his upbringing.

This has been changed significantly in the past years.

You've seen a lot of Chinese exporters are selling to emerging markets instead, Africa.

Asian countries, and Latin America and now become a problem because the money was stopped

and was caused delay and even was blocked by the bank due to whatever reason, maybe supporting documents, the contracts,

because a lot of business was done by trust or referral.

You know, a lot of factories running kind of like on the clock

and if you can not receive the money untimely means you cannot pay your salary untimely

which means you have to cause a lot of delays not only from a business perspective

but also labor cost perspective so

that will cause a lot of problems how common of a

problem is this for chinese manufacturers it depends on the country i guess

and also depends on the corridor in a lot of countries it's smooth enough

but still in some of the countries there are some existing issues simply because these countries'

trade increased significantly in the past 18 months or so.

However, the whole network of the payments didn't adjust that quickly.

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So the bet is that new payments infrastructure is going to be really important for China's expanding global trade, but it will need to be managed.

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Because despite how much China manufactures for export and how important exportation is to the economy, trade with China is actually a distinct and unique challenge.

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And it always has been.

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The Chinese city of Guangzhou was once called Canton.

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This was, for nearly a century, the only place in China where foreign merchants were permitted to trade.

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It was called the Canton system, and it tells you something important about how China has always understood its relationship with global commerce.

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Ships anchored here along the banks of the Pearl River and offloaded their cargo into 13 trading houses lining the waterfront.

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Each flying the flag of a different nation in what was then the wealthiest...

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Chinese city, and they couldn't trade directly.

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Everything went through licensed Chinese intermediaries, the Hong merchants, who controlled the flow of goods and the flow of money between China and the outside world.

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The Canton system ended in 1842, when Britain forced open the ports after the First Opium War.

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But as China's economy continues to grow in this century, it's back to trading on its own terms.

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I'm just going to do it like this.

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Standing here on Xiamian Island now, the quiet streets, the colonial facades, the Pearl River still moving past, it's easy to miss how consequential this place was.

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But the parallel to today is hard to ignore.

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China has always been fiercely independent and concerned about foreign influence.

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But now more than ever, it also has to trade.

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Today when you trade with China, the money is probably moving through Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong will thereby be restored to China, and within the framework of One Country, Two Systems, it will continue to have a strong identity of its own

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and be an important international partner for many countries in the world.

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I'm here in Hong Kong, one of the financial capitals of the world and the gateway to China.

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Hong Kong is a hallmark of China's One Country, Two Systems policy, where Hong Kong's rule of law, common law courts, and convertible currency allow it to be China's proxy with the rest of the world,

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how China can participate in global finance and trade without fully subjecting their own country to the rules of global trade.

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Capital can move in and out without exposing the mainland to full openness.

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China is going one step further.

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Cryptocurrencies are strictly prohibited.

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And despite the fact that China explicitly bans cryptocurrencies, China's increasing crackdown on crypto.

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Hong Kong has become a hub for stablecoin adoption for cross -border trade.

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Hong Kong has recently passed stablecoin legislation, creating a clear licensing framework for the use of stablecoins.

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Our company was incorporated right after the Genius Bill was passed.

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I guess we've seen a lot of trades happen among stablecoins, but there are no departments really regulated.

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For payment business, we have to do it under the place where it's regulated.

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I just think it's an important thing to talk about is the reason why stablecoins are being used.

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I think the default assumption often is like, oh, we're seeing this payment coming from Argentina or Nigeria.

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Like, it must be money laundering or something, right?

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And it's like, no, people have to use it because they have problems.

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And if you can build regulation and parameters around their usage, it's going to be meaningful.

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It's going to facilitate to take global trade.

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Staplecoins are becoming an increasingly important tool for cross -border payments.

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Enabling access to dollar -based assets in countries where dollars are scarce.

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And facilitating near -instant payments across currencies.

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We help businesses and individuals who do business with Africa spend local currency with the ease of global currencies.

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How do you do that?

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Staplecoins.

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Not surprisingly, they're being used more in cross -border trade with Hong Kong especially as China trades more with the Global South.

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As Orbita, first of all, we are a B2B cross -border payment company.

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So by saying that without Stablecoin, it makes sense to do that because the trade is so big.

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And with Stablecoin, for us, it's an accelerate to make the decision.

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So for me, it's an easy yes to set up the business.

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But no one really cares about the fact that they're using Stablecoins.

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It's just about getting business done.

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And that's increasingly more important as trade with the Global South continues to grow.

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The primary focus for the business owner is never about payments.

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It's all about getting business done.

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The customer only cares about whether they can receive the money timely and efficiently.

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And whether this is through Stablecoin or through fiat, I think this is less important to them as long as they make sure that money is safe with a legit partner.

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Stablecoin is just a form to conduct the trade.

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As a service provider, we should offer all the options to the clients.

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and you said before like swift works well in many instances in many instances it doesn't though

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and that's why we're saying stable point adoption

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but it sounds like the payment companies

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that are kind of taking the most pragmatic approach are the ones

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that are saying like we're using whatever we need to use

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depending on the corridors depending on the rates absolutely i think

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again our goal is definitely not replacing anybody we're trying to provide the one -stop solution for the corporates

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or for our clients where they can receiving or pay money easily uh worldwide that's our goal And the reality is, for a lot of those customers,

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they're servicing a lot of different use cases in a lot of different markets.

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You know, you have a lot of different payments providers, it's hyper -fragmented.

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And the most important thing, do clients really need to know?

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They just want to receive the money, they just want to sell the glass to Nigeria, for example.

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A lot of exporters, they are trying to aggressively looking for new markets to sell, but they don't need to necessarily...

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finding new payment partners in different jurisdictions because that's not their core business.

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So we are serving as one of the services to provide, to supporting their core business to go abroad.

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That's our ultimate goal.

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บทเรียนฝึกพูดนี้ใช้วิดีโอ “Inside China’s $3.8 Trillion Export Economy” เป็นสื่อ คำที่ถูกพูดซ้ำบ่อยที่สุด: china, trade, global, payment, countries วิดีโอนี้มี 173 ประโยค และ 2422 คำ สำหรับฝึกพูดตาม ช่วงที่มีเสียงพูดยาว 15:14 ผู้พูดพูดด้วยความเร็วเป็นธรรมชาติ ประมาณ 159 คำต่อนาที ใกล้เคียงกับบทสนทนาในชีวิตประจำวัน 83% ของคำอยู่ใน 3,000 คำที่ใช้บ่อยที่สุดในภาษาอังกฤษ ส่วนที่เหลือควรดูไว้ก่อนเริ่มฝึก

คำศัพท์สำคัญในวิดีโอนี้

คำที่ควรเรียนรู้ 15 คำจากวิดีโอ พร้อมคำอ่านและความหมาย:

คำศัพท์	คำอ่าน	ความหมาย
export คำนาม	/ˈɛks.pɔɹt/	การส่งออก
electronics คำนาม	/ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪks/	อิเล็กทรอนิกส์
currency คำนาม	/ˈkʌɹ.ən.si/	เงินตรา
delay คำนาม	/dɪˈleɪ̯/	ดีเลย์
compete คำกริยา	/kəmˈpiːt/	แข่ง, แข่งขัน
surplus คำนาม	/ˈsɝˌplʌs/	ส่วนเกิน
infrastructure คำนาม	/ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/	โครงสร้างพื้นฐาน
wage คำนาม	/weɪd͡ʒ/	ค่าจ้าง, ค่าแรง
participate คำกริยา	/pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/	เข้าร่วม, ร่วมมือ
manufacturer คำนาม	/ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəɹə/	ผู้ผลิต
merchant คำนาม	/ˈmɝt͡ʃənt/	วาณิช, คนค้า
headline คำนาม	/ˈhɛd.laɪn/	หัวเรื่อง, หัวข่าว
corridor คำนาม	/ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/	ฉนวน
accelerate คำกริยา	/ɪkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪt/	เร่ง
ignore คำกริยา	/ɪɡˈnɔː/	เมิน

ไวยากรณ์ในวิดีโอนี้

โครงสร้างที่ผู้พูดใช้บ่อยที่สุด พร้อมคำพูดจริงจากวิดีโอ:

โครงสร้าง	ในวิดีโอ
Present perfect have/has + กริยาช่อง 3 — เหตุการณ์ในอดีตที่ยังเกี่ยวข้องกับปัจจุบัน	has now taken · has made · has announced
Passive voice be + กริยาช่อง 3 — เน้นสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้น ไม่ใช่ผู้กระทำ	are made · wasn't built · be filled

การออกเสียงที่ควรระวัง

ผู้พูดใช้รูปย่อและรูปลดเสียง 24 ครั้ง เช่น we're, I'm, they're ให้พูดแบบสั้นตามที่ได้ยิน

เสียง “th”: smooth /smuːð/, thereby /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/
เสียง “sh” และ “zh”: adoption /əˈdɑp.ʃən/, regulation /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, jurisdiction /d͡ʒʊɹɪsˈdɪkʃən/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/
คำยาว — ลงเสียงหนักให้ถูกพยางค์: electronics /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪks/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, manufacturer /ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəɹə/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/

เสียงที่คนไทยมักออกเสียงยาก:

เสียงท้ายคำ — ออกเสียงให้ครบ ไม่เปลี่ยนเป็นตัวสะกดแบบไทย: electronics /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪks/, surplus /ˈsɝˌplʌs/, wage /weɪd͡ʒ/, versus /ˈvɝsəs/, textile /ˈtɛk.staɪl/
/v/ — ไม่ใช่ /w/ ให้ฟันบนแตะริมฝีปากล่าง: versus /ˈvɝsəs/, provider /pɹəˈvaɪ.də(ɹ)/, province /ˈpɹɔv.ɪns/, overseas /ˌoʊvɚˈsiːz/, intensive /ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/
/z/ — เสียงก้อง ไม่ใช่ /s/: ease /iz/, overseas /ˌoʊvɚˈsiːz/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/, expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/, industrialize /ɪnˈdʌstɹiəlaɪz/

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อัดเสียงตัวเองแล้วเทียบกับต้นฉบับ โดยสังเกตคำอย่าง export, electronics, currency เป็นพิเศษ

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