在21世纪中国将成为“世界工厂”的言论不绝于耳的时候,一些新加入欧盟的中东欧国家以其在地缘、文化和劳动力等方面的相对优势,开始成为西欧企业外迁的首选地之一。在波兰、匈牙利、捷克和罗马尼亚新建的西欧控股家用电器生产线,仅是西欧企业向中东欧转移的前奏曲。接踵而来的 At a time when China is going to become a “world factory” in the 21st century, some new Central and Eastern European countries that have joined the EU have become one of the first choice places for relocating Western European companies with their comparative advantages in geography, culture and labor. The new West European home appliance production lines in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania are just the prelude to the shift of Western European companies to Central and Eastern Europe. Followed by