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Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

Foxconn is hugely important, not only in China - it's the largest employer in China - Foxconn is important around the world.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

I buy a lot of electronics, some which I never take out of the box!

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

Fundamentally, we have broken our aerospace business into three parts - large parts which go into the wings and fuselage, components for jet engines, and specialised structural components for landing gear.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial - more advanced industrial centers - Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe - and it basically assembles them.