India has 246,504 factories and over 3,800 industrial parks, and hires 35.6 million workers, compared with China’s 2.8 million factories, over 20,000 industrial parks and 83 million workers. However, it took China 20 years to rise from the world’s sixth-largest manufacturer in 1990 to pole position in 2010, overtaking the US. In 2020, India ranked sixth.
