I have had some extensive dealings with Chinese manufacturing, including working at the factory in China for a while.
I get a little tired of people using "made in China" as a synonym for "low quality." It's a lot like the use of "Made in Japan" for low quality before we found out in the 1980s that the Japanese make really, really high quality stuff. Detroit found this out to their detriment. Other industries - like semiconductors - found this out too.
The real problem with quality for items made in China is businessmen from the USA doing the buying. The Chinese, as a group, are as capable of high quality manufacture as anyone. But they are businessmen. When a buyer from the USA says "make it as cheap as you can", they sell him what he wants. Literally every penny gets squeezed out.
Remember USA manufacturing the 1980s? When "made in the USA" became a near-synonym for "made on Monday or Friday junk"? Pennies are squeezed out the same way in manufacturing in China, by cutting corners. But we're asking for the bottom of the barrel. It's not like it's all they can do.
We'll wake up to this, to our detriment, at some point. Don't scorn "made in China" as "junk"; be very afraid that they can do better if they want, because they can.
I get a little tired of people using "made in China" as a synonym for "low quality." It's a lot like the use of "Made in Japan" for low quality before we found out in the 1980s that the Japanese make really, really high quality stuff. Detroit found this out to their detriment. Other industries - like semiconductors - found this out too.
The real problem with quality for items made in China is businessmen from the USA doing the buying. The Chinese, as a group, are as capable of high quality manufacture as anyone. But they are businessmen. When a buyer from the USA says "make it as cheap as you can", they sell him what he wants. Literally every penny gets squeezed out.
Remember USA manufacturing the 1980s? When "made in the USA" became a near-synonym for "made on Monday or Friday junk"? Pennies are squeezed out the same way in manufacturing in China, by cutting corners. But we're asking for the bottom of the barrel. It's not like it's all they can do.
We'll wake up to this, to our detriment, at some point. Don't scorn "made in China" as "junk"; be very afraid that they can do better if they want, because they can.