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dspc
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posted 05 September 2007 11:02 PM      Profile for dspc   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
China government has initiated a four-month long nationwide campaign to perform an all-round supervision and inspection of all China-made products.Wen Jiabao said, China must establish a rigorous network to realize effective supervision over processing, packaging, delivering and sale of products and step up the establishment of national standard systems to tally with international standards.

A nationwide investigation by China's food quality watchdog found products such as baby milk powder, rice, flour, meat, biscuits, seafood, soy sauce and sweets had been contaminated.

Wen has to do it , responding to growing international concerns. But it will work? Nobody can say that all products made in China are bad,or good. It depends on the boss of the manufacture since the bureaucrats are corrupt and neglectful. An ambitious boss will look forward to long-term achievements, while an opportunistic one will play with fire.

Furthermore, the profit system collapses in China as they are enjoying steep profit margins. A "race to the bottom" competition drives factories in China mad!

In factories, low-waged workers and technicians disrelish bosses,detest the bureaucrats.Alongside the 87000 'mass incidents' in 2005 there have been 300000 'industrial conflicts'. Noncooperating is a common feeling.All will do harm to quality control.

Products like cardboard-stuffed buns, that are tied with poor self-employed labourers, are more difficult to supervise for it underlines people's impoverishment. Economic oriented to the bigwigs,results in depression in rural areas and hinterlands. A large number of peasants gathere at the outskirts of large cities, Beijing has millions. Go to the outskirts ,you can see many hoked-up rented rooms, open sewers and garbage all over the floor. The displaced persons do anything they can ,but barely survive.

Not bad breakfast,such as a taiwan food chain's ,are much more expensive. Small Breakfast purveyors ,mostly poor floating persons ,get very low profits ,from their work in the morning. Whithout training, lacking of supervision, gloomily maintaining, some people playing sly, it is inevitable?

温家宝能改善产品质量和食品安全?


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Fidel
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posted 06 September 2007 02:26 AM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
But China has middle class the sizes of USsA's population. And Chinese actually have personal savings rate that's way above measly point five or six that exists here in N. America. China's better at Darwinian capitalism than most capitalist nations which only fake it.
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Briguy
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posted 06 September 2007 03:08 AM      Profile for Briguy     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
If China's factories move to improve their safety standards, won't costs increase? Mattell and friends will probably just re-contract production to some different FTZs (which could still be in China) and claim they've done something about the problem.
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dspc
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posted 16 September 2007 11:42 PM      Profile for dspc   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
...China's better at Darwinian capitalism than most capitalist nations which only fake it.

Alas! Don't take China today as capitalism at all.It is an officialdom-economy.

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