Are Chinese products as bad as they seem?
November 20, 2007 by SwizStick
Filed under China, Supply Chain Management
Bashing on China goods has gotten out of hand. I am reading countless articles where so-called experts are saying China’s quality problems are going to cause foreign companies to start looking at Vietnam and Cambodia for their production. Now I am actually a huge fan of both of those countries, but I cannot resist wondering what these people are smoking if they think Western companies are just going to be able to waltz into Vietnam and Cambodia and walk out with quality product. Very roughly, Vietnam is about ten years behind China in both production standards and corruption and I would put Cambodia another ten years behind Vietnam.
I’d venture to say those “so-called experts” aren’t experts at all. China does have quality issue problems, but they are years ahead of the game compared to such countries as Vietnam and Cambodia. I’d feel safer importing from China, quality-wise, then Vietnam or Cambodia, even after all the bad press. People forget that countries like Korea and Japan also had quality issues during their early industrialization periods.
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