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A few years ago 'Made in China' = shit quality. Now I think a lot of things are made well. Clearly there could be ways of making them with higher quality materials but they aren't bad.

Definitely true. Big companies such as Xiaomi started to expand their product line into consumer electronics and appliances. The thing about those companies in China is that it's mainly an oligopoly, there isn't much competition anyways so it's a brand where you can buy a lot of your goods from (Think Uniqlo in Japan with basics from streetwear to business). Having went to China a few times in the past few years, you'll notice the improvement in weather conditions (outside of Beijing) and the technological advancements.

 

You mentioned an oligopoly in Chinese manufacturing, however, I feel that there seems to be greater competition in China than here in the States. For instance, you mentioned Xiaomi as an electronics (and now phone) manufacturer. However, in huge competition with them is Huawei, Vivo, Oppo, Oneplus, Asus, and you can't rule out ZTE just yet. In addition, there is significant foreign phone presence in China as well primarily coming from the likes of Samsung and Apple (which is doing pretty well in China rn as while their revenues were down worldwide, the China market apparently increased 12%). This is comparatively different from the essential duopoly we have here in the US of Apple, which alone holds a 45% stake in the US smartphone market, and Samsung, which dominates the plurality of the remaining 55% android market. That's just my perspective, however, and I'm by no means too familiar with this market.

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The era of "shit quality" apparel from China is rapidly ending, because of ongoing increases in minimum wages that have been running at ~15%/year. Low-end production has moved to Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, and in some cases Africa. Cut & sew production bound for North America increasingly comes from Central America, where competitive wage rates and shorter supply lines make the economics more attractive.

https://shenglufashion.com/2016/01/28/minimum-wage-in-the-apparel-indus…

 

In fact, Chinese manufacturing has already represented the upper-middle level of production in the world, while cheap and poor quality products have been turned to lower-productivity countries. In fact, we have reason to believe that Chinese manufacturing has represented the level of quality that most customers can accept.

 

The speed of hardware manufacturing in Shenzhen is insane. Highly skilled tech manufacturing, China gets shit done. All of the cheap made in China plastic toys and stuff are moving to the rural shitty parts of China or Bangladesh, India, or Africa because it's too expensive to manufacture it in 1st tier Chinese cities.

 

Thank you for your answer and your respect. You mentioned the water and electricity necessary for the operation. In China, the government is also strongly supporting the innovation of the manufacturing industry. In fact, as a Chinese, we are also looking forward to the changes in this industry and expect it to achieve great progress.

 

It's important to understand that any changes at a country level happens in decade timescales not over night. That being said, Made in China will dominate for years to come. But China has been purposefully been phasing out low skilled manufacturing like clothing, footwear etc to phase in technological high skilled manufacturing.

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