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| Goods made in China typically bear the mark "Made in China" or "Made in PRC". These marks are becoming increasingly ubiquitous as the popularity of ] in ] increases. | |||
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| Companies in western countries are outsourcing manufacturing jobs to (or other poor countries, usually in the Far-East) and creating factories there because it's cheaper to pay Chinese workers compared to workers in richer western countries. Also other considerations such as non-existent Health and Safety standards means that the company has nothing to fear if an employee in China has an accident, compared to what would happen if, for example, a worker in the UK had an accident at work. | |||
| Many products today are manufactured in China. Note that a product with the label "Made in PRC" means the '''People's Republic of China''' or sometimes if there is no label stating where the product was made, assume it was made in China! | |||
| China has almost become the world's "factory floor", in fact this is true for most consumer goods on sale today. | |||
| == Criticisms == | |||
| *Sadly, the greed of most of the world's biggest profit-driven companies doing everything possible to make more money, this means that western manufacturing jobs are always at risk of being outsourced to China. | |||
| *Chinese workers can be abused and given hard labour (also called "Sweatshop Labour") with no fear of legal action against the company. | |||
| *Chinese-made goods are considered to be poor quality compared to goods manufactured in western countries such as the UK, Germany, USA, France, Italy and so on. | |||
| *Jobs are lost in the western world. This means that redundant workers may resort to relying state benefits temporarily or permanently, which lowers the economy of the country affected by the job redundancies. | |||
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Goods made in China typically bear the mark "Made in China" or "Made in PRC". These marks are becoming increasingly ubiquitous as the popularity of outsourcing in manufacturing increases.