Time for a Chinese standards institute?
28th March 2007 by Tim Kitchin
“Chinese consumer confidence in foreign brand-name products is decreasing after frequent media reports about their shabby quality.”
So says this piece from China Business News.
As their own standards inexorably rise higher and higher, the Chinese should increase to standardise these approaches up the demand-chain.
LRQA’s recent study of directors’ perspectives on management systems show that in countries like the UK, Chinese production standards are already rated above domestic alternatives.
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