Made in China
By Luis Gonzalez Have you ever gone to the store looking for something? And notice that most products say made in China. Well, the majority of stores have products with labels, stickers stating that the product was made in China. If your curious just like me then next thing that pops into one’s head is “why is everything made in China? And if you were to ask around why this is they would tell you China produces cheap products with a cheap labor force. Well, it is partially true but that is just not the complete answer there is so much more to it.
Back in 2012 Olympics, there was a huge scandal in the United States with the U.S. Olympics team. The track suits they wore in the opening ceremony of the London Olympics were made in China. Well, why was this well may products in our households are made in China but why is this?
There is 3 main reasons why products are made in China
most products on the shelfs at store are made in China. The first main one is that China became a very popular manufacturing hub in the 1980’s once It started opening itself to the world. Jennifer Pak and Sabri Ben-Anchor, From Market place.org, who wrote the article “Manufacturing: The China inc. model”. They state That “Infrastructure must be capable of supporting the efficient export of goods, and the government is needed to facilitate this. China’s government invested heavily in infrastructure and building markets to support domestic industries. why doesn’t the U.S. produce certain things — specifically, cheap goods like face masks or other personal protective gear, to the alarm of many Americans during the pandemic — labor is one part of the complex answer. The U.S. is a wealthy country, and labor is expensive — too expensive to competitively make cheap labor-intensive products”. These problems are that in the U.S. workers have rights such as minimum wage and a workplace free of dangerous conditions. From this article we can see that they are expressing to us that the U.S. is not like third-world countries that live in poverty, life in the U.S. is very decent, and therefore the U.S. can’t produce goods that are cheap because people in the U.S. have rights and their labor is more expensive. Compared to China which had prepared and is well suited to producing cheaper items faster and easier. so, it’s more convenient for us to go to China and produce products that are cheap products
Business insider
Manufacturing in China is done because of the skill and sheer volume of the engineers. For example, apple products require advanced tools and engineers. “In the U.S. you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I am not sure we could fill the room. In China you could fil multiple football fields”. Tim Cook Discusses Apple’s Future in China I Fortune Dec 6, 2017 The Apple CEO sits down with us at this year’s Fortune Global Forum to discuss innovation, Apple’s successes and challenges in China, and what’s next for the world’s most admired company.
Finally “China has amended its treatment of foreign investments to attract higher-quality foreign investment and upgrade processing exports in order to transform itself from a world sweatshop to a global manufacturing center”. As it is stated in “Made in China: From World Sweatshop to a Global Manufacturing Center?” By Sung Yun-Wing. “His paper argues that foreign investment is a second-best instrument that helps China to succeed in export-led growth by circumventing the many distortions that discriminate against domestic private enterprise”. This article proves to us that China is stepping up its skills to better compete with other countries by giving businessmen from other countries an opportunity that wasn’t given in their hometowns.
So next time you go shopping and pick up a products that says it was made in China. Just know there is so much more that happens that costumers like me and you don’t understand, it is never simple.
Authors statement
Luis Gonzalez
Made in China
The article I wrote Is called Made in China. I decided to go with a article I believe this is the best way to explain my topic about why most products in the United states are made in China. I want to try and do a article like in your googles article section right under your search bar how it has so many interesting trending topics. I believe that when I will put some of cartoon it may grab the readers attention. And will bring some type of mood maybe makes the reader interested and may spark curiosity as this question did to me. I got curios on this topic because I had to go buy some storage containers from the store and I flipped the container around I see, made in China. Then I started looking at other products and wondering where those things were made, and they also said made in China. What made me even more curios was when I bought a sweater that was higher quality merino wool and expected it to be made somewhere in Europe, but it also said made in China which was super weird to me. So here I am making an article on why things are made in China not here in the United States.
Well, I got my ideas and format of this article from other examples I have seen such as articles made by vice, NBC news, and YouTube videos such as inside edition along with new stories. As those are the best ways interesting question are presented and I have learned from so I felt this was the best way to express my question, thoughts, and answers to this subject. I believe their images the tone and the way the article is in is what makes the reader understand why so many products in the shelfs of American consumers are made in China.
This article means a lot to me, and this is because I was very interested in this question. And when I asked someone else Why are most of the products made in China? they always just say oh the labor is so much cheaper in China. But that is not just all there is so much to it. And I guess finally I was given a chance to solve on of my most thought questions. It is going ok with the article I just feel like it is very difficult organizing my thoughts and getting them together in a wat that the reader will understand what I am trying to get across threw this article. I would also like to add some photographs that will grab the readers attention. But ultimately I want the reader that reads my article to get something out of my writing.
