From “Poorly made in China” to “Made with Quality in China” [Podcast]

June 30 , 2025

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Renaud hosts and is joined again by regular guest, Andrew Amirnovin. They talk about where China has come from quality-wise and the forces that aligned to transform Chinese products from poor to great quality in the past two decades or so.

 

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Episode sections

  • 00:00 – Greetings and introduction.
  • 03:46 – What happened to transform China-made products from low to high quality over the past couple of decades or so?
  • 17:05 – Why the foreign buyer’s role cannot be underestimated.
  • 22:09 – 4 key drivers of improved quality.
  • 32:59 – Chinese ODMs and OEMs have an incentive NOT to provide poor-quality products.
  • 39:06 – Which products have benefited from the most reliability and quality improvements?
  • 44:47 – What quality challenges remain for Chinese products?
  • 59:09 – Wrapping up.

 

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