TO tell you one reason that China products are cheap and at low quality, that is the customers demanding cheap things, I export China made auto spare parts and accessories, and I know the situation, in the Mideast market(our main market), people not need high quality goods, but need bottom cheap goods at a workable quality, (cheap and workable, a very though job indeed ),the price for a new order must be lower than the old one to keep the competitive edge, because the market price keep going down, the problem with China is that the factories not like to refuse this order, the factories produce goods according to the price they are offered, now many factories told us they can no longer make low quality goods because their factory already upgrade with new machines and already have some strength , can survive without garbage orders. But there are too much new start factories in China, you know many small factories are started by farmers at their courtyard, you always can get very cheap goods from China.
One auto water pump factory told me that they export water pump to USA, the main raw material aluminum was above RMB40,000 per ton, inside there is one piece of stainless steel sheet for some function, they sell to USA at about USD10/PC, but the same model water pump go to third world counties, the aluminum raw material is they use is about RMB24000 per ton, and instead of the stainless steel piece, there was a piece of copper in side, this copper sheet is much easier to process then the stainless steel, and this water pump is sold about the half price at USD6.00.
There are many China factories make very cheap goods still at an acceptable price, this is big trouble for the other countries, China company work very hard to make paper thin profits, and the poor countries not need to work and can pay little to enjoy a life, and will have very little to pay in future, in my eye, this is not a win win situation.