Made in China


Made in China, Product of China or sometimes Made in PRC is a country of origin label affixed to products manufactured in the People's Republic of China.

Terminology

Made in China is the designation of goods that have been manufactured in mainland China.

Branding

The "Made in China" brand was historically challenged by the US Cold War media campaigns that reported negatively on the brand and publicized hearings on the security of Chinese products in the United States Congress. Conversely, some advertising companies and the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai have since the late 1990s endeavored to shed the Made in China brand of its cheap image, as Made in Japan has done.

Marketing significance

The Made in China label is the most recognizable label in the world today, due to the country being the largest exporter in the world.

Major incidents related to exported products

In the 2007 Chinese export recalls, for example, product safety institutions in the United States, Canada, the European Union, Australia and New Zealand issued recalls and import bans on a wide range of Chinese-made consumer goods, such as pet food, toys, toothpaste, lipstick, and certain types of seafood.
During the 2008 Chinese export recalls, heparin was recalled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration due to contamination of the raw heparin stock imported from China.
Lenovo has admitted in a public statement that it had pre-installed third-party adware named Superfish that was considered malicious on an unknown number of machines, beginning from 2010.
The virus tests Spain purchased from China in 2020 only detected the coronavirus in 30% of the infected cases, when the detection rate should be 80%.

Made in China 2025

In 2013, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and his State Council approved a plan called "Made in China 2025". Drafted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, it took over two years to complete by one hundred and fifty people. The plan's aim is to improve production efficiency and quality.