Does "Made in China" stand for poor quality?
China’s industrialisation
Before the industrial revolution the most famous imported Chinese products were tea, porcelain, coal and silver. But the industrial revolution changed the situation. The modern industries, specially the England's industry, considered their own products to be higher quality. The request to label the origin of the products was the consequence of the Merchandise Marks Act of 1887.
During its industrialisation period, in 1978, China became a commercial gold-rush country for every big companies in the world.
In order to improve their profits, those big companies were blindly willing to accept lower quality products, labelled "Made in China".
The label "Made in China" known as cheap and poor quality actually came from the western capitalistic greed for profits.