Originally Posted by jiejie

. As to companies providing goods (even foreign and JV) for private and public projects, I cannot tell you the number of times I've seen perfectly good products go awry in the hands of the Chinese owner/purchaser. Either the wrong product for the job is installed, or installation is flawed or of poor quality, or inadequate testing is done. Don't even get me started on the lack of preventive maintenance and upkeep.

One huge problem in China on physical infrastructure and construction is the very poor quality of the labor pool putting these things together. Even if engineering is decent, the execution during the construction stage is almost always going to be substandard. What passes for Chinese project management is riddled with corruption and incompetency, and the labor pool is primarily unskilled. Even when you see obviously incorrect methodologies, Chinese are notoriously difficult to retrain or upgrade their skills...both for managers and worker bees.