Coronavirus Impact on Manufacturing from China

Unless you are living under a rock, you may have heard about the coronavirus originated in Wuhan, China. The Hubei province, and much of China, is in complete lockdown with many businesses closed, and people staying home as the government extended Chinese New Year for a few days until the epidemic is under control.

This should obviously have an economic impact, at least in the short term, for the next few weeks or months since people are asked to stay home, and a lot of goods consumed is manufactured in China. And indeed, some companies are announcing delays due to the virus.

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It’s difficult to find updates of delivery time from companies actually based in China, potentially because they need to check with their sub-suppliers to check whether they are affected by the virus or not. But I’d assume if you have purchased products from Aliexpress, GearBest, GeekBuying, and the likes, and if the parcel has not left China yet, you won’t get it anytime soon unless there are stock at the suppliers’ warehosue. By the way, the virus needs a carrier (e.g. living creature) to stay alive, so there’s no risk to get infected with the coronavirus from a package since it takes several weeks to arrive at its destination.

So far by Feb 1st,2020, Chinese government has officially extended the Lunar Spring Festival to Feb 10th,2020. And only some important retailed shops, foods market, logitic company, mask factories etc are allowed to run first. As I witness, some Chinese companies will have their employee work at home for the week of Feb 3 to Feb 7th, so I believe they will update you the situations when you talk to them if you buy from them.

So beside the human toll, there will be an economic impact, but only time will tell just how much this impact will be.

Button inspection

Button inspection

1. Control sample or confirm sample. See if the color and model match the sample;

2. The surface of the button must be free of nicks, cracks, unevenness and obvious scratches;

3. No cracks or bubbles on the back; no rotten edges and uneven thickness;

4, There should be no obvious deformation of the pattern, no white eyes and white circles;

5. The buttonhole should be smooth and unobstructed; the needle eye should not be worn or broken, and should be symmetrical and have no big eyes. If it is a dark eye clasp, the dark eye groove should be smooth and no obvious burst.

6. After plating or other processes, the effect should be uniform. If there are some special effects that are not consistent, they can be packed separately.

7. The color difference of the same batch of buttons should not be lower than the GB250 level 4 standard, and compared with the sample, it should not be lower than the GB250 level 3 standard.

8. Packing inspection, after the appearance inspection / customer required performance test is all qualified, then repacking. A certificate or other label should be included in the packaging. The quantity of packaging shall be in accordance with the regulations, and the actual quantity of each bag shall be consistent with the regulations. If it is found that the tolerance is exceeded due to the difference in thickness or other reasons, it shall be fully inspected.

9. Emergency button / car button / five-claw button should be tested before delivery to test the button performance and usability, and provide molds and test samples to customers.

Key points of women’s shoes inspection

A. facial precautions:

1. Do not twist when climbing, and the vamp is scratched or damaged. (such as genuine leather: toe, cover and outer waist, do not appear defective leather, such as insect spots, scratches, stains, etc.). Whether the material of cow velvet is faded or not, with a pair.

2. Do not be unsmooth, wrinkle or pockmarked. Toe tip must be smooth not hair Angle.

3. Whether the ratio of toe tip warping is consistent or not, and whether the comparison is correct or not.

4. Compare the sample shoes to see whether the vamp is chromatic aberration, and whether the brightness and polishing effect are the same as that of the sample shoes.

5. No floating line or broken line is allowed on the side, and no bottom line or jumping needle is allowed.

6. Whether the ratio of shoe face length matches a pair, the height of the inner and outer waist, and the height of the back heel, etc.

7. The inside of the toe head shall not be folded or stamped, and check whether it is suitable for climbing into the middle sole (consider putting the front port treasure to help the front half of the foot when making cotton shoes).

8. Check whether the trademark letters are correct, indispensable letters.

9. Check if there is any drawing under the middle bottom plate, if there is any missing or missing port, or if the port is not hard enough (especially after port must be hard).

B. notes for bottom:

1. Check whether the steel core of the middle bottom is made of hard steel and whether the bending resistance test is passed. Whether the combined materials of the middle bottom plate meet the requirements of the company, whether the radian of the middle bottom is consistent with the last, whether the bottom is rolled or not.

2. Whether the leather is PU material, whether there is color difference and whether the wear-resisting effect meets our company’s standard. Day skin and heel appear crack or pull off.

3. Whether the nail head on the heel seat is raised or collapsed. Whether there are spikes in the heel (protruding from the heel side).

4. Does the outsole match with the waterproof platform?

5. Whether it has passed the impact test and meets the requirements of the company.

6. Cracks or unplug and fall off with the outsole.

7. If it is firm in the process of heel mounting, add four screws to the screw. Test the tension.

8. There should be no foreign body in the shoes, and the nails in the shoes should be removed.

9. Outsole, cannot fade color, thickness, hardness to standard.

10. Whether the shoes fit or not, and whether the high heels will wobble (this must be paid attention to)

C. accessories:

1. All kinds of decorations: do not break, paint off, scratch hand, flying edge, do not be iron material, not easy to fall off.

2 electrical embroidery needle spacing must be beautiful, can not fall off, not obvious color difference.

3. If the surface is decorated with beads and buttons, the fastness must be good (pull and pull to see if it falls off).

The international competitiveness of China’s agricultural products

The international competitiveness of China's agricultural products

Increasing openness of agriculture in our country since wto accession, the interaction of two markets both at home and abroad and deepening, accurately grasp the international agricultural product market characteristics and the status of China’s agricultural competitiveness and agriculture are faced with the problem, open for better use of two resources, two markets as a whole to ensure the healthy development of the domestic agricultural is very important.

Trends and characteristics of supply and demand in international agricultural products market.Throughout the history of world agricultural product supply and demand and market changes over the past 50 years, the international agricultural product supply and demand and market have the following 7 significant characteristics and trends.

The international supply and demand of agricultural products are basically in balance, but regional shortages and food insecurity are prominent, and the risk of food crisis always exists. From 1961 to 2012, the global output of major agricultural products such as grains, oils and meat kept rising, higher than the population growth rate in the same period, and the per capita share increased steadily. But the regional imbalance, the difference is obvious. Developed countries produce too much food and developing countries are short of it. There are still 800 million hungry and undernourished people in the world. The balance between annual food supply and demand is also unstable. During this period, there were also three world food crises in the early 1970s, early 1990s and 2008, and the threat of food crisis has never been eradicated.

Relative to the effective demand with purchasing power, the international agricultural products market is abundant in supply, which has been oversupplied for quite a long time. Although there are a lot of poverty and malnutrition in the world’s population, but due to its lack of purchasing power, the demand for agricultural products cannot be converted to effective market demand, the international agricultural products market in a long period of general oversupply situation, surplus agricultural products processing and international agricultural products market price is too low has been a big problem of the international community. According to the statistics of unctad and fao, the real price level of major agricultural products in the world has been declining for a long time, but only in recent years has it started to rise due to the development of biomass energy. Over the past decade, global grain stocks have remained above the food security warning line.

The volume of grain trade in the international market accounts for a limited proportion of total grain production, and the basic grain supply capacity mainly depends on domestic production. The proportion of global grain trade in output is relatively low, remaining around 12% to 13.5% from 2001 to 2012. In contrast, the degree of trade liberalization of soybeans is relatively high, with trade volume accounting for 37.2% of production in 2012. This shows that, from a global perspective, food supply mainly depends on domestic production, and world food trade only contributes to less than 15% of global food supply.

Overall, there is great potential for supply growth in the international market and an effective response to China’s growing demand. But international markets are also risky. There is the risk of short-term, local shortages and food crises, of increased price volatility, of monopoly by multinational corporations and of increased control by major exporting countries. The characteristics of the international agricultural product market and supply and demand determine that we should not only make full use of it, but also prevent excessive dependence and risks.

Status quo of Chinese agricultural competitiveness

Agricultural burden of living costs are high, agricultural cost reduction is difficult. The cost of production in China is higher than that in the United States mainly because of the high cost of labor and land. Land rent and labor cost are actually converted into farmers’ income, which is an important source of supporting farmers’ livelihood. Therefore, the difference in the production cost of bulk agricultural products between China and the United States is essentially the difference in the livelihood cost borne by the two countries’ agriculture. In other words, the high production cost of bulk agricultural products in China is mainly due to the high livelihood cost of supporting the agricultural population. According to FAO data, China has about 5 agricultural people per hectare of arable land, 0.014 in the United States, 0.1 in the European Union and 0.6 in Japan. In addition, the construction of China’s rural social security system started late, and agriculture has significant multi-functional characteristics. It bears a variety of non-commodity functions such as food security, social security, environmental protection and rural development. The realization of these functions is at the cost of efficiency, which also weakens the competitiveness of China’s agriculture to some extent.

Of course, is said to have comparative advantage in the labor-intensive products in China, through moderate scale management, social service, science and technology progress and other measures to enhance the competitiveness of agriculture is still a certain scope, but on the whole, agriculture in our country, especially in agricultural commodities industry compared with the world’s leading exporter, there is a huge gap based competitive and difficult to change. With the improvement of China’s resident income level and the rise of agricultural labor opportunity cost, this gap will further expand, and the lack of agricultural basic competitiveness and high production cost will become more and more prominent.

Medical bed inspection service- Medical bed machine quality control

Below are some common checking list for Medical bed quality control inspection service:

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Medical bed machine quality control

1.Appearance (Painting & welding)

2.Quantity check

3.Measurement

4.Product specification check

5.Marking & labels check

6.Logo 3M Tape Test

7.Internal check

8.Assembly & Loading test

9,Basic function test(Functions on product specification work)

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Safety inspection and packaging inspection of toys

I. Safety inspection of toy inspection:

1. All countries in the world have strict requirements on toy safety. At present, foreign consumers frequently claim for compensation from domestic toy manufacturers for safety problems. Therefore, the safety of toys must be paid great attention to.

A. The manual needle must be placed on the fixed soft bag, not directly inserted into the toy, so that the needle can be pulled out without the human;

B. The broken needle must find another needle, and then report the two needles to the workshop supervisor for new needles. Toys that cannot find the broken needle must be searched through the probe;

C. only one work needle can be sent out for each hand. All steel tools should be placed uniformly, not arbitrarily;

D. Use the steel brush to brush properly. After brushing, feel the bristles by hand.

2. Accessories on the toy, including eyes, nose, buttons, ribbons, bow ties, etc., may be torn off by children (consumers), which may lead to danger. Therefore, all accessories must be tightly fastened and meet the tension requirements.

A. eyes and nose must bear A tension of 21LBS;

B. ribbons, flowers and buttons must bear 4LBS of tension;

C. The post quality inspector must often test the tension of the above parts, sometimes find problems, and solve them together with the engineer and the workshop;

3. All plastic bags used for packaging toys must be printed with warnings and perforated at the bottom to prevent children from putting them on their heads.

4. All filaments and meshes must have warning words and age signs.

5, all the toys, accessories must not have toxic chemical substances, so as to avoid the danger of children’s tongue licking;

6. Scissors, drill and other metal items shall not be left in the packing box.

II. Inspection of toy packaging:

A. Check whether the label of the outer carton is correct, whether there is wrong printing or missing printing, and whether there is useless wrong outer carton. Whether the printing on the outer box is in conformity with the requirements, oil stains or blurring is not acceptable;

B. Check whether the tag of the toy is complete and used incorrectly;

C. Check whether the playing method and position of the toy tag are wrong;

D. any serious or minor defects found in the stuffed toys must be identified to ensure that they are not defective;

E. Know customers’ packaging requirements and correct packaging methods. Check for errors;

F. Plastic bags for packaging must be printed with warning slogans, and the bottom of all plastic bags must be punched;

G. To know whether the customer requires to place instructions, warning books and other paper in the box;

H. Check whether the toys in the box are placed correctly, and it is unacceptable to squeeze too much or space;

I. the number of toys in the box and the number of labels on the box must be the same, not a few;

J. Check whether there are scissors, drill and other packaging tools left in the box, then seal the plastic bag and the carton;

K. When sealing, non-transparent adhesive paper shall not cover the words of box marks;

L.Fill in the correct container number. The total must match the order quantity.

Comb inspection standards

Common problems

peel off at printing/paint

deformed mark at XX of goods

unclear/uneven printing at logo

big space at joint

header was detached from handle

untrimmed material at XX of goods

glue/ scratched/ dirt/ oil mark at XX of goods

crack mark at wooden

Key points of comb inspection

1. Check whether the appearance of the product is in good condition, whether the edge is smooth and whether there is any burr.

2. Confirm whether the plastic products are recycled materials (hard/crisp, smelly)

3. Confirm whether the humidity of wood products is within the permitted range of guests. LBD: 8-12%; Caesar: 9-14%.

4, whether the interface is firm, there is no big gap.

5. Whether the comb head and comb handle are firm and whether they will fall off/break off in normal use.

6. Is the assembly reasonable? Is it assembled according to the customer’s accessories? Is the rubber header tightly assembled with the brush header and cannot be exposed or too small?

7. If it is a brush, observe whether the bristles are firm and whether there are empty pores.

Comb test

1. During the inspection process, the hair transplantation should be normally pulled by hand to make it firm.

2. During the inspection, pull the comb head and comb handle by hand to check whether the glue sticks firmly and falls off.