Posted on 08/21/2007 1:43:20 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
(BEIJING) - An official in southern China criticized colleagues for skipping out on product safety conference as the country fights to clean up its recurring quality problems, a newspaper said Tuesday.
Cao Jianliao, vice mayor of Guangzhou, complained that district heads sent low-level staffers to represent them at a local convention on product quality held Monday, the state-run Southern Metropolis Daily said.
"From this we can see that the districts' government leaders aren't taking food safety seriously," Cao was quoted as saying. "If the district leaders aren't serious about it, then how can you ask people on the streets and neighborhood leaders to care about it."
Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong province, an export manufacturing base for products including toys that were subject to a huge recall in the United States and other countries because they contained lead and magnets that could be swallowed by children.
China has launched an aggressive public relations campaign to prove to its citizens and the world that it is a reliable manufacturer. Officials at all levels have promised more stringent regulations, inspections and punishments as a growing number of countries reject or recall products ranging from clothes to seafood to toothpaste.
In a speech at the Guangzhou meeting, Mayor Zhang Guangming urged governments at all levels to "acknowledge the importance of product quality and food safety," the Guangzhou Daily newspaper said Tuesday.
Zhang said companies will be held accountable and be punished for quality problems.
"The company or individual who violates the law will lose all their property," he said, echoing state regulations.
He also ordered strengthened supervision, stricter market entry permits for companies with bad records and better technology to monitor quality. The paper said almost a quarter of products from Guangzhou's small and medium enterprises failed inspections last year.
And, 20 minutes after cleaning it up.....it's filthy again.
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When your country is just one giant communist anthill, human life is just another commodity on the market
Official: Chinese Still Ignore Safety...
why should they bother....the US won’t do anything about it anyway!!!!
What would happen if we banned all Chinese products?
As long as John Chinamen thinks he can make money by shorting quality and safety standards, he will.
As long as he thinks he can steal others intellectual property rights, he will.
There is a reason China hasn’t intelectually produced anything of note since paper.
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