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今日读了文学城的一篇文章, 忍俊不住想笑.文章说美国一个小城想开全美先例抵制政府购买中国货.此城市的市长称中国制造的产品存在质量和安全问题,中国玩具以及宠物食品等曾一度被召回.而且中国还存在着人权和环境污染问题等等.基于众多原因,市长建议限制政府购买购“价值50美元以上的中国商品，或一半以上部件为中国制造的商品。但是如果买不到非中国制造的同类商品，或者非中国制造的同类商品价格是中国商品的150%或更高，市府仍可购买中国商品。此外，大量中国商品进入美国导致美国制造业就业机会大量流失”.
看到此,真的觉得太好笑了.既然决心抵制中货, 就要彻底抵制,可现在还弄出了个具有条件性的抵制.不管你是否相信, 有数据考证美国每年花费85亿美元进口中国商品, 而且呈增长趋势.进口产品范围及其广泛, 从机器,切割, 铸造, 木材, 钢铁, 纸张 和电脑以及零配件等等, 中国产品无处不有. 曾经一美国记者Sara Bongiorni写过一本书<< One year without “Made in China”>>, 书中记录了她和她的家人一年内没有购买中国制造的商品的亲身经历, 尽管没有中国制造人们也能生活, 但必须付出昂贵的代价, 而且生活充满了烦恼. 最终她们放弃了没有中国制造的生活.
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Today I read an article in Wenxuecity and couldn’t help laughing. The article said that a small city in US which would be the first city that would boycott his city to buy “Made in China”.
The Mayor of the small city explained that products like toys and pet food with “made in China” have quality and safety problems which were recalled sometime ago. Besides, there are still problems of Human Rights as well as the environmental pollution. Based on such reasons, the Mayor suggested to limit the city from purchasing goods made in China ” …should not buy Chinese goods which costs over 50 $ , or if half of components are made in China. However, if there is no other choice to buy non-made in China, or the price of non-made in China is higher than 150%, then they could buy made in China. Because of a large amount of made in China, there is a big number of jobs are lost.”
I just couldn’t stop laughing. It is really ridiculous! Once you made a decision to boycott, you should boycott thoroughly, not conditionally. It may surprise you, but the US is currently purchasing over $85 billion in quality Chinese products each year. The import products cover a wide range of engineered machinery items, casting, injection mouldings, wood and steel furniture, paper products, computers and components, etc. An American author Sara Bongiorni worte a book <<One year without made in China>>. The book shows that she and her family’s one year life experience without made in China. People can still live without made in China, but they have to pay a big price for it, and life is really troublesome. At the end they gave it up.
随着全球化，大家相互越来越依赖，中国自己也不能说抵制任何国家的技术或者无形的意志形态等等，(即使对日本)，所以在谈这些谁对谁错的时候，应该冷静一点想想问题的本身，比如这里讲到“抵制”，为什么会这样，或许真的存在质量或者其他的问题，那作为我们是制造商，我们应该如何改进和提高，让消费者满意。
看到中国制造在海外影响越来越越大是一件值得高兴的事情，但也能更清楚的看到它和世界质量水平的距离，所以也能更好的提高和改善，有对比，有竞争才好。这些都是一个过程，只要有上进的，愿意学习的精神，就一定能让其他国家的人改变他们的看法。
但值得担心的是民族主义太强，又加上自负，不去用冷静的心去分析存在的小问题。这样问题就会慢慢变大，等发现的时候就麻木了。
我觉得feelingnotes说得对，在这件事上不能用民族的心态去看待问题，而是要冷静地分析。如果是我读了这文章，我笑不出来！俗话说得好，无风不起浪，如果中国的产品物美价廉，为什么要抵制？中国虽然现在经济增长很快，但其他方面不容乐观。
oh yes, I know this book and I think, I read an article in Your blog in german about this book ???
btw I don’t want to live without “made in china” such as yummy chinese food…
@feelingnotes,@squirrel,@Michael
You are possibly right, but the world is too complex. You can’t think things innocently. There must be many reasons why they want to boycott products from China, however, one thing for sure that they think things only one-sided. Either they don’t know China well (only heard about China on radio or TV, or newspaper), or they don’t want to know China. There is a Chinese proverb:人怕出名猪怕壮! It means that people will get trouble when they are known;pigs will be butchered when they are fat. Once you produce goods, you must face problems of quality. No one product without quality problems. China is not perfect! Just read an article that the Japanese car manufacture Toyota recalled about 470.000 cars from the whole world because of defective systems for fuel and operating. But people still buy Toyota cars as people knwo exactly that the Toyota is good value for money and quality problem is only coincidence. The same to Chinese products.
Of course China should learn a lot and improve quality. Only lower prices can not last longer. What people expect is to have good quality and reasonable prices.
I also tried to find anything which is not made in China, but very few.
You can’t stop they to boycott, as I said how far could they go without made in China.
你说得有理，也许这只是一个借口来表达他们对中国某些方面的不满甚至是敌意的情绪，西方有那么一批人是这样，但不管人家怎么看待对待中国，我想说的是，中国产品质量差确实是不争的事实，在国际市场名声不好。另外，现在第三世界国家有的是制造廉价产品的地方，离开中国产品地球照样转，再者，中国的产品同样也需要别人的市场，买与卖是互相依赖的，是互动关系。所以我觉得提高产品质量是当务之急。中国经济发展快，值得高兴，但远远没到别人离开你的产品就不能生活的程度，我还要说，how far could we go without others market.
@squirrel
“…离开中国产品地球照样转…” that’s absolutely right. The earth turns anyway, regardsless with or without you. As I said before that China needs to learn a lot and has a long way to go to get a good image of quality and price. Germany and Japan are highly developed industry country, but they faced the same situation in the 50s or 60s. So, from this point of view, China still has hope to catch Germany and Japan, possibly very soon.