ORIGINAL: AllTheGoodNamesAreTaken

The problem with anything built in China is China itself. There are still way more workers than jobs. The factories know this and sometimes use it to their advantage by limiting benefits, long hours, few breaks, low pay etc. Knowing if the worker doesn't like it, there's 5 people waiting at the door to take their job. Numbers always come before quality. The other problem is the factory workers are not modelers. They may have been making anything from furniture to Barbie dolls in their last job. They don't know anything about the product they're making and could care less if a hole lines up, what type of glue was used or used at all or if a stab cutout is square. Same goes for the QC person. They know what to inspect for, by what was told to them, and they were told to make it look like this and make x many for x amount of RMB.
Knowing this, I'm often amazed at the quality that's produced. A LOT must go into setting up these factories to have a non-modeler produce todays ARF's.