International buyers practice discriminatory treatment against China's labor-intensive export enterprises.
Why does social responsibility certification have a strong response in developing countries ? Why do most multinational companies only conduct factory inspections in developing countries? The reason is that multinational companies first believe that developing countries, especially China, do not respect human rights. The rights of corporate workers are not guaranteed, so they have to implement standard certification for these companies. This is actually a manifestation of the principle of inequality and discrimination in trade. Some countries' companies are not as good as our companies in terms of working conditions and safe production environment, but they have never been inspected. The companies feel that they have been treated unfairly, which is discrimination against Chinese companies. A textile company in Fujian is a large enterprise with more than 20,000 employees. It has processing plants in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Cambodia, Thailand, India, and Japan. Its main buyers are some multinational companies in Europe and the United States (80% of orders from the United States ). European and American companies began to conduct factory inspections in 1998, mainly checking production equipment , quality standards and other matters related to production management . Human rights clauses were added in 2001. By the end of 2002, more and more customers requested factory inspections, the content involved became more and more extensive, and the projects became more and more specific. Last year, " anti-terrorism content" was even added. Customers usually entrust a third-party qualified certification company to conduct factory inspections. In the past, the practice was to notify the company of the inspection time in advance, but now it is a surprise attack. Moreover, the standards required for factory inspections are much stricter than those for processing plants in Cambodia, Thailand, India and other countries. The company's processing plants in Japan are rarely inspected . | |