Up To 40% Of Chinese Solar Panels For Domestic Consumption Fail To Meet Output Specifications

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1. No, it's because China values looks over quality, be it in art or technology.

Copying designs has a very old tradition in China and it's actually a sign of admiration. This can easily be found for art.

But when applying that same attitude to copying technological designs, things can go wrong, because technology is more than looks.

For example: Just another day I read an article about the electronics-exhibition CES. A journalist found a device there that can turn any wooden box into a speaker. And a few hundred meters from that stand he found a chinese stand that sold copycat-versions. Their device had exactly the same stylish design on the outside, but when one was taken apart, it turned out the electronics were badly layed out and shoddily soldered.

I also had a chinese colleague who complained about the chinese disregard for quality over getting the job somehow done.