Passenger sitting beside me on a plane was a GM for a bank well known on the stock exchange. They set up factories in china and manufactured everything (shoes, textiles, mouldings etc). Although the average wage at the time was about $10 a week, it varied greatly between provinces and city & rural areas. The government had made steps forward in improving wages, but only 2 provinces were enforcing them at the time. Some workers actually paid for their position on the assembly line, also for accommodation and incidentals. Most were lucky to make $1 a day. As far as the 'cost of living there' comforting thought, some of the minimum wages were equivalent to 4 bowls of noodles per day.
Be aware that some of the big shoe, clothing companies that say "we don't own any sweat shops". They may not, but some certainly contract out work to other companies that do. Things have greatly improved over the past few years, but It's easy to grab extreme examples. There still is a huge disparity; much like WA and NSW. We should be getting far cheaper kites in NSW than you mining rich WA folk. Our second hand ones are worth a lot more to, because we hardly ever have wind over here to use them. 
There is always so much sensitivity on this topic by mostly retailers.
Us punters resent paying 2 grand for a toy that "has a half life of 12 months".
Then guys like Griffin or Best and others come out with a cheap good kite half the price of the rest of the Industry and the industry is shocked and shops seems to bad mouth the brands. But it is good to see established brands like Slingy bringing there prices down.
yep it sucks especially if u not in the minding industry. ESPECIALLY if youre still a student. too exxy to go out for a beer, or go eat at good places and car stuff is very exxy too.
Hi Stabber, just to clarrify things you said your company in China what brands & products does your company produce?
