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Everything seems possible in China- explosions from cell phones to watermelons. But this time, it was a chair that exploded.
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Poor young girl got seriously injured while she was drying her hair when the chair exploded. The explosion was caused by high-pressured air in the chair, which this type of air should not be used. It boils down to quality control in China. Business units only focus on profit maximising, cutting costs by all means, this could be prevented by executing strict supervision on quality control and safety standards.
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One of the main reasons causing quality variance is Chinese suppliers are exceptionally intelligent in dealing with huge quantity productions where margins of small amount of price difference makes a big variation in profits. They have no choice but to be flexible and responsive to cost change. Thus, when suppliers compete for business in producing such kind of products (ie. Chairs), they eliminate costs in minor areas, for this case they replace gas-pressured air with high-pressured air. Which the cheaper production at last induced the accident.
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To deal with the situation, government and companies can work in parallel. Companies can develop branches in the production areas to have a closer supervision (ie. China). Furthermore, the government can send officials to patrol for check ups more frequently, and implement a heavier penalty on products not up to quality standards. Carrying out strict rules is the only way to promote ethical business production, hopefully preventing accidents to happen again.