Medical Transcription is about skilled human beings listening to dictations by physicians and typing up every word to make it into a recorded document/transcript. They must obviously have a proper understanding of medical terms and be able to understand most medical jargon and just cannot afford to make any errors. Besides the human skills factor in transcription there are other factors too that contribute to the ultimate quality of medical transcription. There are four basic factors that determine the quality of a transcript. They are,

DictationTranscriptionist skillSystem ManagementComponents of Quality assurance


An organization called ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) has been responsible for developing the Standard Guide for a Quality Assurance Program for Medical Transcription. ASTM International is over a century old organization and was originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials. It is one of the largest voluntary standards development organizations in the world.

There are seven ASTM standards that are very important to the medical transcription industry and for proper healthcare documentation. These standards can ensure accuracy, security, and patient confidentiality during the maintenance, transmission, storage, and also during the retrieval process of healthcare documentation. The ASTM E2117 – 06 is a Standard Guide for Identification and Establishment of a Quality Assurance Program for Medical Transcription. Similarly there is the WK10383 which is the New Standard Guide for Medical Transcription Workstations and this guide will help to make informed decisions related to the design of an efficient medical transcription work environment compliant with federal regulatory agencies. And there is also a Standard Guide for Requests for Proposals Regarding Medical Transcription Services for Healthcare Institutions. More details are available at the ASTM website.

With medical transcription outsourcing becoming a common procedure today the importance of International Standards in medical transcription cannot be ignored and all industry standards have to be met.

Outsourcing! Dazed of its popularity? But do you really know why outsourcing is the most highlighting trend in the IT industry today? And who are the major contenders? Let’s have a smart idea about outsourcing and its ongoing emergence. In simpler words, to concentrate more on the core competencies and target business, global companies drive their software jobs to low wage countries like India which provides not only the low priced quality product on time but also a healthy experience and long term business relationships. Despite all hues and cries, outsourcing is still emerging as a preferred practice in developed countries to take advantage of resources and trained manpower of offshore countries like India, China, Philippines, etc. And it would really be a strategic howler for any company or organization today not to think about outsourcing as a strategic and significant initiative to thrive & even survive in current marketplace.

Almost every vigilant company is considerate about outsourcing bearing in mind the need of the market, for high quality work done at competitive prices. Now question is who to go for? There are so many contenders for providing services at low prices. But there are many other things beyond prices nowadays that are considered. Be it knowledge processing or software outsourcing, the Chinese tech economy has been racing forward, but neighbor India has achieved an easy lead in the field of software outsourcing and other Hi-tech jobs coming from offshore European and other global companies.

Recently, one of the consulting firms revealed its analysis saying that fragmentation of China’s software-outsourcing industry is a limitation. Out of over 8000 software service providers in China, only 7-8 have more than 2000 employees. On the contrary, India has fewer than 3,000 software services providers but more than 15 of the companies have employee strength beyond 2000, including major software, like Infosys Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro Technologies. Furthermore, revenue from information technology services in China is just about half of India’s $12.7 billion a year.

It is completely true and hard fact that outsourcing has shared the jobs of European countries but same way these global organizations are contended with the low priced and high quality services from Indian service providers. Overall, defenders advocates outsourcing that actually help the US economy. No doubt, China is having a workforce of talented minds but things, like lower number of employees, communication and language problem hampers the way to outsourcing. Apart from great English speaking strength, the processes followed by Indian companies are performed in a rigorous environment assuring, testing and confirming the strength and solid quality of the products and services.

Well, outsourcing software development and other services and projects to lower-wage nations is in some ways believed as an evolution of the overseas flow of manufacturing work. Today, if China has been a manufacturing leader, India has appeared as an all rounder and the king in providing services, with a significant number of offshore development centers.

If you are a merchant looking to source your product at much lower cost, have you considered importing from China in order to save money and still offer quality products? China Source and Supply have a solution that can be tailored to suit you.

Here’s how it’s done. Step by step.

A. Arranging quotes on your merchandise from qualified suppliers with a good history of both quality and deliverability. Making sure that everyone is ‘on the same page’ and understands your requirements. This is a crucial first step and qualified suppliers with a long history of importing will certainly speed up your process.

B. Creating a list of your packing and presentation details that will meet your requirements. Any drawing or graphics that are necessary to be included in this list when importing from China.

C. Knowing and being aware of all your branding requirements Spend a little time and money on artwork to make sure you get the branding and packaging right. It’s worth it in the long term and adds perceived value to your final offering.

D. Researching any safety standards required and making sure all certifications are in place if these are necessary. We will guide you on this.

E. Finding out what each supplier needs in the way of ‘minimum orders.’ Most suppliers have these. This is where the supplier makes their profit and where you save money, by buying in bulk

F. Making sure the supplier knows the date you require the product and that they can MEET this date. Too many times assumptions are made and this can lead to lost profit and heartache for you.

As with anything else, importing from China does involve an initial ‘learning curve’, but a good supplier will offer assistance and support and some really great suppliers offer consultancy services, which will speed up your process.

Once you’ve passed ‘the learning curve’, importing from China becomes routine and easier. Importing has one distinct advantage in the end, and that is cost savings to you.

Many small and medium sized companies that engage in OEM
manufacturing/outsourcing in China fail to take the steps necessary to
protect themselves. When problems arise, they can do little or nothing to
protect themselves because they have no legal basis for protection. The fact is that outsourcing disputes must be resolved in China, under the Chinese legal system. The Chinese legal system has improved greatly over the past ten years and taking
a few basic legal steps can greatly reduce your risk. The cost of such
protection is modest compared to the protection it will provide.

The following five basic steps will greatly reduce your problems with
Chinese manufacturers, while improving your chances of recovering should any
problems arise.

1. Create and properly register your intellectual property rights in
the United States. If you do not have a firm basis for your IP rights under
U.S. law, you will have nothing to protect in China. Before you go to
China, be sure your intellectual property is protected under U.S. law.
Protect your brand identity by creating and registering your trademark,
slogan and logo with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Register your
important copyrights with the U.S. Copyright Office. Carefully identify and
protect your trade secrets, proprietary information and know how.

2. Register your trademarks in China. Registration can protect your
future access to the Chinese market, prevent the export of counterfeit goods
from China, and prevent a competitor from registering your mark in China,
which would prohibit you from exporting your own product from China.

3. Use a written agreement to protect your know how and trade secrets
in China. Small and medium companies usually do not have an extensive
portfolio of patents. Their most valuable intangible assets typically are
their know how and trade secrets, which cannot be protected by formal
registration. Chinese law, however, permits companies to contractually
protect their know how and trade secrets by contract. Such agreements may also address issues such as non-competition and confidentiality. Without such a written
agreement, no such protection is available.

4. Product Quality and Payment Terms. The rule here is simple. Do not
make final payment to your Chinese manufacturer until you are confident you
will be getting an on time shipment of the correct items and quantities at
the quality standards you require. This usually means you must incur
inspection costs in China and provide for a clear procedure
for dealing with these problems as they arise. You must take the lead on
this. You cannot depend on the OEM manufacturer to do this for you.

5. Use comprehensive OEM Agreements with each manufacturer. Small and
medium sized businesses often enter into OEM manufacturing transactions with
a simple purchase order. This is a mistake. The purchase order will protect
the Chinese manufacturer, not you. Your protection depends on your securing
a written OEM manufacturing agreement with each Chinese manufacturer with
which you deal. The ideal OEM agreement will address all of the issues
discussed above while also addressing other basic legal issues such as
jurisdiction and dispute resolution. This agreement should be in both Chinese
and English, since the Chinese language version will control in China.

Before doing any type of business in China one must get familiar with the Chinese business culture. According to Hofstede’s analysis, China ranks very high in long term orientation, very low in individualism, high in power distance, and average in masculinity and uncertainty avoidance. In my opinion I still believe these behaviors or cultural dimensions are very accurate.

The culture here believes in overcoming obstacles over time which is part of Hofstede’s long term orientation dimension. This factor shows the Chinese society’s view towards time and their attitude towards perseverance. This analysis provides a great deal of importance when making business deals. In China slow and steady wins the race for business deals. Building strong, reliable, lasting relationships is key for the Chinese. A certain amount of trust must be gained before any decision is met. It may take three to four times the length of time to finish the business deal compared to your cultural standards. So if you do not come to a fast agreement, don’t be discouraged, make the client feel comfortable and show your patience. The Chinese never like to rush into things.

Low individualism is also important for learning the Chinese way of thinking. This trait shows their close loyalty to stay close with groups such as family, work, team, etc. This links back to their high long term orientation above. They also have a collectivist attitude referring back to the Communist rule compared with individualism. Chinese business habits tend to stay with the same partners or suppliers to keep loyalty and not deteriorate relationships. So when doing business with others it is a good idea to select a good strong partnership that has potential to last a long time. It is looked down upon if you frequently change business partners.

The power distance remains high in China, whether it is within the company or in society. When doing business in China one must be aware of this large hierarchy gap. It is often hard to move up on their corporate ladder compared to other cultures.

The last two dimensions are masculinity and uncertainty avoidance. Both are average so most likely these factors are similar to your customs and you need not worry about them.

Knowing about these dimensions can tell you a lot about the country of China, society of China, and especially how to do business with China. This isn’t everything. This is just a quick business analysis using Hofstede’s dimensions. Hope it helps.

Software development process is a really complicated and long-lasting procedure. People think that technical expertise is the only one thing that is necessary for software development process and for its successful ending. However, that is not really true. If you have your own company and you want to get profit from it and, consequently, to make it successful, you should know the ways where success come from.

There are 6 elements of profitable software development business. The first is quality assurance.
It is vitally important to have quality assurance for software development process. It is necessary to provide quality assurance of full-cycle for different projects. The experience of previous companies shows us that it is better to provide ISO 9000 principles of quality assurance, that will help you to follow the most important and the most demanding business principles and requirements. It will also help you to give almost 3-month warranty and solve any problems within 3-month term of software acceptance. You may also continue the warranty term and support the system for different terms of using.

The second element is requiremets analysis. It is also necessary to follow because requirements analysis is the element which is the second after quality assurance according to importance for business and it is basically not only for software development process. Understanding of your needs will help you to built successful system which will help you to make the business more efficient.

Latest technologies and the knowledge of it is the third element of efficient process. It will help you to find the individual approach for every client and, consequently, to find the best solution for them.

Extensive experience is also one of the most important parts of software development process. It would be better to have vast experience in different software development projects in various fields of activity.

Management is the fourth important element, because the success of the process depends on the successful management. It must include control of the progress, assignment of the work and resources, outworking of communication process between different groups, plan of your project, schedule, status reports and delivery etc.

The fifth element is the communication with the client. The connection between you and client will help you to understand the needs of the client, time frames and requirements. It would be better if you organic your feedback within one day term. It will also help you to show the progress of your project and to get some notes.

So, you can see that all five elements of successful software development process from quality assurance to communication have great importance for efficiency of your project. You may follow this parts or you may try to create your own rules of successful process that will help you to make the business. Anyway, it is necessary to have fixed scheme of project building, even if it has not Quality Assurance or Expert Management, but it helps you, use it to make software development process successful.

In boardrooms across the country, executives are frenzied about the opportunity provided with outsourcing products from high cost, high overhead manufacturing facilities in the United States to the low cost region of China. In an effort to contain costs, many organizations are flocking to China to harvest the fields of low cost labor. When you think that they pay $150.00 per month to an employee working six, 10 hour days you shake your head in disbelief and say “sign me up”. The outsourcing strategy to China is a sound one and needs to be utilized by anyone who is involved within manufacturing. The decision to outsource is one that should be analyzed thoroughly and to realize the true savings is to understand the true costs.

There is an unbelievable number of factories in China capable of producing all kinds off different products, with new plants going live everyday. Past experience has proven that the contract manufacturers in China have a definite niche within manufacturing and there competitive advantage is insurmountable within their niche. Their niche centers around the mass production of an easy part. An easy part is the product manufacturing equivalent of a slam dunk in basketball. An easy part has low complexity, a static design and tolerant to special cause variation. Tolerance to special cause variation indicates a product produced that is not to design intent will perform as intended without, a significant reduction in reliability and is not noticed by the customer.

The characteristics of a complex part is the basketball equivalent of a three point shot. The part is complex, has a dynamic design that continues to change and improve and worse yet offers little latitude for process variation. The fluctuations in process variation and introduction of special cause variation translate into noticeable reductions in performance and reliability. If your strategy is to outsource a difficult part to China, you can do it successfully, you need to modify you current quality system to ensure success.

As quality systems evolved in the United States, a transformation occurred from a vertically integrated inspection based operation to a systems based core competency operation. Years ago, the quality initiative was a dedicated group of inspectors who policed a production focused environment where designs were completed in obscurity and tossed to manufacturing at the last minute to meet launch dates. We have matured to the point where most of the problems are identified and corrected in the design phase by incorporating FMEA’s, Design for Manufacture and the input of all affected functional areas. We incorporate metrics to monitor our processes and indicate when improvement or corrective action is needed. Not all US manufacturer’s quality systems are at the same level, but on average the maturity and effectiveness of them has increased over the years. Subsequently, when dealing with a domestic supplier you have a general understanding of what you can expect.

A Chinese supplier has a quality system similar to those prevalent in the United States in the 1960’s. They are extremely production motivated, heavily inspection based with little or no effort focused on process improvement, data driven decisions or process control. These obstacles are not insurmountable with adaptation of a quality system to counteract these issues.

A system must be in place to monitor the process and product constantly, from design phase through launch and throughout production. The design phase requires a group to work with the Chinese supplier to gain an understanding of their process capabilities and key features of the design. At the launch or pilot build, you should have representatives there to monitor the product and process. Evaluation of process capabilities, test results, data analysis and process improvements is the focus of this team. Once production is approved, you must execute some level of surveillance that includes periodic visits to review the quality system, data reporting, test results, process change validation and component changes.

In order to facilitate the successful launch of a difficult product with a Chinese contract manufacturer, you must allocate various resources to their facility to execute the quality activities that would normally be completed at your own facility. Doing this minimizes your added costs of outsourcing to a Chinese manufacturer.

There will be numerous costs added when doing business with a Chinese supplier. Cost number one is inventory. You are not shipping this stuff from two states away, it is literally on a slow boat from China and there will be lots of it. Cost number 2 is sort and rework. Depending how well you execute the quality activity mentioned above determines how much cost you absorb here. If you neglect communicating and interfacing with the Chinese during the design, pilot run and ongoing production and allow their quality system to drive the results, you should budget generously in your sort and rework account.

Cost number 3 is shipping. Again, this is not coming from across town, are you accounting for that cost or is it buried in your abyss of overhead. Cost number 4 is obsolescence. With a dynamic design, the changes are inevitable, however the Chinese are not purchasing components on a small scale and when a change is made they cannot react quickly without obsoleting already purchased components.

Sourcing a difficult part to China can be achieved with the same quality system approach you would utilize at your facility. You must go over there and see it through. It will not happen on it’s own and they will not utilize the tools and techniques necessary to ensure a new product launch and ongoing design changes occur without issues.

A popular topic to talk about is the globalization of business. The terms international companies, multinational companies and exportation seem to be in every edition of the Wall Street Journal.

A popular complaint among many Americans is that outsourcing to China has a negative affect on the United States. Unfortunately most of us living in what used to be the most “powerful and respected country on the planet” are often easily convinced by politicians looking for a vote that China is bad for American economics.

This is easy to say, but hard to justify when you consider the facts.

The economic expansion of China and their increasing trade and investments in the United States have resulted in a Chinese and US economy that are largely interdependent. My father used to say figures lie and liars figure. While that may be true, based on my research, I say thank god for Chinese trade with us…and for the wonton soup.

The point of this article is to identify the significant areas where this interdependence has been beneficial to the US economy and where China’s growth has had a positive impact on every citizen of the United States.

Fact #1 – Cost Savings resulting from Outsourcing of Manufacturing and Services

The phenomenon of outsourcing manufacturing and services sector activities to markets such as China used to be a consideration for American companies that were faced with the challenge of reducing costs. Now outsourcing is a necessity. And I can promise you, companies who are not outsourcing are jeopardizing American jobs.

China’s vast pool of low cost labor ensures that almost any industry can achieve greater rates of return even after transportation and export fees are considered. China’s cost advantage translates into as much as a 70% savings over US salaries.

- While China’s low-cost infrastructure leads to foreign direct investment (FDI) in China, the mass products and services produced are primarily intended to be exported back into other markets. China’s artificial exchange rate controls ensure that while its vast labor pool offers cost-efficiencies, its exchange rate creates cost-advantages to ship these product and services back into the US at prices that US-based manufacturers simply cannot meet.

American consumers benefit greatly from the inexpensive goods coming from China. The many US firms that have outsourced production and manufacturing to China have remained competitive and profitable and thus are able to repatriate earnings back into the US as well as pay corporate taxes on those earnings. Hey Mr. and Mrs. Main Street…what would you do without your 4 TV’s, 3 DVD players, fancy stainless steel refrigerator and scooter in your garage?

It is economics 101 – A company that makes more profits-largely due to lower expenses as a result of outsourcing some operations to China-pays more taxes due to a larger amount of taxable income. This certainly helps the US economy, right?

Fact #2 – Consumer Spending and its Effect on the Economy

US consumers have benefited from a glut of cheap, Chinese manufactured goods and services for many years. These goods provide the basis for much of the US economy’s consumer activity. This has kept consumer sentiment positive and mitigated the effects which the recession could have had on consumer spending in the US. Yes George W, we are in a recession.

Consider the following:

- “Cheap goods and easy access to them is critical for consumer sentiment which can assist the US economy to weather economic contractions related to job growth declines and gross domestic product (GDP) contractions”
Stephen S. Roach -Chief Economist, Morgan Stanley

- According to Catherine Mann at the Institute for International Economics, globalized production of I.T. hardware — that is, the off-shoring of computer-related manufacturing — has accounted for up to 30 percent of the drop in hardware prices. The resulting increase in productivity encouraged the rapid spread of computer use and thereby added some $230 billion in cumulative additional GDP between 1995 and 2002.

- Even when cheap Chinese goods are imported, there are benefits to the American economy. As most American consumers realize, most of the products they purchase at Wal-Mart are made in southern China by low-skilled laborers working long hours. In fact, of Wal-Mart’s 6,000 suppliers, 5,000 are Chinese. When they buy these cheap imports, American consumers save billions of dollars each year. A Morgan Stanley report claims American consumers have saved $600 billion in the past decade via Chinese imports.

- New opportunities are not only being created for American workers, but for shareholders as well. Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz announced that by 2008 the company hopes to have more cafes in China than in the United States. Similar stories can be told for McDonalds, KFC, Coca Cola, or Motorola. There are now 94 KFCs in the city of Shanghai alone, and the number is increasing every month. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, they are often jam-packed with people, young and old, enjoying sandwiches and sundaes

Fact #3 – Effect of Chinese Investments in US

China’s overall investments in U.S. firms increased to $9.8 billion in 2007, up from $36 million in 2006, according to Thomson Financial. By comparison, U.S. investment in China was $2.6 billion in 2007, down from $3 billion in 2006, said China’s Ministry of Commerce.

Chinese manufacturers, particularly those that import parts or raw materials from the US, are also investigating the establishment of assembly operations in the US. They would save on shipping costs, said Karen Shen, Washington State’s trade development representative in Shanghai since 2000. US States are now trying to capitalize on the growth in China:

- More than 30 states in the U.S. have staff members or representatives in China, according to the Council of American States in China. With the U.S. economy slumping and unemployment rising, even some tough critics of China and outsourcing are courting Chinese money. In March, a Missouri delegation included the governor, two U.S. senators, the mayor of St. Louis and two dozen other officials and businesspeople, with an aim to get Air China and Chinese officials to back Missouri’s bid to create an air-freight hub in St. Louis.

- Few states have been as aggressive in reaching out to China as South Carolina. In recent years, 10 Chinese businesses, including appliance maker Haier, have expanded into SC and created about 2,000 jobs, said John Ling, managing director of South Carolina’s China office.

Fact #4 – Impact on US Interest Rates

China realizes that to maintain its own economic growth and stability it needs to continue to support US economic policy through the continued purchase of US securities allowing it to artificially control its currency’s value vis-à-vis the US dollar. China’s currency policy seems to be indicative of a pervasive foreign policy that is increasingly more aligned with the US market’s own demands.

China’s use of the partial peg of the Yuan to the dollar may act to support its export market. However, in order to secure this artificial valuation, it purchased a great amount of US securities, helping to keep interest rates low, again, benefiting the US consumer greatly, especially so in its recently-ended real estate boom.

Therefore, it can be said that after American consumers pay for Chinese imports, much of the capital gets recycled back in the form of investments into government Treasury bonds. This foreign capital in turn helps keep interest rates low, so American consumers can continue to enjoy cheap financing for cars, homes, and college educations. As long as the Chinese have confidence in their American investments, this positive cycle will continue into the foreseeable future.

I wonder how many people who daily criticize outsourcing to China even consider this point…a point of great magnitude for all Americans.

If the US economy sinks and Americans stop buying Chinese goods, then it will compound the US slump as China first stops buying US bonds that have inflated the American bubble and then moves on to selling them. This would be an “uh oh” moment.

Fact #5 – Benefits from Rising Standards of Living in Developing Countries

Population in developing countries like China and India, now doing jobs outsourced from America, are seeing a rapid rise in their wages and standard of living. In the process, they are becoming more Americanized, which is translating into demand for American goods and lifestyles. Thus, according to the McKinsey Global Institute, for every $1 outsourced, the economic gain to the United States as a whole is $1.12 to $1.14; whereas the country to which a job is outsourced gains just 33 cents.

I am not a mathematician but it seems like this is a 3.45X advantage.

Okay you speakers of supposed truth, without research of the basic facts…to me a 345% advantage over China and other developing countries seems like a good thing and not something to fear.

You want something to fear? Fear the fact that American students are not just falling behind, but have fallen so far behind than other countries in Math and Science. Maybe Mr. and Mrs. Main Street should stop watching their 56 inch imported television for a few hours a week so that they can help their kids with their homework.

We will most likely never (notice I did not say never…can’t come back to me in 2025 and point out my error) be internationally competitive in manufacturing. Therefore, we must continue to lead the world in innovation. We also need to realize that a key commodity in 2008 is information. Imagine life today without Google.

Please American citizens, realize this big planet is actually a small trading village. We are interdependent and rely on each-other. Many people who claim that China and specifically outsourcing to China is a bad thing would be offended if they were called racists.

I think we can all agree that a base ingredient of racism is naivety and false assumptions. As we welcome people as one, let’s welcome economies as one, based only after research of facts. My fear? Those false assumptions by unformed politicians (that is not a stretch huh?) will negatively affect out positive relationship with China. Talk about a real China syndrome.

This article is the first of a two part series. The next article will address the responsibility of US companies outsourcing labor to produce quality products as well as ensuring the ethical treatment of the workers.

Outsourcing to China has become common enough, understandable enough, and accessible enough that any small or medium sized business can consider this option. And you must if your business is going to maintain itself and get larger over time. In this article you’ll learn how and why you should outsource promotional items to China.

WHY OUTSOURCE PROMOTIONAL ITEMS TO CHINA?

The cost of labor is much cheaper in China, but importantly it is coupled with so much innovation in design and manufacturing that the choices for your promotional items will be seemingly endless if you acquire them from abroad. It’s too good a deal not to consider China, and when it comes to a product where one can see the quality as easily as one can with promotional items, there is also no need for concern about some of the recent difficulties businesses have had with ingestible products.

WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE REAL EXPENSES?

Although clearly getting a product made in China is cheaper than getting it made anywhere else, one has to consider the overall landed cost. Even experts agree that there are many extra considerations when one buys a product manufactured in China. Here’s why it’s such a good idea to begin with one’s promotional items. Once you learn how to work with foreign manufacturers, you’ll know more about how the process works and what the real cost of an item might be as your business expands and you continue to outsource other manufacturing jobs.

Make sure that you know in advance the total landed cost. What does that entail? You need to clearly ask the manufacturer how much all of the following will cost as a whole. 1) How much to produce the items themselves, 2) how much will the logistics of shipping the items cost, 3) what will the shipping cost be and 4) will you need to include quality control (usually not an issue for non-ingestible, non-electronic items which is why it’s so smart to import your promotional items).

You will have to make sure that you reach an agreed upon price that will stay the same all the way through the deal. As some people are becoming aware, Chinese manufacturers often offer a starting price and then continue to haggle after producing the product for you. You must make it clear that you will not pay any more down the road than you agree upon up front.

Finally, buy in bulk. It’s often not feasible to get Chinese products in too low a quantity, but even small and medium sized businesses can afford to buy products from China if you’ll just purchase as much as possible at once. One tip, for your first dealing with a new company, buy their minimum amount of goods just to make sure that you are happy with the products and that the bargaining process is to your liking. It’s different than dealing with American companies.

GETTING STARTED RIGHT NOW

Begin getting quotes today to learn how the process works. Here are two companies that manufacture promotional goods. Start finding out now how much it will cost and make sure you know that the total cost- labor, shipping, and logistics- is included in the price and that the quote is final.

-builtinchina.com
-sz-wholesale.com

Begin the process of entering into the global economy by outsourcing your promotional items to China today, and insure your business will be strong, growth oriented, and poised to be even stronger in the future.

China is a major economic power. Many economists describe China as a 900-pound trading gorilla. The world is now overwhelmed by China’s manufacturing prowess. China swamps the world with her high quality but cheaper products. China’s economy is potentially ten times the size of Japan’s. For the developed nations the emergence of China as a manufacturing giant yields net positive benefits from the more refined global division of labor.

This is most clearly seen in how the industries in USA, Western Europe, Japan and Taiwan have preserved their competitiveness by shifting the labor-intensive manufacturing components of their production chains to China. The developed nations have expanded at home the higher value added components of research and development, marketing and distribution.

The major challenge to the governments of the developed nations from the rise of China as a major manufacturer is how to upgrade the skills of the workers who have lost their jobs in the manufacturing sectors. This challenge is in no way different from the structural changes that are needed to accommodate improvements in technological innovations.

One should not oppose technological progress in order to save obsolete factories & industries. Similarly one should also not oppose free trade in order to save non-competitive industries. Opposing free trade will be detrimental to the nation that is opposing in the long run. While some jobs could be saved by opposing free trade it will curtail the creation of new high value jobs.

The emergence of China to take its place in the international economic system will permit further specialization of jobs in the workplace. This is a huge wealth-creating outcome. The country that can provide its labor force with the depth and range of scientific training required in the new workplace will be able to receive some of the newly-created wealth. The country that is slow in building up its scientific and technological capability of its workforce will be left out of the economic boom.

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