South African company has solicited frustrations from Chinese citizens who
The netizens have termed it as racist because of inciting people to boycott Chinese goods.o
While the company has been in operation since 2014, it only came to the attention of Chinese netizens last week in a post on the social media site.
A representative from the Durban-based company, who declined to disclose his name, told the South China Morning Post the firm was surprised by the reaction from Chinese netizens.
“We never planned to create a controversy,” said the representative.
While the label made in China is often associated with cheap wares and low quality, the bottled water company said on its website that its use of the phrase was meant to differentiate the company from others.
“We had an idea to do things a little differently, and locally and because everyone is so used to reading ‘made in China’ on just about everything,” the website said.
90 percent of African imports are coming from China and are associated with ‘cheap’ and ‘poor’ quality.
There has been a need to promote African products by buying African and building African slogan.
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