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China is so big, which city your coworker worked in ? Different parts of China had different "standand". Poorer area had many "invention" For example:
1)Colour of wire is not important. L,N,E-SAME colour.
2)Use the cheapest wire- Al wire
These so called "sparkies" learned the above "skills " in their hometown.
When they rushed to big cities, they can't compete with liscensed local sparkies's quality work, only way to "survive" in the market is lower their wage.
"You got what you paid for" always apply to everything in China, from goods to services NOTHING had expection. "Pay more" got "better quality".

Traditionlly delta area of Guangdong Province uses bayonet light bulb, ripped off BS546 plug & British colour code (L-Red N-Black) for domestic wiring. Even today, T&E still manufactured in British colour (L-Red N-Black)
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[This message has been edited by Cn_HK (edited 10-24-2004).]