The situation could linger for months as authorities near major urban areas around Beijing, Shanghai and South China’s Pearl River Delta push to meet cleaner air quality goals laid out in a national air pollution action plan launched in late 2013, which expires at the end of the year.
“Tens of thousands” of factories have been affected in and near the major urban centers, with impacts ranging from “complete factory shutdowns [to] temporary closures” with unknown timeframes for resolution. (...) Inspection campaigns are permeating “the various links of the supply chain including component suppliers, forcing companies to modify their products or remove certain components from their production,”
"Miles y miles de fábricas" afectadas, algunas temporalmente, otras que nunca podrán reabrir. Es difícil comprender la escala industrial del este de China.COMPARTIR
Según el artículo, el impacto es profundo afectando a la cadena de producción a varios niveles de creación de producto final. Las inspecciones están centrándose en las grandes provincias de Zhejiang y Jiangsu que no son importantes fuentes de producción electrónica, pero en un entramado tan complejo es difícil saber.COMPARTIR
Fuente: China Pollution Inspections Disrupting Supply Chains | Bloomberg BNACOMPARTIR
