China manufacturers save supply chains’ blushes

Saviours: A worker produces carpets that will be exported, at a factory in Binzhou, in the eastern Shandong province. China’s manufacturers helped keep the global supply chains up and running against all odds during the pandemic. -- AFP

BEIJING: As the world’s economy looks forward to staging a full recovery after being savaged for nearly two years by the impact of Covid-19, perhaps a whole chapter in history will likely be devoted to the valiant, relentless but little recognised role played by China’s manufacturers in ensuring such a recovery was possible in the first place, experts said.

China’s manufacturers helped keep the global supply chains up and running against all odds during the difficult period, thereby averting what could have been a certain collapse of trade systems and processes due to the severe disruptions, they said.