This is an awful lot of assumption on your part. The "standard-less" company was not named and the omission struck me as rather convenient - there's the implication that it's a company that any Schmoe might come across, but the fact that it's Chinese, unnamed and has little-to-no QC makes me believe that's it's one of those companies that sells knock-offs or generics via ebay and alibaba. Dollars to donuts we're not talking about a manufacturer that sells direct under their own name (Workswell, Hong-Fu, etc), let alone a manufacturer of brands that you'd find in an LBS. "So many here" don't entrust their lives to these types of companies; to the contrary, the vast majority advise against buying from them.

ETA: also, aren't the bulk of the quality manufacturers in Tiawan or the southern parts of the mainland? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Mandarin (he said that he needed a Mandarin translator) isn't the primary language in those regions. Mandarin is further north and west.