The city also has many wholesale markets selling illegal or substandard products.

Four Sanlu executives went on trial on 31 December 2008 charged with producing and selling fake or substandard products.

Bill Gates made a fortune out of selling substandard products for a decade at least.

Most of the surgeons paid to implant the substandard products are probably still in business.

The French authorities have said the substandard product causes inflammation to body tissues if the implants leak.

"They went on charging too much for what was quite a substandard product," she said.

That value is now secondary to profit-making, and we all buy into it when we accept substandard products.

Constructive cooperation with China has already produced results - withdrawn export licences of certain substandard products.

There also have been reports of such pharmacies dispensing substandard products.

I'm all in favour of this, and I'd love to see more moguls coming clean about their substandard product.