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A smile that shows the face of China

A British customer bought an iPhone set, in which he found a few photos of a woman worker on the assembly line of what obviously was the plant producing the mobile phones.

Instead of feeling angry at the manufacturer's mistake, the customer posted the photographs on the Internet. There was soon an online search for the girl. It turned out that the photos were shot as a test of Apple's new 3G handset in a plant in Shenzhen but the tester apparently forgot to delete the pictures from the phone's memory.

The image of the smiling Chinese girl soon became popular with netizens in what the world media called an "iPhone-girl frenzy". The girl's radiant smile plus her status as a worker was undoubtedly the main reason accounting for the worldwide attention. The round-faced girl grinning with white, neat teeth may not be the prettiest type of Chinese women but is definitely lovely and healthily good-looking.

Commodities made in China can be found in almost every corner of the world but it was probably the first time ever that consumers at the other side of the globe have seen a Chinese worker who hand-assembled their home appliances. That gave them a real sense, and a happy reminder, of globalization.

In recent years, the omnipresent "Made in China" has been criticized in some parts of the world as a synonym for job opportunity robber, child labor abuser and environment polluter and a symbol of the "China threat". It is actually a false story circulated to stay further and further away from the truth.