This sounds very short sighted to me. The absolute best return China could make when starting from a low technology base was to copy everything as fast and as cheaply as possible to start driving their massive population up the technology curve - and it has worked amazingly well. You wouldn't bother with high end products at this stage in the cycle as you are wasting time, money and energy on R&D and cutting edge equipment when you can still make a fortune building products that are low quality by western standards but far better than nothing (what China had prior) and do the job 80% as well for a fraction of the price.I can't believe they get away with naming a brand "Canadian Solar" and has nothing yo do with Canada.
Brand trickery is the only way the Chinese can make some inroads with products that have a bit of "lifestyle " element to them. Products that express who you are or your wealth/lack of. Personal transport has this element unlike transport utility vehicles like commercial trucks or even taxis as ROI is all that matters.
Now that those opportunities are coming to an end as China becomes more developed they will naturally turn to higher end products - It's not like China is incapable of producing high quality products, it's just that they didn't need to until recently. Talent is evenly distributed around the world and China has 1/5 of the world's population.