Anybody who wants to stop using Chinese products today have to strip their clothes and everything else, run into some forest and start living there without any contact with the rest of the world. That is the only way to actually and truly avoid using Chinese made products.
As for local manufacturing and self dependency, good luck with that. The only reason people have access to at least a few half decent things is because of the Chinese making it a possibility by driving down prices of everything and being a supplier of not just finished products, but of the raw materials/components as well.
In India, anything that is half decent enough to pass quality checks of another country will get exported without fail. Be it fruits and other produce, clothes or any other product. We will never be able to get access to it. Everything else that gets rejected by other countries is left in India to be sold at the highest prices possible. Personally, I would rather buy stuff from made by other countries that are at least found passable enough to be imported into our country than stuff that is made in India and rejected by the rest of the world.
If it were up to to local manufacturing to provide us with something like say phones, most people would not be able to afford a half decent smartphone today as they would be 10's of times costlier than they are. Just leaving aside the bogus claims of Make in India that just mostly involves the final assembly of products in India in order to claim tax benefits or other incentives, do we really even have what it takes to run complete manufacturing of products in India?
Then there is the question of business ethics and practices. The Chinese are said to have pretty low standards, but that means that they at least have a line some where regardless of how low it may be, which Indians apparently seem to completely lack. There is no line beyond which our people don't stoop. Just today, I was reading about how some Biryani businesses in Chennai are stealing cats from house holds which they proceed to boil alive and the meat used for their Biryani's (passing it as mutton). That shows a glimpse of what to expect when we are at the mercy of our local manufacturing.
On a different note, Its amusing that that on one side, there is large scale propaganda often appealing to "patriotism" of the people asking them to avoid buying or using Chinese stuff (especially during Diwali), but on the other side turn a blind eye to the buying of firecrackers ignoring the fact that the firecrackers and the black power that they contain are both Chinese inventions. Yeah, I guess it must be perfectly fine if we use our own child laborers to replicate this Chinese formula for fire crackers instead of buying the stuff made in china.
