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China to Further Rectify Market Order

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China is to continue with its intensive efforts to rectify market order with a crack-down on illegal travel operations in the next six months, according to a national conference held Thursday in Beijing.

Wu Yi, state councilor and deputy head of a national leading group on rectifying and regulating market economic order, said that 48,520 marketplaces of various sorts had been rectified in the first half of this year.

As a result, 36,424 vendor's stands selling fake and shoddy goods and 63,594 unlicensed businesses had been banned. A total of573 million yuan (69.04 million U.S. dollars) had been collected in evaded taxes, fines and overdue fines. The location, construction and operation of gas stations in most areas had been regulated, she said.

As summer approached, Wu said, major moves would begin to fightunlawful businesses in the travel industry in order to establish China as a safe and orderly tourist destination. The targets of this strike included illegal travel agencies, illegal tourist transport activities, fraud and illegal tourist guides.

"We shall strive to significantly improve market order of the travel industry through intensive regulation efforts in about halfa year's time," she said.

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