Pirated VCDs Destroyed In Guangzhou 　　Police in China's Guangdong Province destroyed 3 million pirated video compact disks that they had confiscated, in the provincial capital Guangzhou January 13. 　　This was only a small part of the 13 million that were seized in 1998. 　　Huang Liman, deputy secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, said yesterday that the province achieved a great deal in protecting intellectual property rights and cracking down on pirated VCDs, and illegal and pornographic materials in 1998. 　　He said that the province closed 21 illegal VCD production lines, seized 2.2 million illegal books and magazines, and arrested 1,790 people in last year's crackdown. In Guangzhou, 61 groups dealing in pirated VCDs were broken up and 13 million VCDs seized. 　　 HomeNews 1999-01-14 Page4