12 Million Yuan Reward Offered for Reporting Illegal PublicationsThe Chinese government has offered 12 million yuan (1.4 million U.S. dollars) to reward people who report to local police or departments concerned the production and trading of pornographic and pirated goods and other illegal publications in the past few years.Yu Youxian, director of the State Press and Publication Administration and National Copyright Administration, said today at a press conference that Guangdong Province in south China took the lead in the country in providing a reward of 300,000 yuan in autumn of 1996 for each report about an illicit CD production line. Departments concerned have confiscated some 90 illegal CD production lines nationwide thanks to the help of countless ordinary citizens. Yu disclosed that a person who helped expose a major case, involving four production lines, had been rewarded with as much as 1.2 million yuan (140,000 dollars). The official believed that rewarding the reporting of such illegal activities will continue to play an important role in China's struggle against production and trading of pornographic and pirated goods and other illegal publications. |
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