Zhejiang Cracks Down on Fake Product MakersPolice in east China's Zhejiang Province recently made public 10 major fake product makers who were arrested in a provincial crack-down in the first quarter this year.The 10 cases involve the No. 3 Printing House of Lanxi County where law enforcement officers and journalists were assaulted during their investigations; the Electricity Company of Sanmen County, which sold to farmers outdated ammeters; and a workshop in Yiwu City producing fake Band-Aid adhesive bandages, a trademark owned by the Johnson & Johnson Company. Others involve the Zhongxin International Group of Leqing County, which produced fake low voltage apparatuses, the Hangzhou Tianyuan Power Cable Company producing shoddy cables, a workshop in Jinyun County producing fake Butter Fly sewing machines, and companies producing and selling fake boilers, electric fans, traditional Chinese medicine and computer network cables. The crack-down in Zhejiang is part of a national campaign launched in the second half of last year, focused on production and selling of fake goods that use well-known domestic and foreign trademarks or pose serious threat to the health and safety of the public. In the first three months this year, law enforcement agencies in Zhejiang investigated more than 2,000 cases involving fake products valued at 11.25 million yuan (1.36 million US dollars) and destroyed 103 workshops that produced fake goods, according to Li Huiguang, deputy head of the provincial administration of quality and technology supervision. |
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