Chinese govt targets fake goods’ manufacturers, plans complaint centers

The Chinese government has tightened supervision and imposed severe penalties to restraint exports of counterfeits and inferior quality goods, China's top quality watchdog announced yesterday.

The Chinese government went on a countrywide attack on fake products and seized 4,330 batches of poor-quality products worth $249 million from last October to June this year, according to official data released at a news conference.

Yan Fengmin, director of law enforcement for the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said six major categories of goods including toys, clothes, furniture, bags and suitcases were targeted for scrutiny by inspection teams.

Export distribution hubs have also been targeted such as Guangzhou in Guangdong province, Yiwu in Zhejiang province and Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Chinese authorities have now started conducting routine on-site checks to ascertain the manufacturers' real production capacities and to restrict exporters from evading inspections or using fake quarantine approval certificates, he said.

Last month, the inspection teams along with police raided illegal cell phone factory in Shenzhen, Guangdong and seized 1,377 fakes modeled on Apple, Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones worth 3.7 million yuan ($570,000).