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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (3065)	4/13/2004 1:51:34 PM
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"China is the largest victim of pirated CDs," he told a briefing in Beijing. "Such activities jeopardize the Chinese economy, hurt our tax revenue and also jeopardize the Chinese image in front of the world." He said that in the period since 1996 Chinese customs have confiscated a total of 300 million pirated CDs, "the vast majority" of them coming from abroad. State media reported previously that smugglers often transport four million CDs at a time on board cargo ships, ensuring that Chinese audiences can enjoy all the latest movies and music. In a major recent case, police in southern Guangdong province confiscated 4.77 million smuggled discs. Wang said the CDs probably originate in neighboring countries but declined to identify them. ... Even in cases where CDs are proven to have been produced in China, the equipment was imported from abroad, he said. In the period since 1996, Chinese officials uncovered 182 illegal CD assembly lines, all of them of foreign origin, he said. "Chinese companies currently have no capability to manufacture such assembly lines," he said. channelnewsasia.com ================== I will name those neighbors<g>: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Phillippin, HK, and Taiwan. These are the real hot beds for piracy products, although the biggest market is in China because China has biggest population.