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To: Steve Reinhardt who wrote (2353)	2/8/1999 3:45:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3493

That's pretty much their VCD partners list. Good to see they kept Shinco.

To: Steve Reinhardt who wrote (2353)	2/8/1999 4:03:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3493

Big business... China: State to continue war against porn VCDs 02/01/99 China Daily Copyright(C) 1999 CHINA DAILY CHINA will continue its comprehensive fight against pornography and illegal publications during the first half of the year. Officials seized 29 million copies of illegal publications since the campaign began in late 1994, notes a senior official with the Department of Publication and Circulation of the State Press and Publication Administration. They also confiscated more than 35 million electronic publications and audio-visual products, Zhang Huiguang told China Daily in an exclusive interview. Officials investigated and cracked 9,835 cases and shut down 1,996 distribution centres. Seventy-eight illegal VCD -manufacturing lines have been closed and more than 20 million smuggled compact discs seized in the past five years. These achievements helped improve China's moral standing, and helped protect intellectual property rights, Zhang said. Government officials have not been able to eliminate these activities, despite intensifying efforts, due to the profits and lack of explicit laws, Zhang said. Smuggling of pornographic, indecent and pirated VCDs into China continues, as does copying and selling of illegal publications in some large cities, she added. Such activities harm China's political, economic and cultural atmosphere. They disturb social stability, ruin young people's physical and mental health and reduce tax revenues. Judicial interpretations, on tackling such cases, were implemented on December 24, Zhang said, adding they provide the legal weapons to fight distribution of pornographic and pirated publications. This year's campaign, aided by these interpretations, will include two major measures. For example, one measure will target smuggling, because most original illegal VCDs and publications are from abroad; another measure will target printing enterprises and VCD and publication transactions. More than 10 provinces and cities implemented anti-piracy campaigns, including offering rewards up to 300,000 yuan (US$36,145) for information about illegal VCD production lines.