Authorities in Beijing will launch a week-long campaign from
Thursday to root out street peddlers selling fake Olympic
mascots.
The announcement came shortly after Beijing law enforcement
agencies said they had destroyed three illegal workshops
manufacturing fake "Fuwa"s and confiscated 28,000 finished or
half-finished products since the beginning of this year.
"The products were coarsely made with shoddy materials," the law
enforcement bureau said.
"The new crackdown will shift focus from illegal manufacturers
to street peddlers who usually appear in front of supermarkets, on
overpasses and in subway stations between 4:00?PM and the
early hours of the next day, the bureau said.
It also called on consumers to boycott fake Olympic
products.
(Xinhua News Agency July 4, 2007)