BEIJING - Authorities in Beijing will launch a week-long campaign from
Thursday to root out street peddlers selling fake Olympics 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 p.m. and the early hours of the next day, the
bureau said.
It also called on consumers to boycott fake Olympic products.
