New Regulation Hammers Curio-Market Counterfeits

2002/01/01

Beijing's cultural relics protection authorities are applying a new regulation that orders shops to affix a tag saying "New product" on all replicated antiques. Shops failing to do so will be publicly identified, and the offending products will be barred from sale.

The city's 14 official curio markets stock large quantities of counterfeit items which some sell as "genuine antiques". Often the quality is so high that they fool experts as well as ordinary tourists.



	Article featured in Beijing This Month, January 2002 Publication sponsored by Information Office of the Beijing Municipal Government, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Tourism