China: Smuggling Still Threat to Economy
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Smuggling of goods ranging from oil to frozen food is costing China's treasury billions of dollars each year, threatening the national economy and possibly even communist rule despite a marathon crackdown, officials said Tuesday.
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China's economy continues to expand at a rapid pace, growing 9.5% in 2004 despite government efforts to take it off the boil.
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The International Monetary Fund said Friday China remains reluctant to float its currency. In its discussions with Chinese authorities about the country&#39;s economy, the IMF said
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Foreign media reports on China's food and drug safety problems have hurt exports even though they have been hyped up and domestic media should help by showing the "real situation", an official was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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Many endangered species are under threat from growing prosperity in China, where exotic animals are butchered for gourmet banquets, exotic medicines or luxury goods.
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China defended its fish farming industry on Tuesday and said it was making progress in curbing use of illegal additives, from pesticides to banned steroids, as the country's food safety record remains in the spotlight.
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China's economic boom is still roaring despite efforts to cool sizzling growth, with the gross domestic product climbing 9.5 percent in the first three quarters of this year, the government reported Friday.
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More than $900 million was misappropriated from ChinaÂs $37 billion social security fund in the countryÂs latest massive government fraud.
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Food scares are the latest indications that producing fake goods is still woven into the fabric of Chinaâs economy.
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By Joe McDonald Associated Press  BEIJING -- China has promised to pursue product pirates identified by U.S. authorities in a new effort to stamp out its thriving counterfeit industry, the head of the U.S. Customs agency said Friday.
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China has sent a notice to the World Health Organization defending the quality of its food exports, an agency spokeswoman said yesterday, and an official linked to the country's drug industry was sentenced to prison in a bribery case.
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China has admitted that illegal blood sales, one of the main causes of its spiralling AIDS problem, are still rampant despite being outlawed in 1996, state media reported Thursday.
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Concern over Chinaâs use of surveillance technology prompts new rules for U.S. exports.
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China played down the country's food-safety problems on Tuesday but at the same time showed off room after room of confiscated fakes, indicating the extent of the challenge it faces to clean up the industry.
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There could still be a way to go in China's frothy equity markets.
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China prosecuted nearly one million people last year and sent more people to jail than in 2005, officials said on Tuesday, and they vowed to keep up the fight on crime while promising to limit executions.
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Feds say China's still playing the spy game.