The Chinese Communist Party authorities have been claiming to be cracking down on counterfeit goods, but in the foreign trade village in Changshu, Jiangsu, you can buy “world famous brands” for just a few tens of yuan.
According to an April 19 report by CCTV Finance, thousands of garment stalls are gathered near the Sang Yuan Street in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, which is known as “Changshu Foreign Trade Village”. Surprisingly, most of the stalls here have their doors and windows closed during the day, but they start to get busy in the evening around 5 o’clock. Tricycles, electric bikes shuttling, passers-by carrying a black plastic bags began to busy express delivery.
In the mulberry street snack stalls, many are hanging a large speaker, written above several WeChat two-dimensional code, just scan the code to add these WeChat signal will be able to get a variety of free snacks such as grilled sausages, soy sauce cake, tofu brain.
Several women asked pretending to be guests of the Lu media reporter: “take the goods, now our side of the strict inspection, stalls many not open, have to take WeChat out to sweep, all online orders.”
After adding dozens of micro-signals, these micro-letter in the evening sent a picture, showing the two-dimensional code of the micro-business album, the land media reporter found that the micro-business album peddling a variety of categories of “brand-name clothing”, the price is very low, only one tenth or even one hundredth of the official selling price.
When the reporter proposed to see the goods on the ground, most of them were refused by the store, after several negotiations, a store in Changshu World Trade Center hanging a lot of luxury brand hangtags of clothing, 75 yuan a piece.
The seller said that these clothes are not authentic, but imitation counterfeits. Another seller and the reporter agreed to see the goods in a stall in Changshu Foreign Trade Village, where only a small number of clothes were hanging. The seller took out several pieces of imitation brand-name clothes from under the stool and in the express bag, with the hangtags and wash labels on them.
According to reports, most of these local imitation brand name clothing factories are not in Changshu local, but in the local built warehouses, and the location is relatively remote to prevent being found. The customer reports the order online before 4 p.m., and the seller gets the goods from the warehouse to the stall in the foreign trade village and sends them out by courier. Selling a wide variety of clothing categories and patterns, keeping up with the latest explosive models.
As for what is the difference between these counterfeit clothes and the genuine ones, Li Liang, senior administrative manager of a clothing brand in Shanghai, said: the fabric is different, the imitation is very thin, and there is no relevant texture, draping sense what will be much worse. And the genuine product is very textured.
According to the report, “Changshu foreign trade village” entity store openly selling counterfeit brand name phenomenon has been rare, but the underground trading is still active, the production and sale of counterfeit clothing through the network sold throughout the country.
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