Tianjin, a port municipality in north China, destroyed 600,000 illegal audio-visual products in a recent move to demonstrate its determination to protect intellectual property rights and maintain a good market order.
These illegal products were crushed to dust by two disintegrators at the compound of the public security squadron under the Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Among these illegal audio-visual products, more than 20,000 were compact discs (CDs) with porn content, and the rest were pirated CDs and illegal electronic publications, police sources said.
Police said these illegal audio-visual products were seized on a cargo train from Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, to Tianjin in the middle of September this year.
Police found that these audio-visual products were marked as "stationery" and the names of both the recipients and dispatchers were fake.
Local police carefully examined the seized products over the past three months and confirmed they were all illegally made.
(Xinhua News Agency December 30, 2002)
