Crackdown on counterfeits to help local firms

China will take decisive measures to stop counterfeits and poor-quality products from being exported to Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and countries along the Belt and Road Initiative regions to ensure that the reputation of national brands is not smudged, top officials said on Monday.

The government will deploy more resources and manpower to increase its supervision of daily necessities, electronics, cosmetics, garments and pharmaceutical products being exported to these destinations, and crack down on illegal activities like forged export certificates and official seals, stealing quarantine clearance documents and selling clearance papers.

Chai Haitao, deputy director of the Office of the National Leading Group for Combating IPR Infringement and Counterfeiting, said even though China exported $2.21 trillion of goods and became the world's largest goods trader in 2014, still, some domestic and foreign criminals are collaborating with each other to manufacture counterfeits and low-quality products for exports to make profit.