Guangdong's party secretary has vowed to crack down on the manufacturing of counterfeit items in the province following the arrest of four people in Zhanjiang for producing and selling fake Dynasty brand wine.
'We will not protect Guangdong's shortcomings and decisively investigate these types of cases according to the law,' said Li Changchun.
Police confiscated one production line together with 13,349 cases - or 160,000 bottles - of red wine valued at more than 10 million yuan (about HK$9.3 million).
The Dynasty scandal, which is the largest haul of counterfeit alcohol in Guangdong's history, attracted widespread attention from the State Council as well as provincial leadership.
Vice-premier Li Lanqing was reported by local press to have personally intervened in the matter on two occasions.
The counterfeiters are believed to have established their production facility in an underground location at Xiashan sometime before December last year, when an anonymous tip to Dynasty Wine's Tianjin headquarters brought company investigators to Guandong to look into the issue.
