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SCMP Reporter

Guangzhou will offer cash rewards of up to 300,000 yuan to informers reporting fake or substandard products being sold in  markets.

The rewards would be offered to hundreds of part-time product inspectors enlisted last year to help catch people manufacturing or selling fake products, Southern Metropolitan News reported.

The city has about 1,300 part-time inspectors and the report said Guangzhou had decided to offer the cash incentives - which start at 300 yuan and work their way up - to encourage  them to work harder.

The mainland has seen several high-profile scandals involving fake or substandard products recently. In the latest incident, two men were killed and another two sent to hospital after drinking illegally produced homemade  alcohol on Tuesday in Guangzhou.

The Guangdong Health Department issued an emergency notice on Wednesday night, warning consumers not to buy  alcohol that was not properly bottled.

The  deadly brew is believed to have been produced in a village in the Beiyun district of Guangzhou. So far no one has been arrested.

Officers from the Public Security Department, Health Department and Industry and Commerce Administration had jointly launched an investigation into the incident, China News Services reported.

The provincial government also despatched  inspectors to check local  markets. Earlier this week, more than 100 tonnes of preserved vegetables was seized and destroyed in Sichuan after media discovered the food producer mixed massive amounts of the preservative sodium benzoate into the vegetables.

The central government has vowed to crack down on counterfeiters and give greater protection to intellectual property rights.

Vice-Premier Wu Yi has been given the task of co-ordinating  the fight against counterfeiting.



Informers offered bounty in crackdown on fake goods