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www.thechinatimes.com — China provided 85% of the counterfeit products seized at EU borders in 2010, revealed on Thursday by the European Commission in a report on customs operations. Beijing is far ahead of Turkey, Thailand, Hong Kong and India, countries that specialize in specific counterfeit products, such as drugs for India or memory cards for Hong Kong.

www.nytimes.com — Chinese customs officials continued to bar all exports of rare earth minerals to Japan over the weekend, industry officials said, but the Chinese government showed signs of taking a more conciliatory stance toward Japan. When the export halt was imposed, the quota for 2010 was within a month and a half of being exhausted.

www.grapewallofchina.com — For anyone living in China or visiting, if you enjoy a daily glass of red wine with your dinner, at times, it can get expensive.Chinese wine is famous for being undrinkable or at least using the title of "wine" very loosely (sorry, but it's true). So you are dependent on foreign imports which can get quite expensive due to high import tax.

wangbo.canalblog.com — A copy of "Beijing Daily" that's already been read can produce four pencils, one ton of waste newspapers can produce 20,000 pencils. A privately owned science and technology company in Daxing District is successfully using waste newspapers to make pencils, producing altogether 33,000,000 paper-made pencils last year, saving the equivalent of 1500 cubic metres of wood.