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The State Forestry Administration of China has published guidelines on protecting the country's desertified land.
The guideline advised more than 1.2 million square kilometers of desertified land in China be closed off as a protection zone so as to control drifting sand and improve the environment.
The guidelines will be effective from July this year to the end of 2020. The guidelines ban activities including cutting down trees, cultivating land, animal grazing, and misuse of water in the protected zones. Construction of railways and highways is forbidden. No immigrants should be settled in the zones.
According to the guidelines, the protected areas should be important locations that have an impact on regional and national ecology and have suffered from frequent human activity.
Desertified land, which is land that has become barren due to constant water shortages and excessive exploitation, makes up more than half of the total desert area in China.
China had a desert area of around 2.6 million square kilometers, accounting for 27 percent of its total land mass.
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China will launch a five-month campaign to regulate the online market and protect the rights and interests of online consumers and operators.
The campaign will be effective from July to November, and will target fake and inferior commodities that have been widely complained about by consumers and dealers, as well as dishonest shopping websites.
The State Administration for Industry and Commerce said the items being checked include electronic products, car accessories, clothing, electrical materials and other important commodities.
The market regulator will strictly supervise the rules and standards of E-commerce platforms, make sure sales promotion rules are transparent to consumers, and market rules are well implemented.
A real-name registration system will be established for online stores in an effort to combat illegal trade activity and fake shopping sites.
China's online sales volume surged 50 percent year on year to reach almost 2.8 trillion yuan, roughly 450 billion U.S. dollars, last year, accounting for almost 10 percent of the country's total retail sales.
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The General Administration of Customs says it had confiscated frozen meat with an estimated value of more than 3 billion yuan, roughly 490 million U.S. dollars, in a nationwide anti-smuggling campaign.
The crackdown on frozen meat smuggling was launched earlier this month across 14 provinces and municipalities, including Beijing. 21 organized gangs have been broken up and 130 suspects arrested.
The cases involved mostly frozen chicken. The authorities say smuggling frozen meat poses food safety risks, and circumvents taxation.
The campaign will include more food items later this year.
