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Is it legal to brand yourself by pouring drinks from the winery?
As the Spring Festival approaches, liquor consumption has entered the traditional peak season. However, in some places in Henan and Hubei, the reporter found that local counterfeit liquor was in great danger of flooding. Cases of death caused by counterfeit and inferior liquor have occurred frequently in recent years, and relevant state departments have also taken some measures to crack down on counterfeit liquor. On the one hand, it is severely cracked down, on the other hand, it is still flooding, and fake wine is constantly being beaten. What is behind the ban?

The "Peace Day" in Fengqiu, Henan Province is more peaceful.

There are many wineries in Fengqiu, but it is difficult to find local wines in the county market. During the 28 "Peace Days" every month, which the county government explicitly forbids the supervision and inspection of enterprises by the administrative law enforcement departments, nearly 1 wineries, large and small, wantonly make and sell fakes in broad daylight with the heroic spirit of "making whatever brand they want" and the trick of "packaging is more valuable than wine".

When the reporter interviewed in fengqiu county, Henan Province, he found a strange phenomenon: Although there are so many wineries, there are no local liquor in some local markets or outlets.

With the deepening of the investigation, the reporter found that most local wineries are counterfeiting or counterfeiting foreign brands, and the production process is just alcohol mixed with water.

There are no local wines in the market

On December 8, 24, the reporter went to fengqiu county, about 5 kilometers southeast of Xinxiang City, Henan Province. "Fengqiu Winery" is a common saying among local people. A brother told reporters that Fengqiu has no special products and no industrial and mining enterprises, but there are more wineries. There are more than 2 around the county seat alone, plus there are 1 in the towns below.

since there are so many local wineries, it is common sense that there should be more local liquor sold in the market. Immediately, the reporter made an unannounced visit to the liquor sold in the market on the grounds that he needed to bring some local liquor back when he came here on business. The reporter first came to the well-known local 121 liquor dealership. The reporter browsed the liquor on the shelves and found that the liquors including "Pastoral Pastoral", "Clay Pot", "Ordos" and "Fourth Five-Year Plan" were mostly produced in Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and Guizhou, but there was no Fengqiu liquor.

"There are so many wineries in our local area, do they have local wines?" The reporter asked the boss.

"Don't talk about me, you can't find it anywhere else in the county." The boss said with certainty.

When asked why, the boss surnamed Ma told the reporter the truth. She pointed to the liquor such as "Pastoral Pastoral" and "Clay Pot" and "Erdos" on the shelf and told reporters that these liquors are actually local, but if the place of origin is marked as Fengqiu, they will not be sold at all.

"Why can't the products marked as closed hills be sold?"

"The local people all know the actual situation of the winery at their doorstep." The boss also told reporters that the scale of local wineries is generally small, and most of them make wine by mixing alcohol with water, so local people are reluctant to buy local wine.

In another wholesale department nearby, the reporter also found no local liquor, and the boss also confirmed that the local winery basically does not produce its own brand of liquor. "It produces what kind of wine sells fast." The boss said.

is it a common practice for local wineries in Fengqiu to mix alcohol with water and casually brand? The reporter decided to go to the winery for field investigation.

"Make whatever brand you want"

When I heard that the reporter was going to the winery, my brother seemed a little embarrassed, because there were too many wineries and I didn't know which one to go to. "Well, why don't you show me around first and see where the wineries are?" In this way, brother pulled the reporter and said, there are three here, five there, and that's quite a lot ... In the direction he pointed out, the reporter found a strange problem. Most wineries here are closed for production, and many wineries don't have any signs. If it weren't for guidance, it would be difficult for outsiders to find the difference between wineries and ordinary yards.

In the north of the county, the reporter found an honest winery with a conspicuous signboard. This winery is also closed. Before the reporter broke into the winery, the staff stopped the reporter. After learning that the reporter bought wine, the reporter was invited to the reception room of the winery next to the gate. The small room was filled with different brands of wine, and the reporter generally looked at the origin of these wines. "How much is this wine?" The reporter pointed to the wine such as "one altar incense" and "green gauze account" placed in the room and asked. "3 yuan/bottle, wholesale price." "How is this wine produced in Heilongjiang?" "This is all produced in cooperation with others. People produce technology, provide production sites and equipment, and then sell them back." The owner of the winery Artemisia explained. When he saw the reporter and fixed his eyes on the wine produced in Luzhou, Sichuan, he quickly explained that these are samples put here by others, and we don't produce this.

Without honesty, the reporter went to the local large-scale Wulong winery. Just arrived at the door, I heard the machine roaring inside, and when I walked in, it turned out that the workers were doing their best. On the reporter's right hand side are the old wine bottles recovered from the winery. Looking closely, the bottles are covered with mud and messy, and the workers are pulling these old wine bottles to clean them, so the reporter can learn the process of cleaning them. Workers first soak the old wine bottle in a big pool, so that the original labels and sludge on the bottle are gone, and then pick up the bottle and put it in another pool with clear water. At this time, if there is sludge in the bottle, workers will put the brush in and scrub it clean. In this way, the recycled old bottles can be used to fill liquor after simple washing.

Boss Li of this factory told reporters that even so, the sanitary conditions of Wulong are not bad. "Some wineries wash bottles to the end, and the water is still muddy."

in another winery next to Wulong winery, the reporter really saw that the water was still muddy at the end of the bottle washing. This winery mainly produces wine, and the workers are busy cleaning the bottles. In the last process, the reporter noticed that a girl was cleaning the mud at the bottom of the bottle with a brush, and after cleaning the mud, she put the bottle in the water and rinsed it, and it was finished, and the water was already turbid. "The bottle washed like this is not clean either?" The reporter asked. The girl glanced at the reporter and muttered, "You can't see the mud!"

In the finished product warehouse of this winery, the reporter noticed that the wines produced include several famous domestic wine brands, such as Tonghua Wild Wine, Yantai Wine and Minquan Wine. In the boss's words, you can sell whatever trademark you want.

The reporter then visited a number of wineries around the county seat, and the situation was basically the same as what he had seen before-the production technology was backward, there was no sanitary guarantee for product production, and the place of origin and trademark were seriously counterfeited for good sales. Page breaks

Packaging is more valuable than wine

The reporter found that the prices of liquor produced by local wineries are mostly very low, such as the "green gauze account" 3 yuan/bottle of Chengxin Winery and the "Northeast Shaoshao" .8 yuan/bottle (3 Liang) of Wulong Winery. What is the secret of low price of liquor? Boss Li of Wulong Winery told the reporter the truth. He told reporters that local liquor is mostly made of edible alcohol mixed with water and some essence. For example, just add one catty of edible alcohol with a purity of 9% to one catty of water and then add the corresponding essence to produce two catties of 45-degree wine. According to the current 2.2 yuan/Jin of alcohol, the cost of a Jin of wine is about 1.2 yuan, but how much does the packaging of a bottle of wine cost? Generally speaking, the new wine bottle is .8 yuan/bottle, the old wine bottle is .4 yuan/bottle, and the packaging of one (6 bottles) needs about 6 yuan, so according to the old wine bottle, the packaging fee of a bottle of wine is 1.4 yuan, and the wine is worth 1.2 yuan. In other words, the packaging of local wine is more valuable than the wine inside.

He also told reporters that in order to get more profits, the local wineries did not focus more on how to make wine well, but started the idea of packaging: "The packaging should be gold-plated, and the bottles should be made of porcelain and iron. Anyway, how to look good? "

Fengqiu wine with beautiful packaging and low price has got a good "return" in the market. A boss told reporters that his wine was not only sold directly to the northeast, but also sold to Hebei, Shanxi and Anhui through the wholesale markets in Xinxiang and Zhengzhou. Wherever the reporter went, he also saw that the local winery was working overtime and busy with production, and the business was good.

county government regulation office: Ignore the reporter

On the afternoon of December 8, 24, the reporter came to the Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision of fengqiu county, and wanted to interview the local wineries for counterfeiting the origin. In the office on the second floor, Director Zhang told reporters that Director Li went to the city bureau for a meeting and Deputy Director Slip went on a business trip. In a word, the leaders were not in the office. After learning the reporter's purpose, Zhang briefly introduced to the reporter some situations of the county quality inspection bureau's governance of the local winery, to the effect that there were some problems in the winery before, but after governance, it is basically no problem now.

After a while, the reporter got up to leave. At the door of the office, he suddenly found that it was the director's office connected to the office, and someone was talking in the room. The reporter immediately knocked on the door and entered. It turned out that Director Li of the Quality Inspection Bureau was working in it, not going to the city bureau for a meeting as Zhang said.

Li also briefed the reporter on the situation that the Quality Inspection Bureau, under the leadership of the local government, actively cracked down on counterfeiting in some wineries, and stressed that seven wineries had been closed, and now the local wineries are no longer a big problem.

The reporter asked whether the quality inspectors could check the situation of local wineries with the reporter on the spot. Li agreed to the reporter's request, but said that he would wait until Deputy Director Slip came back to cooperate. Half an hour later, Slippery rushed to the office, so the reporter and Deputy Director Slippery and other quality inspectors rushed to the winery. The reporter, along with the law enforcement officers, first went to the integrity winery where the reporter had been in the morning. Strangely, the winery that was still producing and selling in the morning has already closed its doors and no one can see it. The reporter then took out his honest business card and dialed the phone number of Artemisia boss according to the above phone number. Artemisia didn't wait for the law enforcement officers to say more, so he claimed that he couldn't open the door in the field and hung up.

Liu told reporters that according to its duties, the Quality Inspection Bureau has no right to pry open the door of the enterprise and go in for inspection. The only way is to contact the relevant departments of the county government. So, I dialed the phone number of the director of the county planning office: "Director Cheng, the reporter from Wanlixing found that there are some problems in the winery here. We are at the gate of the winery now, but the boss won't open the door. Do you think you can let the public security cooperate?" "Did the reporter come to greet the Propaganda Department? If not, ignore them." Say that finish, the director cheng also hung up the phone. At this point, the situation is extremely embarrassing. After a while, Slippery told reporters with a helpless face that local work is like this. Without the cooperation of local government departments, the work of the Quality Inspection Bureau is not good. He also told reporters that the local government has already implemented the "28 Days of Peace", the so-called "Peace Day", that is, 28 days in a month, and many law enforcement departments, including quality inspection, can't go to enterprises for inspection without the approval of the county government.

then, the reporter and the quality inspector rushed to a winery. It was not until the law enforcement officers appeared in the production workshop that the workers dispersed. On its humble operating platform, the workers completed the production of so-called "Tonghua Wild Wine", "Yantai Farmer Orchard Wine" and "Henan Minquan Wine" by hand. Law enforcement officers sealed up these fake and shoddy products according to law. Page breaks

Well-known famous wineries in Suizhou, Hubei Province are like

temporarily detained and then released: intercession shakes the law enforcement

Recently, counterfeiters of a well-known wine industry in Hubei Province have found some counterfeit and counterfeit liquors in some places in the province. After investigation, enterprises know that most of these counterfeit liquors come from famous wineries in Suizhou. Before November, 24, counterfeiters reported the counterfeit products to the Fair Trade Branch of Suizhou Industrial and Commercial Bureau. Under the leadership of Deputy Director Zhou of the bureau, law enforcement officers and counterfeiters went to Minghao Winery for inspection. After arriving at Minghao, the manufacturer refused law enforcement officers to enter under various excuses.

after the failure of this anti-counterfeiting, in order to obtain first-hand information, the anti-counterfeiting personnel decided to follow the van that the famous man came out, and then reported it to the industrial and commercial department to seal up the fake goods on the spot after the car left Suizhou. On November 18th, 24, the counterfeiters noticed that a truck with the license plate number of E F2512 was driving to Minghao, and they reported it to the local industrial and commercial department when they tracked it to Shuanggou Town, Xiangfan District, Xiangfan City. At a traffic light in Shuanggou town, the traffic police stopped the car on the grounds of checking overload. Director Yang and Deputy Director Wang of Shuanggou Town Industrial and Commercial Branch identified themselves and asked the driver to drive to Shuanggou Branch. After the car door was opened, law enforcement officers found that there were more than 1, pieces of counterfeit liquor in the car, except for the liquor from a certain place in Sichuan.

at noon the next day, just as the industrial and commercial department was preparing to hand over the case to Xiangyang Economic Investigation Brigade, He Jingbao of Minghao Winery rushed to the scene with a local vice captain who was said to be a local economic investigation detachment in Suizhou. Twenty minutes later, Song, the captain of Xiangyang Economic Investigation Brigade, told the counterfeiters that the counterfeit case had to be worth more than 5, yuan to be filed, and they might be powerless.

At this time, Deputy Director Wang dragged the counterfeiters outside and said that the Economic Investigation Brigade had compromised, probably influenced by people from Suizhou, but the industrial and commercial department would continue to handle the case. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Xiangyang District Administration for Industry and Commerce sorted out the materials and decided to temporarily detain the counterfeit liquor. Minghao Winery also signed the notice of temporary detention. At this time, there are more and more vehicles in the courtyard of the industrial and commercial bureau, and the counterfeiters vaguely feel that things will be more complicated. Sure enough, half an hour later, Ren Xu, deputy director of Xiangyang District Administration for Industry and Commerce, told the counterfeiters that the detained liquor should be released on the grounds that the law enforcement procedures on the road were illegal.

What surprised the counterfeiters even more was that they saw Chen Mou and Hu from Suizhou Industrial and Commercial Bureau in the courtyard of Shuanggou Industrial and Commercial Bureau. In the evening, Hu told the counterfeiters on the phone that he didn't know what it was at first, but a companion said that there was a classmate in Xiangyang who wanted to go there. Only when he arrived did he know that he was interceding for the deduction of counterfeit wine.

"The famous winery, which was still in production, was closed when we and Suizhou industrial and commercial personnel arrived, so the law enforcement officers could not get in; Minghao's wine has been detained, but Suizhou industrial and commercial personnel have come to express their feelings again. Do you think this anti-counterfeiting can continue? " The counterfeiters are confused.

Difficult to enter the market: the embarrassment of industrial and commercial counterfeiting

On December 1, 24, the reporter came to Xiangyang District Industrial and Commercial Bureau and wanted to interview Deputy Director Ren Xu, the main party, about the issue of releasing counterfeit liquor after it was seized. The office staff told the reporter that Ren went to the Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce for a meeting. The reporter immediately rushed to Xiangfan City Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the office staff said that the city bureau did not hold any meeting today, so the deputy director was not here. At the same time, Ren's mobile phone has been turned off.

Counterfeiters told reporters that Xiangfan City is a major sales market for counterfeit liquor by famous brands. Although they complained to the local industrial and commercial departments many times, the effect of each crackdown was not satisfactory. In order to confirm the statement of the counterfeiters, the reporter went to Changhong Food City, the largest food wholesale market in Xiangfan. In the food city, the reporter not only found a large number of counterfeit products of the company, but even found some counterfeit products. After a tour of the food city, the reporter rushed to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau of Xiangfan High-tech Zone where the food city is located. Ma Kechang of the Fair Trade Department told the reporter that the industrial and commercial departments had cracked down on these counterfeit and counterfeit products several times and achieved considerable results. When the reporter just told him about the situation in the market, he expressed his willingness to work with reporters on the spot.