| Its obvious that this is just a tactic to buy time. Closing down Xiangyang market is purely a symbolic move to show that the government is serious about IPR violations. The reality of the situation is that it does not address the starting point which is the manufacture bases. All this is going to do is make small pockets of mini Xiangyang markets appear in different parts of town. In my opinion the effect will be to simply increase the number of places that you will easily find copied items. In fact I recently read an article to back that up where a DVD shop (pirate DVDs) is now selling designer handbags. The owner of the shop said its because Xiangyang market is shutting down - the article is here: http://madaboutshanghai.blogs.com/mad_about_shanghai/2006/01/xiangyang_marke_1.html I am sure that he is just one of the first, and over the coming weeks and months we will see more and more of these shops springing up all over town. |
Xiangyang Marketing will be Shutdown?