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Hong, a staff member left behind by the liquidation group of a state-owned printing plant in Jiaxing, took advantage of his position to illegally embezzle more than 130,000 yuan in state property by fabricating dormitory numbers during the demolition of the plant's workers' dormitories. On October 23, the Nanhu District People's Court of Jiaxing sentenced Hong to ten years and six months in prison for embezzlement. Hong, now 59 years old, was formerly a cadre in the storage and transportation section of a state-owned printing plant in Jiaxing. After the printing plant went bankrupt and was liquidated in 1998, the workers' dormitories, which belonged to the state-owned assets, were managed by Jia

In order to implement accountability for administrative enforcement in printing and reproduction, strengthen day-to-day enforcement supervision of the printing and reproduction industry, establish and improve a long-term management mechanism, and build a strong nation in printing and reproduction, these Measures are formulated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Regulations on the Administration of the Printing Industry, the Regulations on the Administration of Audio-Visual Products and the Measures for the Administration of Reproduction. Article 2 For the purposes of these Measures, administrative enforcement in printing and reproduction refers to the enforcement carried out, within the scope of their duties, by press and publication administrative departments at all levels and by comprehensive administrative enforcement departments of the cultural market against printing or

To the press and publication bureaus, public security departments (bureaus), administrations for industry and commerce, and quality and technical supervision bureaus of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the offices of the working groups for "Eliminating Pornography" and "Combating Illegal Publications": In order to implement the Provisions of the State Council on Rectifying and Regulating the Order of the Market Economy and the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Further Rectifying and Regulating the Order of the Cultural Market, to severely crack down on illegal printing activities and, at the source, prevent illegal publications and counterfeit or substandard products from entering the market, the press and publication

Article 1 In order to further standardize the establishment and approval of printing business operators and encourage printing business operators to improve their operating quality and technical level, these Provisions are formulated in accordance with the Regulations on the Administration of the Printing Industry and the spirit of the relevant State Council directives on rectifying and standardizing the order of the printing market. Article 2 For the purposes of these Provisions, printing business operators include enterprises engaged in printing business activities involving publications and packaging and decorative printed matters, enterprises, units or individuals engaged in printing business activities involving other printed matters, as well as specialized

[ppzhan abstract] According to statistics, in 2011, Beijing publishing and printing enterprises showed a scissors gap between revenue and profit. Company staff said that although revenue was considerable, the profit that could be obtained from it was extremely low — what is it that causes such a phenomenon? The "scissors gap" between the revenue and profit of publishing and printing enterprises may, on preliminary analysis, be related to the following two factors. First, enterprises' operating costs keep climbing while printing prices continue to fall, which is also the publishing

[ppzhan abstract] Environmental pollution has become an issue of public concern, with particular attention paid to the recycling and reuse of waste, and foamed plastic that cannot be recycled or reused has become the chief culprit behind white pollution after plastic bags. On December 31, 2007, the General Office of the State Council issued a notice on restricting the production, sale and use of plastic shopping bags, a notice the public calls the "plastic restriction order." The reason given for its introduction is that while plastic shopping bags provide consumers with convenience

China's first national food nutrition labeling standard, the General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods, will be officially implemented as of January 1, 2013. The General Rules is the first mandatory national standard on food nutrition labeling, and will provide clear regulation and guidance for the review of nutrition labels on prepackaged foods. It sets out explicit provisions for the nutrition facts table, nutrition claims and nutrient function claims in nutrition labeling. The mandatory contents to be declared in the nutrition facts table include energy, protein, fat

On November 5, 2012, the Printing and Distribution Management Department of the General Administration of Press and Publication and the Science and Technology Standards Department of the Ministry of Environmental Protection jointly held the 2012 Green Printing Promotion Conference in Beijing and launched this year's Green Printing Awareness Week. At the meeting, Wang Yanbin, Director of the Printing and Distribution Management Department of the General Administration of Press and Publication, officially released the 2012 Report on Achievements in Implementing Green Printing to the industry. 1. Implementing green printing has raised the level of energy conservation and consumption reduction among printing enterprises. Eco-friendly drying ovens, secondary combustion,

[ppzhan abstract] The new edition of the Green Printing Handbook, jointly compiled by the Department of Printing and Distribution Management of the General Administration of Press and Publication and the Department of Science, Technology and Standards of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, has been officially published and released, serving as an important guide for government authorities, printing enterprises and all sectors of society to understand green printing and advance its implementation. With the Green Printing Promotion Conference held on November 5, the 2012 Green Printing Publicity Week was also officially launched. At the meeting that day, the General Administration of Press and

On October 31 – November 1, 2012, the National Printing Standardization Technical Committee (SAC/TC170) convened in Beijing the third working meeting of the drafting group for two national digital printing standards, "Quality Requirements and Inspection Methods for Digital Printing Products" and "Quality Requirements and Inspection Methods for Digital Hard Proof Sheets." Participants came from Zhejiang Huaren Digital Printing Co., Ltd., Donggang Co., Ltd., Beijing Donggang Jiahua Security Information Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Printing (Group