TO:  Foreign and local press

FROM:  The State Council Information Office

SUBJECT:  Issues on national product quality surveillance sampling, import and export products quality, and the fight against counterfeited and inferior products from January to June in 2006.

WHEN:  10:00 AM, Thursday, July 27, 2006

WHERE:  Briefing Hall of the State Council Information Office, 225, Chao Yang Men Nei Da Jie, Beijing, China

WHO:  Mr. Ge Zhirong, and Mr. Pu Changcheng, Vice Ministers of General Administration of Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ).

CONTACT:  86-10-6559 2311

NOTE:  Please take the press card issued by the State Council Information Office and wear the card during the press conference. To raise the efficiency of the press conference, any questions concerned on the topic are warmly welcome to Notice@scio.gov.cn (E-mail) or 86-10-6559 2311(Fax).

(China.org.cn July 24, 2006)