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纽约时报阅读Chinese City Shuts Down 13_Wal-Marts
Chinese City Shuts Down 13 Wal-Marts
By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: October 10, 2011
HONG KONG — The fiercely nationalistic municipal government of Chongqing in southwestern China ordered all 13 Wal-Mart stores there to close for 15 days and fined the company $420,000 in a labeling dispute that has broader political implications for Western companies operating in China.
The city accused the company of selling pork as organic when the meat did not meet the standards for organic labels. Wal-Mart has now been punished 21 times in Chongqing since 2006 for misleading advertising or for selling substandard or expired food, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
Wal-Mart, which had 346 stores in China in August, said in a statement that it was working with the Chongqing authorities to improve its operations there.
“We care deeply about the well-being of the community with over 3,000 of our own associates living and working in Chongqing,” the company said. “We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience this may cause our customers and are even more determined to meet the service expectations they have of us.”
Mislabeling pork as organic might seem like a small offense in a country where the reuse of rancid cooking oil by restaurants has become a national scandal, and where the deliberate mixing of powdered infant formula with industrial waste from plastics manufacturing to meet minimum protein standards has sickened an estimated 50,000 babies. But Chinese government officials have long set more stringent standards of quality control, labor rights and other industrial issues for foreign companies than for Chinese-owned companies.
Economic nationalism, which critics describe as bordering on xenophobia, is more visible in cities deep in China’s interior than in its export-oriented coastal cities. Nowhere is nationalism more visible now than in the largest city in the interior, Chongqing.
The Communist Party secretary overseeing Chongqing since 2007, Bo Xilai, is pursuing a se
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