Since the "Dragon Boat Action" started, China Customs has cracked down 1,301 infringement cases from imports and exports within three months, 52 percent more than the same period of last year. The customs also caught 170 million pieces of infringement goods, 80 percent more.

"Dragon Boat Action", the largest campaign of its kind conducted by the China Customs in recent years for enforcing IPR protection, has gained fruitful achievement since it was launched on October 1, 2007.

Shenzhen Customs, for example, gave most of their attention to Yantian and Shekou ports with the transport channels like freight, post and express mail as the key rings, the export destinations like America, Europe and Japan as the focus, and helped by the advanced analysis system, have cracked down more than 130 infringement cases during 3 months, including several serious ones of high value, huge amount and involving more brands.

Shanghai Customs has detected 143 infringement cases in 3 months, involving suspected goods of about 2.8 million pieces, valuing nearly 8 million yuan.

Gongbei Customs adopted effective measures after profound research on different ports, such as organizing training programs in IPR protection and capability of identifying infringement goods, promoting risk analysis technique, so as to improve the investigation ability to infringement goods. The customs seized 41 IP infringement cases, with a total value of 2.35 million yuan.

Chengdu Customs strengthened the supervision on spot and risk analyzing regarding the goods transported to America and European Union, arranged more monitors to goods exported to specific regions and those high-risk goods. Before Christmas, for example, Christmas goods, toys shoes and clothes were the key goods for the customs to supervise. Meanwhile, they also enforced the examination to post parcels and express mails to America and EU, especially for those high risk goods and the express mails declared as "CD" or "software".