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Local inspection authorities have allegedly condoned the shipments, CCTV reported.
Aidian officials declined to comment when reached by the Global Times on Monday.
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The thriving illegal pig imports in the area have been also promoted by "truck escorting teams," which not only guide the truck drivers loaded with smuggling pigs to bypass the frontier inspection stations, but also prevent them from being stopped by law enforcement officers tasked with investigating pig smuggling from Vietnam beyond the highway toll station.
The escorting teams usually buy plates from local counter-smuggling officials or public security departments for 30,000 yuan to provide them free passage.
One of the truck drivers told CCTV that the smuggled pigs are sent to slaughterhouses across the country, including Southwest China's Chengdu, Kunming and South China's Guangdong Province.
The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine have imposed a ban on live cloven-hoofed animals including pigs from Vietnam, where the foot-and-mouth disease has frequently surfaced from 2003 to 2016.
China's coast guard seized more than 200 tons of smuggled frozen meat from Vietnam in south China's Hainan Province in July 2015 and arrested 49 people.
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MANILA, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines' exports recovered in September, posting 5.1 percent increase year-on-year to 5.211 billion U.S. dollars after 17 months of decline, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said Thursday.
Export sales in September last year amounted to 4.960 billion U.S. dollars.
PSA said the increase was attributed to eight major commodities out of the top 10 export commodities for the month. These include other mineral products, electronic equipment and parts, metal components, chemicals, articles of apparel and clothing accessories, ignition wiring set and other wiring sets used in vehicles, aircrafts and ships, electronic products, and other manufactures.
Total merchandise exports from January to September, however, registered a 6.2 percent decrease to 41.691 billion U.S. dollars from 44.460 billion U.S. dollars in the same period of 2015, PSA said.
Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto M. Pernia expressed optimism that export performance will continue to improve.
"Exports of manufactured products may continue to firm-up in the near term, possibly riding on the growth of the global industry sector, " said Pernia, also director general of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) which has jurisdiction over PSA.
Most Asian countries also posted positive gains in exports for September, pointing to a recovery in global trade, he noted.
"Recent developments in China and Japan, which are the Philippine's largest trading partners in Asia, provide good prospects for merchandise trade. The steady growth of China's economy is a welcome development, and the Japanese government also appears to be on track in reviving its economy," he added.
Pernia also said that aside from lifting the ban on bananas, China has also announced its intention to buy more high-value commercial crops from the Philippines, like mangoes and coconut, as well as high-end fishery products like lapu-lapu, crabs and tuna.
China ranked the third with 633.36 million U.S. dollars or 12.2 percent share of the total exports in September, next to Japan and the United States, according to PSA.
PARIS, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results from the women's World Cup biathlon sprint in Le Grand-bornand, France, on Saturday:
7.5km sprint (2 shooting sessions, missed targets in brackets)
KAZAN, Russia Supreme x Nike Air Max 98 KPU TPU Mujer Rosa Negras Comprar , July 26 (Xinhua) -- After six years, Beijing Olympic champion Lin Yue of China found his peak form back when he claimed the men's 10m synchronized platform title together with new partner Chen Aisen at the FINA World Swimming Championships here on Sunday.
The Chinese duo led from the start and never looked back in six dives, especially in their last dive 5255B with a day-high 100.44 points. ChenLin collected a total of 495.72.
The Mexican pair Garcia NavarroSanchez Sanchez enjoyed their last dive 515B as highest degree of difficulty.