Authorities clamped down on 232 counterfeiting networks in the first six months, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration said Friday.
Law enforcement agencies rounded up 4,110 people suspected of producing and selling counterfeit cigarettes and prosecuted 1,849 of them, Xinhua reported.
The authorities solved 2,203 counterfeit cases in the period, each case involving products valued at more than 50,000 yuan ($7,767).
The administration said they seized 5.7 billion counterfeit cigarettes last year.
Published 29 July 2011, 10:55 IST