Official: No Chinese version of foreign maganizes
( 2003-10-13 09:53) (China Daily)
Chinese versions of foreign magazines cannot be published and distributed on
the Chinese mainland, according to an official with the nation's publication
administration.
He was speaking in response to reports claiming that three well-known
US-based magazines - Newsweek, Forbes and Harvard Business Review - had
published Chinese editions in China.
"This is not true, because the current laws and regulations of China prohibit
such conduct," said the unnamed official of the General Administration of Press
and Publication.
No foreign magazines have been allowed to publish Chinese editions on the
mainland except for the US-based Business Week, which obtained permission in
1986, he said, noting the permit was given under a complicated set of
circumstances.
"The Chinese versions of any other foreign magazines seen on the mainland
were published in Hong Kong, Taiwan or other places, but not here," the official
said.
He said foreign publishers had other ways to co-operate with their Chinese
counterparts and some Chinese journals could use a certain amount of material
from foreign magazines.
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