Crime And The Black Market In Modern Day China

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Term Paper Title	Crime And The Black Market In Modern Day China
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Crime and the Black Market in Modern Day China

Crime and the Black Market in Modern Day China

     With a population of approximately 1,203,097,268 people , China, who has
the world's largest population, also has the world's fastest growing black
market and crime problem.  In China, crime rates have been climbing an estimated
10 percent a year since the early 1980s .  China is a country that is currently
experiencing both political and economic instability.  Economic reforms that
have been put in place by the government  have only widened the income gap,
creating a middle class with money and a lower class of newly poor.  With an
ever increasing size in this gap of income distribution and the relative ease of
making money through black market sales, it is no wonder more and more Chinese
are turning to a life of commonly accepted and profitable crime.
     Thomas Jefferson once said, "he who receives an idea from me, receives
instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine,
receives light without darkening me."  Unfortunately, Thomas Jefferson lived in
a different time.  He lived in a time when piracy was not as evident and
intellectual property was not worth so much.  In China, the largest crime which
is currently occurring is intellectual piracy.  Unlike the pirates of old who
plundered the merchant vessels and ports of the South China Sea, modern day
pirates are more interested in illegal replication of intellectual rights.  From
music compact discs to computer software to films to best selling novels, The
Chinese black market is a virtual warehouse of  "plundered goods". It is
estimated that there are at least thirty illegal high tech factories in China
that can churn out over 20,000 optical discs a day.  America's Microsoft
estimates that 98 out of every 100 of its software programs being used in China
are illegal copies .  Because of these statistics, and because this only amounts
to a small amount of the estimated piracy which occurs in China, program
manufacturers, worldwide, are lobbying the Chinese government to impose stricter
standards and greater restrictions upon the distribution and sale of illegal
intellectual rights.  In July of 1996, investigators from Microsoft led Chinese
officials to a plant near Guilin in Guanxi Province, where they  found 5700
bootleg windows CDs.  The plant had four production lines.  Three of them were
operated around the clock.  It was estimated that this particular plant churned
out 20,00...

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