China has destroyed almost 30,000 incorrect world maps, which shows Taiwan as a country and depicts the Sino-Indian border wrongly, reported the state run Global Times.
The report while quoting another publication Qingdao newspaper said, “A total of 803 boxes of the 28,908 wrong maps were seized and destroyed, the largest amount to be disposed of in recent years, according to a news conference jointly held by the Ministry of Natural Resources, Shandong’s Department of Natural Resources, Qingdao Customs and other related government agencies in Qingdao late last week.”
The report added the maps were produced by a company in East China’s Anhui Province and were on the way to being exported to an unspecified foreign country.
“The crackdown was aimed at enhancing public awareness on national sovereignty and raising people’s ability to distinguish such problematic maps, said the report.
The two countries have so far held 21 rounds of talks to resolve the border dispute covering 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC).
