The 2024 CCTV "3.15" Gala aired tonight, revealing various issues including the grey market chain of motherboards, fake fire-resistant glass, ineffective fire extinguishers, irregularities in pre-made dishes, and the infamous Hearing Flower Wine, among others. Several companies and brands were called out for their practices.
Internet water armies manipulate motherboards to change IPs freely, evading supervision. Manufacturers claim their products can house 20 mobile phone motherboards in one casing, effectively controlling 20 phones with a single device.
Company Named: Hunan Yundou Technology Co., Ltd.
Certain companies are producing fire-resistant glass that fails to meet standards or even using ordinary toughened glass with a fire-resistant label to pass it off as genuine fire-resistant glass.
Company Named: Tianjin Shunbo Glass Technology Co., Ltd.
Retailers are openly selling non-standard fire extinguishers, some containing as little as 20% ammonium dihydrogen phosphate instead of the claimed 75%, resulting in compromised quality.
Company Named: Hunan Zhuzhou Minxiang Fire Equipment Co., Ltd.
Certain companies in Fuyang, Anhui Province, are using untreated pork to make pre-made dishes like preserved pork with mustard.
Companies Named: Anhui Master Chef Food Co., Ltd., Fuyang Spring Food Co., Ltd., Anhui Donghui Food Technology Co., Ltd.
The gala exposed the extravagant Hearing Flower Wine, claiming its international patents are not recognized and its "high-tech" cooling agent is just common peppermint extract. Despite its mythological and health-related marketing, Hearing Flower Wine is sold at prices even higher than Feitian Moutai, with standard bottles priced at 5,860 CNY per bottle (750 ml) and premium bottles at 58,600 CNY per bottle (750 ml), earning it the title of "luxury white wine" among netizens.
Company Involved: Hearing Flower Wine's parent company is Qinghai ChunTian Medicinal Resources Technology Co., Ltd., a listed company on the A-share market.
Trainers on marriage and dating platforms emphasize making the platform the sole hope for clients, exploiting their anxieties about age, fertility, and the feelings of children after divorce to induce them into purchasing membership services costing tens of thousands of CNY.
Companies Named: Jiayuan.com, Jiayuan Dating, Love Lessons.
The BMW 530Li model has issues with transmission shaft noise. Despite frequent complaints from owners, BMW and its authorized dealers have not reduced the sales of these vehicles, and the problematic models continue to be heavily promoted.
Brand Named: BMW.
According to the gala expose, a complainant named Xiao Li discovered through online sources that the Tengcheng Finance App could be used to borrow money. It was suggested online to purchase gift cards, then recycle and sell them through the app's mall, entering one's own receiving account details to receive the money. The total cost of purchasing the gift pack was over 40,000 CNY, but the actual amount received was just over 28,000 CNY.
