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China's largest online marketplace, Alibaba Group’s Taobao.com, has gotten into a war of words with the government commerce officials over accusations fake goods are easily found on the website. The fight started because of a survey that was conducted by the China Consumers' Association at the request of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) from August to October. The survey results were recently published, and found that less than 40 percent of products sampled from Taobao were genuine. Others were either fake or considered inferior to genuine goods in certain ways. The survey found that Alibaba's Tmall and Wal-Mart's e-retailer Yihaodian, had a higher percentage of genuine goods. Taobao, which has more than 500 million users, is a marketplace which links individuals selling their wares and consumers. Its cousin Tmall sells brand name goods. On January 27, Taobao questioned the fairness of the survey and rejected its findings in an open letter posted on its account on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter. Taobao said the survey by the China Consumers' Association sampled only 51 items of the more than 1 million goods available on the website every day. It also said it was unfair to compare Taobao, which brings together millions of small vendors, to large sites like JD.com, which sells name brand goods. The next day, SAIC posted a document summarizing a July 16 meeting of Alibaba executives and SAIC representatives. According to the document, SAIC officials said they had found many problems with Taobao and Tmall, including the sales of fake goods, violations of marketing rules, a faulty system for consumer ratings of products and inadequate supervision of employees. The document said the meeting would be closed to the public because Alibaba was preparing for an initial public offering at the time. After Taobao had posted its open letter, SAIC said the sampling method was not intended to reflect the overall situation of the country's e-commerce sector and "should not be over-interpreted." Alibaba raised a record US$ 25 billion in its New York listing in September. The company has long struggled with counterfeits, something that concerns investors and consumers. Taobao has removed the open letter from its Weibo account, and SAIC took the document about the meeting off its website. For Caixin Online this is Patrick Williams. 一个没有严谨统计学报告的抽样数据在工商总局网站登出，引发了一封淘宝店小二指责部委司长的公开信，接着工商总局反戈一击公布了一份半年前因为阿里巴巴上市而没有公开的闭门会议内容，再接着是淘宝发出呼唤监管创新、投诉司长的公开信——主要负责监管市场的工商总局和中国最大的电商企业阿里巴巴之间的矛盾在两天内公开化，并火速升级，引发国内外高度关注。