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中国对一家导致数十万儿童接种问题疫苗faulty vaccines 的公司处以 impose 13 亿美元罚款 fine，此惩罚很可能重创 cripple 该公司。
此次对长春长生生物技术公司的罚款，使先前对其他卷入 embroiled 安全丑闻scandal的疫苗制造商 vaccine makers 的处罚相形见绌dwarfs。政府还禁止 bar 该公司董事长高俊芳及其他 14 名高管从事疫苗行业。他们仍在接受调查under investigation，并可能面临刑事处罚。
北京大学免疫学教授表示，“从现在起，没有人敢去碰这根高压线了。”From now on, no one will dare to touch this high-voltage wire.
政府表示，长春长生使用过期expired疫苗原料，更改生产批号 production batch numbers，销毁并伪造fabricated了生产记录。该公司还销毁了一个计算机硬盘来掩盖cover up其违法行为。
中国官员表示，他们已经对长春长生征收levy了这笔罚金。长春长生位于中国东北的吉林省，其股票交易shares trade在深圳进行。
官方新闻机构state-run news agency新华社称此次惩罚是“顶格处罚”，也是有史以来对疫苗公司作出的“最严厉”决定。
北京大学药事管理系主任表示，“这将让人们对生态环境感到安心peace of mind。”
day21 China imposes record fine on vaccine maker
中国对疫苗制造商处以历史最高罚款
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China has imposed a potentially crippling $1.3 billion fine on the company responsible for faulty vaccines given to hundreds of thousands of children, sending its strongest signal yet of a stricter legal environment for the scandal-prone industry.
The fine against the Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology Co. dwarfs previous penalties imposed on vaccine makers embroiled in safety scandals. The government also barred Gao Junfang, the company’s chairwoman, and 14 other executives from working in the vaccine industry. They are still under investigation and could face criminal penalties.
“The government is imposing this heavy punishment to build effective order,” said Wang Yuedan, professor of immunology at Peking University. “From now on, no one will dare to touch this high-voltage wire.”
According to the government, Changchun Changsheng used expired vaccine materials, changed production batch numbers and destroyed and fabricated production records. The company also destroyed a computer hard disk to cover up its illegal acts.
Chinese officials said late Tuesday that they had levied the fine against the Changchun Changsheng, which is based in the northeastern Chinese province of Jilin and whose shares trade in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
The state-run news agency Xinhua called the penalty “top-level punishment” and “the most stringent” decision ever imposed on a vaccine company.
“I’ve never heard of such a big fine,” said Shi Luwen, the head of the department of pharmaceutical administration at Peking University and an adviser to the government on health care. “It will give the people peace of mind about the ecological environment.”