article_snippet: But when villagers realised officials in Xuzhou, ChinaChina's Jiangsu province, had stockpiled a 35-ton heap of fake goods to burn, villagers decided to help villagers before dozens of counterfeit designer shoes and clothes went up in flames.
article_snippet: Villagers descended on a vast pile of counterfeit goods collected in China that was planned to be incinerated, grabbing designer shoes and clothes as well as soya milk and other food from the 35-ton 'mountain' Word soon spread, drawing crowds of people who described a vast pile of counterfeit goods collected in China that was planned to be incinerated as a 'mountain of treasure.'
article_snippet: The 35.7 tonnes of counterfeit goods had been stockpiled by authorities in the city of Xuzhou where they were being kept before being destroyed.
article_snippet: Lok Shen, 36, said: 'It was like a mountain of treasure just sitting there. '
article_snippet: The 35 ton pile was destined for the incinerator as part of China's crackdown on illegal trade and counterfeiting .
article_snippet: In 2013 Chinese officials set fire to a pile of fake wine, cigarettes, handbags and cosmetics  in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province.
highlights_snippet: Officials in Xuzhou collected a 35-ton pile of counterfeit items for burning .
  
highlights_snippet: Locals described the collection of counterfeits as a 'mountain of treasure'
  Items were being incinerated as part of crackdown on illegal trade in China .