7-Eleven Beijing fined US$23,500 for ‘incomplete maps of China’ that ‘wrongly presented Taiwan’

7-Eleven Beijing ‘wrongly presented Taiwan province as an independent country’ and also did not include marks for disputed islands in the South China and East China seas

Local authorities also identified inaccurate border lines in Aksai Chin area in the far west and southern Tibet – both of which China has disputes with India over sovereignty

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In total, 7-Eleven Beijing manages over 260 stories in Beijing and over 140 in the neighbouring city of Tianjin. Photo: Getty Images

Published: 8:02pm, 7 Jan 2022

The Beijing branch of global convenience store giant 7-Eleven has been fined 150,000 yuan (US$23,500) for displaying “incomplete maps of China”, according to an official notice.

The map used on the official website of 7-Eleven Beijing “wrongly presented Taiwan province as an independent country”, according to the official Credit China website.

Both the maps used on the official website and at the entrance of the company also did not include marks for islands in the South China Sea – over which China has disputes with several Southeast Asian countries. They also did not include the disputed Diaoyu Island and Chiwei Yu – both are part of the Diaoyu Islands – which China claims sovereignty over, but which are currently controlled by Japan, where they are known as the Senkaku Islands.

Local authorities also identified inaccurate border lines in Aksai Chin area in the far west and southern Tibet – both of which China has disputes with India over sovereignty.

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In addition to an official warning, 7-Eleven Beijing was fined 100,000 yuan for the flawed map on its website and 50,000 yuan for the offline version, according to the decision on December 21 by the Dongcheng branch of the Beijing Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Commission.

The news of the fine was only reported by local media in China this week, and 7-Eleven Beijing did not respond to request for comment.