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A post on X featuring an image of Chinese officials visiting the earthquake-hit areas of Gansu claimed on Dec. 27, 2023, that one of them was wearing a donated down jacket meant for the victims.
The user said the jacket in question is from Canada Goose, a popular luxury brand that announced on Dec. 21, three days after the devastating Gansu earthquake, that it would donate “more than 2,000 down jackets and cold-proof supplies” to the victims.
This post received wide engagement within hours; at the time of writing, it has over 400 reposts, nearly 3,000 likes and more than 200 replies.
However, the claim is false. The logo on the official’s jacket was not of Canada Goose.
It is the logo of a Chinese outdoor brand called TOREAD (探路者).
Annie Lab found that the source of the screenshot was a CCTV news bulletin aired on Dec. 19. The image was captured at 13:48, showing Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing visiting Gansu with his team in the morning.
We compared the logo on the man’s clothing in the CCTV news with the Canada Goose logo. Although they might look similar because of their overall design, the emblem and the design components are different.
Canada Goose emblem has maple leaves – the symbol of Canada along with a stylized star at the center. All these design elements seem missing in the jacket in question.
We then found a jacket that looked identical to what the man was wearing in TOREAD’s online store.
Who is the person wearing the jacket?
Annie Lab tried to identify the man standing behind Zhang. Baidu’s image search recognized him possibly as Min Yiren, Secretary of the Party Group and Director General of the China Earthquake Administration.
He was sent to Gansu for rescue operations, according to a government announcement.
We looked for other recent images of Min and stumbled upon a press conference video recorded and published by Xinhua News Agency in June 2023.
We could not find any further information to confirm his identity.
Official visit took place before the donation announcement
Another piece of evidence that refutes the claim on X is the sequence of the event.
The news footage about the official visit on Dec. 19 was aired on CCTV the same day. But Canada Goose’s announcement was made two days later, on Dec. 21.
The Shanghai Charity Foundation, with whom Canada Goose had partnered, said on Dec. 24 that their “third batch of relief supplies worth more than 15 million yuan were sent to Jishishan (Gansu).” Among those supplies were 2,001 down jackets donated by Canada Goose.
On Dec. 26, the Shanghai Charity Foundation also said that Xiji Trading Corporate, the Canada Goose affiliate in China, contacted the foundation on Dec. 20 for the donation program, and the donations were shipped four days later. The aids arrived in Gansu on the evening of Dec. 25, six days after the visit reported by CCTV.
A video posted by the foundation shows the boxes with the Canada Goose logo with a timestamp on the shipping label, which reads “2023/12/22,” indicating the time the shipping items were collected by the courier.
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