Reports on the Apple store that isn't, has prompted Chinese officials to launch an investigation in the city of Kunming on the electronics store.

The Chinese officials will look into business licenses, permits and the purchasing channels of each fake store, a report from the Xinhua news agency said.

The public will have the results from the inspection started last Friday.

The fake Apple store drew in media attention after a blogger wrote about the near perfect copy in her blog. The store had the same logo used in Apple stores as well as the winding staircase and blue T-shirt clad employees. The copy was so convincing even store employees believed they were working for a real Apple retail store.

Apple only has four official stores in China, two in Beijing and two in Shanghai. It will open another store in Shanghai soon. It has no plans to open its next store in the city of Kunming which is smaller than Beijing and Shanghai.

The store's manager, who only wanted to be identified as Mr. Li, said by telephone Sunday that city officials have already visited the store. He reiterated that the store wasn't breaking any laws by selling Apple products. Many Apple products are resold by unauthorized resellers in China who buy the products in licensed Apple stores and resell them at a markup. It isn't illegal to resell Apple merchandise.

An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on the issue.

Mr. Li acknowledges that his store isn't an authorized reseller of Apple but hopes to be one in the future. "We never claimed to be" Apple's authorized reseller, "but we have a business license and we are running our business by law," said Mr. Li, who added that the store's prices were the same as those on Apple's Chinese website.

"All of our products are authentic Apple products."

He isn't sure whether the store's owners have started the process to become an authorized reseller. "I am sure we will become their authorized reseller in the near future. After all, we invested a lot in this store."