More Smuggled Drugs Seized in GuangdongCustoms officers at Gongbei Checkpoint of south China's Guangdong Province has seized 250 grams of drugs from 37 smuggling cases since the beginning of this year.Gongbei Customs checkpoint is the second largest land port in the Chinese mainland with the authority to handle procedures of exit and entry for people from overseas. Every year some 30 million overseas people pass through the checkpoint. In a related development, customs officers of Jiangmen City, also in Guangdong Province, confiscated 4,267 tranquilizer tablets from out-bound mail in the first five months of the year. The volume is more than five times the figure for the whole of 1999. The sharp rise is attributed to price cuts for tranquilizers at home and abroad. Tranquilizers are under tight state control in China. Jiangmen is famous for being the hometown of many overseas Chinese. Most of the seized medicine was hidden in parcels destined for Canada, the United States, and other countries, according to customs sources. |
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