China Takes Measures to Stop Narcotics TradeChinese anti-narcotics forces, especially those in southwestern China, have taken various measures to stop drug trade, and their painstaking efforts have paid off, according to an anti-narcotics conference which opened Tuesday.From 1991 to June this year, China's border police cracked 9,876 narcotics cases, confiscating 10,447 kg of heroin and 39,047 kg of opium. They also cracked 252 cases involving precursor chemicals, seizing more than 770 tons of precursor chemicals, according to the conference, which was sponsored by the Ministry of Public Security. To date, China has established an anti-narcotics network, which combines routine inspections at the frontier, inland areas and province borders and secretive investigations on major drug cases, the conference discloses. It was also disclosed at the meeting that from 1989 to June this year, Chinese customs officers confiscated 3.4 tons of drugs of various sorts and 228 tons of precursor chemicals. |
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