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China Takes Active Part in Int'l Anti-Drug Cooperation
The Chinese government has been taking an active part in international cooperation on controlling narcotics and obtained great achievements.
Sources from the China National Narcotics Control Commission (NNCC) said that in the first half of this year, China had stepped up its anti-drug cooperation with the Laos, Myanmar and other countries.
In January 2001, Jia Chunwang, director of the NNCC led a delegation to visit the Laos and Myanmar and reached consensus on various issues concerning narcotics control, which concluded on the signing of memorandums of understanding on bilateral narcotics- control cooperation.
On April 23, 2001, at the request of the Chinese police, the Myanmar police handed over Tan Xiaolin to the Chinese side. Tan, a drug tycoon, had been trafficking narcotics to China for years. This greatly awed drug traffickers outside China.
The sources said that China has also reinforced anti-drug information exchange and law enforcement cooperation with related countries, so as to strike international drug-related crimes.
According to information provided by the Russian Federal Service of Security, police in Jilin Province uncovered the "April 13" international drug-trafficking case, creating beneficial conditions for future cooperation in this field between the two countries.
Another successful example is that, based on information from the United States' anti-drug police, police in Guangdong Province smashed an international drug-trafficking clique which had smuggled 100 kg of marijuana to China.
The Chinese government has also actively helped neighboring countries with their anti-drug efforts. Since the 1990s, the Chinese government has actively responded to the United Nations' request of cutting drug supply by reinforcing cooperation with Myanmar, the Laos and other bordering countries, and replacing drug planting with crops in the northern parts of Myanmar and the Laos through personnel, capital, technology and industrial development aid.
Incomplete statistics show that to date, China's Yunnan Province has put in 300 million yuan (about 36.6 million U.S. dollars) to help the northern areas of Myanmar develop 25,000 ha. of various farm crops and cash crops, and sent more than 3,000 experts and technicians to help related countries train agricultural technicians.
In addition, the Chinese government has helped neighboring countries build a number of schools, power stations and roads.
With help from China, Myanmar and the Laos have successfully reduced the planting of opium poppy in their boundary areas, which to some extent alleviated the menace of drugs from the "golden triangle" to China and the international community.
China's Major Activities in Int'l Anti-drug CooperationDuring the fight against drug- related crime, China has persistently upheld that anti-drug campaigns call for the common responsibility of countries where drugs are produced, consumed or trafficked, requiring joint efforts at bilateral, regional and international levels.
Starting from 1984, China has attended a number of international anti-drug meetings, held by the United Nations (UN), Interpol, the World Customs Organization and the World Health Organization.
In the meantime, China has signed various UN conventions on narcotics.
In 1991, China hosted the first senior officials' meeting attended by senior officials from China, Thailand, Myanmar and the UN international drug control program (UNDCP), discussing how to carry out multilateral cooperation on drug control.
In June, 1992, with assistance from the UNDCP, Myanmar and China signed a three-year co-operation project, for drug abuse control in border areas between China and Myanmar.
In October, 1993, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and the UNDCP signed the drug control memorandum of understanding, agreeing to collaborate in drug control.
In May, 1995, Ministers from Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam and UNDCP officials endorsed an Action Plan for drug control activity and the Beijing Declaration pledging continuing cooperation in the field of drug control.
In 1997 and 1999, the Chinese government respectively dispatched delegations to attend the ministers' meetings on sub- regional cooperation held in Japan and Laos.
In October, 2000, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China signed a cooperation plan, namely "ASEAN and China Cooperative Operations in Response to Dangerous Drugs". With this, a sub-regional cooperation model on drug control has taken shape.
Meanwhile, China has actively participated in many aid programs launched by the UNDCP and other countries, including the Mekong Anti-drug Plan, to intensify the cooperation and exchange of anti- drug information; law execution and personnel training among China, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam; as well as the "6 Plus 2" Mechanism, to advocate the six bordering countries of Afghanistan - China, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, as well as United States and Russia - to join the collaboration to tackle the pressing drug problems of Afghanistan.
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