More than 700 kg of drugs were burned in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on the international anti-drug day Friday.
The move manifested China's resolve in stopping drug trafficking at its border, and was one of many actions for the United Nations' International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
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More than 700 kg of drugs were burned in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on the international anti-drug day on June 26, 2009.
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Police in Guangxi torched 20 cauldrons holding 730 kg of narcotics seized in the past two years at the cultural center plaza in Dongxing City. A crowd of more than 3,000 watched, including government officials and police officers from Guangxi and three regions in Vietnam.
Guangxi is considered to be China's drug control frontier because it is adjacent to the Golden Triangle, which encompasses Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand.
Liang Shengli, director of the Regional Public Security Department, said police in Guangxi have enhanced cooperation with three Vietnamese areas on Sino-Vietnamese border -- Tinh Quang Ninh, Lang Son and Cao Bang-- since 2001.
Police in Guangxi cracked 650 drug-related crimes, seizing more than 120 kg of heroin and detaining 670 suspects in the past eight months ending April.
Liang pledged closer cooperation with Vietnam police on fighting drug crimes.
Other Chinese border regions -- Yunnan Province in southwest China, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in north China and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China -- have reported progress in blocking drug trafficking at the border.
Yunnan had dealt with 18,727 drug-related crimes in the past 17 months ending May, seizing 9,844 kg of narcotics and detaining 22,040 suspects.
Inner Mongolia uncovered 5,000 drug-related crimes in the past 16 months ending April, detaining 6,000 suspects and confiscating 38.3 kg of heroin and 5,219 kg of other drugs including ecstasy.
Xinjiang smashed 13 cases involving drugs smuggled into China from the "Golden Crescent" at the junction of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran in the past four years, and intercepted 19.2 kg of heroin and detained 27 foreign nationals suspected of illegal drug trafficking.
