East China’s coastal Fujian Province will intensify efforts to tackle smuggling this year, according to the provincial smuggling control office.
The province handled 1,567 smuggling cases last year, involving a total value of 1.6 billion yuan (US$193,000 million).
Local courts disposed a total of 67 smuggling cases last year, up 131 percent from the year before.
The province will enhance supervision of key sectors such as communications, petroleum, tobacco and automobiles.
Some items are to be targeted in the special crackdown efforts, including refined oil, fake cigarettes, drugs and pornography, sources said.
According to the sources, in the first two months of this year, the province investigated 97 smuggling cases, involving a total value of 79 million yuan (US$9.5 million), concerning cigarettes, cars and car parts, refined oil, steel, foreign currencies, drugs and used machinery.
(Xinhua 03/20/2001)
