China Marks Int'l Anti-Drug Day With Tough Crackdown

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China Marks Int'l Anti-Drug Day With Tough Crackdown

China launched a nationwide crackdown on drug traffickers and users ahead of Wednesday's International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

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China launched a nationwide crackdown on drug traffickers and users ahead of Wednesday's International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

In Beijing, drug trafficker Wang Dayong was executed on Tuesday for deals involving at least 51 Ecstasy pills, 733 grams of ice ( crystal methamphetamine) and 983 grams of marijuana.

Also executed on Tuesday was Li Bangcai, who was found guilty of trafficking in 800 grams of heroin.

Beijing's registered drug addicts rose to 23,000 by the end of May, with drug abuse becoming a major source of Aids infection, according to Liu Shaowu, deputy head of the municipal bureau of public security.

In Chongqing City in southwest China, 1,700 kilograms of heroin, marijuana and other drugs were torched publicly by police on Tuesday.

Wen Qiang, deputy director of the municipal bureau of public security, said police in the city had investigated up to 7,208 drug trafficking cases since last June.

The city also sent 16,700 drug users to rehabilitation schools and labor camps for compulsory treatment, he said.

In south China's Guangzhou City, 17 drug traffickers were sentenced to death and various jail terms on Tuesday at a public trial at the city's railway station.

According to sources with the Guangzhou Intermediate Railway Transport Court, the incidence of drug trafficking on railways had risen in recent years.

In Chengdu City, also in the southwest, nine drug traffickers were executed on Tuesday. Forty kilograms of heroin was burnt at a public rally at a local stadium.

In east China's Fujian Province, 16 drug traffickers were executed on Tuesday by courts in Fuzhou, Quanzhou and Putian cities. Nine others have been sentenced to various jail terms recently.

Courts in the province had handled 872 drug-related cases since last year, involving 1,297 suspects, official sources said.

In Guiyang City in the southwest, the percentage of children under 18 years old using drugs had dropped from 7.7 percent in 1997 to the current 4.3 percent, thanks to increased drug awareness education in schools, the education authority said.

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