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Symposium Seeks Ways to Combat International Crimes

The scourge of cross-border crime will be crushed if China can forge international partnerships to eradicate such evils as human and drug trafficking, Chinese officials said Monday.

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The scourge of cross-border crime will be crushed if China can forge international partnerships to eradicate such evils as human and drug trafficking, Chinese officials said Monday.

Co-operation between different national security organizations in the form of information exchange is vital to controlling the rise in cross-border criminal activities, said Zhu Entao, assistant minister of the Ministry of Public Security.

Zhu made the remarks at the opening ceremony of an international symposium which will end on Thursday in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province.

The symposium is focusing on law enforcement and distinguishing false papers. It will endorse the decisions made at a ministerial conference in Indonesia in February on the Asia-Pacific region's fight against stowaways, human trafficking and other cross-border criminal activities.

More than 80 security, diplomatic and migration representatives from 32 countries and regions attended the symposium.

Nearly 700 people suspected of illegally travelling abroad from coastal regions were captured in seven major cases last year.

Two snakeheads who organized the smuggling - Weng Jinshun and Li Xiuquan from Fujian Province - have been sentenced to life imprisonment for their crimes.

Case cracked

A major cross-border drug-trafficking case between China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) was cracked by Chinese police following the arrest of 20 suspects - including five ROK citizens.

According to sources with the Ministry of Public Security, 14.1 kilograms of methamphetamine hydrochloride, commonly-known as "ice," some 100 kilograms of ephedrine, five kilograms of semi-finished "ice," 0.27 kilograms of marijuana and five kilograms of chemicals for making narcotics were seized.

Police in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning Province, and Qingdao, a coastal city in East China's Shandong Province, also raided two underground narcotics manufacturing factories and confiscated a large amount of equipment.

Two criminal gangs of the suspects have been operating in Dalian and Dandong cities of Liaoning, Qingdao and Tianjin since 1994, setting up several factories and producing and smuggling more than 300 kilograms of "ice."

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