Beijing on Tuesday launched a 10-day drive to crack down on drug
trafficking which has been on the rise in the past month in the
Chinese capital.
The massive campaign, planned from Jan. 30 to Feb. 8, involves
local authorities of public security, customs, frontier defense,
civil aviation, railway, highway, post and logistics, said Ma
Zhenchuan, director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security
Bureau.
The police chief said they will impose a "heavy-fisted
crackdown" on drug trafficking to cut the channels for drugs to
flow into Beijing.
The Capital International Airport, the city's three railway
stations, buses, subways, entertainment venues and hotels will be
the major places in the campaign, said Zhao Wenzhong, director of
the bureau's drug control section.
Last year, Beijing Customs cracked 12 cases of drug smuggling
and seized 17 kg of drugs, but in January this year alone, the
Customs cracked five drug smuggling cases, seized nearly eight kg
of drugs, and captured six suspects, including five foreigners,
according to Fu Zhenghua, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal
Commission of Drug Control.
"International traffickers are taking Beijing as a transfer
station for their cross-border drug smuggling, as the Chinese
capital has advantages in air, railway and highway transportation,"
Fu said.
(Xinhua News Agency January 31, 2007)