Narcotics Crackdown
An estimated 44 tons of narcotics were seized across China in the first nine months of 2018, according to the National Narcotics Control Commission on October 23.
Police also detained about 94,000 suspects in 78,000 drugrelated cases in the corresponding period.
The country has seen positive changes in narcotics control with drug production contained, crossborder traffic severely blown and the illegal production and distribution of precursor chemicals curtailed, the commission said.
Community correction programs for drug addicts also made progress. About 1.88 million former drug users have not relapsed for three years since rehabilitation, up 12.9 percent year on year, according to the commission. ed in its southern poverty-stricken areas.
The region’s poverty alleviation office said that during this period, nearly 470,000 households of 1.85 million members cast off poverty, with the impoverished headcount ratio dropping from 22.84 percent to 11.57 percent.
Thanks to support from the Central Government, as well as other provinces and enterprises that have been providing aid for Xinjiang, the region has implemented a series of policies favoring the development of industries, rural tourism, education and healthcare in its southern areas.
In 2017, the region invested over 6.1 billion yuan ($879 million) in fighting poverty, with more than 80 percent of the investment going to four southern prefectures— Hotan, Kashgar, Aksu and Kizilsu Kirgiz—which sit on the edge of the Taklimakan Desert, the largest desert in China and the second largest shifting sand desert in the world.
In 2017, there were more than 1.33 million people living in extreme poverty in these areas. However, about 410,000 people of them are expected to be lifted out of poverty in accordance with a three-year plan. on October 22.
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