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Drug smuggling more serious in China, officials

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Chinanews, Beijing, Oct. 30 – Officials from China's General Administration of Customs recently revealed that drug smuggling¹ became more serious in China, and more people have tried to smuggle² drugs into Chinese mainland in recent years.

Provincial³ Customs Administrations had dealt with 265 cases of drug smuggling from January to September 2007, and more than 435 kilograms of drugs had been seized. Such cases mainly occurred in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Kunming, Hangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai and Urumqi.

In order to counter the drug smuggling from the Golden Crescent Region (located at the crossroads of Central, South, and Western Asia), Customs Administration of Urumqi in Xinjiang has launched a special movement against the drug smuggling. Nine suspects and 26 kilograms of heroin⁴ were captured in last September.

Eight foreigners were also captured in Baiyun Airport of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, from September 21 to 25.

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1 smuggling
n.走私
参考例句：
Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。 The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。

2 smuggle
vt.私运；vi.走私
参考例句：
Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。 She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境，没有被逮捕。

3 provincial
adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人
参考例句：
City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。 Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。

4 heroin
n.海洛因
参考例句：
Customs have made their biggest ever seizure of heroin.海关查获了有史以来最大的一批海洛因。 Heroin has been smuggled out by sea.海洛因已从海上偷运出境。

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