A senior police officer warned yesterday that China faces an uphill battle in its fight against illegal narcotics, particularly given the increasing availability of new types of drugs. Yang Fengrui, director of the Ministry of Public Security's narcotics control bureau, said in an online interview that much remained to be done to continue the authorities' successful two-year battle against drug use. New types of drugs, like ice, ecstasy and ketamine, have been spreading at a tremendous speed across the nation and are posing a great threat to social stability, he said. [continues 332 words]
With young people making up 70 per cent of China's drug users, to curb the spread of drugs among China's youth has become an urgent task in the country's wider war on drugs. At the Seventh Forum on Juvenile Drug and AIDS Prevention Education held on Friday in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, experts and educators alike urged the government to step up anti-drug education among the young. According to statistics provided by the National Narcotics Control Commission, China is now home to 791,000 drug users, a growth of 6.8 per cent over last year. [continues 332 words]
