Police head pledges stepped-up campaign against illegal drugs
By An Baijie | China Daily | Updated: 2013-09-03 07:23
People in Bozhou, Anhui province, receive a lesson on narcotics from the police as part of a local anti-drug campaign in June. The number of China's registered drug addicts has doubled in the last five years. Zhang Yanlin / for China Daily |
The number of drug addicts in China had increased to 2.26 million as of late June, up 16.5 percent from June 2012, the minister of public security said on Monday.
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