Fight must go on

The big number of drug addicts in China - nearly 1 million - is posing a big challenge to the country's fight against drug abuses and trafficking.

While nearly 80 percent of these people are hooked on traditional drugs such as opium, heroin and marijuana, new ones including methamphetamine hydrochloride - commonly known as "ice" - as well as Ecstasy and excitants are more accessible to young people.

To some extent, heroin has been under control. For the first time in the past two decades, increased raids led to decline of the amount of heroin confiscated in 2007 as compared to that in the previous year.