Golden Triangle threat increases

China is under growing pressure from drugs smuggled in from the Golden Triangle area, where poppy cultivation remains high, according to the country's top anti-drug authority.

Ninety-five percent of the heroin seized in China last year came from the Golden Triangle - a drug-producing area that overlaps the mountains of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, China's National Narcotics Control Commission has said.

"Drugs from the Golden Triangle are penetrating China on all fronts. We're facing mounting pressure year by year," an official from the commission said in a written interview with China Daily.