Southern province detains 1,800 foreigners for entering country illegally last year

Border-control police in South China's Guangdong province detained more than 1,800 foreigners for entering the country illegally last year, a 190-percent increase compared with 2015, according to officials at the provincial border-control department.

The total number of people detained for illegally entering or exiting the country was 2,571, an increase of 99.3 percent year-on-year, which involved 337 cases, officials said.

Among them, 192 cases involved 1,879 foreigners illegally entering China.