Drug dealers stepping up infiltration, official says

Traffickers from major overseas drug-producing regions have stepped up efforts to infiltrate China in recent years, a senior anti-drug official said.

Police have found illegal drugs from the Golden Triangle, Golden Crescent and some South American countries being smuggled into the country through increasingly diverse routes and more covert means, Liu Yuejin, deputy director of the National Narcotics Control Commission, said ahead of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which falls on Wednesday.

The Golden Triangle, which straddles Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, accounts for nearly 85 percent of the drugs illegally consumed in China, according to the Ministry of Public Security.