Drug enforcement nets 1,470 suspects

Fight against narcotics trafficking focuses on opium, heroin, cocaine

Chinese police arrested 1,470 overseas suspects in drug trafficking cases last year, a senior narcotics control official with the Ministry of Public Security said.

Most of the detained suspects came from Myanmar, Pakistan, Vietnam and some countries in West Africa, Wei Xiaojun, deputy director of the ministry's Narcotics Control Bureau, told China Daily on Monday.