To halt the supply of chemicals to Myanmar, police increased their efforts last year against the smuggling of non-pharmaceutical precursor chemicals.

Yunnan province data provided to China Daily showed that 528 tons of non-pharmaceutical precursor chemicals were seized last year, compared with a total of 408 tons seized from 2008 through 2010.

Yunnan will increase its cooperation with Myanmar and Laos in sharing intelligence and cracking down on drug traffickers and underground labs this year.

According to The Annual Report On Drug Control in China 2011, there were 1.55 million people on mainland taking drugs by the end of 2010. Synthetic drugs were increasingly popular with people younger than 25 as 432,000 of them were taking synthetic drugs.

Questions:

1. How many tons of drugs were seized last year?

2. What traditional drugs were seized?

3. Why will Yunnan increase its cooperation with Myanmar and Laos?

Answers:

1. 14 tons.

2. Heroin and opium.

3. To share intelligence and crack down on drug traffickers and underground labs.

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