Former laojiao officers were given training in how to help recovering drug addicts, said Song Zhandong, who also works at the center.

Chinese media reported that less than a week after Party leaders announced the decision to abolish laojiao, authorities in Shanghai and the Hunan provincial capital Changsha released all laojiao inmates and began discussing how to move forward.

Questions:

1. What is being abolished in China?

2. What does the system allow?

3. What is the first step?

Answers:

1. Laojiao, a system of re-education through labor in use since the 1950s.

2. Laojiao enables police to detain people without trial for minor offenses, such as causing a public disturbance.

3. It should be to cancel the State Council regulation that allows laojiao, according to one expert.

About the broadcaster:

Nelly Min is an editor at China Daily with more than 10 years of experience as a newspaper editor and photographer. She has worked at major newspapers in the U.S., including the Los Angeles Times and the Detroit Free Press. She is also fluent in Korean.

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