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Jump to full article: People's Daily (cn), 2009-04-15
Author: People's Daily Online and contributed by PD reporter Ding
Intro: This year is the 100th anniversary of the 1909 anti-opium conference, which was the first attempt to render drugs illegal. An international conference on the anti-opium trade was held in Shanghai a full century ago. Recently, the Chinese government carried out solemn activities in this east China metropolis with the participation of senior representatives from 17 countries, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the UN International Drug Control to mark the centenary of the landmark Anti-opium Conference. . . .
Meanwhile, the Chinese government has offered 500 million US dollars to tobacco farmers on substitutions crops in Northern Myanmar and Laos or as aid grants or technical support, and it had provided Myanmar with 20,000 tons of rice between 2006 and 2008 as an emergency aid to ensure that the tobacco farmers would not return to planting poppy due to their hard life; China has also provided Laos with a total sum of 50 million US dollars in grant aid for setting up a detoxication or rehabilitation center. Thanks to joint efforts of the international community, the situation has turned apparently much better in the "Golden Triangle" region, and the poppy acreage had been reduced to 29,000 hectares in 2007 from 158,000 hectares in 1998.
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