Zhu Entao, China's chief for the world police organisation Interpol, said new
drug trafficking routes were increasing and a global effort was needed in the
fight against the spread of narcotics across national borders, the China
Daily said.

Zhu, who is also Assistant Minister of Public Security, said cooperation with
Interpol and other international organisations had helped to crack a number
of crossborder drug crimes in recent years. He gave no details.

In its effort to check international narcotics trafficking, China signed drug
control agreements with Russia, India, Pakistan and Mexico last year.

It also has taken part in a number of drug control programmes sponsored by
the United Nations.

The Shanghai Business News echoed the theme, saying that China's domestic
drug traffickers were stepping up their cooperation with international drug
syndicates.

China has launched a ``Spring Rectification Mission'' as part of a campaign
against crime, targeting drugs and organised crime as well as smuggling and
lax border controls in the southern province of Guangdong, which borders Hong
Kong.

State media have reported nearly 100 executions in the last few days across
China in a crackdown on drug traffickers, many of them smuggling heroin from
Southeast Asia's infamous Golden Triangle region, where the borders of
Thailand, Laos and Burma meet.