You'll never believe what some Chinese farmers are up to!

China's seizure of primarily meth jumped nearly 50 percent last year.

China claims to have "solved" 165,000 drug-crime cases nationwide after confiscating 102.5 tons of drugs.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - China has seized nearly fifty percent more drugs in 2015 than it did in 2014, leading authorities to believe they have "solved" their drug-crime problem.

According to the LA Times, drug-related arrests increased 15 percent.

The vice commissioner of the China National Narcotics Control Commission, Liu Yuejin, stated China's drug trade is becoming more and more violent. Guns are strictly controlled and hard to obtain in China, but police took 466 guns in 2015 with 30,000 rounds of ammunition.

Nearly 80 percent of the confiscated drugs were manufactured in China, while the remaining 20 percent originated from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan in what is called the "Golden Crescent."

Drug busts hit the media across China all year, beginning in January, when police arrested 28 suspects and discovered over 2.4 tons of solid and solid-liquid meth in a factory that supplied the drug to Shanghai.

In Foshan, over 700 pounds of meth and ecstasy were discovered in December, hidden in knockoff brand watches at a logistics company.

In January this year, over 330 pounds of meth and more than a ton of raw materials were seized and ten people were arrested.

Yuejin announced 80.5 percent of the 531,000 "newly discovered drug users" registered in China have turned from heroin and opiates to use synthetic drugs.

He also explained that "Farmers and unemployed people" made up 78.9 percent of the 194,000 people arrested on drug charges last year.

Many of the Chinese drugs have been shipped to other countries. Australian police recently announced the discovery of 50 gallons of liquid methamphetamine shipped from China hidden in the gel pads of push-up bras.

In China, anyone making, carrying or selling 50 grams or more of heroin or methamphetamine can be put to death, but Yuejin refused to admit how many people were sentenced to death last year.

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