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(b)

Public Security

Security Bureau is responsible

(c)

internally and at land borders; and

Ministry of Public Health is responsible

for addicts,

rehabilitation and control

of medicines/drugs.

19.

history.

Liu then ran over China's post-1949 anti-drug

The first specific anti-opium measure was

promulgated in 1951. In 1979 the Standing Committee of the

People's Congress passed strict criminal laws against

trafficking and manufacture.

At that time, five years maximum

imprisonment was the top penalty. In 1982, the Standing

Committee of the Peoples' Congress raised the maximum penalty

to ten years,

but also introduced the death penalty and

provided for confiscation of assets. Liu stressed the value

of good China/Hong Kong relations;

referred to the instant

exchange of information now available through Interpol. He

was prepared to make arrangements for witnesses in Hong Kong

cases to go from the Mainland to Hong Kong and vice versa.

20.

The rest of our meeting was largely a repetition

of the morning's proceedings.

materials as listed in paragraph 10.

We

Nian-shan, I agreed to put them

on

distribution list in future.

distributed the same

At the request of Zhou

our ACAN Annual Report