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prescriptions according to seriousness of cases. 5) The illegal planting,

making, selling, and using narcotics are forbidden.

Offenders will be

given disciplinary, economic sanctions or criminal punishment according

to the seriousness of cases. 6) Importing of exporting narcotics is

licenced.

Thanks to tight control measures and cooperation from production,

marketing and user units, narcotics have been well kept and used. Some

cases of fraud and addiction among medical personnel were found and

punished.

With the open policy, the Public Health Ministry started fruitful co-

opration with the International Narcotics Control Board, dealing blows

at international traffickers who smuggled heroin or other narcotics into

China to be re-smuggled out to Hongkong, Macao and foreign countries.

From 1981 to 1982, the customs of Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities seized 18 such cases, capturing 60 kilograms of heroin, and 36 foreign traffickers were punished by Chinese courts. In 1984, the Chinese Ministries of Public Health, Foreigh affairs, Public Security and the

General Administration of Customs sent a delegation to the International

Narcotic Control Board in Vienna to acquaint themselves with the imple-

mentation of the "1961 Single Convention on Narcotics", and the "1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances". From 1984, China began to

provide the United Nations with statistics of narcotic production, sales, imports and exports. China consumed 11.62 tons of opium, 5.37 kg of cocain, 328 kg of codein, 5 kg of morphine, 16 kg of ethylmorphine, 3.1 kg of phenadon and 1.09 tons of dolantin in 1984.

The cooperation between China and the International Narcotic Coutrol

Board of the United Nations was further developed in 1985. Associate Prof. Cai Zhi-ji was recommended to be one the 13 members of the Interna- tional Narcotic Control Board. In April 1985, China became a member

state of the United Nations Narcotics Commission. In June 1985, with

the approval of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China became a contracting party to the "1961 Convention on Psychotropic Substances". Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Xue-qian notified United Nations

Secretary-General Javier Perez De Cuellar of the decision on June 25, 1985

with a

statement saying China had reservations on the article about the settling

of disputes between two countries by the international court and Taiwan's signature and approval of the two Conventions by usurping the name of China were illegal and invalid. As a contracting party to the Conventions, China will continue its tight control over narcotics at home, and strengthen its cooperation with International Narcotics Control Board in

controlling abuse and trafficking of narcotics.

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