A railway police patrol in Bole, Xinjiang, found a stand of wild cannabis and reported a count of about 210,000 plants.[1][2] Multiple departments joined the police to remove the plants.[1][2] People’s Daily Client published its video report on 9 September 2025; its images identify Bole and display the approximate count.[1]

The later county-media report says police inquiries found that no one had contracted or leased the site where the plants grew.[2] It does not identify a grower or explain how the plants came to be there.[2] The footage shows officers pulling and stacking plants in brush and at the edge of a wooded field.[1]

Neither report gives a separate date for the patrol or removal; the later article, published on 19 September, says only that it happened “recently.”[1][2] The reports name Bole but give no more precise location, acreage or plant weight.[1][2] Neither names a suspect or reports an arrest or charge.[1][2]