Guangzhou airport customs seize 20.05 kg of cannabis from a transit passenger's suitcase
Guangzhou Baiyun airport customs seized 20.051 kg of cannabis from an international transit passenger's suitcase at the passenger-inspection channel. Officers said the luggage's X-ray image looked abnormal; vacuum-packed brown-green plant material tested as cannabis, and no traveller was named or arrest reported.
🇨🇳 Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangdong · China
Guangzhou customs seized20.051 kg of cannabis in the passenger-inspection
channel at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, according to a Guangzhou
Customs notice.[1]Baiyun airport customs officers were screening
international transit passengers when one traveller’s luggage X-ray image looked
abnormal, and they stopped and searched that passenger.[1]The suitcase held
nothing but plastic-bag, vacuum-packed brown-green plant material that gave off
a strong irritant smell when opened.[1]A technical institution tested the
material and confirmed it was cannabis weighing 20.051 kg.[1]
The Chinese reports put the seizure at more than 40 jin, a traditional unit of
about 500 grams.[2]Customs reminded the public that smuggling, selling,
transporting or manufacturing drugs carries criminal liability in China
regardless of quantity, citing the Criminal Law and the Anti-Drug Law.[1]The
accounts describe the traveller only as a passenger and name no arrest, charge
or court outcome.[1]
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Customs handout photo of the vacuum-packed plant material seized from the transit passenger's suitcase at Guangzhou Baiyun airport. Photo: 海关发布Photo details
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Source: 腾讯新闻 (海关发布)Customs handout photo of the vacuum-packed cannabis and the searched luggage at Guangzhou Baiyun airport. Photo: 海关发布Photo details
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Source: 腾讯新闻 (海关发布)Customs handout photo of the seized cannabis laid out after the Baiyun airport inspection. Photo: 海关发布Photo details
Customs dated the interception only as "recently" (近日); 13 November 2026 is the publication date of the customs notice carried by Tencent News and Guancha.
Neither report names the traveller, their nationality, or the origin and destination of the flight.
Neither report says whether the traveller was detained or the case referred for criminal investigation.
No street value or weight estimate other than the 20.051 kg laboratory figure is given.
Both opened accounts reproduce the same Guangzhou Customs notice; no further independent reporting was opened.
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