By 20 June 2024, the Jinghe County Public Security Bureau said it had cleared and destroyed more than 50,000 wild cannabis plants so far that year.[1] The countywide total was reported alongside a recent clearance near farmland in Huang Gong Bei Village, Mangding Township.[1]
During patrols and household visits, the county bureau’s anti-drug squad and a local police room found suspected drug plants beside an irrigation channel.[1] Officers identified them as wild cannabis, removed more than 2,000 plants and checked nearby areas for seedlings.[1] The squad chief said similar clearances were carried out with village teams and local police rooms during the April-to-October growing season.[1]
County police also reported distributing more than 1,300 drug-prevention booklets and educating more than 2,800 people that year.[1] Officers gave residents information on drug harms and how to identify cannabis plants during their fieldwork, and the bureau said it would continue the patrols and public education.[1] The report gives no total area or weight for the plants cleared.[1]
