Qiaxia border police uproot more than 15,000 wild cannabis plants after a tip
On 16 June 2025, Qiaxia border police in Tacheng prefecture followed a villager’s social-media tip to fields and woodland, confirmed wild cannabis, and uprooted more than 15,000 plants during a province-wide live-streamed anti-drug publicity day.
On 16 June 2025 officers from the Qiaxia border police station under Tacheng
border management saw a villager’s message in a WeChat group during a
province-wide anti-drug live stream, Legal Daily reported.[1]
The tip pointed to fields and woodland near the village.[1]Police went to the
site, confirmed wild cannabis, and uprooted more than 15,000 plants, the
article said.[1]
The piece covered several other same-day clearances in different cities and did
not name arrests in the Qiaxia segment.[1]
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The Qiaxia clearance is one segment of a longer 16 June 2025 live-stream report that also describes unrelated same-day uprooting in Urumqi, Yining and elsewhere; no separate border-police release was opened.
The text gives “more than 15,000” plants (15000多株) without an exact count or mapped field location beyond Qiaxia border police jurisdiction.
The tip came from a village WeChat group during the broadcast; the article does not name the hamlet or say whether anyone was prosecuted for planting.
No photo or video media_url for the Qiaxia clearance could be extracted from the page opened.
Nuoliang anti-drug workers uprooted more than 100 wild cannabis plants near a villager's fields in Cangyuan County after a resident tip. The workers found the patch during a follow-up carpet search and cleared all plants on the spot.
Officers from Junsai Police Station in Zhenkang County found multiple suspected drug plants beside a road and identified them as wild cannabis. Police uprooted and disposed of the plants; the reports gave no count.
After a resident reported unusual plants near a reservoir, police in Qujing's Xiaoxiang area confirmed and uprooted 23 wild cannabis plants. Officers said they destroyed the plants and searched the surrounding area again.
Police in Yunnan’s Yun County uprooted 54 wild cannabis plants in four township-level sweeps using drones, foot patrols and a school tip, then destroyed the plants on the spot. The county public security bureau said the work was part of ongoing ban-cultivation checks across Lincang prefecture.
