At a 23 January 2026 briefing, Urumqi Railway Public Security said it had jointly cleared more than 238,000 wild cannabis plants outside railway protection fences across Xinjiang during 2025.[1][2] The figure was presented as an annual result for railway-safety work across the region, rather than the count from one site or a single raid.[1][2] Both outlets report the same briefing and give a rounded minimum of 23.8 wan (238,000) plants; the tracker records 238,000 as the minimum, not an exact total.[1][2]

Xinjiang Daily says the bureau was bringing railway-safety environmental management into broader social governance.[1] Both accounts also report more than 5,200 railway-protection outreach sessions during 2025.[1][2] Xinjiang Daily separately says railway police stopped 32 instances of burning near railway lines that year.[1] These are distinct safety activities and are not additional cannabis-clearance figures.[1][2] Neither account lists the counties or stations involved, the dates or number of individual clearance operations, the area searched, or the weight of the plants.[1][2] The photographs on both pages show the January 23 government briefing rather than the clearance itself.[1][2]