Four and a half years for growing cannabis in Anhui and selling it in Shandong
A Lixin County court sentenced Huang to four years and six months in prison and a 400,000-yuan fine on 10 September 2025 for growing cannabis in Anhui and selling it online to buyers in Qingdao and Weihai. He and an accomplice harvested about 3.4 kilograms in 2023 and sold about 1.2 kilograms for 110,000 yuan in virtual currency; the case was later published as a national typical case.
🇨🇳 Lixin County, Anhui; sales in Qingdao and Weihai, Shandong · China
Huang and Chen rented a factory in an unnamed Anhui county in March 2023 to grow cannabis for
sale.[1][2]By the end of that year they had picked, dried and trimmed about 3.4 kilograms of
finished cannabis and packed it into 170 bags of 20 grams each.[1][2]
In March 2024 they put the bags in suitcases and drove to Shandong, using rental cars and leaving
the cannabis at night in spots around Qingdao and Weihai to avoid detection.[1][2]In April 2024
they sold it through an online dating platform: Chen handled the advertising and dealt with the
platform’s staff, while Huang took payment in virtual currency and cashed it out.[1][2]About 60
bags, roughly 1.2 kilograms, were sold for 110,000 yuan — 70,000 to Huang and 40,000 to
Chen.[1][2]
The Lixin County Procuratorate indicted Huang on 18 August 2025 and added a money-laundering
charge over the conversion of the drug money into virtual currency and back.[1][2]On
10 September 2025 the Lixin County Court sentenced him to four years and six months in prison and
a 400,000-yuan fine on the trafficking, transport and money-laundering counts; the judgment has
taken effect.[1][2]The Supreme People’s Procuratorate featured the case among ten typical drug
cases published on 25 June 2026, holding that converting drug proceeds into virtual assets is
self-laundering.[1]
Case data
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The judgment dates from 10 September 2025, more than a year before this report; the case was published nationally on 25-26 June 2026 as a typical case, and the report is dated at the judgment.
The defendants' full names were not published, the grow site is described only as a rented factory in an unnamed Anhui county, and the buyers and platform are anonymised.
Chen, the accomplice, was handled in a separate case and his sentence is not given.
The reports do not say what happened to the cannabis that was not sold or to the buyers.
The 400,000-yuan fine is as stated in the typical-case list; no breakdown between the offences was published.
Qujing court sentenced two men for picking and drying wild cannabis leaves, using some themselves and selling some to another person. One received a one-year prison term and the other nine months.
Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court sentenced a man named Wang to six months in prison and a 5,000-yuan fine on 26 June 2026 for smuggling cannabis e-cigarettes posted to him from abroad and concealed in supplement bottles. Police seized 16 e-cigarettes holding 6.92 grams of THC paste; the court treated it as a small quantity and gave him leniency for his confession.
Two foreign transit passengers were sentenced to eight and four years after Customs seized 70.8309 kg of cannabis from four checked bags at Beijing Capital International Airport in June 2025. They had planned to carry it through Beijing to a third country.
Charged 2Cannabis 70.8309 kgPrison 8 years and 4 years
A Shanghai court sentenced a man named Xu to four years in prison and a 10,000-yuan fine on 30 March 2026 for smuggling and transporting more than four kilograms of cannabis from Southeast Asia in three trips in 2025 and burying it in four cities. No cannabis was recovered; prosecutors built the case from bank flows, travel records and recovered phone data, and he confessed.
