Villagers in Guizhou make a living by drug trafficking

时间：2007-03-30 07:02:00

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Chinanews, Beijing, Mar1. 29 – Among the six provinces and municipalities labeled by the National Anti-Drug Committee as ones with serious drug trafficking problems, five are located in the west region, and among the 13 places designated by the Ministry2 of Public Security as key anti-drug areas, eight are located in the west. Statistics show that in 2002, the amount of heroin3 confiscated4 in the west region accounted for 84% of the total, the China Biweekly Review reported.

 

Nayong County in Guizhou is designated as one of the key state-level counties for poverty alleviation5. All the 25 towns in Nayong County are involved in drug trafficking activities. Among them, 40 villages are labeled as “key villages”, where drug trafficking was most serious. Local farmers sell drugs as a way to shake off poverty. Their life is in a vicious cycle: they live a poor life; in order to make more money, they sell and take drugs, then they become even poorer and they sell more drugs.

 

There are 317 poor villages in Nayong County, accounting6 for 66.18% of the total. Among all the 795,000 people living there, 94,000 live in poor conditions and 149,400 people make low income. 1,067 people in the county take drugs now. Among them, 599 continue to sell drugs while 226 people are missing.

 

Zekong Village is dubbed7 as the No.1 drug village in Guizhou. Many women living there have now become widows. The village is located 1,400 meters above sea level. It has no access to tap water or electricity. In 2005, local farmers’ net income was only 960 yuan. Since 1996, 40 people in the villages, who had been involved in drug trafficking, either have died, gone to jail, or escaped. Now only old people, widows and orphans8 live in this village.

 

However, many people, driven by the lucrative9 profits, still want to sell drugs. Some local villagers did make money by selling drugs. After becoming rich, they bought houses and cars, setting very bad examples for fellow villagers. Many local villagers did start to sell drugs after seeing their good lives. “By selling drugs, I might be jailed for a while, but after I come out, I can enjoy a good life for the rest of my life,” many villagers think in this way.

 

In Lezhi Town, all the 94 members in a clan10 family sell drugs. They use the money thus earned to build houses. When they are arrested, their wives will then leave the kids to their relatives in other places and go out to find work. All the houses are now virtually empty.

 
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1 mar f7Kzq     
vt.破坏，毁坏，弄糟
参考例句：
  • It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
  • Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。
2 ministry kD5x2     
n.(政府的)部；牧师
参考例句：
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
3 heroin IrSzHX     
n.海洛因
参考例句：
  • Customs have made their biggest ever seizure of heroin.海关查获了有史以来最大的一批海洛因。
  • Heroin has been smuggled out by sea.海洛因已从海上偷运出境。
4 confiscated b8af45cb6ba964fa52504a6126c35855     
没收，充公( confiscate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • Their land was confiscated after the war. 他们的土地在战后被没收。
  • The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。
5 alleviation e7d3c25bc432e4cb7d6f7719d03894ec     
n. 减轻，缓和，解痛物
参考例句：
  • These were the circumstances and the hopes which gradually brought alleviation to Sir Thomas's pain. 这些情况及其希望逐渐缓解了托马斯爵士的痛苦。
  • The cost reduction achieved in this way will benefit patients and the society in burden alleviation. 集中招标采购降低的采购成本要让利于患者，减轻社会负担。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语
6 accounting nzSzsY     
n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表
参考例句：
  • A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
  • There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。
7 dubbed dubbed     
v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制
参考例句：
  • Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
  • Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 orphans edf841312acedba480123c467e505b2a     
孤儿( orphan的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The poor orphans were kept on short commons. 贫苦的孤儿们吃不饱饭。
  • Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。
9 lucrative dADxp     
adj.赚钱的，可获利的
参考例句：
  • He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.他决定把自己的爱好变成赚钱的副业。
  • It was not a lucrative profession.那是一个没有多少油水的职业。
10 clan Dq5zi     
n.氏族，部落，宗族，家族，宗派
参考例句：
  • She ranks as my junior in the clan.她的辈分比我小。
  • The Chinese Christians,therefore,practically excommunicate themselves from their own clan.所以，中国的基督徒简直是被逐出了自己的家族了。

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