Passage: Meanwhile, a report carried by the Xinhua news agency on Thursday demonstrated the pandemic nature of China's drug problem, which only five years ago was almost exclusively restricted to the southwestern province of Yunnan, bordering the heroin-producing Golden Triangle region. On April 15, a major trans-provincial drug-trafficking cartel was broken up in the the new western municipality of Chongqing, with six suspects arrested and 3.33 kilograms (7.3 pounds) of heroin seized.
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