Locals attend a course on new types of drugs including "ice", ecstasy and ketamine in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, October 31, 2005.

The education activity is part of efforts to improve people's awareness of participation in drug control. Chinese police have cracked a total of 74,419 cases of drug-related cases, nabbed 49,097 criminal suspects and seized tons of heroin, opium, "ice" and ecstasy pills in the first nine months of the nationwide campaign against narcotics, Xinhua reported. Picture taken October 31, 2005.