Tracing smuggled goods at Lang Son border on the eve of the Lunar New Year

Video: Following the Border Guard patrolling and tracking smuggled goods at the Lang Son border.

Present at Huu Nghi border gate area on the days leading up to Lunar New Year 2024, VTC News reporters recorded border patrol activities and smuggling prevention of Lang Son province Border Guard forces.

Every day, three shifts, three officers and soldiers on duty at the Lang Son border gate area under the management of Huu Nghi Border Guard Station prepare their military equipment and patrol along the border to detect, trace and prevent the smuggling of goods across the border.

The patrol route, although only a few kilometers long, is fraught with danger because of the steep terrain and jagged rocks.

Pointing to a road that used to be a place for transporting contraband goods, now overgrown with grass due to lack of traffic, Major Nguyen Huu Quy said that in recent years, due to the pandemic, both China and Vietnam have increased border tightening measures. As a result, illegal border crossings and smuggling of contraband goods have been almost completely prevented.

However, Lang Son border guards still regularly patrol to promptly prevent people from crossing and illegal goods transportation.

Patrolling multiple times a day on a route, Huu Nghi Border Guard officers know every hidden corner. Therefore, it is difficult for strangers to illegally enter the border area.

Major Nguyen Huu Quy checked the markings and confirmed that no one had passed through this road.

A few dozen meters further is the border fence erected by China in 2019. Since then, many roads that are used by criminals to transport smuggled goods have also been blocked.

A trail formerly used for smuggling is now overgrown with weeds.

At the end of the year, border guards are working hard to track down and prevent smuggled goods from entering Vietnam.

At dusk, border guards and customs officers at Chi Ma border gate patrolled the roads where poultry smuggling has been common for many years.

Major Trinh Duong Kieu, an officer at Chi Ma Border Guard Station (standing in the middle), said that the area around landmark 1231 used to be a frequent scene of people smuggling poultry from China to Vietnam.

In 2019, China built a fence along the border, and poultry smuggling was almost completely prevented for a long time.

However, when the end of the year comes, taking advantage of the dark nights, this phenomenon recurs.

Chi Ma border guards and customs have coordinated with other authorities to arrest poultry smugglers many times in 2023, with some cases involving thousands of smuggled poultry.

Anticipating that smuggling will flourish and become more complicated by the end of the year, the border guards and customs at Chi Ma border gate regularly coordinate to patrol and track to promptly prevent smuggled goods from entering the domestic market of Vietnam.

Source: https://vtc.vn/truy-vet-hang-lau-o-bien-gioi-lang-son-ngay-can-tet-giap-thin-ar849565.html