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Xie Zhiguang, a senior officer in the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Public Security, urged the adoption of a real-name system for deliveries by express services in the province.
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The police seized 5,597 assorted guns and more than 331,000 rounds of ammunition in a campaign code-named Blue Arrow-3 that took place Nov 28-30 Christopher Nkunku Jersey , according to Li Shihua, deputy director of the investigation bureau. Weapons seized during the campaign include semi-automatic rifles, machine guns and pistols.
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Li said Blue Arrow-3 has dealt a heavy blow to gun and related crimes that were once active in Guangdong, which borders the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions.
The police will never relax their vigilance as gun-related crimes pose a serious threat to local people's lives and properties, Li said. He left open the possibility that more special operations will be launched in coming months.
Guangdong has been the main theater in the Ministry of Public Security's fight against gun crimes for the past four years. The province has had the highest incidence of gun crimes in the country for decades.
A police officer in Guangdong who did not want to be named attributed the growing number of gun-related cases to the low cost and high profit associated with weapons trading.
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In addition to the locally produced guns, other weapons seized in Guangdong had been smuggled in from Vietnam through Yunnan province, the officer said.
Li urged local residents to actively report weapons and related crimes to police to help maintain social order in Guangdong, a window of the country's reform and opening-up drive.
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ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece, April 20 (Xinhua) -- The rehearsal of the lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame which will be burning for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics was held on Wednesday at ancient Olympia in western Greece, the birthplace of the Games.
Under clear skies, using the rays of the sun, Greek actress Katerina Lechou playing the role of an ancient High Priestess lit the torch out of a parabolic mirror in front of the ruins of the 2,500 old temple dedicated to Hera, a goddess of Ancient Greek mythology.
Accompanied by four dozens of young female and male dancers dressed in light blue and green robes playing the roles of priestesses, goddesses and male youths, Lechou prayed to the Gods to bring peace to the world and help Rio host successful Games.
Under the warm applause of hundreds of local schoolchildren and tourists who watched the rehearsal the flame was then carried inside a replica of an urn to the ancient stadium which hosted the first Olympics in antiquity.