Police in southwest China's Yunnan Province have caught more than 550 stowaways and shot dead four terrorists in crackdowns on illegal border crossings since 2014.

Chinese troops gather at the opening ceremony of the Peace Mission-2014 anti-terror drill at Zhurihe training base in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Sunday, August 24, 2014. [Photo/Xinhua]

35 suspects have also been arrested for allegedly organizing the illegal crossings.

Police say many of the stowaways were influenced by religious extremism and were ready to participate in "jihad" abroad.

Yunnan, which has a 4,000-km border with Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, is regarded as a "shortcut" by stowaways to steal into another country.

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