Six big drug traders were executed on Thursday, the International Day Against Drug Abuse and illicit Trafficking, with an approval by China's supreme court.

The dealers had been accused for producing, trading and smuggling drugs in Yunnan, Henan provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region by local courts. Their death penalty verdicts were approved by the Supreme People's Court.

Han Yongwan and Duan Biwu had been found to be involved in trading and trafficking hundreds of kilograms of drugs at Chinese boarders with Myanmar since 2001.

Gao Guoliang and Li Yongwang were dug out by the police to produce and trade drugs in Henan since 2005.

The other two, He Jianjun and Zhang Fuyou, had been found to handle 604.3 gram drugs in Guangxi.

Spokesman of the supreme court Ni Shouming said the supreme court would firmly support the cracking down on drug dealing and would approve any verdicts of inferior courts which could provide enough evidence for death penalty.

(Xinhua News Agency June 27, 2008)