Industry experts said that while the enormous demand has driven the fast growth of this industry, it has also led to a chaotic market with illegal medical aesthetics practices, fake products and smuggled goods, hindering healthy industry development.

A record 498,000 tons of pyrite cinder have been returned overseas, the largest amount of smuggled solid waste in China, according to local customs in North China's Tianjin Municipality.

The smuggled waste was seized, with four suspects nabbed, as part of a nationwide crackdown launched in June 2020.

"It only started in the 1980s when China was doing business with the Soviet Union, and people started to smuggle pet dogs into the country.

The businessman, who holds French, Lebanese and Brazilian citizenship, was smuggled out of Tokyo on a private plane by a security company days ago, the culmination of a plan that was crafted over three months.

The project, which could require investment of $30 million and is now waiting for governmental approvals, aims to enablexa0cattle to be legally exported to China, adding that Myanmar people raise cows and bulls but do not eat beef while others smuggle cattle into China.

A year earlier, the drug dealers shot dead a Chinese police officer while trying to smuggle drugs into China.

The also confiscated 3,278 firearms of various types, and smuggled goods worth 220 million yuan($220 million), the authority said.