China provides anti-terrorism and anti-drug training to police officers of Afghanistan (Linked to Record ID#37849)

On October 28, 2014, China announced that it would hold training on anti-terrorism and anti-drugs for Afghanistan. The announcement was made during Afghan's President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai visit to China.

On the same date the announcement was made, China and Afghanistan signed an agreement on economic and technical cooperation, under which China would provide 2 billion Chinese Yuan in grant (See Record ID#37849).

China previously had been providing small-scale security training to Afghanistan, specifically in the form of mine clearance and counter-narcotics training.

In January 2015, the Xinjiang Frontier Corps and the Xinjiang Police College hosted the first Afghan anti-drug and anti-terrorism training seminar.

The training was concluded on 29 January 2015 at Urumqi, Xinjiang. 50 police officers from the Afghanistan Interior Ministry Anti-drug, Anti-terrorism, and Border authorities Department participated in the training that lasted a month and were later awarded the certificate of completion by the People's Republic of China Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Commerce.