Helmand is strategic, lying along the Pakistan border, where the illicit opium trade flourishes and fighters and weapons move easily across the porous border.

Recognizing the dual nature of opium in particular their medicinal value and the special nature of addiction will help us understand why the opium trade has enabled China to fall into decay.

The opium question became one of the important questions, which influenced the society of Southeast of Guangxi on politics, the economy, the trade and so on in modern times.