Even before I scrolled down through the article, I knew this had to be a flight coming from China.
I could go on for decades with stories of stuff the Chinese try putting into their hold luggage.
The most recent one - two Chinese girls caught with zippo lighter fluid (and a lot of it) in their luggage when I was boarding a flight from Beijing to London. And they didn't seem to think there was a problem!
It's a miracle that there are 1.4 billion of them.