HAIKOU, March 21, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Customs officers check python skin in a suspected company in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, Jan. 30, 2016. A total of 24,697 pieces of smuggled python skin worth of 310 million yuan (47.8 million U.S. dollars) were seized and 16 suspects of smuggling were arrested by the Haikou Customs recently, making the largest smuggling case of python skin seized by customs in China so far. (Xinhua/Luo Xiong)