Member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held their first anti-online terror drill in the southeastern Chinese coastal city of Xiamen on Wednesday.

Terrorist groups use the Internet to release videos, disseminate extremism and recruit members, severely threatening regional security and stability.

Delegates from SCO members and its anti-online terror body participated in the drill, exchanged their law enforcement procedures and technical capability in fighting terrorism, separatism and extremism.

Founded in 2001, the SCO now has China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as its full members, with Afghanistan, Belarus, India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan as observers, and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Turkey as dialogue partners.