On the evening of July 6, the Ministry of Public Security deployed public security organs across the country to organize and carry out centralized and unified actions for public security inspections and prevention on summer nights. This is the first centralized and unified action of this year's "Summer Action".
The "summer operation" has an important task -- to quickly investigate and deal with illegal crimes such as picking quarrels and provoking troubles, fighting and brawls, and resolutely nipping underworld and evil forces in the bud.
This is the arrangement made by the Ministry of Public Security a few days ago on July 3, when the Ministry of Public Security convened a national meeting to promote the normalization of the fight against organized crime and vice.
In May 2021, the Ministry of Public Security convened a video and telephone conference on the summary and commendation of the special struggle of public security organs to eliminate organized crime and vice, in June 2022 held a working meeting of the Ministry of Public Security's Leading Group for the Fight against Organized Crime and Vice, and in October 2023, a national meeting on the promotion of the normalization of the public security organs' fight against organized crime and vice.
Previously, on June 14, Chen Wenqing, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Central Political and Legal Committee, presided over a special meeting to study and plan the struggle against gangsters and evil, and Wang Xiaohong made work arrangements.
It is worth noting that Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, presided over a symposium on promoting the development of the western region in the new era in Chongqing on April 23, and a symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era in Changsha City, Hunan Province on March 20.
"Normalized anti-gang and anti-evil" has once again entered the public eye
How much do you know?
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The CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core is engaged in the overall stability of society and the long-term peace and stability of the country, and is related to the support of the people and the consolidation of political power at the grassroots level, and has made major decisions and arrangements to carry out the special struggle against organized crime and vice.
This is a profound insight and grasp of national and social conditions.
In January 2018, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Notice on Launching a Special Struggle to Eliminate Organized Crime and Vice", marking the beginning of a three-year national special struggle to eliminate organized crime and vice.
Within three years, a total of 3,644 organized crime organizations and 11,675 criminal syndicates have been smashed, and 237,000 criminal suspects have been arrested, 1.3 times the number of organized crime organizations in the previous 10 years combined. In 2020, the number of criminal cases nationwide decreased by 13.1 per cent compared to 2017, and the number of cases of eight types of serious violence dropped by 30 per cent.
The special struggle to sweep away organized crime and eliminate vice is one of the most popular events since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
What happens after the three-year special struggle is over?
"It is necessary to promote the normalization of the eradication of organized crime and evil, resolutely crack down on underworld forces and their 'protective umbrellas', and make urban and rural areas more peaceful and the masses more happy." In November 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Central Work Conference on Comprehensively Governing the Country According to Law clarified the goals, tasks, ideas and measures for promoting the normalization of anti-gang and evil eradication, and provided scientific guidance and fundamental follow-up.
At a press conference held in December 2020, the National Anti-Organized Crime Office revealed that the draft opinion on the normalization of anti-gang and anti-vice activities has been drafted, and the draft of the Anti-Organized Crime Law has been submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for deliberation. This law and policy will provide a strong legal guarantee for the eradication of organized crime and vice in various aspects such as crackdown, prevention, and protection.
On February 6, 2021, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Normalizing the Struggle to Eliminate Organized Crime and Eliminate Vice, Consolidating the Achievements of the Special Struggle", which marked the successful conclusion of the special struggle to eliminate organized crime and vice, and officially transferred to the normalized struggle against organized crime and vice.
On March 29, 2021, the National Anti-Gang and Vice-Eradication Special Struggle Summary and Commendation Conference emphasized that the fight against organized crime and vice should be promoted on a regular basis and efforts should be made to build a higher level of peace in China.
Since 2021, the "normalization of anti-gang and anti-evil" has been written into the government work report, the outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the long-term goals for 2035, and the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
The Ministry of Public Security deployed four times in more than three years
The result?
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On May 17, 2021, a teleconference was held on the summary and commendation of the special struggle of public security organs to eliminate organized crime and vice.
It is a commendation and a deployment.
The meeting emphasized that "the three-year special struggle to eliminate organized crime and vice has been successfully concluded, but the end is not a retreat, but a new beginning of the normalization of the crackdown and governance" and "perseverance and unswervingly grasp the implementation of various work measures for the normalization of the struggle to eliminate organized crime and vice".
2021 is the first year of normalized anti-crime and evil eradication. Public security organs across the country have smashed more than 190 underworld criminal organizations and more than 1,080 malign force criminal groups, arrested 17,000 criminal suspects, and cracked 19,000 criminal cases of various kinds.
In 2022, public security organs across the country smashed more than 160 criminal organizations and more than 1,520 criminal syndicates, and cracked more than 20,000 criminal cases of various kinds.
In 2023, public security organs across the country will dismantle more than 1,900 criminal organizations involved in organized crime and vice, arrest 27,000 criminal suspects, and crack more than 29,000 criminal cases.
Judging from the data, the public security organs have achieved fruitful results in cracking down on criminal organizations involved in criminal syndicates and evil forces over the years.
There are several landmark events in 2022.
-- On May 1, the "Anti-Organized Crime Law of the People's Republic of China" came into effect, which is regarded as a landmark achievement of the mainland's special struggle to eliminate organized crime and vice, and is a legal guarantee for the normalization of the fight against organized crime and vice.
——In the early morning of June 10, a case of picking quarrels and provoking troubles and violently beating others occurred in a barbecue restaurant in Lubei District, Tangshan City, causing a bad impact and arousing widespread concern in the society. After investigation and trial, the perpetrator was designated as a malign force organization and sentenced in accordance with law, and the "protective umbrella" behind it was investigated and dealt with in accordance with law.
-- On June 25, public security organs across the country launched the "100-day action" to crack down on public security in the summer, one of the key points of which is to promote the in-depth development of the normalized anti-gang and anti-evil struggle, resolutely eradicate the gangs of underworld forces, and severely punish the "protective umbrella" of underworld forces.
On June 25, 2023, the "Summer Operation" continued. This year's "summer operation" is underway, and cracking down on criminal syndicates is still a must.
What are the key signals from this year's conference?
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The Ministry of Public Security stressed at a meeting on July 3 that it is necessary to resolutely implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, give full play to the role of the main force of the public security organs, adhere to the same determination, no reduction in standards, and no reduction in intensity, strengthen crackdowns in accordance with the law, tackle major cases, highlight both the symptoms and the root causes, crack down early and small, and make every effort to promote the in-depth development of the normalized anti-gang and anti-evil struggle, better maintain the overall stability of society, and resolutely protect the happiness and tranquility of the people.
Positioning - the main force.
Requirements: The determination remains the same, the standard is not lowered, and the intensity is not reduced.
Path - crack down according to law, tackle major cases, treat both the symptoms and the root causes, and crack down early and small.
The meeting fully affirmed the achievements of the work in recent years, but also pointed out that the stubbornness, repetition, and complexity of underworld crimes are characterized by the stubbornness, repetition, and complexity of criminal syndicates, and it is necessary to have a clear understanding of the problems and shortcomings existing in the current work.
Compared with the "early crackdown, tackling major cases, special crackdowns, and systematic governance" proposed by the National Public Security Organs in October 2023 to carry out the normalization of the anti-gang and anti-evil struggle promotion meeting, this year not only focuses on these four aspects, but also proposes "breaking the umbrella and breaking the net", "cracking down on wealth and blood", and "combining attack and defense", all of which are effective tactics in the same line.
At the same time, some new developments are worth paying attention to.
The first is to deploy a crackdown on cyber-related underworld crimes, using the expressions "resolutely curb the momentum of online breeding and spread" and "resolutely curb the momentum of high incidence".
Public information shows that under the continuous crackdown and high-pressure situation, some underworld forces have begun to hibernate, hide, and transform, from "offline" to "online". In 2022, the Ministry of Public Security, together with the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Cyberspace Administration of the People's Republic of China, deployed and carried out a special operation to combat and punish crimes related to online underworld crimes, focusing on crimes such as naked chat extortion, online routine loans, soft violence collection, malicious claims, extortion of negative public opinion, and online trolls causing trouble. In February 2023, the Ministry of Public Security held a promotion meeting to redeploy and advance the special operation.
The second is to clarify the targets of crackdowns and improve the pertinence and operability. For example, "village tyrants", "township tyrants", "sand tyrants", "mining tyrants", "line tyrants", "city tyrants", as well as illegal and criminal gangs such as bullying and dominating the market in bazaars and forced trading in tourist attractions. All of these are closely related to the masses and are the crimes related to criminal syndicates and evil that the masses have the strongest reaction to.
The third is to strengthen the crackdown on key cases, resolutely preventing underworld forces from meddling in new types of crimes such as telecommunications network fraud and cross-border gambling, as well as prominent illegal crimes such as guns and explosives, illegal pyramid schemes, pornography, gambling, drugs, food and drug rings, and theft, robbery, and fraud, and resolutely prevent the breeding of underworld crimes. This has not appeared in public reports before. The meeting also made special mention of cracking down on juvenile violations and crimes, and preventing underworld forces from co-opting and using juveniles to commit violations and crimes. On June 14, Chen Wenqing presided over a special meeting, which also mentioned strengthening the comprehensive management of juvenile delinquency. It is worth noting that the above-mentioned meeting also made it clear that it is necessary to strengthen supervision and supervision, organize and carry out central supervision on the elimination of organized crime and vice, and strive to solve outstanding problems.
Source: News media of the Ministry of Public Security