A nationwide blitz in the first seven months of this year has
resulted in arrests in thousands of serious criminal cases,
including murder, kidnapping, rape, robbery and arson.
Police solved 15,287 serious criminal cases in the January-July
period, according to an official from the Ministry of Public
Security.
“The number of solved cases is 21.7 percent higher than the same
period last year,” said the official from the ministry’s Criminal
Investigation Bureau. “More than 81 percent of the crimes committed
between January and July have been solved.”
For example, police in the city of Datong, in north China’s
Shanxi Province, arrested murder suspect Feng Jianbo during a night
patrol on June 26. After questioning, Feng confessed that he and
accomplice Wang Jincheng had murdered three taxi drivers during
robberies in Beijing.
The ministry also organized a series of anti-counterfeiting
campaigns in Hebei, Henan, Hunan and Hainan provinces and the
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
On July 30, police in the city of Tangshan, Hebei Province,
transferred suspect Zhang Jiandong and three accomplices who had
produced fake milk powder to a local procuratorate for prosecution.
Investigations revealed that Zhang’s company had sold 230 tons of
inferior milk powder nationwide since July 2003, earning the
company some 2.6 million yuan (US$307,000).
Modern technology, such as the Internet and DNA testing, is
playing an increasingly important role in making arrests.
With the help of the Internet, 5,386 escaped criminals,
including nine Class A and 24 Class B suspects on the ministry’s
wanted list, were apprehended. That is a rise of 75.8 percent from
the previous year.
More than 3,300 longstanding homicide cases were also
solved.
Recently, police in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and
Shaanxi Province joined forces to identify and arrest people
suspected of killing three Japanese tourists in Shaanxi’s capital
city of Xi’an 11 years ago.
(China Daily August 26, 2004)