Greater efforts by local governments are needed to build a
peaceful countryside to create a social environment for building a
harmonious socialist society, said Luo Gan, secretary of the Central Committee for
Comprehensive Management of Public Security (CCCMPS), at a plenary
session of the committee on Monday.
The adoption of "the Resolution on Some Major Issues for
Building A Harmonious Socialist Society", prepared by the recent
Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixteenth CPC Central Committee, has
put forward new and higher criteria for comprehensively managing
public security, said Luo, who is also a member of the Standing
Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau.
Luo urged local authorities to crack down on crimes in rural
areas, especially mafia-like organized crime, to take efforts to
prevent and reduce crimes, and improve the building of rural police
departments. Greater efforts should be made to improve grassroots
Party organizations and village committees, he said.
China is dispatching more policemen to rural regions and over
30,000 police stations have been built in the countryside as the
government streamlines its larger police stations and redeploys
more police officers, said Public Security Vice-Minister Liu Jinguo
at the session.
Police have been researching the public security situation in
villages enabling better safeguarding of social order.
"It's stable overall in terms of public security in rural
areas", he said, though he warned China's rapid urbanization poses
public security risks in areas bordering urban regions and in
relatively developed areas of the countryside.
The number of criminal cases investigated by police nationwide
also fell in the first nine months of the year by 1.2 percent to
3.34 million.
(Xinhua News Agency November 7, 2006)