As of the end of November 2023, the police had detected more than 1,070 criminal cases of various types of cultural relics excavation, theft, and reselling. In the first 11 months of last year, the public security organs recovered more than 13,000 cultural relics involved in the case.

Public security organs have been targeting crimes such as robbing ancient cultural sites and ancient tombs, stealing stone carvings from cave temples and underwater cultural relics. The Ministry of Public Security issued the seventh batch of Class A warrants for cultural relic crimes.