China News Service, Beijing, January 29 (Reporter Guo Chaokai) In 2023, public security agencies across the country will work closely with cultural relics departments to continue to promote special operations and severely crack down on various cultural relics crimes in accordance with the law. Reporters learned from the Ministry of Public Security on the 29th that 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, arrested more than 2,400 suspects, and recovered more than 13,000 cultural relics of various types. Achieve significant work results.
Over the past year, the 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, and stealing and damaging revolutionary cultural relics. They have supervised the handling of major cases, tackled hidden cases and backlogged cases, and continued to expand their results. The Ministry of Public Security supervised seven major series of cases of illegal excavation and reselling of cultural relics, including the "7.11" incident in Baoding, Hebei, the "6.18" incident in Jingmen, Hubei, and the "9.14" incident in Baoji, Shaanxi. A total of more than 540 suspects were arrested and more than 4,300 cultural relics involved in the case were recovered. At the same time, the Ministry of Public Security deployed various regions to dig deep into hidden cases and crack down on backlogged cases, and successfully solved more than 270 hidden cases, including the 2004 theft of the tombs of the Han Chu kings in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, and the 2014 theft of cliff statues in Huanglingsi Bay, Shaanxi. , the 2016 case of theft and excavation of ancient tombs in the Cao Cao Gaoling Reserve in Anyang, Henan and other key backlogged cases.
Public security agencies in various places have continued to increase their efforts to arrest fugitives involved in cultural relic crimes. The Ministry of Public Security issued the seventh batch of Class A warrants for cultural relic crimes. All eight fugitives publicly wanted for major cultural relic crimes have been arrested. As of the end of November 2023, more than 13,000 pieces of bronzes, porcelain, pottery and other types of cultural relics have been confiscated in various places, including more than 1,800 first-, second- and third-level precious cultural relics such as Western Han Dynasty gold belt buckles, Tang Dynasty brocades, and Song Dynasty Cizhou kiln porcelain. , has extremely high historical and cultural value.
During the work, the public security organs actively worked with the cultural relics department to consolidate the basic work, improve the guarantee mechanism, and weave a tight safety protection network for cultural relics. The Ministry of Public Security, together with the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, has improved the "Joint Long-term Working Mechanism to Combat and Prevent Cultural Relics Crimes" and jointly issued the "Notice on Further Improving the Identification, Assessment and Transfer of Cultural Relics Involved in Cases" to gradually solve the current challenges in cultural relics identification, security and other work. outstanding issues; a working group on combating and preventing cultural relics crimes was established to provide strong guidance and support for combating and preventing cultural relics crimes; at the same time, a WeChat applet was built and launched on the “National Cultural Relics Crime Clues Reporting Platform” to enhance information on stolen (lost) cultural relics in China Release platform operation and maintenance construction, released 759 pieces of information on stolen and lost cultural relics, providing effective support for prevention work.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Public Security said that in the new year, the public security organs will continue to work with the cultural relics department to maintain a high-pressure stance on cultural relics crimes, intensify work efforts, improve long-term mechanisms, vigorously solve cases, consolidate the work foundation, and promote the formation of internal and external linkages. , coordinated promotion of the crackdown and prevention work pattern, and resolutely safeguard the security of national historical and cultural heritage. (over)