China News Service, Beijing, June 10 (Guo Chaokai) The Ministry of Public Security of China held a press conference in Beijing on the 10th.

The reporter learned from the meeting that since 2017, the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage have carried out special operations against cultural relics crimes for four consecutive years. More than 7,900 cultural relics cases have been detected and more than 8,600 criminals have been arrested.

  Since August 31, 2020, the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage have deployed a new round of special operations against cultural relics crimes across the country. Public security agencies in various places have acted quickly and attacked heavily to solve cases, chase fugitives, beat gangs, and hand over cultural relics. Various types of cultural relic crimes launched a fierce offensive, and achieved remarkable results in stages.

  Jiang Guoli, deputy director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security of China, informed at the meeting that as of May 31 this year, the new round of national anti-cultural relic crimes has detected 1,774 cases of various cultural relics crimes, arrested 3544 criminal suspects, and eliminated crimes. There are 337 gangs.

Under the continuous and severe crackdown by the public security organs, the number of cultural relics crimes across the country has shown a downward trend in recent years. It will drop to the lowest point since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2020, and the momentum of crime has been curbed to a certain extent.

  The public security organs adopted the working mechanism of listing supervision, leading cases, solving cases within a time limit, and targeted recovery of stolen goods, directly organizing and commanding local public security organs to continue to solve the formidable case, and cracked the case of the stolen excavation of the ancient tomb of Wuwangdun in Huainan, Anhui, and the “11.23” series of theft in Zhangzhou, Fujian The case of fishing for cultural relics on the seabed, the "December 13, 2004" theft of cultural relics from the Sichuan Provincial Library, and the "1.16" series of robbing ancient pagodas, underground palaces and ancient tombs in Xianyang, Shaanxi, and other major cultural relics supervised by the Ministry of Public Security have effectively deterred crimes The arrogance of the elements defended the safety of national cultural relics.

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