China News Service, February 22. According to the website of the Ministry of Public Security, in 2022, the Ministry of Public Security, together with the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, will promote the in-depth development of the national special campaign to combat and prevent cultural relics crimes. .

As of the end of December, public security organs across the country have cracked more than 1,700 cases of cultural relics crimes, smashed more than 310 criminal gangs, and recovered 37,000 cultural relics involved in the case. This has severely cracked down on the arrogance of criminals and achieved remarkable results.

  Facing the severe and complicated situation of cultural relics crimes, the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage have deployed and carried out a national special campaign to combat and prevent cultural relics crimes for six consecutive years. In 2025, we will focus on crimes such as the theft of ancient cultural relics and ancient tombs, the theft of stone carvings from cave temples, ancient buildings and their components, and underwater cultural relics, and the crime of stealing and destroying revolutionary cultural relics, steles and stone inscriptions. Maintain a high-pressure crackdown on cultural relic crimes such as theft, theft, reselling, and smuggling.

Together with the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, jointly issued the "Opinions on Several Issues Concerning the Handling of Criminal Cases of Obstructing the Management of Cultural Relics", providing strong legal support for punishing and effectively preventing cultural relics crimes.

  Local public security organs, together with cultural relics protection departments, acted quickly and struck hard, cracking down on the theft and excavation of stolen goods, and investigations on reselling and selling stolen goods at the bottom. A number of major cultural relics cases listed and supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, such as the tomb case and the "5.31" series of robbery and excavation of ancient tombs in Anqing, Anhui; a large number of precious cultural relics were recovered in a timely manner. There are more than 3,800 precious cultural relics; further strengthen the construction of cultural relics security network, actively cooperate with the cultural relics department to strengthen the prevention and control of cultural relics museum units and surrounding areas, and effectively enhance the security protection capabilities.

  The national public security organs will fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, always maintain a high-pressure situation against cultural relics crimes, promote special operations in depth, improve and improve long-term mechanisms, resolutely curb the frequent occurrence of cultural relics crimes, and earnestly protect the precious treasures left by our ancestors. Good heritage management and protection.