Beijing, 5 May (ZXS) -- In September last year, China's Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and State Forestry and Grassland Administration jointly launched a special rectification operation to crack down on illegal and criminal activities of destroying ancient and famous trees. The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security on the 9th that since the operation, the public security organs have solved a total of 9 criminal cases, arrested more than 9 criminal suspects, and recovered and rescued 135 ancient and famous trees.
In accordance with unified arrangements, public security organs throughout the country launched a fierce offensive against illegal logging, destruction, acquisition, transportation, processing, sale of ancient and famous trees, and other illegal and criminal activities, rapidly formed a high-pressure deterrent situation, concentrated on destroying a number of professional criminal gangs, destroying a number of criminal dens, rectifying a number of key areas, and effectively safeguarding the resources of ancient and famous trees and the safety of the ecological environment, and the special rectification action achieved obvious results.
During the operation, local public security organs closely combined with local realities, paid close attention to key areas, key areas, and key industries with rich resources for ancient and famous trees, deeply studied and judged the characteristics of the crime law of destroying ancient trees and famous trees, strictly investigated and deeply excavated clues of illegal crimes, continuously strengthened the cracking of cases, persisted in cracking down on the whole chain, and achieved "hitting the source, the end of the den, destroying the network, breaking the chain, and chasing the flow", further forming a high-pressure situation of cracking down hard.
The Ministry of Public Security concentrated on supervising and handling 11 major and important cases with serious harm and bad impact, and cracked all of them. Among them, the Fujian public security organs detected the "2210" case, destroyed a criminal gang that committed crimes across multiple provinces and regions, and seized 85 ancient trees; The Guangxi public security organ detected a case of endangering ancient trees, and rescued 8 ancient camphor trees that were listed for protection for more than 8 years; Yunnan public security organs detected the "08.440" case of illegal felling of ancient trees, and seized 10 pieces of Heguo wood panels; The Guizhou public security organs cracked the "26.10" case, destroyed a criminal gang that poisoned ancient trees, and seized <> ancient Zhennan trees.
It is understood that the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the State Forestry and Grassland Administration have jointly formulated and issued the "Opinions on Strengthening Coordination and Cooperation and Improving the Working Mechanism for Preventing and Cracking Down on Illegal Crimes of Destroying Ancient and Famous Trees", which put forward clear opinions on the establishment of a regular liaison and consultation mechanism for the three departments, strengthening information sharing, connection between executions, professional support, training and exchanges, further enriching law enforcement forces, strengthening scientific and technological support, strengthening publicity and guidance, and supervising and inspecting, and focusing on solving the law enforcement problems plaguing the grassroots Further promote the in-depth protection of ancient and famous trees. (End)