Government and Policy
Juridical organs to beef up gang crackdown in 2010
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-14 14:45
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BEIJING - China's lawmakers and political advisors from judicial organs have vowed to continue cracking down on organized crimes this year to maintain social stability.
They made the pledge after top judge Wang Shengjun reported to the top legislature Thursday that Chinese courts have concluded trials of 527 cases against mafia-like gangs and convicted 3,231 people, up 13.8 percent and 16.6 percent year-on-year respectively.
Tang Jianren, a political advisor and deputy director of Jiangxi provincial supervision department said efforts were intensified to fight gang crimes last year and the trend is to continue in this year.
In his report to top legislature, Procurator-General Cao Jianming listed the crackdown on gang crimes as one of the major tasks of the prosecuting authorities in 2009.
Li Yuefeng, a political advisor and deputy chief procurator of a local procuratorate in Chongqing municipality, said the gang crackdown could noticeably improve the public order and is a long-term task that brooks no letup.
Even in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, where a sweeping crackdown against organized crimes since last June lead to the arrest of 3,348 suspects as of February 24, the task to crack down on gangs remained arduous.
Bo Xilai, a legislator and Party chief of Chongqing, said on March 6 that local authorities had to crack another existing 500-600 murder cases although they have solved more than 500 such cases last year.
Zhu Yong, the NPC deputy and a party leader in Anhui province in charge of law enforcement, called for "unremitting" efforts to smack the gangland power that has infiltrated into different industries and social communities.
