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Overseas police agencies join China in fight against relic-trafficking rings

China will strengthen intelligence sharing and joint investigation cooperation with other countries to fight rampant cross-border trafficking of cultural relics, a senior official from the Ministry of Public Security said.

Law enforcement agencies from China and other nations - including European and some Southeast Asian countries and the United States - will target major and individual cases and work to smash major transnational cultural heritage trafficking rings, said Chen Shiqu, deputy director of the ministry's Criminal Investigation Bureau.