Police crack down on cheating during gaokao

12 gangs smashed, equipment seized before national college entrance exam

The Ministry of Public Security has coordinated local authorities in a crackdown on criminal gangs that manufactured and sold high-tech devices for cheating on the upcoming national college entrance examination, known as the gaokao, which starts on Thursday morning.

The campaign, launched in Liaoning, Shandong, Hubei, Guangdong and Sichuan provinces and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region in late May, resulted in the busting of 12 criminal gangs and the seizure of over 100,000 sets of wireless devices for cheating, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.