Shandong gang members, Party slackers punished

Fifty-four criminal organizations and 284 mafia-style gangs in Shandong province have been busted as of Tuesday since the province launched its first round of crackdowns on organized crime, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Shandong launched the campaign on Aug 30 when an inspection team from the central government arrived.

"The tasks of the first round of the campaign have been accomplished," Zhang Zhihua, deputy head of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Shandong Committee of the Communist Party of China, said at a news conference.