Over 31,000 crime gangs dismantled in campaign since 2018

China dismantled more than 31,000 gangs involved in organized crime from the start of last year to last month, the group leading the national crackdown on organized crime told a conference in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, on Saturday.

During the period, 31,938 gangs had been broken up, and 34,792 participants had turned themselves in, said the group, which operates under the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.

Guo Shengkun, a member of the Central Committee's Political Bureau who heads the commission, has called for the fight against organized crime to be strengthened.