In the "summer solstice" action from July 6 to 16, Chinese and US law enforcement agencies successfully uncovered two XL-sized cross-border organized crimes in manufacturing and distributing pirated software.  Chinese police have arrested 25 people and seized property in the sum of 60 million yuan.

The two countries established a working group of IPR criminal enforcement in March 2007 in a bid to assemble resources of the two countries to combat budding international IPR crimes.   From July 6 to 16 of this year, the Chinese public security authorities and the FBI of the United States launched a joint action codenamed "summer solstice", an integral part of the joint operations.  Chinese police in Shanghai, Guangdong and Beijing, under the central command of the MPS, seized 22 pirated matrices and a total of 360,000 pieces of pirated software, fake certificates of authentication and anti-counterfeit stickers.  In the meantime, the FBI effected 24 search warrants and distress warrants, seized pirated software in the sum of more than $2 million  and impounded assets in the excess of $700,000 and started manhunts in the United States.   The two cases are under ongoing investigation.