Ministry of Public Security hold a press conference Tuesday. The Ministry spokesman Wu Heping said that the number of economic crimes increased by 10 percent to 36,000 in the first six months,wherein there were 1,094 intellectual property rights violation cases, up 2.7 percent year on year.

 

Cases involving the production and selling of fake or substandard products, smuggling and disruption of market order saw the biggest increases.The three types of crimes were up 24.3 percent, 23.7 percent and 21 percent from the same period last year.The spokesman said the cases involving fake products increased by a large margin because of increased police crackdowns and rising public awareness.Wu admitted that economic crimes had been on a steady increase over the past few years, but attributed them to the booming economy.

 

Violent crimes declined while economic crimes rose.Crimes that seriously erode the public's sense of security, such as murder, rape, arson and bomb attacks, were down 9.1 percent, 2.9 percent, 7.9 percent and 27 percent from the same period last year.Wu attributed the decline to better police work. Theft and robbery cases dropped 0.6 percent to 1.8 million, accounting for 85 percent of the total criminal cases in the six months to June.

 

Of the total of some 2.1 million cases registered in the first half, about 911,000 have been solved. Records show that police handled about 74,000 economic crime cases last year, compared with 68,000 in 2004 and 72,000 in 2005.

 

(China Daily)

 

 

2007-08-17

2007-08-17