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China to ‘strike hard’ on four sectors in organised crime crackdown
- Top law enforcement body will target telecoms, resources, transport and construction
- They are the latest focus of an ongoing campaign that started three years ago
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China’s top law enforcement body has named four sectors that will be in the cross hairs of an ongoing crackdown on organised crime over the next 12 months.
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Chen Yixin, secretary general of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, said at a meeting on Wednesday that organised criminal activities were rife in the telecoms, resources, transport and construction industries. They would be the next focus of the nationwide campaign, according to a post on the commission’s Changanjian social media account on Thursday.
The move comes two weeks after Beijing issued a directive to strengthen control and governance at the community level, part of a broader push by the ruling Communist Party to tighten its grip on all aspects of society.
The crackdown on organised crime was launched in 2018 and originally meant to run for three years. But in March, Guo Shengkun, party secretary of the commission, said the campaign would not stop because it had “won the people’s support” for cleaning up at the grass roots of China’s governance system – meaning residential communities in cities and villages in rural areas.
It is part of President Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption drive, which began after he took power in 2012. Xi has in the past three years directed the law enforcement body to stamp out major criminal networks, their financial support and the officials who collude with them in a bid to tackle organised crime and corruption, particularly at the grass roots.
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At Wednesday’s meeting of the law enforcement body – which oversees police officers, prosecutors, courts and prisons – Chen said they should “stay focused and strike hard” on the four sectors over the next year.
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