China tightens crackdown on telecom fraud: vice-minister

China's public security agencies have tightened efforts to crack down on major transnational crimes like telecom fraud over recent years, arresting over 50,000 fraud suspects operating in northern Myanmar, said a leading official from China's Ministry of Public Security on Tuesday.

In recent years, China's public security agencies have expanded cooperation with the law enforcement departments of the relevant other countries, establishing various cooperation mechanisms for joint operations to combat cross-border crime, said Qi Yanjun, Vice-Minister of Public Security.

"Through our effective law enforcement cooperation, the Myanmar’s police have handed over 10 chief fraud ringleaders including Bai Suocheng to us in a single delivery. By far, more than 50,000 fraud suspects in northern Myanmar have been captured. We have also launched joint crackdown on crimes involving China in the Golden Triangle region, and carried out joint special operations to crack down on transnational crimes with law enforcement agencies in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and other countries, to severely punish all kinds of transnational crimes involving China," Qi said at a press conference in Beijing.

In the next step, China's public security organs will make every effort to promote closer, more pragmatic law enforcement cooperation with foreign counterparts. Meanwhile, China will constructively join regional and multilateral law enforcement cooperation organizations within the framework of the United Nations, Interpol, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, etc, actively participate in global public security governance, and contribute Chinese wisdom and solutions to the fight against transnational crime.

In response to rampant transnational crimes such as online gambling and telecom and online fraud that arouse strong public resentment, as well as vicious crimes such as kidnapping, murder, and gang-related crimes that occur abroad and involve China, we will strengthen practical cooperation with law enforcement agencies of the relevant countries in case coordination, evidence exchange, and the arrest and repatriation of criminal suspects, make full use of Interpol's resource advantages in combating transnational crime, and always maintain a high-pressure crackdown on all types of transnational crimes involving China," Qi said.

China tightens crackdown on telecom fraud: vice-minister

Imports and exports of goods in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yellow River Basin, and the northeast region all maintained rapid growth in the first six months of this year, reaching record highs for the same period in history, according to official data.

In the first half of this year, the import and export value of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in north China reached 2.58 trillion yuan (380 billion U.S. dollars), up 16.2 percent year on year, accounting for 10.1 percent of the country's total. In June, the figure exceeded 140 billion yuan for the first time.

The total value of trade in goods in the nine provincial-level regions along the Yellow River reached 3.6 trillion yuan in the first six months, up 14.7 percent year on year.

In the northeast region, the total value of foreign trade stood at 656.3 billion yuan in the January-June period, up 8.6 percent year on year, marking a record high for the same period in history.

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