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By Zhu Zhe (China Daily)
Violent crimes declined while economic crimes - especially cases involving fake products and smuggling - rose in the first half of the year, the Ministry of Public Security announced yesterday.
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, ministry spokesman Wu Heping told a press conference.
He attributed the decline to better police work, but did not release the number of cases for each of the crimes.
Of the total of some 2.1 million cases registered in the first half, about 911,000 have been solved while the remaining are in various stages of investigation or prosecution.
The number of economic crimes increased by 10 percent to 36,000 in the first six months, according to the ministry.
"Cases involving the production and selling of fake or substandard products, smuggling and disruption of market order saw the biggest increases," Wu said.
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.
"We've noticed recent media reports on a number of unsafe products, and we've made such crimes one of our key targets," Wu said.
In addition, there were 3,695 financial fraud cases and 1,094 intellectual property rights violation cases, up 14.3 and 2.7 percent respectively.
Wu admitted that economic crimes had been on a steady increase over the past few years, but attributed them to the booming economy.
Records show that police handled about 74,000 economic crime cases last year, compared with 68,000 in 2004 and 72,000 in 2005.
Wang Hongsha, a professor at Chinese People's Public Security University, predicted that the rise would continue as China is in a transition from a planned to a free market economy.
"The emergence of more economic crimes involving larger amounts of money has become a trend."
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.
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