BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday met with representatives of those honored for their outstanding work in China’s campaign to fight organized and gang-related crimes.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, expressed congratulations to the representatives, who were attending a gathering in Beijing to celebrate the victory of the campaign.
Wang Huning and Zhao Leji, both members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, were present at the event.
In 2018, China initiated a three-year campaign to crack down on organized and gang-related crimes. Significant results have been achieved, with more than 3,600 crime groups busted over the past three years.
Speaking at the event, Guo Shengkun, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the CPC Central Committee, said the fight against such illegal activities should be advanced on a regular basis, calling for greater efforts to implement the Peaceful China initiative.
Earlier, President Xi Jinping has stressed strengthening military training and combat readiness to enhance the capabilities to fulfill missions and tasks while inspecting a mobile corps of the People’s Armed Police Force. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected the corps in east China’s Fujian Province.
Xi inspected military training courses including the use of anti-explosion devices, chemical reconnaissance and decontamination, and engineering machinery operation.
He talked with engineering machine operators and encouraged them to train diligently in a scientific manner to improve their capabilities to fulfill tasks.
Afterward, Xi was shown a video detailing the development of the corps and heard a report on the corps’ performance. Acknowledging their work, Xi called on the troops to consider worst-case scenarios, better coordinate missions, and improve operation and contingency plans to ensure their rapid response to any emergency.
Highlighting the importance of combat preparedness, Xi urged the corps to step up real-combat training and joint-combat training, and to strengthen science and technology-based and law-based training.
– The Daily Mail-People’s Daily News exchange item
