Li Guozhong, spokesperson for China's Ministry of Public Security, said in Beijing on the 27th that public security organs nationwide have continued to deepen the special campaign against violent terrorism, and that no violent terrorist incidents have occurred in China for more than seven consecutive years.

On that day, the Ministry of Public Security held a special press conference in Beijing to brief on the achievements made in various aspects of the work of public security organs nationwide over the past five years. Li Guozhong reported at the press conference that in 2023, the number of criminal cases filed and the number of public security cases investigated and handled by public security organs nationwide decreased by 12.9% and 9.7% respectively compared with 2019, among which the number of eight categories of serious violent criminal cases such as explosions and homicides decreased by 10.7%, and the incidence of homicide cases per 100,000 people was 0.46. China is one of the countries with the lowest homicide rate, the lowest criminal offense rate and the fewest gun and explosives cases in the world.

Li Guozhong introduced that over the past five years, the public security situation has remained stable and improved. Public security organs nationwide have improved mechanisms for preventing mass-related economic crimes and financial risks, solved nearly 400,000 economic crime cases of various types, and recovered more than 230 billion yuan in direct economic losses; they have continued to carry out the "Clean Network" and "Protect Network" series of special campaigns, focusing on combating and rectifying the "ten major online disorderly phenomena" including infringement of citizens' personal information, online rumors, online violence, paid online posters, and the online black and gray industry, and have investigated and handled a total of 453,000 online illegal and criminal cases.

Over the past five years, public security organs have eliminated more than 5,200 mafia-like and evil organizations and captured more than 1,600 fugitives involved in mafia-like and evil-related crimes at home and abroad; the clearance rate of current homicide cases nationwide was 99.94%, reaching the highest level in history. In 2023, the number of filed theft, robbery and fraud cases nationwide decreased by 31.4% compared with 2019, and the number of trafficking cases nationwide decreased by 66.6% compared with 2019.

Over the past five years, public security organs have continued to carry out the "Kunlun" special campaign, solving a total of 354,000 criminal cases in the fields of food, drugs, the environment and intellectual property rights; they have continued to combat and rectify illegal fishing and illegal and criminal activities in the Yangtze River Basin, and the biological integrity index of the Yangtze River mainstream has risen by two levels compared with 2018.

On that day, Li Guozhong also introduced the work done by public security organs in recent years in deepening the reform of the household registration system. He said that the Ministry of Public Security, together with the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments, has pushed all localities to adapt to local conditions and implement city-specific policies, continuously lowering the threshold for household registration. At present, except for a few mega-cities and super-large cities in the eastern region and a few provincial capital (capital) cities in the central and western regions, restrictions on household registration have been fully relaxed and lifted. Since 2019, 50 million agricultural transfer population have settled in cities, and by the end of 2023 the urbanization rate of the registered population nationwide reached 48.3%.

Li Guozhong said that at present, the nationwide "cross-provincial handling" of household registration migration, first-time application for resident identity cards and issuance of household registration certificates has been realized, and the scope of implementation of "cross-provincial handling" for newborn household registration is steadily expanding. As of the end of April 2024, public security organs nationwide had handled more than 3.55 million household registration migration cases under "cross-provincial handling" and more than 1.86 million household registration certificate cases under "cross-provincial handling"; they have thoroughly implemented the three systems of out-of-town acceptance, loss reporting and lost-and-found of resident identity cards, and have cumulatively replaced and reissued 106 million resident identity cards out of town, saving the public a great deal of time and economic cost in traveling to handle certificates.