Ministry of Public Security: Crack down severely on crimes that endanger food safety in accordance with the law.

The State Council Information Office held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Starting the '15th Five-Year Plan'". The officials from the Ministry of Public Security introduced the strong governance to protect the people and promote development, and fully serve to ensure the start of the '15th Five-Year Plan'. They also answered questions from journalists. The '15th Five-Year Plan' emphasizes food safety as an important aspect of public security governance, highlighting the need to improve the mechanism of supervision throughout the entire process, and increase efforts to punish illegal activities. In the first half of this year, public security agencies implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, strictly implemented the requirements of the "Four Strictest", and accelerated the construction of a professional-driven, all-police action, departmental cooperation, and mass mobilization "Four Actions" work pattern. They severely crackdown on crimes harming food safety in accordance with the law, effectively addressing the significant livelihood issue of safeguarding food safety. The key points are as follows: firstly, highlighting crackdown on key areas. Focusing on key areas such as meat products, health products, and online food sales, closely monitoring key links such as the farming and breeding of edible agricultural products, food production and processing, storage and transport, live-streaming marketing, and vigorously cracking down on all types of activities that harm food safety. They handled 12,000 criminal cases, arrested 21,000 criminal suspects, and successfully solved all 25 major cases supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, effectively deterring criminal activities and eliminating a large number of safety hazards. Secondly, innovating police mechanisms. Adhering to proactive policing and moving the front line of defense, they have established and improved the "Kunlun" proactive investigation and crackdown model, comprehensively using data modeling, online patrols, and other methods to strengthen intelligence collection and analysis, enhancing the proactivity and effectiveness of the crackdown. In the first half of the year, public security agencies initiated 85% of the investigations in food crime cases. Exploring the construction of a five-dimensional system for protecting food safety in key cities to promote the transformation of food safety governance towards preventive measures. Thirdly, promoting collaborative governance. Insisting on pooling the maximum efforts to enhance governance effectiveness, they worked with agriculture, rural areas, and market supervision departments to establish a more active and proactive enforcement coordination mechanism, strengthening two-way cooperation, organizing 47,000 joint law enforcement inspections, and sending over 1,000 suggestions and reminders to relevant departments, platform enterprises, and others.