Listen to this articleIn the “2018 World risk map”, China has no exception to enter “low risk tourist” countries. China has long been considered one of the safest countries in the world, and many foreigners agree with it.
There are several reasons for social security in China:
No guns
China is one of the world’s most stringent gun ban countries
There are four kinds of countries in the world. The first is the countries with the most relaxed gun control system, including some western countries represented by the United States, which allow the people to hold not only guns and ammunition launched by gunpowder kinetic energy, but also air gun simulation guns driven by compressed air power or electric power. This is the so-called “two can’t help” countries. In the second category, the State forbids people to hold real guns, but allows air guns and imitation guns to exist as shooting sports toys for adults. Such countries and regions are very common in Asia, such as Japan and South Korea. The third kind of countries can not help but ban air guns, among which Israel is the most representative. All the people of Israel are soldiers. Soldiers have to keep their guns when they go home or go shopping. China, on the other hand, is a country of the fourth category, which forbids both real guns and air guns and implements “double prohibition”. At present, except for military and police security guards and shooters, ordinary citizens have very little access to guns and ammunition.
Two reasons for banning guns in China
The history of banning guns in China is not very long. The history of gun control in China has gone through a tortuous process. Historically, gun control has been so strict for two reasons: one is the need to improve gun control; the other is to reduce malignant incidents, avoid casualties, protect the personal safety of citizens and maintain the long-term stability of the country.
After the reform and opening up, China has formulated a new “measures for the control of guns”, which has a clearer definition of legal gun holders. Only party and government cadres in frontier defense areas, coastal defense areas, and other remote areas, security departments of enterprises and institutions, and a very small number of other units that need weapons can wear guns with permission. At the same time, in addition to hunters, it also allows “non professional hunters who hold guns shall be limited to citizens over 18 years old, and each person shall not have more than two guns.”.
In the 1990s, on the one hand, due to the relatively backward gun control work, on the other hand, many enterprises and individuals illegally produce guns in large quantities, resulting in a large increase in the number of illegal guns among the people and constant vicious incidents. According to the statistics of the Ministry of public security, from 1991 to 1995, there were more than 10000 cases of homicide, robbery, rape and other armed crimes in China, including more than 3000 in 1995. In 1991-1995 alone, 1.05 million illegal guns of various types were seized nationwide, including 13000 military guns. In order to further tighten the system of gun use, the most stringent “gun control law” was issued in 1996.
This Law improves the gun control system and establishes the principle that “illegal possession of a gun is a crime”. The scope of guns used in public affairs has been narrowed again, and the possibility of Party and government cadres being equipped with guns has been completely abolished. The use of hunting guns is also strictly restricted. Only hunting grounds approved by the government, relevant scientific research institutions, as well as hunters and herdsmen can be equipped. According to the explanation, “the allocation of hunting guns to hunters should be strictly restricted according to the needs of protecting wild animals.” “herdsmen (whose income from animal husbandry should account for more than 50% of their total living income) can allocate hunting guns according to regulations because of the needs of protecting animal husbandry, and non herdsmen in pastoral areas are not allowed to allocate hunting guns.”.
From a deeper level, the strictness of the gun ban system reflects the gradual improvement of the rule of law in China. According to the relevant person in charge of the criminal division of the Research Office of the Supreme People’s court, strict control of guns and severe punishment of gun related crimes according to law are important successful experiences in the construction of the rule of law and social governance of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which must be unswervingly adhered to, xinhuanet.com reported. In recent years, gun related cases show the characteristics of diversity and complexity, especially the gun powered by compressed gas has a wide range of muzzle specific kinetic energy, and there is a great difference in the wounding force. This requires that when deciding whether to pursue criminal responsibility and how to determine the penalty for gun cases with compressed gas as power and low muzzle specific kinetic energy, we should not only discuss the number of guns, so as to prevent the handling of specific cases from going against the general public’s cognition and the principle of suiting crime, responsibility and penalty. In addition, in judicial practice, similar problems also exist in cases involving air guns and lead bombs.
Awesome police system — Skynet
“Skynet project” refers to a video monitoring system for real-time monitoring and information recording of fixed areas, which is composed of GIS map, image acquisition, transmission, control, display and other equipment and control software to meet the needs of urban public security prevention and control and urban management.
Skynet project installs video monitoring equipment in traffic arteries, public security checkpoints, public gathering places, hotels, schools, hospitals and complex public security places, and uses video private network, Internet, mobile and other network gateways to spread the images of all video monitoring points in a certain area to the monitoring center (namely “Skynet project” management platform), so as to prevent criminal cases, public security cases and traffic accidents Through the classification of violation, urban management violation and other image information, we can provide reliable image data for strengthening urban comprehensive management, preventing and cracking down on crimes and sudden public security disasters and accidents. “
The reason why criminals in the past could escape the arrest of the police for decades is that the track of their actions is erratic, which makes it difficult for the police to determine the location for arrest. Now it’s different. The Skynet system now covers every corner of the city. The city should be accurate to every community, and the township should be accurate to every village.
In recent years, with the development of science and technology, our Skynet system is constantly upgrading, adding face recognition and big data. It is difficult for human eyes to distinguish, so it is operated by machines and algorithms, which is not only fast but also with high accuracy. Skynet system in some cities can also connect each community through big data. Each house is equipped with a data model to analyze water and electricity consumption. If there is any abnormality, it will give an early warning immediately to prevent it.
The whereabouts of criminals will be exposed in the sight of the police at the first time. Through the analysis of their tracks, they can reach the criminal’s destination first and then arrest them.
Strong security force
Chinese mainland Chinese mainland has a per capita crime rate of only one in 10% in the Anglo American and Hongkong regions. However, the mainland city with a relatively low urbanization rate and social division of labor has a very strong police force and security force.
1. The administrative establishment of police (civil servants) is about 2.2 million
2. The establishment and contract system of the police force are more than 500000
3. The security police (internal law enforcement personnel of security organs at all levels, equivalent to a part of the U.S. FBI) is about 100000
4. There are about 2 million full-time Auxiliary Police (including assistant police, public security officers and joint defense team members who assist police work)
5. About 600000 armed police (formerly known as public security forces) are responsible for public security
6. There are about 200000 formal urban management and law enforcement personnel who actually perform police functions
7. There are about 800000 full-time urban management and law enforcement assistants.
8. There are about 4 million security guards under unified management (a regular security company led by public security organs).
9. About 800000 security guards (including those employed by enterprises, institutions and villages and towns) have not yet been included in the unified management
There are about 3.5 million law enforcement personnel in China, which is the largest number of civil servants. There are about 2.8 million auxiliary personnel and 4.8 million security guards, with a total strength of more than 11 million.
China’s security force is four times that of the United States, and the security force of Zhejiang Province is about five times that of the United Kingdom. Compared with the average level of developing countries, China’s security force is ahead of India, and it is still growing at a high speed. Obviously, this has greatly exceeded the current level of China’s social division of labor and economic scale.
It can be seen that China’s safe social environment has been fully guaranteed by laws and regulations, advanced technical means, and huge police and security forces.
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