China to beef up crackdown on gang crimes in 2010

China will continue to crack down on gang crimes this year to protect people's safety and maintain social stability, Vice Minister of Public Security Zhang Xinfeng has said. The country's police investigated and handled 453 cases involving organized crime gangs, and uprooted more than 4,000 such gangs in 2009, Zhang was quoted as saying in a report posted on the ministry's website Thursday ...