Time: May 29, 2012
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On May 26, 2012 China Forum of Cyber Crime and Social Security was held in Shanghai. This annual event is co-hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, 3rd Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security China and Pyxis Consult, dedicated to discussing the ongoing cyber security realities and challenges in China, and finding the solutions and actions against evolving cyber threats and e-crimes.
In recent years, network crimes and the spread of harmful information attracted more and more attentions. From 2009 to 2011, the number of network-related crime increased from 2,259 to 4,712 per year, an average annual increase of 44%, and their proportion to all crime cases rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 3.2% in 2011.

At present, network-related crimes are mainly property-driven ones such as network fraud, network pornography, network gambling, hacker attack and damage, online sale of prohibited products, infringement of intellectual property rights, etc., and criminals also show the trend of “generalization”. They are no longer high-tech crimes that can only be implemented by specialized technical personnel. In 2010, among the people involved in network crime cases solved in China, 95% were below the junior college level, and 88% were below the senior high sophomore level, showing the trend of increasingly younger ages. Besides, the transnational and cross-border crimes were prominent. According to the statistics of China’s network crime cases in 2010, cross-city crimes accounted for more than 90%, and cross-province crimes more than 74%.

Therefore, Shanghai’s public security organs proposed the strategic arrangement for strengthening virtual society management earliest in China, established an online police-reporting platform, strengthened the research and judgement of new means of network crime such as pornography and phishing websites, and established the Network Society Credit Web in 2009. At present, this website has exposed 2,512 items of the ID and website information of people violating laws and having no credibility, and more than 210,000 illegal fraud text messages of 71 versions.