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HONG KONG - JANUARY 19: CEO of HSBC Hong Kong, Mark McCombe, Group Head of Sponsorship for HSBC Holdings plc Giles Morgan, and Vice-President of the Asian Rugby Football Union Trevor Gregory present a traditional Chinese New Year scroll to international rugby players Salom Yiu Kam Shing of Hong Kong and Zhang Zhiqang of China, wishing them good luck for the 2011 HSBC Asian 5 Nations and newly launched HSBC Asian Sevens Series on January 19, 2011 in Hong Kong, China. It was announced today that HSBC has committed to a further three-year sponsorship of the tournament and will support the newly launched HSBC Asian Sevens Series.

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Selina Ren of popular girl band S.H.E. smiles as she speaks during a news conference at Linkou Chang Gung Hospital in New Taipei City January 19, 2011. Ren made her first public appearance on Wednesday, 89 days after she was seriously burned during the shooting of an explosion scene for a TV program in China, according to local media.

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Lanters for Chinese New Year are sold at a street stall Wednesday Jan. 19, 2011 in Shanghai, China. By the usual measures, the world's second largest economy is doing just fine: China's growth this year looks likely to slow only slightly. Prices appear to be moderating and shops are packed as families stock up on food and clothes for Lunar New Year festivities.

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A couple embraces at Beijing West Railway Station January 19, 2011. China on Wednesday begins its annual Spring Festival travel rush, with an expected 2.56 billion passenger trips in the coming 40 days. Airlines and trains have been added to cope with the passenger surge, which is 11.6 percent up year on year, according to the Ministry of Transport.

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Passengers buy train tickets at Beijing West Railway Station January 19, 2011. China on Wednesday begins its annual Spring Festival travel rush, with an expected 2.56 billion passenger trips in the coming 40 days. Airlines and trains have been added to cope with the passenger surge, which is 11.6 percent up year on year, according to the Ministry of Transport.

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Photo taken on Jan. 19, 2011 shows the site where an explosion occurred at a refinery of Fushun Petrochemical Company in Fushun, northeast China's Liaoning Province. (Xinhua)

FUSHUN, Liaoning, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- An explosion at a northeast China oil refinery Wednesday left at least one dead, two missing and about 30 others injured, local officials said.

The explosion ripped through the No. 2 plant of Fushun Petrochemical Company in Liaoning Province at 9 a.m. and ignited a fire which was brought under control at 7 p.m., said an official surnamed Wang at the Information Center of the company.

All injured workers had been taken to hospital and most suffered only minor injuries, he said.

The workers were injured by broken glass and other debris, Wang added.

The explosion occurred at the heavy oil catalytic cracking unit, part of an automated production line.

Production at the unit had been halted, said a senior executive with the plant who did not give his name.

An investigation into the cause of the explosion is underway.

Fushun Petrochemical Company, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation, has an asset value of 20.9 billion yuan (3.2 billion U.S. dollars), and an annual crude oil processing capacity of 10 million tonnes.

On Sept. 7 last year, another blast occurred at the company's No.3 oil plant, but no casualties were reported.

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CHICAGO, IL - JANUARY 20: Supporters of Chinese President Hu Jintao wait outside the Hilton Hotel hoping to get a glimpse of him January 20, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Hu was attending a mayoral dinner in his honor at the hotel to mark the beginning of a two-day visit to the city. During a visit to Washington D.C. yesterday it was announced that China planned on purchasing 200 planes from Chicago-based Boeing Inc. for $19 billion.

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Students for a Free Tibet and their supporters protest against the Chinese government and the arrival of Chinese President Hu Jintao in downtown Chicago January 20, 2011. Hu is scheduled for a two-day visit to Chicago that includes a dinner hosted by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley as well as tours of various sites around the city.

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Member of the Chinese troup 'Flag Circus of Jiangxi' perform during the opening ceremony of the 35rth edition of the Monte-Carlo International Circus Festival, on January 20, 2011 in Monaco.

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Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Chao (L) shakes hands with Illinois Governor Pat Quinn after a soybean purchasing agreement during a ceremony in Chicago January 20, 2011. The signing co-incides with Chinese President Hu Jintao's two-day visit to Chicago that includes a dinner hosted by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley as well as tours of various sites around the city. A Chinese business group signed agreements on Thursday to buy just over 3 million tonnes of soybeans from the United States worth about $1.8 billion, cementing agricultural trade ties between the two countries.

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Shoppers rest after shopping at a supermarket in Beijing, China, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. China's economy accelerated in the last quarter of 2010 to expand a blockbuster 10.3 percent for the year as its communist leaders struggle to keep growth on an even keel while cooling surging prices.

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A handicapped man scavenge for resalable materials amongst garbage accumulated along a road in Beijing, China, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. China's economy accelerated in the last quarter of 2010 to expand a blockbuster 10.3 percent for the year as its communist leaders struggle to keep growth on an even keel while cooling surging prices.

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A man arrives at the central railway station in Shanghai on January 19, 2011. Millions boarded trains and buses across China to journey home for the Lunar New Year celebrations as the peak travel period for the world's largest annual human migration began.

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More than one hundred contestants take part in a dumpling-making competition in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China’s Liaoning province, Jan 19, 2011. [Photo/Asianewsphoto]

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China's President Hu Jintao waves as he boards his plane to depart O'Hare International airport in Chicago January 21, 2011. Hu completed a two-day stay in Chicago that included tours of a high school and a business exhibition featuring Chinese businesses that have offices in the United States.

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A boy takes a rest as he waits for his family on his way home for the Chinese New Year festive season at a subway station near the Shanghai Railway Station January 22, 2011. China begins its annual Spring Festival travel rush, with an expected 2.56 billion passenger trips in the coming 40 days. Airlines and trains have been added to cope with the passenger surge, which is 11.6 percent up year on year, according to the Ministry of Transport.

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People travel on a train on their way home for the Chinese New Year festive season in Kunshan, Shanghai province January 22, 2011

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Peng Shuai of China gestures as she celebrates victory in her third round women's singles match against Ayumi Morita of Japan on the sixth day of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 22, 2011. Peng won 6-1. 3-6. 6-3.

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Unites States Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman (L) and Chinese Ambassador to the United States Zhang Yesui wave to China's President Hu Jintao as his plane taxis to depart O'Hare International airport in Chicago January 21, 2011. Hu completed a two-day stay in Chicago that included tours of a high school and a business exhibition featuring Chinese businesses that have offices in the United States.

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Chinese police with a sniffer dog patrol at a railway station in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province on January 19, 2011, as thousands of people head home for Lunar New Year. Snow blanketing southern and eastern parts of China hampered travellers returning home for the Lunar New Year celebrations, with air, rail and road traffic severely disrupted, state media said.

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A policeman carries a firearm at Beijing railway station on January 21, 2011.

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A vendor arranges rabbit figurines in China town ahead of the Chinese New Year in Manila on January 21, 2011. 2011 is the 'Year of the rabbit' under the 12-year Chinese cycle where each calendar year is named after one of the 12 key animals in turn.

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Chinese actor Jet Li (R) receives flowers as he arrives at the '2011 Red Spring festival', an event aimed at mobilising blood donors, in Hanoi on January 22, 2011. Li, during his three-day visit in his capacity as Goodwill Ambassador for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) will tour various humanitarian projects.

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Students give blood at the '2011 Red Spring festival', an event aimed at mobilizing blood donors, in Hanoi on January 22, 2011.

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Chinese pop singer Faye Wong performs during a concert in Taipei January 21, 2011. Wong will stage concerts from January 21-23 as part of her comeback to show business after retiring in 2003.

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A man is secured by two assistants while hanging a red lantern from the balcony of a building on January 21, 2011 in Beijing for Chinese New Year decorations in the lead up to the Year of the Rabbit which begins on February 3rd. Believed to date back to the Western Han Dyansty (206BC-24AD) and traditionally recognized as a symbol of good luck, red lanterns are most often hung and displayed during festivals like the Lunar New Year, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the lunar new year.

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Neil Granger, stamp specialist from auctioneers Spink, holds a block of four Hong Kong Queen Victoria stamps in Hong Kong on January 21, 2011. The stamps have a pre-auction estimate of over 1-1.5 million USD and will be put up for auction on January 23, 2011.

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Visitors pose at Hong Kong Disneyland January 21, 2011. Hong Kong Disneyland announced that its net loss dropped 45 percent from a year earlier, narrowing to HK$718 million ($92.4 million) for the 12 months to October 2, 2010. The theme park expects visitor numbers to reach 5.8 million this year, said Managing Director Andrew Kam, according to local media.

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A waiter fumbles a steamer containing hot water as he walks in front of a Sotherby's poster advertising an auction of wine that belonged to British composer Andrew lloyd Webber, in Hong Kong on January 22, 2011. British composer Andrew lloyd Webber's multi million dollar wine collection is going under the hammer in Hong Kong, one of several weekend sales in the fast-action hub. In all, 747 lots from lloyd Webber will be sold off, including 21 cases of Chateau Mouton Rothschild 2005 and four cases of Chateau Haut Brion 1989.

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An attendee walks past a poster advertising the ongoing Sotherby's auction of wine that belonged to British composer Andrew lloyd Webber, in Hong Kong on January 22, 2011.

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Monks from China's Shaolin Temple perform Shaolin martial art in Moscow, Russia, Jan. 20, 2011. (Xinhua/Daniil Tomilov)

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Giant Panda Tian Tian enjoys a fruitcicle January 20, 2011 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo in Washington, DC. The snack is made with apples and pears frozen in apple juice. Tian Tian was on hand for the ceremony to sign a new loan agreement, the Giant Panda Cooperative Research and Breeding Agreement between the US and China which allows the giant pandas to remain at the zoo for five more years.

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Chinese actress Gong Li arrives at Italian luxury fashion label Prada fashion show in Beijing on January 22, 2011. Miuccia Prada has already won plaudits for her spring/summer 2011 collection but by displaying the clothes on a runway in Beijing -- her first catwalk show outside Europe -- and adding a few looks from her spring menswear line, the Italian designer signalled her focus on China's huge market.

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A woman pushes a cart containing various foods inside a supermarket in Beijing on January 23, 2011. China said that its economy grew 10.3 percent in 2010, marking the fastest annual pace since the onset of the financial crisis and underlining the country's growing might. The 2010 GDP figure, up from a revised 9.2 percent growth in 2009, highlighted China's powerful performance in a year when it overtook Japan to become the world's second-largest economy behind the United States.

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Li Na of China signs autographs for fans after beating Victoria Azarenka of Belarus during their round four women's singles match on the seventh day of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 23, 2011. China's Li advanced to the quarter-finals with a 6-3 6-3 fourth-round win over Azarenka.

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Hong Kong actress Cecilia Cheung arrives for the Italian luxury fashion label Prada fashion show in Beijing on January 22, 2011.

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Members of 501st Legion Singapore Garrison, in their Star Wars costumes, take part in the dress rehearsal of the Chingay parade in Singapore January 22, 2011. The word Chingay means "the art of masquerade" in Chinese Hokkien dialect. Chingay parade is an annual street and floats parade held during the Chinese new year period in Singapore.

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Policemen catch two luggage thieves suspects at Guangzhou South Railway Station on January 18, 2011 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. One of the suspects hid in a luggage and the other suspect carried the luggage to the train. They want to steal valuables of other passengers after the train running. [Photo/CFP]

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Members of 501st Legion Singapore Garrison, in their Star Wars costumes, take part in the dress rehearsal of the Chingay parade in Singapore January 22, 2011. The word Chingay means "the art of masquerade" in Chinese Hokkien dialect. Chingay parade is an annual street and floats parade held during the Chinese new year period in Singapore.

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Russia's Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev (L) meets with visiting Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, who is here for the fifth round of China-Russia strategic security talks, in Moscow, Russia, Jan. 24, 2011. (Xinhua/Lu Jinbo)

MOSCOW, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- China and Russia held the fifth round of strategic security talks here Monday, pledging more joint efforts to strengthen national, regional and international security.

The Chinese delegation, led by Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, was visiting Russia at the invitation of Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.

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Victims lured by false promises as international crime groups involved

BEIJING - The number of Chinese women trafficked overseas and forced into prostitution has risen amid an increasing presence of international crime groups, a senior police officer said.

The women, mostly from poor rural areas, were trafficked mainly for forced marriage or forced prostitution, Chen Shiqu, director of the anti-human trafficking office under the Ministry of Public Security, said.

Forced marriages in poor areas of Southwest China's Yunnan and Guizhou provinces were behind most of the trafficking, he said.

"But there has been a growing trend for organized transnational human trafficking crime groups to target Chinese women for forced prostitution in foreign countries," Chen told China Daily.

A majority of the targeted women were from poor rural areas in China and were trafficked to Southeast Asia, Europe and Africa, Chen said but declined to provide specific figures.

But he cited statistics from Malaysian police as saying a total of 5,453 Chinese women suspected of engaging in prostitution were detained by the end of November.

Chinese police have cracked 9,165 trafficking cases and rescued 17,746 women since April 2009 when the Ministry of Public Security launched a special campaign, according to statistics from Chen's office.

Huge profits for organized crime groups allied to poor awareness among rural Chinese women about the dangers of human trafficking contributed to a growing number of international cases.

"Many of the trafficked women were cheated by criminal suspects under the guise of overseas study or high-paid jobs and then forced into prostitution," he said.

There is an increasing need for more international cooperation as trafficking in other countries can involve various organized crime groups, he said.

China has signed the Mekong River Sub-regional Cooperation Anti-trafficking Memo with Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia and set up an annual senior-official meeting mechanism to help curb international trafficking.

Beijing has also established eight border offices with neighboring countries, such as Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos, to combat trafficking, Chen said.

Chinese police have also cooperated with their Russian, British, Australian and Malaysian counterparts in intelligence exchange and investigation.

Police in China, with the help of foreign counterparts, have carried out a number of successful rescue operations, Chen said.

Last November, police rescued 15 women who had been trafficked from Sichuan province to Africa for prostitution. The operation began following a tip-off in May that the women had been trafficked to Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The ministry dispatched a special investigation team there and detained two Chinese suspects, surnamed Zhuang and Yao, on Nov 26, 2010.

Dai Peng, head of the investigation department of the Chinese People's Public Security University, said lack of financial and manpower resources are hindering police efforts to fight international trafficking.

He Yunxiao, a national project coordinator from the UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking, told China Daily that international cooperation is vital, as it leads to greater intelligence sharing and the extradition of suspects.

Cao Yin contributed to this story.

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Chen Weiwei, dressed only in his underwear, challenges a railway station official after he failed to get a train ticket home. [LI JIANLIN / FOR CHINA DAILY]

SHANGHAI - A man who took his clothes off at a local railway station office in East China to express his anger at being unable to buy a ticket home remained stranded and anxious for help on Sunday.

Chen Weiwei, a migrant worker from Central China's Henan province, earned national attention and sympathy when a set of pictures depicting Chen, clad only in his underwear, and confronting an officer, circulated widely online.

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A 213-meter and 1,256-kilogram horse casing sausage is dried in Yining of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region January 23, 2011. A Kazak horse meat butcher made the sausage with casings from 30 horses and thigh meat from another eight 5-year-old horses. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Photo taken on Jan. 23, 2011 shows a porcelain dragon at the Songjiacheng scenic spot in Yangzhou of east China's Jiangsu Province. The dragon, nearly 30 meters in length, is assembled with more than 2,800 porcelain dishes and cups. (Xinhua/Zhang Bingtao)

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Singer Emily Li, aged 11, sings "Colors of The Wind" at the New York 2011 Chinese New Year Gala in Flushing, New York, the United States, Jan. 22, 2011. Chinese Americans gathered on Saturday in China Town in New York to celebrate the Chinese Spring Festival which falls on Feb. 3, 2011 this year. (Xinhua/Wang Chengyun)

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Singer Aaron Yi Huang (L) performs at the New York 2011 Chinese New Year Gala in Flushing, New York, the United States, Jan. 22, 2011. Chinese Americans gathered on Saturday in China Town in New York to celebrate the Chinese Spring Festival which falls on Feb. 3, 2011 this year. (Xinhua/Wang Chengyun)

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Singer Wang Yuqing (R， front) and Zhan Anna perform at the New York 2011 Chinese New Year Gala in Flushing， New York， the United States， Jan. 22， 2011

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Singer He Yi (front) performs at the New York 2011 Chinese New Year Gala in Flushing, New York, the United States, Jan. 22, 2011. Chinese Americans gathered on Saturday in China Town in New York to celebrate the Chinese Spring Festival which falls on Feb. 3, 2011 this year. (Xinhua/Wang Chengyun)

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An actor prepares to perform Peking Opera in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Jan. 23, 2011. Local Peking Opera troupe performed on Sunday for citizens free of charge, to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year. (Xinhua/Tian Weitao)

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Actors perform Peking Opera in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Jan. 23, 2011. Local Peking Opera troupe performed on Sunday for citizens free of charge, to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year. (Xinhua/Tian Weitao)

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Actor Louis Koo brushes his wax figure in Madame Tussauds in Hong Kong, south China, Jan. 20, 2011. The wax figure of Louis Koo was unveiled here Thursday. (Xinhua/ Lui Siu Wai)

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Pupils pose during a dance training in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning Province, Jan 22, 2011. As the winter vacation comes, pupils who love dance are engaged in attending training classes. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Chinese top-singer Faye Wong performs during her concert at Taipei Arena on January 21, 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan of China. [Photo/Agencies]

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Wen Yonglan waits for an operation at the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University on January 16, 2011 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province of China. Wen Yonglan is a 16-year-old girl of Ewenke ethnic minority who had congenital skull defect and hydrocephalus. She was born at home. Her parents found that there was a pit on her head, but they thought she could heal herself with the growth of age. Until the child 9 years old, the condition became more serious - the right eye gradually bulged, deformed and shifted. The local hospital told the family that Wen's skull lost 1/4 and they need to go to a large hospital, as a poor family, they had to give up the best opportunity for treatment. Her parents are farmers. This year, they sell their field and collected 30,000 RMB (4,500 USD). They decided to let their daughter away from the pain. But the money is only enough for the first operation, there is the other operation which will cost 70,000 RMB (10,600 USD). They need social assistance. "I will go back to school, if the operation is successful and this is my greatest wish." Wen said. [Photo/CFP]

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Crackdown ends reign of organized crime boss
2011-01-25 02:51:50 GMT2011-01-25 10:51:50(Beijing Time) China Daily

CHONGQING - A shareholder of the Hilton Hotel Chongqing was put on trial on Monday for alleged crimes that included heading a mafia-style gang, turning the spotlight once again on the municipality's crackdown on organized crime.

The sensational charges Peng Zhimin and his gang face include organizing hundreds of women to go into prostitution and gaining 4 million yuan ($607,000) from 2,200 sex deals in a club entrenched in the world-famous hotel chain since July 2004.

The charges against the 47-year-old Peng also include bribery, intentionally harming others, intentionally damaging assets, loan-sharking, destructive lumbering and illegally seizing arable lands.

If Peng is convicted on all counts by the Chongqing No 1 Intermediate People's Court, he will not be sentenced to death although legal experts have called for tougher punishments for those guilty of organized crime.

Instead, Peng, also the owner of one of Chongqing's biggest development firms, is more likely to face a long jail term, according to Chinese law.

In the court, Peng, a native of the city's Jiangjin district, defended himself against charges of organizing and leading mafia-style gangs and organizing prostitution but pleaded guilty to bribing officials.

Apart from Peng, 26 other gangsters were charged along with five former government officials from the municipality's land resources and water resources administrative agencies who were accused of protecting the gang and accepting bribes.

The trial is expected to last for five days.

Party secretary of Chongqing Bo Xilai and director of Chongqing public security bureau Wang Lijun waged a massive campaign on organized gangs in 2009.

By the end of 2010, Chongqing police had dismantled 375 gangs. Members of 231 gangs have received their sentences, including death penalties for 57 people (37 with reprieves). Thirteen of them have been executed, according to court figures.

Peng was arrested on June 18, 2010, two months after former deputy director of Chongqing public security bureau Wen Qiang was sentenced to death for crimes that included protecting gangs.

Peng's arrest made a huge impact: pictures showed the Diamond Dynasty club he ran in the high-profile hotel was equipped with camouflage helmets, bullet-proof vests and machine guns, ready for crossing fire with police.

Prosecutors said Peng registered two real-estate companies called Qinglong and Zhongcheng in 1993 and invested in the Hilton Hotel Chongqing in the city's Yuzhong district.

Prosecutors added that Peng had recruited gang members to commit crimes since 2003, and had bribed government officials for protection to develop his organization that links six key groups.

They also said that during the development of a golf course, the gang injured six people and damaged local residents' assets while forcing through demolition of properties.

To cover up his illegal occupation and deforestation activities when developing the golf course, Peng offered 1.95 million yuan of bribes on four occasions to two leaders of the city's Nan'an district forestry bureau.

Altogether Peng is accused of offering 2.5 million yuan in bribes to five officials.

China Daily

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