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averaged 750,000, with a crime rate of 7.5 per 10,000 people. The majority of the case were minor criminal cases. Major criminal cases including murder, robbery, rape, arson accounted for only 6% or 50,000 of the total, the official said.

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According to available reports, there were more than

13.3 million criminal cases in the United States in 1980 with

a crime rate of 590 per 10,000 people. The crime rate in

West Germany in 1980 was 620 per 10,000 people and the rate in Japan, usually considered as comparatively low, was 120 per 10,000 people in 1979.

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The official said that the fundamental reason for the drop in the crime rate was the policy of the past years to mobilise the whole Party and the whole social forces and

social circles to maintain order in their localities. Under

the policy, the official said, two major steps have been employed. Firstly, schools, factories, neighbourhood com- mittees and families educate erring youth and juvenile del- inquents in their respective units. In many places groups composed of teachers, parents, activists in maintaining social order and police were established for youth education. Such groups have been set up in Hebei, Liaoning, Shandong, Sichuan and Jilin provinces since 1961. In Tianjin, educa- tion groups helped offenders to find jobs or continue their studies after they mended their ways. Secondly, a social order responsibility system in factories, mines, enterprises and production brigades in the countryside has been intro- duced along with the production responsibility system. system includes provisions giving awards or fining for losses caused in accordance with respective local social order conditions.

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Another factor in improving social order, the official said, is the policy of combining police work with mass line.

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The official said the rate for solving serious criminal cases has been above 85% for several years. the first nine months of this year, people caught and

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