Ministry of Public Security · Full chronicle and history

On October 28, Chinese media reported that the Ministry of Public Security has established a Drone Security and Control Bureau. Drone control and safety management agencies have also been successively established at the provincial, municipal, and county levels in many regions, forming a regulatory system from the central government down to local levels. Departments such as the NDRC, CAAC, and MIIT have also set up management agencies for the low-altitude economy.

The Supreme Court, Supreme People's Procuratorate, and Ministry of Public Security have jointly issued and implemented opinions on the application of law in criminal cases involving fentanyl-related substances, with policies being implemented by the judicial system prior to the heads of state meeting.

On September 10, the Chinese Communist Party's Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Security, and National Immigration Administration issued a joint response, saying that the claims circulating online that "exit will be comprehensively tightened" and "it will become harder for ordinary people to leave the country" are a misreading, and that the new rules only target online fraud, high-risk destinations, and travelers with abnormal travel patterns, with normal exit unaffected.

On August 10, 2026, the Ministry of Public Security released 15 typical cases of fabricating and spreading rumors related to floods and disasters during the "Clean Net 2026" special operation, involving Guangdong, Anhui, Gansu, Guangxi and other places, and multiple netizens involved were given administrative penalties.

The Ministry of Public Security issued Order No. 176, promulgating the Measures for Cyberspace Security Supervision and Inspection, expanding the scope of network inspections and taking effect on October 1.

On August 17, 2026, the legal community and foreign media disclosed that the Ministry of Public Security announced the latest supervision measures, expanding the authority of cybersecurity inspections and, for the first time, directly bringing ordinary individuals and personal data processing activities within the scope of routine police inspections and document reviews.

On July 23, 2026, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Emergency Management jointly issued a notice, deploying a special campaign to rectify illegal and harmful information related to disaster incidents during the flood season, severely cracking down on online speech concerning disasters. On the same day, the Ministry of Public Security publicized 20 typical cases of disaster-related rumors.

CCTV cited data from the Ministry of Public Security stating that the number of criminal cases nationwide decreased by 16.1% year-on-year from January to May. However, the phenomenon of multiple regions investing financially in expanding detention centers and prisons has led to external doubts about the real public security situation.

On July 12, 2026, China’s Ministry of Public Security released the latest data, claiming that from January to May this year, criminal cases filed by public security organs nationwide dropped 16.1% year-on-year, and public security cases filed dropped 10.6% year-on-year, indicating an improving public security situation.

On June 29, 2026, it was reported that following the incident in which a small aircraft struck the CITIC Tower in Beijing, the Ministry of Public Security took the lead in setting up an investigation team to supervise and screen pilots' backgrounds and motives, and general aviation and light aircraft nationwide were subsequently ordered to halt takeoffs for at least 10 days.

The Ministry of Public Security announced that Liu Ren, a key backbone of the Chen Zhi criminal syndicate and president of the Anhui General Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia, has been escorted back to Beijing from Phnom Penh.

Cambodian police arrested Liu Ren in Phnom Penh as he was preparing to leave the country, and subsequently handed him over to Chinese public security authorities. The Ministry of Public Security announced that he is suspected of online gambling, telecom fraud, and serious violent crimes.

Jinbei Group founder Liu Ren was escorted from Cambodia back to Beijing by the Ministry of Public Security.

On July 24, China's Ministry of Public Security announced that all 630-plus buildings in the KK Park compound in Myawaddy, Myanmar, have been demolished.

On January 7, 2026, a working group from the Ministry of Public Security escorted Chen Zhi, a ringleader of a cross-border gambling and fraud syndicate, back to China from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Ministry of Public Security announced the news on January 8.

In response to the frequent occurrence of illegal drone flights, the Ministry of Public Security has been conducting a six-month national special rectification campaign for airspace security since last December.

In late July 2024, Lao Dongyan, a professor at Tsinghua University's Law School, published an article openly questioning the network number and network certificate system that the Ministry of Public Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China plan to introduce, arguing that it is essentially the normalization of Health Kit surveillance. The article was swiftly wiped out across the entire internet.

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued 34 officers of the Chinese Communist Party's Ministry of Public Security, accusing them of running an operation that organized online mobs to besiege dissidents and creating a large number of fake accounts.

The Ministry of Public Security has launched the national public security informatization project, known as the Golden Shield Project, aimed at collecting information such as household registration, educational background, and residential addresses of Chinese citizens and achieving a nationwide network.

On December 11, 1997, China promulgated the Measures for the Security Protection of International Networking of Computer Information Networks, putting forward the "nine prohibitions," which include banning pornography and banning criticism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).