Improve Public Security System

It refers to the sum of various administrative activities carried out by the state administrative organs in order to maintain the public security order of society, protect the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, and guarantee the normal progress of social activities. In China, improving the public security system include: improving a unified and authoritative food and drug safety regulatory agency, establishing the strictest supervision system covering the entire process, and establishing a food origin traceability system and a quality labeling system to ensure food and drug safety; deepening the reform of work safety management system, and establishing hidden trouble investigation and management system and security prevention and control system to curb serious safety accidents; improving disaster prevention and mitigation system; strengthening comprehensive public security governance, innovating three-dimensional social security prevention and control system, and strictly preventing and punishing various types of illegal and criminal activities in accordance with the law; improving the Internet management leadership system to ensure national cyber and information security; and establishing a national security committee, and improving the national security system and national security strategy to ensure national security. In 2012, the 18th CPC National Congress proposed to strengthen the construction of the public security system. In 2013, the Third Plenary Session of the Eighteenth CPC Central Committee, focusing on improving the public security system, proposed the reform tasks of system and mechanism in food and drug safety, work safety, disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, and social security prevention and control, etc.

In 2014, the 4th Plenary Session of the CPC 18th Central Committee put forward requirements for strengthening public security legislation and advancing the legalization on public security. On May 29, 2015, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee conducted the 23rd collective study on improving the public security system. During the study, Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to firmly establish the concept of safe development, consciously put the maintenance of public security at the height of safeguarding the fundamental interests of the vast majority of the people, do a good job in public safety, and strive to weave a comprehensive and three-dimensional public security net for the people to live and work in peace, social stability and order, and long-term national stability. Public security issues highlight the deep social contradictions in China's economic and social transformation and represent the resulting social problems.

During the transition period from the planned economic system to the socialist market economic system, the diversification of values objectively increases the difficulty of social regulation; the widening income gap creates social psychological imbalances, and the conflicts of various interest groups, and leads to the increase in the number of illegal and criminal activities; large-scale social population mobility brings difficulties to population management and public security; the transformation of government functions is not fully in place, which affects the regulation and rectification of social security; and due to overall opening, international criminal activities also have an impact on China.

To improve the public security system, we must establish systematic thinking, integrated thinking and problem-oriented awareness. Systematic thinking requires establishing a public security system in an all-round manner, earnestly implementing the comprehensive public security governance, and adhering to systematic governance, law-based governance, comprehensive governance, and source governance; integrated thinking requires establishing a national security committee, and a public security system, carrying out institutional reforms, and integrating social resources and forces in terms of institutions, systems and mechanisms to ensure national security and other security; problem-oriented awareness should start with the problems most concerned by the people, attach great importance to and effectively resolve some prominent contradictions and problems facing public security. To speed up the improvement of the public security system, we must start with the establishment of a sound and long-term effective mechanism, start from the basic areas, use the grass-roots frontline as the main battlefield of public security, and achieve grid and integration of urban and rural security supervision and law enforcement and comprehensive governance. We must improve the level of refinement of the public security system. We must construct civil defense, material defense, and technical defense networks of public security, and achieve overall coordination of personnel quality, facility guarantee, and technology application. We must adhere to the masses' views and mass lines and expand the effective ways for the masses to participate in public security governance. Improving the public security system is an important manifestation of social stability and good social order, and an important guarantee for the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and is of great significance to building a harmonious socialist society and building a moderately well-off society in an all-round way.