Dongguan dispatched 6,525 police officers to seal down 12 pornographic entertainment venues

China News Service, February 10. According to CCTV reports, Dongguan City began to dispatch a large number of police forces yesterday afternoon to conduct simultaneous inspections of all saunas, foot massages, and entertainment venues in the city.

Yesterday morning, CCTV reported on the pornographic industry in some hotels in Dongguan City. Yesterday afternoon, the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government quickly held a meeting to coordinate the city's investigation and handling actions. Starting from the afternoon, Dongguan City dispatched a total of 6,525 police officers to conduct simultaneous inspections of all saunas, foot baths, and entertainment venues in the city, and to investigate and arrest many pornographic venues exposed by the program. At the Guoan Hotel in Dongguan, the police investigated and dealt with many pairs of people suspected of soliciting prostitution.

Lu Weiqi, deputy director of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau, said that the sixth floor of the Guoan Hotel is a sauna with a total of 37 rooms. The police arrested a total of 45 people. There are 19 staff members, and a total of 10 pairs and 20 people are using the sauna in the room. He said that the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have now begun to study and formulate relevant measures in response to the situation that Dongguan's pornographic issues have not been completely resolved for many years.

"Next we have to go to the municipal government level to study how to manage entertainment venues well," Lu Weiqi said. "In other words, how to establish a long-term mechanism to manage entertainment venues in Dongguan."

CCTV reporters said that starting yesterday afternoon, Dongguan has conducted two rounds of inspections. In the first round, the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau and five branches established a task force. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, 12 entertainment venues in five towns exposed by the media were inspected and rectified. Personnel involved in pornography and those who introduced prostitution were controlled. After fixing the evidence, they were dealt with in accordance with the law. The 12 pornographic entertainment venues exposed have been sealed. In the first round of inspections, five branches in Dongguan City inspected a total of 42 places and arrested 67 people suspected of pornography trafficking.

CCTV reporters learned from the Propaganda Department of the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee that the relevant responsible persons have been dealt with. The director of the Zhongtang Town Public Security Bureau and the director of the police station where the pornographic hotel is located were initially suspended first and investigated later. In addition, the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee also held admonishment talks with the main leaders and leaders in charge of the five towns of Zhongtang, Huangjiang, Humen, Fenggang and Houjie. This is the preliminary handling opinion of the first round of inventory.

He revealed that the second round of inspection started at around nine o'clock last night. More than 6,000 police officers launched unified operations at more than 300 saunas, foot massages and KTVs in the city. During the operation, places that are no longer open for business were especially inspected and no signs were missed. The second round of inspections will continue until early this morning. The inspection team of each branch and each town shall be assigned special personnel by the supervision team of the Ministry of Public Security and the Provincial Public Security Department to conduct supervision and investigation.

He also revealed that the Dongguan City Discipline Inspection and Supervision Department made preliminary arrangements for the media exposure of the 110 report call but no police dispatch and investigated the relevant responsible persons. If the situation is true, it will be dealt with according to law.

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Periodic Storms of Anti-Pornography in Dongguan

After 2003, a term called "typhoon" began to spread in Dongguan. "Typhoon" is actually a general term used by porn practitioners in Dongguan for the government's "anti-pornography" campaign, which contains two meanings: first, people's affirmation of the government's "anti-pornography" efforts every time, calling it "as strong as a typhoon"; second, porn practitioners' disdain for the action, saying that "it will pass after a typhoon." From 2004 to 2009, Dongguan's periodic "anti-pornography" campaign never stopped. Every time, many "small fish" were caught, but the "big fish" were never completely caught.

On the one hand, this is because many porn industry bosses collude with certain local officials. Every time the police takes action, "Big Fish" will be notified in advance. Even if someone is caught, they will be "managed with fines" and "lost money to eliminate disasters."

In 2010, an underground pornographic industry person in Dongguan estimated that there were more than 100,000 young ladies in Dongguan, and these young ladies' makeup directly supported tens of thousands of people including jewelry sales and stalls specializing in "lady makeup". It also had a great role in promoting the hotel industry and the sales of sex products and drugs. The entire underground pornography industry and its direct and indirect related industries generate economic benefits of nearly 40 billion yuan every year, while the GDP of Dongguan as a whole in 2009 was more than 370 billion yuan.

"In fact, compared to other industries, the decline in the underground pornography industry has been most affected by the hotel industry, and Dongguan's hotel industry is the industry with the largest investment in local private capital." A person who studies Dongguan's economy analyzed. At present, the number of hotels in Dongguan exceeds 1,000, making it the area with the highest density of star-rated hotels in the country. The total investment is conservatively estimated to exceed 30 billion yuan. (Tencent News comprehensively reported by Oriental Morning Post and Global People Magazine)