Chinese people felt safer last year thanks to effective police work, according to a survey released yesterday. Chinese people felt safer last year thanks to effective police work, according to a survey released yesterday. About 15.4 percent of the 102,448 people in 1,836 cities and counties covered by the study felt "very safe", with 40.1 percent feeling "safe" and 36.5 percent, "generally safe". This means 92 percent of the people felt safe last year, or 0.1 percent more than 2005 and the highest percentage since the National Bureau of Statistics began the annual survey in 2001. The figures in the first two years were 81 and 84 percent, and stayed around 91 percent from 2003 to 2005. The survey shows 48.2 percent of the respondents thought the police crackdown on crimes was "effective", a rise of 5.7 percent over 2005. Ministry of Public Security data show that police handled 4.19 million criminal cases in the first 11 months of 2006, down 0.8 percent year on year. Violent crimes such as murders, arsons, rapes and kidnappings dropped as much as 4.3 percent. Police smashed 1,347 criminal gangs, too, and began judicial proceedings against 296 of them. As a result, only 26 percent of the respondents considered "criminal offence" to be the top threat to security, a sharp decrease of 5 percent over 2005. "Traffic accidents" replaced "public disorder" as the top threat last year. Asked "which social problem do you care for most", 15 percent chose "social morality", and 14.9 percent, "medical care". Public security, education and unemployment were among their top five concerns, though. 點擊查看更多雙語新聞 (China Daily)

昨天公布的一項調查顯示，由于公安部門的出色工作，中國人在過去的一年中感到“更加安全”。 此項共有102448人參加的調查在1836個縣市進行，其中約有15.4%的人感到“很安全”，40.1%的人感到“安全”，另有36.5%的人覺得“基本安全”。 這些數據說明，去年有92%的人感到安全，這一比例比2005年高0.1％，同時創下國家統計局自2001年開展此項年度調查以來的最高記錄。2001年和2002年的這一比例分別為81%和84%，2003至2005年這幾年都保持在91%左右。 調查顯示，48.2%的受訪者認為公安機關去年的打擊犯罪工作“很有成效”，這一比例比2005年上升了5.7％。 據公安部的有關數據顯示，公安部門2006年前11個月共破獲刑事犯罪案件共419萬起，比去年同期下降0.8％。謀殺、縱火、強奸、綁架等暴力犯罪案件比去年同期下降4.3％。 此外，公安部門去年共摧毀犯罪團伙1347個，并已對其中的296個提出了法律訴訟。 因此，去年只有26%的受訪者認為“刑事犯罪”是社會安全的最大威脅，比2005年下降了5％。而“交通事故”則取代了“公共秩序混亂”成為去年社會安全的頭號威脅。 在問及“你最關心哪個社會問題”時，15%的人選擇了“社會道德”，14.9%的人認為是 “醫療保險”。位居前五位的另外幾大問題還包括公共安全、教育和失業問題。 （英語點津姍姍編輯）