The promotion of Hu Binchen, the 53-year-old director of the International Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, to assistant minister rank and as member of the ministry’s Communist Party committee, was announced by the State Council, China’s cabinet, on Tuesday.
The ministry also promoted Liu Zhongyi, 59, director of its Criminal Investigation Bureau, to the same position, according to the announcement.
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Unravelling China’s role in the US fentanyl crisis
Unravelling China’s role in the US fentanyl crisis
Hu holds a master’s degree in criminology from the University of Cambridge and has spent his career working on China’s international police cooperation, according to his official resume.
He served as police counsellor at the Chinese embassy in the US around 2014 after serving as director of the US and Oceania Division of the public security ministry’s International Cooperation Bureau.
China and US vow closer cooperation in fighting America’s fentanyl crisis
China and US vow closer cooperation in fighting America’s fentanyl crisis
Responding to questions on US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell’s remarks that a large number of Chinese “economic migrants” headed to the US in recent months was “gathering concern”, Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday, “China opposes and firmly cracks down on all forms of illegal migration”.
Liu Zhongyi is a highly decorated crime buster in China from northeastern Heilongjiang province. He was transferred to the Ministry of Public Security’s Criminal Investigation Bureau in 2011 after decades working in his home province’s police force.
There, he helped to solve unsolved murder cases, in particular a series of rapes and murders in Gansu Baiyin between 1988 and 2022 that resulted in 11 victims. He was promoted to director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau in 2019.
