Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau holds a press conference on January 26, 2026. Photo: Deng Xiaoci/GT

Beijing recorded a new low for the century in terms of the crime rate per 10,000 people in 2025, and the Capital city's criminal case clearance rate hit the highest level in 10 years, and the clearance rate for traditional crimes set a historical new high, Global Times learned from the Beijing police authorities on Monday. 

Li Xiaoyan, an official with Criminal Investigation Corps of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, made the remarks during a press conference held in Beijing on Monday.

Crime rate per 10,000 people, also called crimes per 10,000 inhabitants, is a standardized per capita crime indicator that measures the number of reported crimes occurring in a given area such as a city relative to its population size.

Li revealed that homicide cases have maintained a 100 percent clearance rate for 11 consecutive years in Beijing, robbery cases for 7 consecutive years, and robbery-by-snatching cases for 5 consecutive years. For the first time, the clearance rate for the eight categories of serious violent crimes, intentional injury, and burglary reached 100 percent, according to Li.

Li disclosed to the Global Times on Monday that new breakthroughs were achieved in Beijing's combating and preventing telecom and online fraud crimes. 

We focused on the black and gray industries involved in fraud as the main target, organizing and launching more than 30 national and citywide cluster operations, dismantling over 180 various criminal gang dens, she said. 

We persisted in "cracking down on overseas crimes from within the country," treating fraud repatriated personnel as the most direct means to strike overseas operations, and cumulatively arrested more than 600 repatriated individuals, creating strong deterrence, the official said. 

We carried out a special campaign against offline transport of fraud-related funds, dismantling more than 100 vehicle teams, criminally detaining nearly 700 suspects, and intercepting over 60 million yuan ($8.6 million) in fraud-related funds along with 16 kilograms of gold, Li noted.