China's crackdown on prostitution effective
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-12-11 23:09


SUZHOU - China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has announced that the special campaign to crackdown on prostitution has been effective, with cases of prostitution and obscene performances in entertainment venues in October dropping 18.4 percent on a month-on month basis.

The campaign in the latter half of the year attached increased importance to the investigation and punishment of the organizers of prostitution.

The campaign also targeted business operators and the "protective umbrellas" - sometimes local government officials - that allow prostitution to happen, according to a document released at a ministry work conference in Suzhou Saturday.

More effort must be made to educate and rehabilitate women involved in the prostitution and obscene performance cases, the document said.

According to the document, the MPS sent 27 groups of inspectors to 651 entertainment business venues in four municipalities and 20 provinces during the campaign. At some 381 of the venues, cases of prostitution or obscene performance were discovered.

In July, the ministry sent 10 inspection groups to eight cities in Jilin, Shanghai, Guangdong, Hainan, Sichuan and Shaanxi, to raid 10 entertainment venues, resulting in the arrest of 370 suspects.

In the following three months, the ministry and local police solved 54 major cases, the document said.


http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/chi ... ontent_11687883.htm

Nice update on the crackdowns in China. Unfortunately crackdowns end up pushing things underground. It does get it out of the public eye but creates a more dangerous environment for the workers as well as the "customers".

that is what exactly happen to korea

i don't know why they are banning this, prostitution is prolly the one of the

oldest occupation in the history of mankind

besides, selling is legal sex is legal why selling sex illegal????

The Chinese gov't knows prostitution is rampant in China. They know girls send money back home. Prostitution had a strong supports for the economy.  Now the gov't just want to slow it down a lot more. They don't want completely shut it down. With the Chinese economy growing they feel there is less of a need for prostitution. In many places in China, they can stamp it out almost completely but they don't want to do that.  Look at Beijing during the Olympics. The Shanghai Expo, the Asian Games in Guangzhou and in Zhuhai for the Japanese Orgy. All of these places were dry during the period and some places are still suffering.


Edit bad wording

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