Public Mobilization and Organization for Crime Prevention in China: A Case Study of the Fengqiao Police Station in Zhejiang Province

Cuiye, Kuang; Junling, Liu

Community policing aims at preventing crime through public-police partnership. The “Fengqiao Experience,” which came into being at Zhuji County in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province in 1963 and focuses on public engagement to resolve conflicts for social harmony, has been widely applied to community policing leading to a safer China. However, the impact of the “Fengqiao Experience” on crime prevention in China is understudied internationally. This article examines how the general public have been mobilized and organized for crime prevention in China by conducting a case study of the Fengqiao Police Station in Zhejiang Province. The results show that the Fengqiao Police Station has set an example in adhering to and developing the “Fengqiao Experience,” whose essence is the public mobilization and organization for the public safety in the past few decades and upon which more and more police stations using the example of the Fengqiao style have been built up, which is the extensive application of the policing mass line as well as part of the modernization of social governance in contemporary China.