一、1997年的社会治安状况确保社会稳定。年内发生的一系列有国际影响的大事,如年初邓小平同志逝世、7月1日香港回归祖国、下半年中国共产党第十五次全国代表大会召开,以及黄河小浪底工程和长江三峡工程截流等,都保证了绝对安全,未出现大的治安问题。同时,全国公安机关把维护社会稳定置于工作的首位,积极防范、及时化解、妥善处置了由于各种原因引发的群体治安事件。刑事犯罪与1996年基本持平。全年公安机关共立刑事案件161.4万起,同比增加0.8%;其中重大案件立案73.9万起,同比上升7%。全国23个省、自治区、直辖市的刑事案件发案幅度下降,其中有8个省、自治区的刑事案件发案同比下降幅度在10%以上。尤为可喜的是,重大案件中对社会稳定、公共安全和公民安全感具有较大威胁的严重暴力案件下降幅度明显,达25.9%。其中,由 First, the social security situation in 1997 ensured social stability. A series of major international events such as the death of Comrade Deng Xiaoping at the beginning of the year, the return of Hong Kong to the motherland on July 1, the convening of the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in the second half of the year and the closure of the Xiaolangdi Project on the Yellow River and the closure of the Three Gorges Project in the Yangtze River To ensure absolute security, there is no big security issue. In the meantime, the national public security organs have put social safeguarding at the top of the work in safeguarding social stability, actively prevented and promptly dissolved them, and properly handled the public security incidents caused by various reasons. Criminal offenses are basically the same as in 1996. Public security organs and public security organs jointly set 1,641,000 criminal cases, an increase of 0.8% over the same period of last year; among which, there were 739,000 major cases, an increase of 7% over the same period of last year. The incidence of criminal cases in 23 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government decreased. Among them, the incidences of criminal cases in eight provinces and autonomous regions decreased by more than 10% on a year-on-year basis. It is particularly gratifying that the rate of serious violence in major cases, which poses a great threat to social stability, public safety and civic security, has dropped by 25.9%. Among them, by