East Asian Journal

Crime · Jurisdiction

China


In plain English

China is the only one of the three with a dedicated national statute for this offence category, and the only one running a standing campaign against the infrastructure fraud depends on. Its judicial guidance is also the reason the terminology layer can state what a 园区 is: the joint opinion of 2024 defines a criminal base to include enterprise parks and development zones built to house fraud operations.

What it calls fraud at home

The domestic statutory term is Telecom-network fraud (电信网络诈骗). That matters here because the offshore operations and the domestic fraud are not two subjects. Nationals of this country are being defrauded, under this statute, by operations staffed in part by nationals of this country — a pattern all three governments in this section document in their own words.

The record

Each entry states how well it is sourced. An advisory read from a ministry’s own site and a figure that exists only in newspaper reporting are different kinds of fact, and anyone deciding whether to cite one should know which they are holding.

Repatriation Source blocked

Ministry of Public Security task force on crimes against Chinese nationals in northern Myanmar

Myanmar had cumulatively handed over fifty-eight thousand fraud suspects of Chinese nationality, and large-scale fraud parks in northern Myanmar had been essentially cleared.

The ministry’s site was unreachable. Wording read from the state broadcaster. Note a second figure in circulation with a different framing — around fifty-nine thousand seized and handed over since 2023, stated by the Criminal Investigation Bureau in July 2026. The two are not interchangeable; each carries its own cut-off and its own verb.

The issuing body’s own site could not be reached. Recorded from a mirror or state media, and flagged.

Task force Read at source

China, Myanmar and Thailand — second ministerial meeting

The trilateral mechanism met in Naypyidaw and agreed to clear the fraud parks comprehensively and detain all those involved. The readout states that more than five thousand four hundred Chinese-national fraud suspects had been seized and collectively repatriated during 2025 to that point.

Source Issuing body

Read directly from the issuing body’s own publication.

Advisory Read at source

Embassy of China in Thailand

A consular warning against the high-salary recruitment trap, telling citizens not to believe promises of well-paid work with flights and accommodation included, and reminding them that the visa waiver does not permit working.

Source Issuing body

Read directly from the issuing body’s own publication.

Statement Read at source

Supreme People’s Court, Supreme People’s Procuratorate and Ministry of Public Security

A joint opinion on the application of law in cross-border telecom-network fraud cases, in three parts and sixteen articles. Article 8 defines a criminal base to include entire buildings, enterprise parks, industrial parks and development zones built to host, or predominantly occupied by, fraud groups.

Source Issuing body

Issued 26 June 2024; publicly released 26 July 2024. The later date is publication, not adoption. As interpretive guidance rather than a judicial interpretation, it carries no separate commencement clause.

Read directly from the issuing body’s own publication.

Law Read at source

Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress

The Anti-Telecom and Network Fraud Law was adopted, promulgated by presidential order, and took effect on 1 December 2022.

Source Issuing body

Read directly from the issuing body’s own publication.

Campaign Source blocked

State Council inter-ministerial joint conference on telecom-network crime

The card-cutting campaign was launched at a national deployment meeting, on the stated basis that the unlawful opening and sale of telephone cards and bank cards is a principal root of sustained high-volume fraud.

The Ministry of Public Security’s own site returned errors on every attempt, direct and proxied. The text and the 10 October date were read from a provincial police mirror carrying the identical release.

The issuing body’s own site could not be reached. Recorded from a mirror or state media, and flagged.

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