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Organization · Security, discipline & influence
Ministry of Public Security
National police and public-security ministry
The Ministry of Public Security is China’s national police and public-security ministry.
WHY THIS ENTITY MATTERS
RH ASSESSMENT
The MPS matters because its state administrative role intersects with the Party’s political-legal system and nationwide law-enforcement institutions.
- Record type
- Organization dossier
- Primary role
- National police and public-security ministry
- Network sector
- Security, discipline & influence
- Documented links
- 3
Profile
The Ministry of Public Security is China’s national police and public-security ministry.
Scope note: this foundation dossier is limited to the selected public records behind the RH China network. It does not claim a complete biography, ownership history, command structure, or account of private influence.
Documented connections
Every relationship below is labeled by evidence type and carries the limitation recorded in the network source ledger.
Wang Xiaohong is the current minister of public security.
Limit: The cited record establishes a formal role. It does not establish control over every decision or private closeness.
State Council · current ministersThe Ministry of Public Security is a ministry of the State Council.
Limit: The institutional relationship does not reveal every reporting line, internal decision, or operational instruction.
State Council · Ministry of Public SecurityThe Party political-legal system connects the commission with public-security bodies.
Limit: Coordination does not establish the commission’s direction of every police operation.
Xinhua · Chen Wenqing security visitWhat to watch
- Does the publicly identified leadership or mandate of Ministry of Public Security change?
- Do official records document new coordination with Wang Xiaohong?
- Do later sources confirm, narrow, or supersede the relationships recorded here?
Source record
- 01State Council · current ministers
Official ministerial directory updated 28 August 2026.
- 02State Council · Ministry of Public Security
Official institutional record for the Ministry of Public Security; the current minister is listed in the State Council directory.
- 03Xinhua · Chen Wenqing security visit
Current-role evidence identifying Chen Wenqing as head of the CPC Central Commission for Political and Legal Affairs.