Lin Chang
Qian Geng
Xiao Guo
The swift advancement of information technology has rendered the Internet an essential component of contemporary civilization. The regular emergence and diversification of emerging cybercrime have not only infringed upon citizens’ property security and privacy rights but also significantly disrupted the order and security of cyberspace. Consequently, the efficient control of emerging cybercrime has become a pressing issue that requires urgent resolution within the realm of social governance.
The Fengqiao Experience, a distinctive and significant legacy within China’s social governance framework, fundamentally embodies the unwavering execution of the party’s mass line, the adherence to the principles of prioritizing prevention and mediation, and the emphasis on the efficacy of source governance and holistic strategies. The Fengqiao Experience can be utilized in the domain of emerging cybercrime governance, intending to offer theoretical support and practical assistance for the establishment of a more systematic and efficient emerging cybercrime governance framework.
Emerging forms of cybercrime denote unlawful activities characterized by societal detriment and violation of individuals’ legitimate rights and interests, executed using the Internet as a medium or instrument. Such offences encompass, but are not restricted to, the fabrication and deliberate dissemination of false material, as well as the unlawful use of information networks. Technological improvements have facilitated the migration of classic crime into the Internet domain, resulting in emerging cybercrime that include online fraud, online gambling, and online theft. These have evolved into tumors undermining cybersecurity and destroying social order.
Emerging forms of cybercrime present substantial threats. The proliferation of emerging cybercrime is accelerating, characterized by intricate and evolving methodologies that hinder public prevention efforts, while also posing significant problems to governance authorities. Criminals employ advanced information and network technology to perpetrate non-contact offences. Their acts surpass temporal and spatial boundaries, prolong causal sequences, and provide greater concealment. Conversely, criminal methodologies persist in their evolution, and organizational frameworks grow progressively sophisticated, resulting in complex of emerging cybercrime enterprises. This hampers the inquiry and the gathering of evidence.
Consequently, numerous significant difficulties confront the regulation of emerging forms of cybercrime. The public’s inadequate awareness of prevention, particularly among the youth, facilitates the exploitation of this vulnerability by criminals, hence enabling the execution of novel resulting in complex of emerging cybercrime enterprises activities with greater ease. The pervasive inadequacy of public cybersecurity education and training, characterized by a lack of systematic and focused approaches, results in a limited comprehension among the populace regarding fundamental concepts, prevalent hazards, and preventive strategies in cybersecurity. They are highly susceptible to inadvertently becoming victims or facilitators of emerging cybercrime.
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Furthermore, the absence of coordination and collaboration among many groups becomes a significant issue. In the realm of data exchange, the Chinese government’s data remains underestimated, the technical capabilities of firms are not completely leveraged, and interdepartmental collaboration efficiency is markedly diminished. During the implementation phase, collaboration efficiency is frequently diminished due to bottlenecks such as ambiguous definitions of departmental roles and inadequate information exchange methods, hindering the establishment of a robust joint force to combat crime.
This condition significantly intensifies the formidable obstacles of emerging cybercrime prevention and control, enabling certain offenders to exploit the opportunity to dodge stringent legal repercussions. Thirdly, criminal methodologies are becoming progressively intricate and evolving, hence complicating investigation and evidence gathering. These tactics encompass conventional techniques such Trojan control, hacker penetration, virus manipulation, black chain hanging, DNS hijacking, and D Dos attacks.
Simultaneously, they integrate novel techniques, including database cracking for data expropriation, pre-install covert plugins, VPN circumvention, and other illicit operations. Numerous technical black and gray sectors possess highly organized industrial chains and substantial anti-investigation capacities. They frequently traverse platforms to engage in illicit and criminal operations.
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Their internal and exterior entities collaborate, exhibiting various, complicated, and regularly modified forms. This presents the primary difficulty for the regulation of emerging cybercrime technologies. The inadequacy of pertinent rules and regulations underscores their ineffectiveness in addressing emerging criminal phenomena. Emerging forms of cybercrime frequently introduce novel criminal issues, distinct categories of legal interest violations, and inventive criminal methodologies. The current legal and regulatory framework encounters difficulties in implementing effective steps to address developing concerns, hence complicating governance further.
Analyzing the aforementioned problem context, the introduction of the Fengqiao Experience can offer a novel approach to governance. The Fengqiao Experience originated in Fengqiao Town, Zhuji City, around the early 1960s. The essence is to “thoroughly mobilize and depend on the power of the populace, uphold the principle of avoiding conflict escalation, endeavour to resolve contradictions locally, thus fostering a favourable environment that minimizes judicial intervention and preserves social harmony.” The Fengqiao Experience underscores party leadership and the execution of mass initiatives.
Lin Chang is Scholar at Shanghai Business School, People’s Republic of China.
Qian Geng and Xiao Guo are Scholars at the Baize Institute for Strategy Studies, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, People’s Republic of China.
