During a joint campaign launched by six ministries between March and November of last year, more than 3,700 thefts were reported every day across the country, officials said.

Police officers in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, reunite people with their "stolen" bicycles in August in this file photo. [China Daily] 

Over the same period, more than 343,000 bicycle thieves were arrested and punished, and 1.41 million bicycles, including 376,000 electric ones, were recovered.

Nearly a million stolen bikes have been returned to the public.

In Beijing, the number of daily theft cases has decreased by 34 percent compared with the number reported before the campaign.

"The campaign has achieved obvious results and dealt a heavy blow to the thieves," Public Security Minister Meng Jianzhu said at an award ceremony yesterday in Beijing, which honored 385 groups and 772 individuals for their contributions to the cause.

"We have started to established a long-term mechanism for bicycle safety management," Meng

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