The comprehensive treatment approach to social order uses political, legal, economic, administrative, and educational measures. This study of the Chinese approach focuses on four research questions: the rationale for this social project; emphases of the strategy; similarities and differences between this strategy and traditional crime fighting approaches; and theoretical and practical considerations. In today's China violent crime is more prominent than ever before; organized crime is more serious; vice crime is rising continuously; and youthful and transient offenders take the lead in the rapid increase in crime rates. The new approach to crime control, basically a succession of traditional strategies with some new measures to handle the problems under new situations: (1) intensifies legal education; (2) encourages increased public participation; (3) improves offender rehabilitation programs; (4) severely punishes white-collar offenders and other major offenders; (5) transforms earlier mass movement organizations into more professional organizations; (6) creates a security responsibility system from officials formerly involved with propaganda and education; and (7) changes legal and police systems from informal to formal control elements. References