BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Public Security Minster Meng Jianzhu on Sunday urged police forces from Beijing and six provincial-level regions around the capital to share information and work closely to beef up security work.

Meng made the remarks at a work conference on police cooperation in regions around Beijing.

Police chiefs of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning, Shandong and Inner Mongolia signed a framework agreement for the cooperation.

Liu Qi, chief of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), also called for joint and efficient efforts of the police in the regions around Beijing to ensure the regions' security and stability.