Police will boost the muscle of chengguan (urban management officers) under a plan announced in Yantai in Shandong province.

The coastal city has established an urban management police corps in which police will assist chengguan with their law enforcement activities - a first in the country.

Quan Fuqiang, chief of the urban management administrative enforcement league of Zhifu district in downtown Yantai, said the city's police will work closely with chengguan on daily management affairs.