The Ministry of Public Security said in a statement that the terrorist gang of eight members led by Abdurehim Kurban was responsible for the attack, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Police shot and killed four attackers during the mass knife-attack in Kunming, the capital of southwestern Yunnan province, on Saturday night. They had also captured an injured woman suspect.
Thirty-three people, including four militants from the remote Xinjiang province, allegedly members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), were killed and 143 others injured when the knife-wielding attackers went on a stabbing spree.