Beijing is intensifying its crackdown on Internet crimes which it claims are threatening national security and social stability.
The campaign aims to 'clean up the Internet environment' before the 16th Communist Party Congress in October by targeting hackers and those spreading viruses and leaking national secrets.
Authorities have accelerated recruitment of Internet experts, saying this will enable them to match the skills of Internet 'antagonists' worldwide.
The move came after the Minister of Public Security, Jia Chunwang, held a national public information security surveillance work meeting in Beijing last week.
The meeting discussed ways to fight Internet crime with an emphasis on stopping subversive crimes and leaking of national secrets.
Sources quoted the police chief as saying during the meeting that 'surveillance organs screening the Internet had become an indispensable force in guarding China's national security, political stability and sovereignty'.
Instead of taking defensive actions to counter attacks, Internet control officials have decided to intensify security to detect suspects who threaten the country's information security.