Workers at scandal-hit Chinese shipbuilder CSIC given lessons in keeping state secrets
- More than 200 employees lectured on need for confidentiality just days after former general manager is charged with taking bribes
- Despite its key role in development of naval vessels, China Shipbuilding Industry Corp has poor record on protecting classified information, source says
Scores of workers at China Shipbuilding Industry Corp (CSIC), whose former general manager has been accused of selling state secrets – a crime punishable by death – have been schooled in how to protect classified information.
According to a statement released on social media, the company said that more than 200 of its employees, including security directors and those “responsible for handling information”, had taken part in a training workshop organised by the National Secrecy Science and Technology Evaluation Centre.
The participants listened to lectures on how to identify and handle military secrets, and exchanged views on how to safeguard confidential material, the statement said.
The aim of the session was to improve people’s awareness and understanding of the need for secrecy, it said.
CSIC was responsible for creating China’s first aircraft carrier – the Liaoning – after refitting an unfinished vessel once intended for the Soviet navy that it bought from Ukraine in 1998.