China rolls out strict new measures for government sector to protect state secrets
- Officials must draw up ‘lists of state secrets’ and face tighter screening, training and travel restrictions to keep information safe
China has rolled out a new set of regulations designed to better protect sensitive information, including tighter screening of government officials who work with state secrets.
The 74 articles in the regulations address the dozen-plus new provisions in the revised state secrets law, which took effect in May.
Under the regulations, heads of government departments with the authority to determine state secrets will be responsible for defining them. Those officials are required to draw up a “list of state secrets” within their respective areas of responsibility and receive special training on how to identify and protect secrets.
All central Communist Party organs and governmental bodies must also set up an office responsible for securing secrets, to be staffed by officials exclusively tasked with overseeing state secrets.
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