National security, you and me together!

"A random photo, a seemingly insignificant piece of data, these seemingly ordinary things can cause harm to national security and interests." April 15, 2023 is the eighth National Security Education Day for All. The theme of this year's Education Day is "Implementing the overall national security Concept, enhancing the national security awareness and literacy of the people, and consolidating the social foundation for ensuring the new development pattern with the new security pattern".

Enhance confidentiality awareness to build a solid security line

State secrets are related to national security and interests, and the Conservative Party and state secrets are the duty of every citizen. In order to further study, publicize and implement the spirit of the Party's 20 major Congresses, further promote the company's employees' safety and rule of law publicity and education work, and enhance employees' national security awareness and rule of law awareness, today we learn the secrecy Law, publicize the secrecy Law, and comply with the secrecy Law.

➤ What is a state secret? State secrets are matters related to national security and interests, determined in accordance with legal procedures, and limited to a certain number of persons within a certain period of time.
➤ What is the basic scope of state secrets?
Article 9 of the Secrecy Law stipulates that the following matters involving national security and interests, which may harm the security and interests of the State in the political, economic, national defense, foreign affairs and other fields after disclosure, shall be identified as state secrets:
(1) Secret matters in major decision-making of state affairs;
(2) Secret matters in the construction of national defense and activities of the armed forces;
(3) Confidential matters in diplomatic and foreign affairs activities and confidential matters under the obligation of confidentiality to the outside world;
(4) Secret matters in national economic and social development;
(5) Secret matters in science and technology;
6. Secret matters in activities to safeguard national security and in the investigation of criminal offences;
7. Other secret matters determined by the State secrecy administrative department; Secrets of political parties that conform to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are state secrets.
➤ What is the classification of state secrets?
Article 10 of the Secrecy Law classifies state secrets into three levels: top secret, secret and secret. Top-secret state secrets are the most important state secrets, the disclosure of which will cause particularly serious damage to national security and interests; Classified state secrets are important state secrets, the disclosure of which will cause serious damage to national security and interests; Secret state secrets are general state secrets, the disclosure of which will harm national security and interests.
➤ What is the period of confidentiality of state secrets?
Article 15 of the Secrecy Law stipulates that the period of confidentiality of state secrets shall be limited to a necessary period in light of the nature and characteristics of the matter and the need to safeguard national security and interests. If the time limit cannot be determined, the conditions for declassification shall be determined.
Unless otherwise provided for, the period of confidentiality of state secrets shall not exceed thirty years for top secret, twenty years for secret and ten years for secret.
➤ What are the 12 serious violations under the Secrecy Act?
In accordance with the provisions of Article 48 of the Secrecy Law, anyone who violates the provisions of this Law and commits any of the following acts shall be punished according to law; If the case constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law:
1. Illegally obtaining or holding state secret carriers;
(2) buying, selling, transferring or privately destroying carriers of state secrets;
(3) Transferring the carrier of state secrets through ordinary post, express delivery and other channels without security measures;
(4) Posting or consigning a carrier of state secrets out of China, or carrying or transmitting a carrier of state secrets out of China without the approval of the competent department concerned;
5. Illegally copying, recording or storing state secrets;
(6) Involving state secrets in private exchanges and correspondence;
(7) Transmitting state secrets on the Internet or other public information networks or through wired or wireless communications without taking security measures;
8. Connecting classified computers and classified storage devices to the Internet or other public information networks;
9. Exchanging information between classified information systems and the Internet or other public information networks without taking protective measures;
10. Using non-secret computers or non-secret storage devices to store or process state secret information;
11. Uninstalling or modifying the security technical procedures and management procedures of classified information systems without authorization;
12. Giving away, selling, discarding or repurposing classified computers or classified storage devices that have been retired from use and have not been processed by security technology for other purposes.
➤ How do citizens prevent leaks in their daily lives?
1. Do not privately inquire, request or disseminate state secrets or sensitive information;
2. Not to illegally obtain, hold, trade secret documents and materials;
3. Do not copy, copy or reproduce secret documents and materials without permission;
4. Do not publish speech, pictures, video and audio information involving state secrets on the Internet;
5. Do not use wechat, Weibo, QQ and other social tools to publish or forward information involving state secrets;
6. Don't use mobile phones to talk about state secrets or send classified information;
7. Do not scan QR codes from unknown sources, and do not connect to free or unencrypted Wi-Fi networks;
8. Do not bring overseas personnel into secret places without permission;
9. Not to conduct illegal surveying or photographing in military restricted areas or military administrative areas.

Everyone wishes for peace and prosperity

Security is everyone's responsibility

Over the years, Sonxun has been focusing on the security industry, providing users with intelligent and digital security overall solutions and security operation services. At the same time, the company also attaches great importance to security education, focusing on the company's employees' security awareness and confidentiality awareness education. Safeguarding national security is everyone's responsibility! Let us work together to implement the overall concept of national security, enhance the national security awareness and literacy of the people, and consolidate the social foundation for the new security pattern to ensure the new development pattern.

The content of the article is from the official website of the National Administration of State Secrets Protection