National Security Law of the People's Republic of China
National Security Law of the People's Republic of China
National Security Law of the People's Republic of China
Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No.29
July 1, 2015
The National Security Law of the People's Republic of China adopted at the 15th Session of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress on July 1, 2015 is hereby issued for implementation as of the date of the issue.
Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China
National Security Law of the People's Republic of China
(Adopted at the 15th Session of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress on July 1, 2015)
Table of Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Tasks of Safeguarding National Security
Chapter III Responsibilities for Safeguarding National Security
Chapter IV National Security Regime
Section 1 General Provisions
Section 2 Intelligence Information
Section 3 Risk Prevention, Assessment and Early Warning
Section 4 Examination and Supervision
Section 5 Crisis Management and Control
Chapter V National Security Safeguard
Chapter VI Obligations and Rights of Citizens and Organizations
Chapter VII Supplementary Provision
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 The National Security Law of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the "Law") is formulated in accordance with the Constitution of the People's Republic of China for the purpose of safeguarding national security, protecting the political power of the people's democratic dictatorship and the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, protecting people's fundamental interests, ensuring the smooth progress of reform and opening-up and the building of socialist modernization, and bringing about the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Article 2 National security refers to political power of the state, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, people's well-being, sustainable development of economy and society, and other significant interests of the state are relatively free from danger and threats within and outside the state, and the country's capacity for safeguarding continued security.
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Article 3 National security work shall adhere to overall outlook of national security, take people's security as purpose, political security as root, economical security as basis, and military, cultural and social security as safeguard, and promotion of international security as support, safeguard national security in all fields, build national security system, and take the road of national security with Chinese characteristics.
Article 4 The leadership of the Chinese Communist Party concerning national security work shall be unshakable, and a centralized and unified, efficient and authoritative leadership system of national security shall be established.
Article 5 The central leadership organ of national security shall be responsible for decision-making, coordination and discussions about official business related to national security work, research and formulate, and guide the implementation of the national security strategies and relevant significant guidelines and policies, coordinate major events and important work concerning national security, and promote the legal construction of national security.
Article 6 The state shall formulate and continuously improve national security strategies, assess international and domestic security situation in a comprehensive way, specify the guidelines on national security strategies, long and mid-term goals, national security policy in key areas, work tasks and measures.
Article 7 In safeguarding national security, the Constitution and laws shall be complied with, the principle of socialist rule of law be adhered, human rights be respected and protected, and the rights and freedoms of citizens be protected according to the law.
Article 8 Safeguarding the national security shall be coordinated with economic and social development.
For national security work, internal security and external security, homeland security and national security, traditional security and non-traditional security, security of itself and common security shall be co-ordinated.
Article 9 In the process of safeguarding the national security, it is required to put prevention first and address both symptoms and root causes, to combine specialized work with mass line, to fully exert functions of special organs and other relevant organs to safeguard national security, to broadly mobilize citizens and organizations to prevent, deter and punish acts endangering the national security in accordance with the law.
Article 10 In safeguarding national security, it is required to adhere to mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and cooperation, to actively carry out exchanges and cooperation with foreign governments and international organizations, to fulfill obligations of international security, so as to promote the common security and safeguard world peace.
Article 11 Citizens of the People's Republic of China, all state organs and armed forces, all political parties and mass organizations, enterprises, institutions and other social organizations shall have duties and obligations to safeguard national security.
China's sovereignty and territorial integrity shall bear no violation or segmentation. To safeguard national sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity is the common obligation of the whole Chinese people including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots.
Article 12 The state will give honors and rewards to individuals and organizations having extraordinary contributions to safeguarding national security.
Article 13 Where, a civil servant abuses his/her power or neglects his/her duties or has sought personal gains in national security work and activities involving national security, his/her legal liability shall be investigated in accordance with the law.
Any individual or organization that, in violation of the Law and relevant laws, fails to fulfill obligation for safeguarding national security and involve in activities that endanger national security, shall be pursued for legal liabilities.
Article 14 April 15 of each year shall be the National Safety Education Day.
Chapter II Tasks of Safeguarding National Security
Article 15 The state shall adhere to the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, safeguard the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, develop socialist democracy, perfect socialist rule of law, strengthen restriction and supervision mechanisms for exercise of power, and safeguard all rights of people as masters of the country.
The state shall take precautions against, prohibit and punish in accordance with the law any acts of treason, secession, sedition, subversion or instigating subversion of people's democratic dictatorship, take precautions against, prohibit and punish in accordance with the law acts of endangering national security such as stealing, leaking state secrets and other acts, and take precautions against, prohibit and punish in accordance with the law activities of infiltration, damaging, subversion and fragmentation of outside forces.
Article 16 The state shall safeguard and develop fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, defend people's security, create good conditions for survival and development, stable working and living environment, protect citizen's live and property security and other legitimate rights and interests.
Article 17 The state shall strengthen construction of frontier defense, coast defense and air defense, take all necessary measures on defense as well as management and control, defend territorial land, inland waters, territorial sea and airspace security and safeguard national territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests.
Article 18 The state shall strengthen revolutionization, modernization and regularization of armed forces, build the armed forces adapting to national security defense and demands of developing interests, implement military and strategic guidelines of active defense, take precautions against and withstand aggression, restrain armed subversion and fragmentation, cooperate in international military security, carry out safeguard peace work in United Nations and international rescue, convoy on sea, and safeguard military operations for overseas interests of the state, safeguard the sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity of the state, and develop interests and world peace.
Article 19 The state shall safeguard the basic economic system of the state and socialist economic order, perfect systems and mechanisms of preventing and neutralizing economic security risks, safeguard key areas, important industries, major infrastructure and construction projects relevant to lifeline of national economy, and other major security of economic interests.
Article 20 The state shall improve prudent macroscopical management of finance as well as precaution and disposal mechanisms for financial risks, enhance the construction of financial infrastructure and basic ability, take precautions against and neutralize systematic and regional financial risks, take precautions against and defend impacts from external financial risks.
Article 21 The state shall reasonably use and protect resources and energy, manage and control exploitation of strategic resources and energy, increase reserves of strategic resources and energy, improve construction of strategic channel of resources and energy and security safeguard measures, enhance international resources and energy cooperation, improve emergent supply capacity in a comprehensive way, and guarantee the continued, reliable and effective supply of resources and energy required for economic and social development.
Article 22 The state shall improve food security safeguard system, protect and enhance comprehensive grain production capacity, improve grain reserve system, circulation system and market coordination mechanism, improve food security warning system, and protect the food supply, quality and security.
Article 23 The state shall adhere to the socialist direction of heading with regard to advanced culture, inherit and carry forward excellent traditional Chinese nation culture, cultivate and practice socialist core values, prevent and counteract impacts from rotten culture, grasp the initiative in ideological field, enhance the overall strength and competitiveness of the culture.
Article 24 The state shall strengthen the construction of capacity of independent innovation, accelerate developing strategic high-tech and self-controllable technology as well as key and core technologies in key areas, strengthen the application and protection of intellectual property rights, the construction of secrecy capacity for science and technology, and safeguard the security of major technologies and projects.
Article 25 The state shall build network and information security safeguard system, enhance network and information security protection capabilities, strengthen innovative research, development and application of network and information technology, achieve safe and controllable network and core information technology, critical infrastructures and information systems and data in key areas, enhance network management, prevent, deter and punish in accordance with the law cyber attacks and intrusion, network theft, spread of illegal and harmful information and other network criminal acts, to safeguard sovereignty, security and development interests of cyberspace in the state.
Article 26 The state shall adhere to and perfect the system of regional ethnic autonomy, and consolidate and develop socialist ethnic relations characterized by equality, unity, mutual assistance and harmony.
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