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国家保密局 | |
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Formed | March 1988 |
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Headquarters | 49 Dongrongxian Hutong, Xicheng District, Beijing |
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Parent agency | Central Secrecy Commission General Office |
Website | www |
National Administration of State Secrets Protection | |||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 国家保密局 | ||||||
Literal meaning | State Secret-Protecting Bureau | ||||||
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Office of the Central Secrecy Commission | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 中央保密委员会办公室 | ||||||
Literal meaning | Central Secret-Protecting Commission Office | ||||||
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The National Administration of State Secret Protection is an institution of the State Council of China that is responsible for the protection of classified information. It is under the Chinese Communist Party's Central Secrecy Commission. [1]
Under the "one institution with two names" arrangement, it is also the Office of the Central Secrecy Commission under the General Office of the CCP Central Committee. [2]
It's name was previously translated as the National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets.
The administration is responsible for the protection of classified information. [3] The Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China (which is not operative in the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao) makes it a crime to release a state secret. Under the 1989 "Law on Guarding State Secrets," [4] state secrets are defined as those that concern:
Secrets can be classified into one of three categories: