CCTV.com News: According to the WeChat official account of the Ministry of State Security, on July 1, 2023, the newly revised "Counter-espionage Law of the People's Republic of China" was promulgated and implemented, providing a strong legal weapon for preventing and cracking down on various espionage activities and safeguarding national security under the new situation, and laying a solid foundation for the rule of law to ensure the new development pattern with a new security pattern and high-quality development with high-level security. Maintaining national security in the form of legislation is a common practice in countries around the world. In the past two years of revision and implementation of the "Counter-Espionage Law", it has received widespread attention and widespread support at home and abroad, but has also been deliberately misread and slandered by people with ulterior motives. It is necessary to further clarify doubts and increase confidence and face the situation.

——Anti-spionage anti-espionage targets espionage activities that endanger our country’s national security. Preventing, stopping and punishing espionage, safeguarding national security, and protecting the interests of the people are the legislative purpose of the Counter-Espionage Law. Scientifically defining the scope of espionage and timely inclusion in the scope of legal control is the basic prerequisite for achieving a crackdown in accordance with the law. The newly revised "Counter-Espionage Law" is based on "protecting legality and cracking down on illegality". By further clearly defining the connotation and extension of espionage behavior, it has more accurately defined the boundaries between legal and illegal behavior, which is conducive to protecting and promoting normal foreign exchanges and cooperation, and is conducive to punishing espionage illegal and criminal behaviors in accordance with the law, and achieving a benign interaction to promote development and ensure safety. For example, Article 4 of the Counter-Espionage Law stipulates six types of espionage activities, each category has clear conditions and clear definitions, which greatly avoids the arbitrary nature of anti-espionage work, enhances the certainty of the application of the law, and while accurately combating espionage activities, enterprises and individuals can freely carry out social activities within the scope of legal actions, providing legal guarantees for maintaining normal social order.

——Anti-spionage anti-espionage targets institutions, organizations and personnel engaged in espionage. In recent years, overseas spy intelligence agencies have infiltrated and secretly stolen activities against us, with more diverse means, more concealed methods, more diverse goals, wider areas, and all kinds of information and secrets. my country's anti-espionage work implements an active defense policy, with the purpose of defending, preventing and cracking down on various espionage activities that endanger our national security, and severely cracking down on infiltration, sabotage, subversion and separatist activities of hostile forces, and will not crack down on or suppress other legal organizations in other countries. The Counter-Espionage Law protects the legitimate rights and interests of the vast majority of personnel and cracks down on a very small number of organizations, institutions and personnel engaged in espionage activities endangering our country's national security. As long as you do not accept the instructions of overseas spy organizations and their agents, and do not conduct spy, steal, buy, illegally provide state secrets, intelligence, etc., it will not be considered a espionage. Carrying anti-espionage work in accordance with the Counter-Espionage Law can better coordinate development and security and continuously create a healthy and stable good development environment.

—— Counter-espionage work is subject to strict legal protection and constraints. Adhering to handling matters and cases in accordance with the law is the basic requirement for carrying out anti-espionage work. The state security organs are the competent authorities for counter-espionage work. They carry out counter-espionage work strictly in accordance with the powers granted by national laws. It is strictly forbidden to transcend powers and abuse powers, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of individuals and organizations in accordance with the law. National security organs have always adhered to open and transparent law enforcement supervision. In April 2023, the Ministry of State Security opened the 100091 mailbox-091 sub-box to the whole society for the first time as a special mailbox for supervision and reporting, and opened the 400-040-5198 dedicated line as a special telephone for supervision and reporting; on April 26, 2024, the Ministry of State Security announced the "Regulations on Administrative Law Enforcement Procedures of National Security Organs" and the "Regulations on Procedures of Criminal Cases by National Security Organs" to the public for the first time, strictly standardizing the law enforcement activities of national security organs, and further put anti-espionage and anti-espionage work under the supervision of the whole society to ensure that every work can stand the test of law and history.