Loyally practice the leader's motto and firmly fulfill the glorious mission
The press office of the Ministry of National Security answers reporters' questions
□ Our reporter Zhou Bin Zhang Hao
On the occasion of the first People’s Police Day on January 10, 2021, the Information Office of the Ministry of National Security today loyally implemented the important motto of General Secretary Xi Jinping at the Chinese People’s Police Flag Ceremony for the national security organs and firmly fulfilled the glorious mission Waiting for the situation to answer the questions of the reporter of "Rules of Law Daily".
Reporter: On August 26, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping personally conferred the Chinese People's Police flag and delivered a speech to the Minister of Public Security and Chief Inspector Zhao Kezhi, and Minister of National Security and Chief Inspector Chen Wenqing.
Everyone knows better about the public security organs, but feels more mysterious about the national security organs.
Please tell us about the state security agency.
Answer: The Ministry of National Security was formed in 1983.
In the early 1980s, the Party Central Committee deeply analyzed the national security situation facing my country after the reform and opening up, and decided to merge the original investigation department of the CPC Central Committee and the Ministry of Public Security responsible for counter-espionage and related work to form a unified and strong national security. department.
On July 1, 1983, the establishment meeting of the Ministry of National Security was held in Beijing.
Since then, various provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have established provincial-level national security departments (bureaus) in batches.
The national security agency is the competent authority for counter-espionage work and an important national intelligence agency. It also undertakes the functions of maintaining political security and overseas security, and strictly in accordance with the National Security Law, Counter-espionage Law, National Intelligence Law, and People’s Police Law. Regulations exercise powers and perform duties.
For example, according to the "National Security Law of the People's Republic of China", national security agencies collect intelligence information related to national security in accordance with the law, and perform investigation, detention, pretrial, arrest and other functions and powers in national security work in accordance with the law.
The "Counter-espionage Law of the People's Republic of China" clearly states that national security agencies shall perform their duties to prevent, stop, and punish espionage acts and other acts that endanger national security in accordance with laws, administrative regulations, and relevant state regulations.
The "National Intelligence Law of the People's Republic of China" also stipulates the functions of national security agencies to carry out intelligence work.
Reporter: General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to national security work. Please talk about General Secretary Xi Jinping's concern about the situation of national security agencies.
Answer: Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has creatively put forward the concept of overall national security, which has achieved a historic leap in our party's theory of national security and has promoted historic, pioneering and systematic changes in national security work.
Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the Central National Security Committee was formally established, the national security strategy outline and national security policies in several important areas were formulated and implemented, the national security legislation was continuously improved, and the national security capacity building was vigorously strengthened to promote our country Safety thoughts, concepts, strategies, policies, legal systems, systems, capabilities, and work implementations are advancing with the times and reaching a new level in an all-round way.
General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to and cares about the national security organs, and issued a series of important instructions covering various aspects such as party building, goals and missions, business work, reform and development, and team building.
On May 19, 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping cordially met with representatives of the National Security Agency Summary and Commendation Conference and delivered an important speech. He fully affirmed the work of the national security agency and emphasized that the national security agency is to safeguard national sovereignty, security, development interests, construction and development. The special force of socialism with Chinese characteristics has played an important role in defending the socialist state power, maintaining social harmony and stability, and protecting the safety of people’s lives and property. National security officers are worthy of the trustworthy and loyal guards of the party and the people, and worthy of the nameless willing to contribute. The hero, the party and the people will never forget.
It also put forward the 16-character requirements for the national security organs to be "firm and pure, let the party rest assured, be willing to contribute, and be able to win hard."
On August 26, 2020, the Party Central Committee solemnly held a flag-granting ceremony for the Chinese People’s Police in the Great Hall of the People. General Secretary Xi Jinping personally handed the flag to the Chinese People’s Police and delivered very important instructions.
This flag-giving ceremony is a major review of the people’s police force by the people’s leader. It is the first time in the history of the Chinese People’s Police and the first time in the history of the Party and the country. It is a landmark.
This historic moment is a glorious moment that should be remembered and never forgotten by all officers and policemen who participated in the flag-giving ceremony, and a glorious moment that all officers and officers of the national security organs will always remember and never forget.
The national security organs adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, resolutely implement the overall national security concept, take the party's banner as the banner, the party's direction as the direction, and the party's will as the will, and faithfully perform the party and the people The assigned duties and missions escort the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Reporter: The first People’s Police Day is coming. The National Security Agency People’s Police is an important part of the Chinese People’s Police. Can you tell us about this special team?
Answer: The people’s police of the national security agency inherited the red genes and fine traditions of the party’s hidden front, and formed the blood soul and political essence that run through the history, present and future of our team. That is, no matter how the situation changes, the people of the national security agency The political principle that the police force always work under the absolute leadership of the Party Central Committee has not changed, the mission requirements of always serving the Party and the national center work have not changed, and the firm belief in absolute loyalty to the Party has not changed.
This is a concrete manifestation of a clear-cut political statement in the national security organs.
The National Security Agency, the People’s Police, is a red team loyal to the party. It always insists on taking absolute loyalty to the party as the fundamental standard, value pursuit and conscious action, enhancing the "four consciousnesses", strengthening the "four self-confidence", and achieving "two safeguards". "Continuously enhance maintenance awareness, firm maintenance actions, improve maintenance capabilities, and ensure maintenance effects, demonstrating "absolute loyalty, absolute purity, and absolute reliability" loyalty and spiritual characteristics.
The people’s police of the national security organ is a special team that serves the people. It insists that national security is for the people and everything depends on the people. It always takes people’s security as its purpose and strives to consolidate the mass foundation of national security.
The National Security Agency, the People’s Police, is a fair and impartial fighting team for law enforcement. It always insists on handling affairs in accordance with the law and impartiality in law enforcement as its work value orientation, adheres to the law of struggle, and implements the strict, fair and civilized law enforcement requirements in the entire process of law enforcement, and strives for each Fairness and justice are reflected in the handling of cases and the handling of everything.
The National Security Agency and the People's Police are a disciplined steel team.
Always adhere to strict discipline and rules as a glorious tradition and inevitable requirement, internalize and externalize the requirements of strict management of the party and the police, and resolutely forge a strong national security iron army.
In the face of the ever-changing struggle situation and the grim and complex hidden enemy situation and the extremely arduous and arduous tasks, the majority of the people’s police of the national security organs played an important role in defending the socialist state power, maintaining social harmony and stability, and protecting the people’s lives and property. , A large number of heroes and loyal guards emerged.
Wu Jianguo, a first-class hero and model of the national security system and a police officer of the Tibet Autonomous Region's National Security Department, has persisted for ten years on the enemy's and perilous border, risking lurking and fighting continuously in a very complicated foreign country, and sacrificing his job.
Wang Zheng, a second-level hero of the national national security system and an outstanding investigator of the Beijing National Security Bureau, has battled wits and courage with all kinds of spies for 30 years. He has always performed his duties according to law and has successively eliminated many foreign spies and intelligence agencies that have been placed in our core and vital parts. This insider has effectively eliminated hidden dangers that endanger national security.
Chen Xinru, a second-level hero model of the national national security system and a pioneer in the counter-espionage struggle of the National Security Agency of Liaoning Province, has been rooted in the front line for 18 years. Facing the enemy, he dared to use his sword and face difficulties to fight. case.
There are also a large number of outstanding national security police whose names and deeds cannot be disclosed in the media due to work needs. Some of them are fighting on the front line of anti-osmosis, anti-subversion, anti-separatism, and anti-terrorist struggles, fighting against the devil, guarding their homes with blood and life. The country is safe; some dance on the tip of a knife, see the slightest knowledge, anticipate the enemy first, and turn the danger into the invisible on the hidden battlefield; some stand silently at their posts, plan tactics, use their swords, punish evil, and completely eradicate enemy cloth Spy networks built; some stay away from the motherland and relatives all year round, are not afraid of the artillery fire and gun smoke around them, and have withstood the severe test of one major real struggle after another.
These unsung heroes, with iron-like ideals and beliefs, iron-like responsibilities, iron-like excellent skills, and iron-like discipline style, resolutely practice the firm and pure, reassurance of the party, willingness to contribute, and hard work to win.
Reporter: The police flag is an important symbol of the people's police force and a symbol of the people's police's honor, responsibility and mission.
Facing the new situation and new tasks, what missions and responsibilities do national security agencies have?
Answer: To accept the leadership's precepts is to accept the order of the times; to receive the glorious banner is to receive the glorious mission; to participate in the solemn ceremony is to participate in political baptism.
The world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century.
The sudden epidemic has triggered a global crisis. Power politics and cold war mentality have emerged, unilateralism and protectionism are rampant, human development is facing unprecedented risks and challenges, and the international situation has entered a period of turbulent change.
The current and future periods are prone to various contradictions and risks in our country, and various foreseeable and unforeseen risk factors have increased significantly.
The national security organ is the loyal guardian of the party and the people. It has a clear-cut stand and resolutely opposes all words and deeds that weaken, distort, and deny the party’s leadership and my country’s socialist system, and resolutely oppose all acts that split the motherland and undermine national unity and social harmony and stability. Revolutionary spirit, resolutely safeguard the security of the party’s governance and the security of our socialist system, spare no effort to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests, and escort the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
At present, the connotation and extension of my country's national security are more abundant than at any time in history, the space-time domain is broader than at any time in history, internal and external factors are more complex than at any time in history, and the challenge of maintaining national security is unprecedented.
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has historically incorporated "coordinated development and security" into the guiding ideology of economic and social development, and historically used a special chapter in the draft proposal to make major strategic deployments for "coordinated development and security", which is a milestone. significance.
General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward 10 requirements for implementing the overall national security concept during the 26th collective study of the 19th Central Political Bureau.
These 10 requirements are not only major strategic thoughts, but also major strategic deployments, which provide action guidelines and fundamental compliance for national security work in the new era.
Facing the new situation and new tasks, the national security organs resolutely implemented the 10 requirements put forward by General Secretary Jinping, insisted on the party's absolute leadership over national security work, and insisted on the centralized and unified leadership of the party Central Committee over national security work; put prevention and resolution of major risks In a prominent position, provide a strong security guarantee for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; coordinate development and security, maintain and shape national security, coordinate traditional security and non-traditional security, and comprehensively improve the ability and level of national security work; adhere to system thinking and build The overall security pattern, with people’s security as the purpose, political security as the foundation, and economic security as the foundation, promotes security in all fields in a coordinated manner; persists in taking reform and innovation as the driving force to promote the modernization of the national security system and capabilities; strengthens the construction of the cadre team to build indestructibility Team of national security cadres.
Reporter: National security is everyone's responsibility.
In what ways can the people assist the national security organs in their work?
How can outstanding young people who aspire to join the national security cause join this glorious team?
Answer: National security is an important cornerstone of national stability, and safeguarding national security is where the fundamental interests of the people of all ethnic groups lie.
Article 54 of the "Constitution of the People's Republic of China" stipulates that citizens of the People's Republic of China have the obligation to safeguard the security, honor and interests of the motherland.
The National Security Law of the People's Republic of China clearly requires that citizens of the People's Republic of China, all state organs and armed forces, all political parties and people's organizations, enterprises, institutions, and other social organizations have the responsibility and obligation to maintain national security.
To maintain national security, it is necessary to adhere to prevention as the primary focus, to treat both symptoms and root causes, to combine specialized work with the mass line, to give full play to the functions of specialized agencies and other relevant agencies to maintain national security, to mobilize citizens and organizations extensively to prevent, stop and punish harm to the country in accordance with the law Safe behavior.
National security is everyone's responsibility, and everyone must be responsible and responsible.
If citizens and organizations find acts that endanger national security, please call the 12339 national security agency’s reporting and acceptance number, or log on to the national security agency’s Internet reporting platform www.12339.gov.cn, and report in accordance with the prescribed procedures and requirements.
According to the relevant provisions of the National Security Law and the Anti-espionage Law, citizens and organizations shall provide conveniences or other assistance for national security work. The acts of citizens and organizations supporting and assisting national security work are protected by law. Individuals and organizations with outstanding contributions will be commended and rewarded.
National security work has been passed down from generation to generation. It takes generations of National Security Police to succeed and work together to accomplish the sacred mission entrusted by the party and the people.
National security agencies recruit people's police from the society through the civil service examinations of central agencies and their directly affiliated institutions and provincial civil service examinations.
Every year during the graduation season, the national security agency will go to major universities to preach recruitment plans and policies.
Young people with passion for national security work are welcome to apply for the national security agency.
News from Beijing, January 6