The significance and importance of the secrecy law

The significance and importance of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Preservation of State Secrets is as follows:

1. It is a legal weapon to protect state secrets, safeguard the security and interests of the country, and combat criminal activities of leaking and stealing state secrets. Its promulgation and implementation provide a legal basis for us to accurately combat the leakage of state secrets and the criminal activities of stealing, spying, bribing, and illegally supplying state secrets for institutions, organizations, and personnel outside the country;

2. It is a code of conduct for all organs, units, and all citizens to keep state secrets;

3. It is the basis for building China's confidentiality The basis of the system of laws and regulations, which fundamentally stipulates the guidelines, principles and important measures for the construction of China's legal system of confidentiality. The gradual formation of the system of secrecy laws and regulations will be of great and far-reaching significance for strengthening and improving China's secrecy work and better serving the economic construction and reform and opening-up;

4. It is a legal guideline for deepening the reform of China's secrecy work and strengthening the management of secrecy work. On the basis of inheriting the fine tradition and system of our country's confidentiality work and summarizing the historical experience of our country's confidentiality work, a number of major reforms have been carried out on confidentiality work according to the new development of the situation.

Legal Basis

The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Preservation of State Secrets

Article 24 Organs and units shall strengthen the management of classified information systems, and no organization or individual shall engage in any of the following behaviors:

(1) Accessing classified computers and classified storage devices to the Internet and other public *** information networks. other public **** information networks;

(b) in the absence of protective measures, information exchange between classified information systems and the Internet and other public **** information networks;

(c) the use of non-classified computers, non-classified storage devices to store and process state secret information;

(d) unauthorized uninstallation, modification of classified information systems security technology programs, management procedures;

(d) unauthorized download, modification of classified information systems security technology (d) Unauthorized uninstallation or modification of security technology programs and management procedures of classified information systems;

(e) Giving away, selling, or discarding classified computers and classified storage devices that have been withdrawn from use without being subject to security technology processing, or converting them to other uses. Article 4 The work of keeping state secrets (hereinafter referred to as confidentiality work), the implementation of active prevention, focus, management policy in accordance with the law, not only to ensure the security of state secrets, but also to facilitate the rational use of information resources.

Laws and administrative regulations provide for the disclosure of matters shall be disclosed in accordance with law. Article 6 State organs and units involved in State secrets (hereinafter referred to as organs and units) manage the confidentiality of their own organs and units.

The central state organs, within their terms of reference, manage or direct the confidentiality work of the system.