Ministry of State Security (China)
The Ministry for State Security (Chinese中华人民共和国 国家 安全 部/中华人民共和国 国家 安全 部, Pinyin Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó guojia Ānquánbù, Ministry of the People's Republic of China State Security ' ) is responsible for security interests of the People's Republic of China. In Europe, the name of the ministry is mostly mentioned in relation to the areas of network censorship and human rights.
The Ministry for State Security of the People 's Republic of China is one of the largest foreign intelligence services in the world. The Ministry, however, is also responsible for internal security missions. Because of its role as a domestic intelligence service and in the surveillance of dissidents, it is also called the secret police. According to Chinese Criminal Procedure Code, it has at endangering national security the same rights as the police. The Minister Geng Huichang.
Order
According to Liu Fuzhi, formerly Secretary of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Security, the task of the Ministry of State Security, " the security of the state through effective measures against enemy agents, spies and counter-revolutionary activities is to ensure that can be done to sabotage China's socialist system or defeat. " One of the main tasks of the Ministry is to be recognized without doubt, foreign intelligence from targets in various countries. It is said that many agents in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are active, as well as others have been integrated into numerous Chinese communities overseas. At one point, nearly 120 agents who had worked informally in the USA, Canada, Western and Northern Europe, and Japan as businessmen, bankers, scholars and journalists, recalled to China, what the fact is that the agents of the intelligence services are widely used.
Organization
Offices
- First office: Department of Inland
- Second Office: Department of Foreign
- Third Office: Department of Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan
- Fourth Office: Technology
- Fifth Office: International Information
- Sixth Office: counter-espionage
- Seventh Office: Circulation
- Eighth Office: Research
- Ninth office: Overflow and monitoring defense
- Tenth office: Scientific and technological information
- Training Office
- Section on Monitoring and Evaluation (监察 与 审计 科/监察 与 审计 科, Jiancha yǔ Shenji KE)
Other services
- General location (办公厅/办公厅, Bangong Ting )
- Political Department (政治部, Zhengzhi bù )
- Party Commission (党委/党委, dǎngwěi )
Leadership
The service was conducted since 1983 by the following ministers who report directly to the Council of State:
- Ling Yun (凌云), 1983-1985
- Jia Chunwang, 1985-1998
- Xu Yongyue, 1998-2007
- Geng Huichang, 2007 to present