ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on various aspects – from the importance the Chinese government and leaders attach to cybersecurity to recognized new changes and new features of the cybersecurity situation, to predictions of China’s cybersecurity policy direction, and industrial and international considerations. China should promote network governance within the UN framework and ‘do a better job of giving rein to the positive role of all kinds of non-state actors’. China is determined to handle the relationship between security and development. The content of the information infrastructure, showing cooperation and opening up to the international community, is the basic principle underlying network security in China, and it also shows China’s sense of responsibility in firmly maintaining cyberspace security. China’s cyber security situation has had the following characteristics: first, the conventional network threats faced have been slightly reduced. China may face major national cybersecurity attacks, while China’s cyber defence capabilities are weak and the defensive side is expanding.
