Visiting a school abroad was lured into rebellion, lured by money to hand over confidential documents to "netizens", and secretly stole them under the banner of cooperation … … These crimes that endanger national security concern you and me!
On the occasion of the eighth National Security Education Day, the national security organs announced a number of typical cases on the 14th to remind the broad masses of the people to enhance their awareness of national security, guard against acts endangering national security, and jointly build a solid barrier to safeguard national security.
Beware of the trap outside the "national gate"
Nowadays, it is becoming more and more convenient for China citizens to study, work and travel abroad. Foreign spy intelligence agencies will seize the opportunity for some people to relax their guard after going abroad and set traps, which will pose a threat to the personal safety of our citizens and bring potential risks to our national security and interests.
Zhao Xuejun is a scientific researcher in the space field. During his visit to foreign universities as a visiting scholar, his status as an expert in the space field was focused on by foreign spy intelligence agencies, and then he was wooed and rebelled.
How did Zhao Xuejun fall into each other’s trap step by step? At first, the other party just asked him to eat, travel and give gifts. As the relationship grew closer, the other party began to ask him some sensitive questions and paid a lot of consulting fees.
Just before Zhao Xuejun returned to China, he made clear the identity of the spy intelligence agency in the opposite direction and turned Zhao Xuejun against him.
After returning to China, Zhao Xuejun used the USB flash drive and website specially equipped for him to receive mission instructions and return intelligence information, and met with the personnel of the country’s spy intelligence agencies several times in many places in China, providing a large amount of confidential information to the other party.
In June, 2019, the state security organs in Beijing took compulsory measures against Zhao Xuejun according to law. In August 2022, the people’s court sentenced Zhao Xuejun to 7 years’ imprisonment, deprived of political rights for 3 years and confiscated his personal property of RMB 200,000.
In recent years, the state security organs have found in their work that some criminals are deceiving others under the banner of "immigration dream", but they are secretly committing illegal and criminal acts that endanger our national security.
Zheng Fuxing and Wang Peiyue are the backbone members of an overseas "immigration service company", which operates "customers" abroad by applying for tourist visas. After the "client" went abroad, the gang immediately exposed its true face, coerced and lured the "client" to forge household registration books, compulsory summons certificates, compulsory abortion certificates and other "documents", publicly declared that it was "persecuted at home" and smeared the image of our country with the so-called "criminal evidence" of "making something out of nothing".
In October 2021, the state security organs of Hebei Province took compulsory measures against Zheng Fuxing and Wang Peiyue according to law. In May 2022, the people’s court sentenced Zheng Fuxing and Wang Peiyue to three years and nine months’ imprisonment respectively.
Whether tempted by petty profits or tricked into using others with ulterior motives, these acts that harm national interests and endanger national security for personal gain eventually cost themselves dearly. The state security organ reminds us that it is the duty and obligation of every China citizen to safeguard national security no matter where he is.
The French Open cannot escape! The internet is absolutely illegal.
Social networks are affecting people’s real life. When using social networks, we should be wary of people with ulterior motives using network technology to disguise their identities, collecting information in the name of "making friends", "consulting" and "part-time jobs", or spreading rumors and even endangering national security in the way of attracting people’s attention.
In December 2016, Han Xiao, a grassroots civil servant in a certain place in Xinjiang, met a local "netizen" through mobile dating software while traveling abroad. Since then, Han Xiao has often shared her life with each other online, and complained from time to time that her salary is too low.
The other party immediately introduced his cousin "Chen Yi" to Han Xiao, saying that he could provide opportunities to earn extra money.
After Chen Yi added Han Xiao as a WeChat friend, he asked Han Xiao to provide sensitive local information and promised to pay him. After Han Xiao agreed, "Chen Yi" further used money as a temptation to direct him to collect confidential documents of party and government organs.
In order to ensure "safety", the other party even trained Han Xiao as a spy, and sent special personnel to provide Han Xiao with funds and communication tools such as mobile phones and SIM cards. Knowing that the other party is a member of an overseas spy intelligence agency, Han Xiao continued to collect and provide classified documents in order to obtain high remuneration.
Illegal secret stealing equipment (photo courtesy of national security organs)
After the incident, the people’s court found that Han Xiao had provided 19 confidential documents and materials to the other party, including 5 documents identified as intelligence, and collected a total of more than 120,000 yuan of spy funds. In March 2019, Han Xiao was sentenced to 11 years and 6 months in prison for espionage, deprived of political rights for 4 years, and confiscated personal property of RMB50,000.
In the Internet age, some people, in order to attract traffic and attention, do not hesitate to break through the legal bottom line and fabricate lies to discredit the country and the government, which has a bad influence.
The national security organs of Jiangsu Province found in their work that since June 2020, Zhang has pretended to be eight Burmese nationals and opened several accounts on overseas social media websites to introduce daily life abroad, attracting tens of thousands of fans’ attention.
In order to gain attention, Zhang frequently published posts smearing the image of our country, attacking the party and the government, and even incited others to overthrow our state power by violent means, which had a very bad influence.
After fully grasping the evidence of Zhang’s crimes, in February 2022, the state security organs took compulsory measures against Zhang according to law.
The Internet is not a place of extra-legality, and no matter how carefully planned and disguised it is, it can’t hide the essence of illegal and criminal acts endangering national security. The state security organ reminds that any act of stealing state secrets, spreading rumors and endangering state security by using the Internet will be severely punished by law. Clear cyberspace needs to be governed by law, and it needs the joint efforts of each of us.
Cooperation or stealing secrets? Must be carefully screened.
Nowadays, the acts of foreign spy intelligence agencies and anti-China hostile forces endangering China’s national security are no longer confined to the traditional security field. Some organizations and personnel, under the banner of overseas non-governmental organizations, investigation and consulting companies, high-tech companies, etc., start from the fields of economy, biology, science and technology, in an attempt to "make a fuss" in China’s human rights, industrial chain, supply chain and other fields, causing harm to our national security.
Li runs a consulting company in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, which mainly provides supply chain risk audit services for overseas companies. A few years ago, Li’s company cooperated with an overseas NGO.
With the promotion of cooperation, Li found that this NGO’s auditing standards for China enterprises are becoming more and more detailed, especially for Xinjiang-related content.
Although Li has found that the overseas NGO is actively collecting information about the so-called "human rights issues" in Xinjiang, they still undertake and implement relevant investigation projects in pursuit of economic interests. In the end, Li was punished by the state security organ of Guangdong Province according to law, and his company was ordered to implement rectification.
There are also some overseas organizations and personnel who approach our citizens with a "friendly face" and commit acts that endanger national security in an imperceptible disguise, which requires our constant vigilance.
In 2019, the sea cucumber farm opened by Mr. Zhang in Dalian, Liaoning Province welcomed several "uninvited guests". Huang led several foreigners to install marine hydrological monitoring equipment and sea and air monitoring video equipment in Mr. Zhang’s sea cucumber farm in the name of "free installation of seawater quality monitoring equipment".
Since then, Mr. Zhang has gradually discovered that the data of hydrological monitoring equipment has been continuously transmitted overseas, and many of the data have nothing to do with sea cucumber culture. Those sea and air monitoring and video recording equipment are meaningless to sea cucumber culture.
Illegal secret stealing equipment installed by overseas personnel in the sea cucumber breeding circle (photo courtesy of the state security organ)
Feeling suspicious, Mr. Zhang called 12339 to report to the state security organs. It has been identified that the illegal installation of monitoring equipment by overseas personnel in China’s waters poses a serious threat to China’s maritime rights and interests and military security. The state security organs of Liaoning Province took compulsory measures against Huang and several foreigners according to law, and seized monitoring equipment. Huang and others truthfully confessed the illegal and criminal facts of illegally stealing China’s marine hydrological data and naval and air military images.
At present, traditional security and non-traditional security threats are intertwined, and some illegal and criminal acts that endanger national security are more hidden, and enterprises and individuals will be exploited if they are not careful. This requires the broad masses of the people to effectively enhance their awareness of national security and be alert to acts that endanger national security. Once suspicious circumstances that endanger national security are discovered, they should call the national security organ to report the case at 12339 in time. National security is everyone’s responsibility. Only when the whole people work together can we build an indestructible national security people’s defense line.
Coordinator: Zhang Xiaosong and Yang Weihan.
Reporter: Liu Yizhan, Qi Qi, Yang Zhanfei
Editor: Jia Zhen
Produced by Xinhua News Agency in China