Military confidential security in the armed forces has adapted to the requirements of the military changes with Chinese characteristics and the informationization drive of the armed forces. With vigorous efforts, the armed forces have implemented scientific guidance and standardized management and made bold reform, which has resulted in obvious achievements. Recently, the four general headquarters/departments of the PLA have issued a notice to cite 43 outstanding confidential organizations and 60 model individuals of the military forces and armed police forces for their excellence performance.

　　In recent years, with the development of the information technology of the armed forces, the importance of information security has received more and more attentions. Therefore, the military has made strategic adjustments to the security guidance: the emphasis has been shifted from confidential tasks under common conditions to those under high-tech conditions; from common security to information security. And the measures has also been changed from administration to combination of administration with technological protection to sustain a sound trend of the confidential security. The security committee of the armed forces has stipulated the development plan for confidential security in the 10^th Five-year Plan period, written and distributed a series of text books such as Basic Knowledge of Security Tasks of the Army and Introduction to Information Security so as to integrate the security education into the political education plan of the universities, departments and military units. Given the development situation of office automation, the armed forces have made vigorous efforts to seek after new measures and new methods of information security and stipulated a series of security regulations, basically shaping up a security regulation system of the army. They also attached great importance to security talent building and integrate the training of security officers into the training planning of military colleges and universities. Attentions have been paid to bringing forth new theories and setting up security subject system to provide scientific and theory bases for security task. Active efforts have been made to the development and research and application of security protection, inspection and monitoring technology. Efforts have been made to maintain the solemnness and authority of the security regulations and laws and earnestly investigated and handled the leakage cases according to the related laws.

　　By Zhang Jingshan and Wu Tianmin

　　(December 5, PLA Daily)