Message From The Revisions To The Law On Guarding State Secrets

On February 27, 2014, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China enacted the Amended Law on the Protection of State Secrets (the "Revised Law"). The Revised Law will take effect on May 1, 2024. This is the second revision since the original promulgation of the Law in 1988.

Compared to the last revision in 2010, the revisions made in the Revised Law are relatively insubstantial. The purposes of the revisions are to identify the political leadership of the work on protecting state secrets, to simplify the determination of state secrets, and to strengthen the protection of state secrets by the government agencies, organizations, and institutions possessing state secrets. In this brief article, we will highlight only the revisions that are worthy of attention by foreign-invested companies.