China's Ministry of National Security is the only publicly recognized intelligence agency by the China government, and it is also the unit with the widest government participation in China's intelligence and public security system. In July 1983, the Ministry of National Security was formed by the merger of the former Central Investigation Department, the Ministry of Public Security, the United Front Work Department, the Science, Technology and Industry Committee for National Defense and other units. It is an intelligence organization that conducts comprehensive espionage work against the national resources of other countries.
Task role
The mission and role of the Ministry of National Security is mainly to implement the China administration's grasp of the world situation. In addition to extensively collecting the armament trends of various countries, the attitudes of various countries towards China's administration and the economic and trade prospects of that country towards China are all within the scope of intelligence collection.
Therefore, it is generally estimated that there will be no less than 40,000 spies scattered around the world in the whole national security sector, most of whom are journalists, scholars, businessmen and even political exiles as a cover to collect a country's national resources. However, there are more than 50,000 national security scouts scattered in Chinese mainland. Therefore, the Ministry of National Security is the super intelligence unit in China's national institutions.