Secrecy law is the general name of legal norms that regulate people's various social relations in activities involving state secrets. This law is a legal weapon to protect state secrets, safeguard national security and interests, and crack down on crimes of leaking and stealing state secrets. This law provides a legal basis for accurately cracking down on the criminal activities of revealing state secrets and stealing, spying, buying and illegally providing state secrets for overseas institutions, organizations and personnel.

Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Guarding State Secrets

Article 24

Organs and units shall strengthen the management of classified information systems, and no organization or individual may commit the following acts:

(1) Connecting classified computers and classified storage devices to public information networks such as the Internet;

(2) exchanging information between the classified information system and the Internet and other public information networks without taking protective measures;

(3) Using unclassified computers and unclassified storage devices to store and process state secret information;

(4) Uninstalling or modifying the safety technical regulations and management regulations of classified information systems without authorization;

(5) Giving away, selling, discarding or transferring classified computers and classified storage devices that have not been processed by security technology for other purposes.