PLA Cyberspace Strategic Intelligence Research Center founded

The Cyberspace Strategic Intelligence Research Center was officially founded at an information center of the General Armaments Department (GAD) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) on June 26, 2014. Experts believe that the center will provide strong support in obtaining high-quality intelligence research findings and help China gain advantage in national information security.

The Cyberspace Strategic Intelligence Research Center is a high-level intelligence platform built on research efforts of an information center of the GAD and the wisdom of the experts in various fields.

The center is designed to become an authoritative research resource for Internet intelligence, build a highly-efficient cyberspace dynamically-tracking research system, provide high-end services for hot and major issues, and explore approaches of intelligence analysis as well as identification and appraisal with cyberspace characteristics.

The center will be completed with high-level academic exchange platform for cyberspace in the form of high-level forums, academic conferences, published monographs and translated works, etc, so as to keep expanding its influence in the cyberspace research field.

The center will adopt the expert engagement system as the basic organization form, engaging experts from such key equipment and technology development fields as cyberspace situation awareness and fundamental research while giving attention to such key development directions as strategic policies.

The experts come from such fields as strategic theory research, intelligence study, technology, argumentation and management, and front-line research.

The representatives of relevant departments, famous academicians in the cyberspace field and specially-invited experts attended the inauguration ceremony. The experts present also aired their views on the topic of "cyberspace strategic situation evaluation and countermeasures".