Call to update system for national security

President Xi Jinping has urged greater efforts to accelerate the modernization of China’s national security system and capacity in order to better safeguard the country’s development amid complicated and challenging circumstances.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks on May 30 while presiding over the first meeting of the National Security Commission under the 20th CPC Central Committee.

Xi, who is head of the commission, called for correctly grasping major national security issues and urged efforts to safeguard China’s new pattern of development with a new security architecture and break new ground on national security work.

The commission was established in November 2013 to improve the national security system and strategies to guarantee the country’s national security.