New law better safeguards national security

The legislation on national security that was passed on Wednesday is a further step toward building up China's national security based on its situation while learning from the experiences of some developed countries.

Most importantly, the new bill emphasizes the importance of the overall national security outlook, which, as the top leader Xi Jinping has previously highlighted, covers a wide variety of different areas beyond defense, including the economy, politics, technology, the environment, culture, cyberspace, as well as efforts to maintain safe neighboring and international environments, and so on.

Xi stressed the need for an overall national security outlook in April last year, when he introduced the expanded scope of "national security" and noted the interactions between different aspects of national security, paving the way for a comprehensive strategy for national security.