China's national security strategy

Abstract

The evolution of China's national security concept has gone through three stages: the initial period after the founding of the Republic, the beginning of reform and opening up, the post-Cold War era, and the new era. The comprehensive national security concept of the new era constitutes China's current national security strategy. This concept emphasizes "five key elements": aiming for the security of the people, grounding political security, providing the foundation for economic security, guaranteeing military, technological, cultural, and social security, and supporting the promotion of international security. In practice, China advocates promoting the modernization of the national security system and capabilities by strengthening the national security system, improving the capacity to safeguard it, raising the level of governance of public security, and perfecting the system of social governance.