Reuters:

The first question, to promote the building China's strength in cyberspace, what significant adjustments and supervision improvements will relevant authorities make in platform review? The second question, given the strategy of building China's strength in cyberspace proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, enhancing cybersecurity is the top priority. Thus, what technologies will relevant departments apply to improve China's early warning and monitoring capacity regarding internet early warning and monitoring to enhance cybersecurity? Thank you.

Niu Yibing:

Thanks to this foreign friend from Reuters. The well-regulated, healthy, and sustainable development of internet companies has long been a common concern both at home and abroad. Just as you mentioned in your questions, cybersecurity has been the top priority of our cyberspace affairs. I will answer these two questions.

In recent years, the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and relevant departments have improved the means and efficiency of supervision and issued a series of policies and regulations to ensure the healthy and sustainable development of internet companies. These effective measures have further clarified rules, drawn a clear bottom line, and brought better order to the industry. They have set up red and green lights for the development of enterprises, restraining violations of regulations among internet companies, filling the vacuum of supervision, and defusing potential risks for the development of enterprises. These measures will help deepen the reform of internet companies, strengthen their management, and regulate their operations, so that they can grow in a more healthy, orderly, and sustainable way.

As the working body of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission is the functional department to coordinate the development of China's cyber and information sector. It is always our important mission to promote the healthy and sustainable development of internet companies. We will, together with relevant departments, earnestly study and implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the decisions and plans made by the CPC Central Committee, work unswervingly both to consolidate and develop the public sector and to encourage, support, and guide development of the non-public sector, further the implementation of policies to ensure fair competition, continue to foster a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized business environment, and continue to concern ourselves with and support the healthy growth of internet companies in terms of both scale and strength. We will strengthen communication between government and business, step up planning and coordination of preferential policies for enterprises, strengthen the publicity of policies and the guidance on public communication, further improve mechanisms for communication with enterprises, and provide strong support for enterprises to participate in major events and projects outlined in our 14th five-year plan. We will promote the development of enterprises while strengthening supervision and regulation, provide policy guidance while managing enterprises in accordance with the law, and give equal emphasis to both social benefits and economic returns. We will explore innovative standards and models of supervision, enhance cybersecurity for enterprises, foster a new type of cordial and clean relationship between government and business, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of internet companies and entrepreneurs in accordance with the law, and take concrete measures to foster a strong, healthy and uplifting atmosphere for entrepreneurship. 

As General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out, without cybersecurity, there would be no national security, and no stable economic and social development, and the interests of the people could hardly get protected. Cyberspace departments nationwide have been working on making parallel progress in development and security, improving the system and capacity for safeguarding cybersecurity, and greatly strengthening the whole of society's awareness of cybersecurity and protection capabilities. The foundation for the work on cybersecurity has been continuously stepped up; the national cybersecurity emergency response system has been improved; the overall capabilities for network security situational awareness, case analysis, origin tracing, and emergency response have been enhanced; and a sound environment for cybersecurity featuring multi-party participation, mutual complementarity, and integrated development has been created. Thank you.