The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission (), formerly known as the Central Leading Group for Cybersecurity and Informatization () is a policy formulation and implementation body set up under the Central Committee of the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil ...

for the purpose of managing internet-related issues. This is believed to include the expansion of online services, internet security concerns, as well as broad jurisdiction over policies on

internet censorship Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org) but exceptionally may extend to all Int ...

. The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission runs the Public Opinion Information Center, which coordinates with state media outlets on censorship. The decision to establish the group was announced at the 3rd Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee in November 2013, but did not hold its first full meeting until February 2014. The group is also known as the Cyberspace Affairs Leading Group. The

Cyberspace Administration of China The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC; ) is the central internet regulator, censor, oversight, and control agency for the People's Republic of China. The office also holds the administrative title of the party's Office of the Central C ...

reports to the group and acts as its executive arm. The Leading Group was not a wholly new created entity, since it was primarily a reconstitution of the Leading Group for National Informatization, with a similar membership composition. In March 2018, the leading group was transformed into a commission, called the Central Cybersecurity and Informatization Commission, also called the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission (CCAC).

Membership

*Director **

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(Politburo Standing Committee Member, Party General Secretary, State President) *Deputy Directors ** Li Keqiang (Politburo Standing Committee,

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) *Chief of General Office **Zhuang Rongwen (), concurrently Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, deputy head of the Propaganda Department, deputy director of the

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(SCIO) *Members **''Unannounced as of March 2018''

References

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