Strong state secrets are not mandatory to preserve the issuing authority can request destruction

Many people are curious about the secrecy mechanism of the powerful country because of the so-called “Tiananmen Papers” leaked overseas in the past. In fact, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council have already established eight years ago the “Regulations on the Handling of Official Documents by Party and Government Organs”. “Chapter 7, Article 34 of the Regulations states: “Classified official documents shall be returned or destroyed in accordance with the requirements of the issuing authority and relevant regulations. Unlike foreign countries, which generally require that “confidential files be kept for a certain number of years and unsealed after a certain period of time,” the top secrets of the Party and government in the former powerful countries are not rigidly required to be kept, and officials and cadres can “decide at their discretion” on the retention period of confidential documents, and the issuing authority can Therefore, many precious historical materials may be destroyed!

“The Regulations also stipulate that classified documents are divided into three categories: “Top Secret”, “Confidential” and “Secret”. Article 26 of the “Regulations” states that: classified documents should be transmitted through the machine traffic, postal machine communication, the city machine document exchange station or the receiving and sending organs machine to send and receive personnel, through coded telegrams or computer information systems in line with state secrecy provisions for transmission.

Whistle blowers feel tsk-tsk, “Regulations” Chapter IV, Article 14 stipulates: “generally shall not cross the level of the document”, “special circumstances require a cross-grade document, should be copied to the crossed authorities “. So what official cadres have done wrong, subordinate officials actually have no channel to formally complain or timely point out the problem!

Another interesting point is that the “Regulations” Chapter 4, Article 15 (6) states that: an organ under dual leadership to a higher authority, “if necessary, copy to another higher authority. That is, if you have two superiors, “when necessary” to send a copy to another superior; what is considered “when necessary”, people say different; so in fact, this is already like opening the door to the “double leadership So in fact, this is like opening the door for the authorities who are under “double leadership” to roam around, which is also the same as “double leadership” exists in name only!