context: General Secretary Xi's report to the 20th Party Congress (October 2022) included a chapter laying out a strategic plan for modernising the national security system and capabilities. Stating the Central Committee's strategic priorities for coordinating development and security, it proposes 'guaranteeing the new development pattern with a new security pattern'.
In an article in the 18 April issue of Aisixiang, Chen Yixin 陈一新 Minister of State Security explains Xi's 'new security pattern', pointing out that it
- underscores the political, theoretical, practical and world significance of
- Party's absolute leadership over national security work
- following the path of national security with Chinese characteristics
- expands and supersedes
- the regular understanding of national security work in the New Era
- Marxist national security theory
- advances Chinese-style modernisation and realising the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation
- insists on
- promoting common international security
- building a community with a shared future for mankind
Building the 'new security pattern' is the long-term strategic plan for the CCP and relates to overall national security governance. It demonstrates:
- the strong leadership core
- innovative theoretical guidance
- powerful development advantages
- important institutional advantages.
As it is the foundation of national rejuvenation, building the new security pattern basically requires:
- advancing the whole system
- planning across the board
- all-round layout
- using all means
- mobilising the whole society
- reinforcing political guarantees
- upholding the Party's absolute leadership over national security work
- giving full play to the political and institutional advantages of socialism with Chinese characteristics
- strengthening fundamental and strategic support
- building 'four beams and eight pillars' (siliang bazhu 四梁八柱: mutually supportive institutional structures).