Security News > 2022 > October > Xi Jinping hails 'improved cyber ecology', says state to direct strategic tech research

Chinese president Xi Jinping has opened the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party with a call for the nation he leads to win the race for development of "Core technologies" and to become self-reliant in strategic tech.

In his Sunday speech he spoke of innovation being focused on national strategic requirements - therefore led by the State - and linked the development and implementation of information technology to national security.

Xi also spoke about China's internet industry, saying that over the last five years of his rule "Cyber ecology continued to improve".

That's almost certainly a reference to China's internet having been largely cleansed of content of which the Party does not approve - and perhaps also a nod to China's recent crackdown on major tech companies, on grounds their activities put profit and growth ahead of the national interest.

Vietnam's National Cyber Security Center released statistics regarding cyber attacks, including an almost 20 percent year-on-year increase in the attacks on businesses and organizations in September.

Finally, a political expert opined that US semiconductor technology trade restrictions will make life very hard for Chinese American techies working and living in China.

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