China Appoints Legal Scholar to Lead State Secrets Agency
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Song Gongde.
China named Song Gongde, a legal scholar and veteran Party regulator, as the new head of the country’s bureau responsible for safeguarding classified information.
The State Council announced the appointment Wednesday, installing Song as director of the National Administration of State Secret Protection. He succeeds Li Zhaozong, who had led the agency since 2021.
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- Song Gongde, a legal scholar, was appointed director of China’s National Administration of State Secret Protection, succeeding Li Zhaozong.
- Song holds a doctorate in administrative law and previously led the Regulations Bureau at the Party Central Committee’s General Office.
- The bureau, supervised by the Communist Party Central Committee, focuses on state secret protection, especially after the revised law in 2024.
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