Integrated Internet Management

by+Li+Zhuoxi

On October 18， 2017， in his report to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China （CPC）， General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping called on Party members to give priority to improving means of communication and to creating new ones， and strengthen the penetration， guidance， influence， and credibility of the media. He noted that China will “provide more and better online content and develop a system for integrated internet management to ensure a clean cyberspace.”

As an important part of social management， the system for integrated internet management covers network protection， risk control and harmful information processing with internet sovereignty as the legal foundation for system construction.

Internet management is the direct action of a state safeguarding its cyber sovereignty. At the second World Internet Conference in 2015， Xi proposed the principle of “respecting cyber sovereignty.” Marking the establishment of Chinese rules on cyber sovereignty， the move matched the global trend of pursuing cyber security and development in the internet era and provided an important legal basis for international cyberspace governance.endprint