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circumstances of people’s security and meet the growing security needs of the
people by constantly improving the initiative and subjectivity of actors as well as the
capacity and quality of security supply.
[Keywords] people’s security, security supply, predatory government, dominance-
oriented government, service-oriented government
[Author] YANG Huafeng, Ph.D. and Associate Professor, Department of Public
Administration, University of International Relations (Beijing, 100091).

45 A Study of the Transformation in the Chinese Mode of National Security
Governance in a New Era
LI Wenliang

[Abstract] In November 2013, the Third Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central
Committee of the CPC decided to set up the Central National Security Commission

of the CPC (CNSC) for the purpose of improving the national security system and
national security strategy and thus further ensuring China’s national security. In
2014, President Xi Jinping formally put forward the Overall National Security
Outlook at the first meeting of the CNSC. The Overall National Security Outlook is
the soul and plan of action of China’s national security governance. In line with the
requirements of the Overall National Security Outlook, particularly the in-depth
development of the rule of law in national security, great changes have taken place
in both component of China’s national security structure and scope of its national
security affairs. The former, initially and specifically referred to as relevant line
ministries, has now encompassed the whole national security organizational system
that includes not only relevant line ministries but also a newly established leading
organ and other agencies that are responsible for national security in their fields.
Meanwhile, the latter has extended the scope of security affairs to cover both
traditional and non-traditional security affairs. In addition, China’s outlook on
international order has also undergone a fundamental change from previous
exclusion of the international order and system to acceptance of and integration into
them. All this means that the mode of national security governance will change
accordingly, transforming from a single governance body to multiple governance

bodies, from compulsory governance to comprehensive governance, from
administrative governance to governance by rule of law, from closed governance to
open governance. There are three main paths to the transformation of national

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