The National Administration of State Secret Protection (Chinese: 国家保密局; pinyin: Guójiā Bǎomì Jú) of the People's Republic of China is an institution of the State Council of the People's Republic of China that is responsible for the protection of classified information.

[1] The name was translated as National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets.

It is also the Office of the Central Secrecy Commission (Chinese: 中央保密委员会办公室; pinyin: Zhōngyāng Bǎomì Wěiyuánhuì Bàngōngshì), a subordinate organization of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

[2] The Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China (which is not operative in the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao) makes it a crime to release a state secret.

Under the 1989 "Law on Guarding State Secrets,"[3] state secrets are defined as those that concern: Secrets can be classified into one of three categories: This article about government in the People's Republic of China is a stub.