What matters should civil servants pay attention to when guarding state secrets?

The obligation of civil servants to keep state secrets mainly includes the following aspects.

1. Master and strictly enforce the secrecy laws and regulations: the secrecy laws and regulations are the legal basis for carrying out secrecy work and the basic code of conduct for guarding state secrets. Abiding by and enforcing secrecy laws and regulations is the basic requirement for fulfilling the obligation to keep state secrets. Civil servants should consciously abide by and enforce confidentiality laws and regulations, whether at work or in daily life.

2. Accept the publicity and education on confidentiality: Civil servants should consciously accept the publicity and education on confidentiality, learn the laws and regulations on confidentiality, understand their own confidentiality responsibilities and obligations, enhance their own confidentiality concepts, master the necessary confidentiality knowledge and skills, and effectively improve their confidentiality capabilities.

3. Managing and using state secrets according to law: Civil servants should strictly manage secret carriers, take care of the production, receiving and dispatching, transmission, use, copying, preservation, maintenance and destruction of secret carriers, and take corresponding technical protection measures when necessary. Security facilities, equipment and other physical defense measures must be equipped and used in accordance with the confidentiality requirements and national security standards to ensure the security of state secrets.

4. Accept security inspection: Civil servants should consciously accept, support and cooperate with security inspection, do not avoid contradictions and conceal shortcomings, and nip the hidden dangers of leaks in the bud through inspection to prevent them from happening.

5. Stop and correct violations of confidentiality: If civil servants find violations of confidentiality in their work and life, and state secrets have been leaked or may be leaked, they should immediately stop and correct the illegal acts, take remedial measures to avoid or mitigate the harmful consequences of disclosure, and report the relevant situation to the organs and units that have leaked or may leak in time, or report to the relevant secrecy administrative departments, public security organs and state security organs. The relevant authorities shall actively cooperate and assist in the investigation and handling.