Office for Safeguarding National Security
Not to be confused with Committee for Safeguarding National Security.
| 中華人民共和國 中央人民政府駐香港特別行政區 維護國家安全公署 | |
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| Formed | 1 July 2020 (2020-07-01) |
| Type | Deputy-ministerial level agency |
| Jurisdiction | Central People's Government (State Council) |
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| Parent department | Central National Security Commission of the Chinese Communist Party |
| Parent organization | State Council of the People's Republic of China Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
| Website | osns.gov.cn |
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| Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 中華人民共和國中央人民政府駐香港特別行政區維護國家安全公署 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 中华人民共和国中央人民政府驻香港特别行政区维护国家安全公署 | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 維護國家安全公署 | ||||||||||
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The Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (OSNS) is the Chinese central government's national security office in Hong Kong. The office was established in July 2020 by the Hong Kong national security law.
The office is headed by director Dong Jingwei and is entirely staffed by mainland officials. The office is a part of, and funded by, the Central People's Government (State Council) of China and is not subject to Hong Kong jurisdiction. It is officially under the list of agencies that are dispatched by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
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