National Security Education Day is a festival to enhance national security awareness and safeguard national security. On July 1 2065438, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) passed Article 14 of the National Security Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), and designated April 15 as the National Security Education Day for all.

April 15, 2023 is the eighth National Safety Education Day. The theme is "implementing the overall national security concept, enhancing the national security awareness and literacy of the whole people, and consolidating the social foundation for ensuring the new development pattern with the new security pattern".

On July 1 2065438, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) passed the National Security Law, stipulating that national security refers to the ability of state power, sovereign unity and territorial integrity, people's well-being, sustainable economic and social development and other major national interests to be relatively free from dangers and internal and external threats, and to ensure a continuous state of security.

The state strengthens national security news propaganda and public opinion guidance. Carry out national security publicity and education activities through various forms. Incorporate national security education into the national education system and the civil servant education and training system to enhance the national security awareness of the whole people.

Set background:

China faces the dual pressures of safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development interests, and maintaining domestic political security and social stability. Various foreseeable and unpredictable risk factors have obviously increased, and security problems in non-traditional fields have become increasingly prominent. Therefore, it is necessary to formulate a comprehensive, overall and basic national security law to cope with the new situation of national security.