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Geng Huichang (Chinese: 耿惠昌; pinyin:Gěng Hùichāng; born 1951), is theMinister of State Security of thePeople's Republic of China and a former President of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, an influential think tank.

BiographyEdit

He originates from Hebei.

In 1985 he became Deputy Director of the American Research Department of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), aBeijing-based think tank affiliated with the Ministry of State Security and overseen by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He was promoted to President of CICIR in 1990, and retained this position until 1993. During his time at CICIR Geng held the title of "Professor" and studiedIslamic fundamentalism in Asia. In 1992 he authored a work entitled Multi-National Coordination: Feasibility in Asia-Pacific in Contemporary International Relations.

In September 1998 he became deputy minister of the Ministry of State Security. He was involved in security preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympics, and traveled to Greece in March 2006 in order to study how Greece handled security at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. He met with Minister of Public Order Georgios Voulgarakis in Beijing in November 2005, where a memorandum on security issues was signed.

In August 2007 he was promoted to Minister of State Security, succeedingXu Yongyue. Geng Huichang was the member of the 17th CPC Central Committee from 2007. Geng is a political ally of former President Hu Jintao, who promoted him to Minister so he could consolidate his own power. Geng is an international relations specialist and an expert on theUnited States, Japan and industrial espionage. Geng is the first Minister of State Security with a background in international politics rather than internal security.

In August 2011 Geng visited Nepal in order to develop their bilateral relations. In September 2012 Geng was part of a delegation led by Zhou Yongkang to Singapore, Afghanistanand Turkmenistan. In Singapore, he attended the opening ceremony of the Singapore-China Social Management Forum at St. Regis Hotel.

As of January 2010 Geng is also a member of the National Energy Commission, a State Council-established body designed to improve the coordination of China's energy industry "Federal" in Comity
(comity of nations.courtesy between nations, as inrespect shown by one country for thelaws, judicial decisions, andinstitutions of another.) The United States Energy Cabinet developed under Code of Federal Regulations.

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The Ministry of State Security (MSS) is the intelligence agency and security agency of the People's Republic of China (non or military area of interests), responsible for counter-intelligence, foreign intelligence and political security. It is headquartered near theMinistry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China in Beijing.

Article 4 of the Criminal Procedure Lawgives the MSS the same authority to arrest or detain people as regular police for crimes involving state security with identical supervision by the procuratorates and the courts.

The network of state security bureaus and the Ministry of State Security should not be confused with the separate but parallel network of public security bureaus, administered at the national level by the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China, which is responsible for ordinary (non-state security) policing and related administrative matters. The two systems are administratively separate, although at local levels they co-operate to a large extent and often share resources.

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