Efforts needed for cybersecurity

The strict implementation of China's cybersecurity law and regulations will help safeguard the country's cyberspace, though more online attacks are likely to occur amid the increasing use of the internet in industrial operations, a report said on Wednesday. The report, released by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China, said as the Made in China 2025 initiative makes significant progress, the country's industries are embracing digital technologies to upgrade plants, but this will also bring new cyberthreats. The center said it had detected more than 1,000 loopholes in China's industrial control systems as of 2016, with 173 of them discovered last year alone. Liu Bo, an official at the Cyberspace Administration of China, said the law and cybersecurity regulations will help prevent online attacks and efforts are ongoing to develop a supervision mechanism on internet goods and services.