
the outsourcing system in China. It's the result of really a comprehensive national uh strategy promoting the fusion of uh state and civilian um function. So um article 7 of national of uh China national intelligence law that was passed in 2017 it obliged all individual and organization to support assist and cooperate with national intelligence effort. So for China intelligence collection is not the domain of the state it's the responsibility of the whole society. So in practice, this has created uh dense uh and highly competitive environment where you have uh dozens of uh cyber security or IT companies um that range from uh uh industry leaders to small and midsize enterprise that complex for uh contracts uh with
intelligence agencies. So some of this company there launched their own uh cyber operation uh saying okay so maybe the state could be interested in this aspect. So I will myself launch uh a cyber operation targeting um dapper of entities and then I will propose uh the information to the state. Sometime the state is not interested and sometime it does. Uh so they kind of trying to get the attention of the different um intelligence agency that way and they're highly autonomous.