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Urgent need for cyber security specialists
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CHINA needs more cyber security specialists, according to a national cyber security awareness event held yesterday in Wuhan, capital of the central province of Hubei.
Sources at the event, which was sponsored by the China Cyberspace Administration, said China currently needs 700,000 cyber security specialists, which might rise to 1.4 million by 2020.
This is the third annual National Cyber Security Awareness Week. The aim is to engage and educate the public and the private sectors about cyber security through various initiatives.
This year, for the first time, 19 individuals were selected for the outstanding contributions they have made to cyber security. Each was awarded up to 1 million yuan (US$150,000).
Shen Changxiang, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, received the top prize for his work on a cloud service for Windows XP users in China. He was the lead scientist on the team.
About 15,000 students majored in information security are graduated from Chinese higher learning institutes every year. The figure, however, is far from being enough to satisfy the country’s growing need.
In July, the cyberspace administration, along with the ministries of education, science and technology, industry and information technology, announced that cyber security education and training would become a national strategy.
In a country of 700 million Internet users, core information and cyber security technologies must be improved, sources said.
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