The People's Liberation Army has unveiled its first department dedicated to tackling cyber war threats and protecting information security, Chinese media reported today.
The move comes just over a year after the United States created a cyber command.
The PLA Daily said the military announced the creation of the Information Security Base on Monday, giving few more details in its brief report.
But an officer in the General Staff headquarters, which directly oversees the new department, told the Global Times: "It is a 'defensive' base for information security, not an offensive headquarters for cyber war."
He said the base would be used to gather online information and "build up walls" to safeguard confidential military information.
Ni Lexiong, a Shanghai-based military analyst, told the South China Morning Post: "The USCYBERCOM aims at coping with hacker attacks as well as other cyber attacks, which means the internet will become another key battlefield in tomorrow's world.
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