High-ranking Chinese officials are drafting a new security regulation that would require multifunctional office equipment procured by that country's national and local governments to be designed and developed domestically, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
This is a higher level of involvement than for national standards in other fields, illustrating Beijing's emphasis on domestic development and controlling information.
According to sources, the new regulation is being drafted by the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee (TC260), which is in charge of China's national standards for information security technology.
