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Shanghai State Security Bureau
| Chinese: 上海市国家安全局 | |
 Shanghai Secrecy Administration Bureau logo | |
 SSSB headquarters as seen from the Lupu Bridge with the Huangpu river at left | |
| Ministry overview | |
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| Formed | April 1984[1] |
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| Jurisdiction | Shanghai, China |
| Headquarters | 1 Ruining Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China 31°11′30″N 121°28′01″E / 31.1917°N 121.4670°E |
| Employees | Classified, at least 10,000 |
| Annual budget | Classified |
| Ministry executive |
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| Parent department | Central National Security Commission Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission Shanghai Municipal Party Committee |
| Parent ministry | Ministry of State Security |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 上海市国家安全局 | ||||||
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| Shanghai Secrecy Administration Bureau | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 上海市国家保密局 | ||||||
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The Shanghai State Security Bureau (SSSB; Chinese: 上海市国家安全局) is a municipal bureau of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) charged with intelligence operations in the country's most populous city.[2] With tens of thousands of employees, it is one of the most aggressive and internationally active units of the MSS, conducting long-term global foreign espionage operations and major cyberespionage campaigns which stretch far beyond the Shanghai metropolis.[3] The bureau acts in concert with the Shanghai Municipal Party Secrecy Committee, and the two represent themselves publicly as one institution, a front called the Shanghai Secrecy Administration Bureau (SSAB, Chinese: 上海市国家保密局).[4]
The Shanghai bureau is one of the most prolific MSS units targeting the United States; it also conducts elaborate operations to target and influence the Buddhist community in Asia.[5][6][3] The bureau maintains an "immense business empire" of front companies in property development, international shipping and telecommunications,[3] and operates at least 18 subordinate branch offices, one in every administrative division of the city.[5]
The headquarters of the SSSB is 1 Ruining Road in the Xuhui District near the Lupu Bridge. The building is bordered on three sides by water, situated at the confluence of the Huangpu river which bisects the entire city, and the Rihui river which serves as the border between the Xuhui and Huangpu districts.[3] The building is a glass high rise office tower with space for 10,000 employees. It is the largest of several large SSSB facilities in the city.[3]
- ^ "上海市國家安全局 - 怪猫的图书资源库" [Shanghai State Security Bureau]. Fudan University (in Chinese). Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ^ Jensen, Chris (August 13, 2020) in United States vs Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, CR: 1:20-mj-01016-DKW-RT
- ^ a b c d e Joske, Alex (2022). Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World. Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books. ISBN 9781743589007.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:4was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Mattis, Peter (July 9, 2017). "Everything We Know about China's Secretive State Security Bureau". The National Interest. Archived from the original on 2020-11-09. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
- ^ Collado, Ramon (November 4, 2017). "Land grabs in the South China Sea: aggressive behaviour must be resisted". Hong Kong Free Press. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
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