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In the 21st century，human beings has stepped into the age of the Internet. Cyberspace becomes the “fifth domain” which is of great importance to human life，alongside land，sea，air and space. Cyberspace security has been raised up to the national strategic level，and has absorbed great attention from every country. China is being challenged to confront the extremely complex and severe cybersecurity threats from home and abroad. In February 27，2014，China established the Central Cybersecurity and Informatization Leading Group，President Xi Jinping headed this group and proposed the strategic goal of“building our country into a cyber power”. Chinese cbersecurity research is facing an unprecedented great opportunity and historical mission.

In this context，Blue Book of Cyberspace Security is published at this historical moment. The series of books are compiled by the Institute of Information of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in association with relating domestic academic and management agencies. From the perspective of social sciences，in the form of the annual report，these books aim to observe the current situation and trends of cyberspace security at home and abroad across time and space，interdisciplinary，and cross-industry，present a relatively comprehensive stereoscopic picture of cyberspace security to the readers，and provide a decision-making support for promoting the construction of cyber power.

Annual Report on Development of Cyberspace Security in China（2015）is the first report of the Blue books of Cyberspace Security. With the big events in 2013 and 2014 serving as its research background （some important events date back to 2011），it is framed and organized on the basis of President Xi Jinping’s guiding ideology of the construction of cyber power. This book incorporates the latest researches from more than 20 experts and scholars in China. It divides into nine sections，including preface，general report，risks & Situation，policies & laws，cultural communication，industry &  technologies，talents & education，international governance and Chronicle of Events. The preface theoretically discussed the origins of three concepts; the general report,Research on the Development of Chinese Cyberspace Security: Challenges and Changes，comprehensively analyzes the overall situation of cyberspace security in China and offers the countermeasures for cyberspace development. Each thematic section is composed of one comprehensive sub-study report，and two or three thesis focuing on segment problems，such as cybersecurity vulnerability management，cybersecurity censorship，Color Revolution in the Age of Internet，cyber terrorism，data sovereignty，IoT security. Chronicle of Events reviews the major domestic and abroadsecurity events from 2011 to 2014.

According to this report，currently，the overall cyberspace security development situation in China are：China’s cyberspace security top level design has made great breakthroughs; NSA’s “Prism” event of United States extensively raises the alarm of our cyberspace security; development of new technologies and applications increases the systematical risks of our cyberspace; China’s information and communication industry is being gradually incorporated into the controlled security development track; the efforts of regulation on internet chaos and maintenance on the clearness of cyberspace have been intensified continuously; personal data leakage incidents frequently occur，becoming a major social issue; China has gradually appeared on the stage of global cyberspace governance; the whole country has spurred the fervor for cyberspace security’s talents education. In this new era，China’s cyberspace security needs to take integrated measures from multiple aspects of policy and law,cultural communication，industry and technology，talents and education，international cooperation，etc. These measures include upholding the idea of governance to build a cyberspace security system，taking the media convergence as an opportunity to accelerate the prosperity and development of cyberculture，taking the technology and innovation as the core to drive the development of information and communication industry，giving the power of the whole society to create a multi-layered cybersecurity workforce，and seizing the strategic opportunity to actively promote the formation of a new global cyberspace order.