Source: Xiao Qiang, CDT
CDT’s further online investigation has found that, according to the school’s own website, the School of Information Security Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University is one of the main research units of the China’s “National Information Security Application Demonstration Project” “国家信息安全应用示范工程” – (code name S219) , and the Information Security Project* within the “National 863 Program**.” The school is “a training base for high-level Information Security experts in the national 863 production (east) base” (“国家863产业化（东部）基地信息安全高级专业人才培养基地”).And who are the trainers of these high-level information security experts? Here is just one example:
Two Chinese Schools Tied to Google Attacks Linked to the Great Firewall and PLA Professor Li Jianhua (李建华), Deputy Dean of the School of Information Security Engineering. Research area：Information Security, Computer Communication Network , Information/Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence. His titles include: Chief Expert of the Expert Group of Information Security Project of National 863 Program; Expert Committee of National 863 Program Anti-Computer-Invasion and Anti-Virus Technology Research Center (Ministry Public Security) 公安部国家863计划反计算机入侵和防病毒技术研究中心专家委员会成员（公安部）国家863计划信息安全主题专家组首席/管理专家 (科技部)
Together with Shanghai Jiaotong University, the Lanxiang Vocational School is also one of the five colleges which are known to have associated with the national “information security” research program, including the Great Firewall of China. The other three schools known to have participated are Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, and National University of Defense Technology.
fangbinxing Two Chinese Schools Tied to Google Attacks Linked to the Great Firewall and PLAFrom information available online, it is not difficult to find connections linking these university research units to the government’s “Information Security” technology research network. For example, from this already deleted list of “Second Term of (National) Internet and Information Security Working Committee (2007),” professor Li Jianhua is listed as a “Member of the Standing Committee”. And the Head of this Committee is none other than Dr. Fang Binxing (方滨兴), a computer scientist, widely known as the the father of the Great Firewall of China. Fang Binxing is the honorary director of the National Computer network Emergency Responses technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT), a.k.a. the Great Firewall. In Dr. Fang’s public resume, he is the current president of the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, and he taught and conducted research from 1984-1999 at the School of Computer and Electronic Engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology. Since 2005, he has also been a Specially Hired Professor (“特聘教授”) at the National University of Defense Technology. Among many other titles held by Dr. Fang, he has been the Ministry of Public Security’s Specially Hired Expert on Information Security since 2007; a member of the Informationalization Expert Consulting Committee of the People’s Liberation Army General Logistics Department; and in 2001 he was awarded the title of “Outstanding Individual”, jointly given by the Chinese Communist Party Central Organizational Department, Chinese Communist Party Central Propaganda Department, Chinese Communist Party Political and Legal Committee, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Civil Affairs and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
What is this mysterious “Lanxiang Vocational School” then? How could a obscure “Vocational School” be listed among China’s top research universities in “information security” research? The answer is that this school includes a special training program for future PLA technology officers. According to the Lanxiang Vocational School website, translated by CDT, “Deputy Chief of Staff of the Jinan Military District, General Zeng Qingzhu came to Shandong Lanxiang to review the national defense education work. In March 2006, the Lanxiang Vocational School established the first military department among the private schools in Shandong, specializing in educating and training high quality technology officers for the military. In the last two years, a large number of excellent graduates have enlisted in the PLA and become the important technology backbone of the military.”
(济南军区副参谋长曾庆祝少将来到山东蓝翔视察国防教育工作。06年3月，蓝翔技校成立山东首家民办学校武装部，专门为部队培养高素质的高级技术士官。两年来，大批优秀学员应征入伍，成为军队的重要技术骨干)