{
  "id": 19403006,
  "title": "PLA cybersecurity scientist Guo Shize removed from Chinese Academy of Sciences website",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/pla-cybersecurity-scientist-guo-shize-removed-from-chinese-academy-of",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-10T22:00:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
    "slug": "reuters-business-via-scmp",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3373975/pla-cybersecurity-scientist-guo-shize-removed-chinese-academy-sciences-website"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Chinese cybersecurity researcher Guo Shize, a 57-year-old scientist from the People’s Liberation Army, has been taken off the official website of China’s top national research institute, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The timing of his removal from the academy’s webpage remains unclear, but Chinese news outlets highlighted the change on Monday, with no explanation provided by the academy or the Chinese defense ministry. Born in 1967, Guo began his academic journey at the PLA Ordnance Engineering College at the tender age of 15, earning his undergraduate degree in 1988 and a master’s in 1991. He pursued further studies at Harbin Institute of Technology, a university under US sanctions and one of China’s “seven sons of national defence.” Guo spoke at the China Cyber Security Congress in September, emphasizing the importance of enhancing national security capabilities through original research and talent development. Upon his election to the CAS in 2023, a post by the cyber science and technology school at Shandong University, Qingdao, recounted how Guo and his two roommates at Harbin Institute of Technology ultimately became academicians of the country’s two highest scientific institutions. One of those roommates, Han Jiecai, currently serves as HIT president. The trio shared a dormitory room in the early 1990s, with fellow student He Xiaodong now a professor at the HIT Centre for Composite Materials and Structures. Guo’s adviser once marked his first paper in red ink, during which he published 14 papers during his doctoral studies. His achievements include serving on the academic committee of the State Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security Defence and being elected a fellow of the China Institute of Communications in 2024. Guo also proposed a novel cyber defense framework at a CAS information technology sciences conference that year, incorporating technologies like actor tracking and integrated space-ground network defense to bolster cyber sovereignty and information security.",
  "summary": "A leading cybersecurity scientist in the Chinese military, Guo Shize, has been removed from the website of the country’s top national research institute. Guo, 57, a researcher at the Information Technology Security Research Centre of the People’s Liberation Army, was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2023. It is not known when his page was removed from the academy’s website, but…",
  "key_points": [
    "PLA cybersecurity scientist Guo Shize removed from Chinese Academy of Sciences website.",
    "Guo began academic journey at PLA Ordnance Engineering College at 15.",
    "Guo served on State Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security Defence academic committee."
  ],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}