Guizhou Communications Administration Maps Out Second-Half Cybersecurity and Anti-Fraud Tasks

The Guizhou Provincial Communications Administration held a meeting to review first-half cybersecurity checks and anti-fraud efforts, identify compliance and technical weaknesses, and require telecom operators to tighten control over phone card channels, upgrade AI-based countermeasures, enforce operational security, standardize number suspension and restoration, and strengthen accountability chains.

Source: 中小企业局

Representatives from cybersecurity and anti-fraud departments of Guizhou’s four basic telecom operators attended a meeting convened by the provincial communications administration.

The meeting reported on first-half special cybersecurity inspections, real-name registration of phone cards, and the handling of anti-fraud case dispatch clues in May and June. Each enterprise presented its work report for the same period.

Shortcomings in business compliance management, technical capacity building, and security risk prevention were analyzed. Some enterprises were found to have incomplete risk screening and insufficient rectification.

The meeting stressed that telecom fraud techniques are continuously evolving and that cyber and data security risks overlap, urging the industry to abandon complacency and reinforce defenses.

For the second half of the year, the meeting mandated several actions: strictly regulate phone card channel controls, conduct comprehensive self-inspections at outlets and agents, crack down on irregular card issuance, and target high-fraud business outlets to reduce fraudulent numbers at the source.

On the technical countermeasure front, artificial intelligence and large models will be used to upgrade defense tools, identify and block fraudulent communication resources with precision, and optimize anti-fraud models by learning from advanced governance experience. Clues should be processed faster, and risks from new subscribers must be tightly controlled.

For operational security, enterprises must self-inspect and rectify major risks such as non-standard personnel operations, chaotic record-keeping, lax device permission management, and plaintext passwords on maintenance terminals. These issues will be included in annual assessments to secure critical equipment.

To protect user rights, the full process for suspending and restoring numbers must be standardized, user notification channels improved, AI outbound call reminders optimized, and the practice of “suspending before notifying” eliminated.

Finally, end-to-end security responsibilities must be enforced through enhanced internal assessment and accountability, preventing weakening of responsibility transmission, and ensuring early identification and rectification of risks to support the sector’s high-quality development.