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You may never have thought that the time displayed on your smartphone and computer at home is actually related to national security. Recently, the national security agency cracked a major cyber attack case in the United States and mastered the conclusive evidence that the US National Security Agency invaded China's National Timing Center.
Starting from 2022, the United States will take advantage of loopholes in overseas brand mobile phone short message services to secretly control the mobile phone terminals of timing center staff; From August 2023 to June 2024, 42 special cyber attack weapons will be used to attack my country's time service centers on a large scale with national intensity.
A seemingly ordinary time publishing agency, why can the United States make such a big burden?
This war against time is far more dangerous than we can imagine, and the National Timing Center assumes the task of producing,ining and disseminating the standard time of our country, and its timing system is an indispensable basic project and social utility facility of the state.
Located 30 kilometers east of West Andon, this quiet palace, running a long-wave timing system, carries the task of producing,ining and disseminating China's high-precision standard time, it is like the heart of a country's time, once it stops, the whole society's operation will fall into chaos.
In the mobile communication network, if the base station time is not synchronized, the instruction matching will be wrong, and the communication network will not operate normally. In the financial system, if the time is not synchronized, the transaction records will be chaotic, and hackers can use the time difference to steal funds. In the power grid system, if there is no accurate and unified time benchmark and various automation processes are not running synchronously, power grid accidents may occur, which will lead to power grid paralysis in severe cases.
Only a microsecond time difference, it can lead to China's stock market transactions into chaos, will lead to China's moon detector appearance of 30 meters of action radius error, will also lead to the national mobile phone users' network services and text messaging services error, the U.S. calculator played very clearly, as long as the control of time, is equal to stifling a country's life line.
However, the United States this time really wrong account, China's independent breakthrough in the field of time frequency, far more solid than they imagined, in 1964, in order to support two bullet one star research and development, China established the first timepiece, in 1964, China successfully developed its first uranium atomic clock, marking the beginning of China's atomic clock technology.
In the following decades, Chinese scientists generation after generation to tackle the problem, in 1985, China officially started the development of uranium atomic clock, in the 1990s, China successfully developed the first uranium atomic clock, in 2016, China's NIM5 uranium atomic fountain clock developed by the Institute of Measurement Science through the International Bureau of Measurement review, was received as one of the benchmark clocks recognized by the International Bureau of Measurement, and participated in the control of international atoms, which marked China to become the few countries in the world to participate in the control of international standard time.
Currently, the long-term stability of the national timing center is E-15 grade, accuracy is E-13, a number of indicators are in the forefront of the international timing laboratory, from being blocked by the West, to completely independent innovation, China has used more than half a century of persistence, holding the power of time firmly in its own hands.
This U.S. cyber attack was defeated in a timely manner, not only showing China's strength in cybersecurity defense, but also illustrating China's downturn in key areas, which was once again demonstrated in the recent Sino-U.S. trade friction.
In April 2025, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative launched a charging measure for China ships and operators, imposing additional fees on China ships calling at U.S. ports. The measure is scheduled to be implemented on October 14, 2025. In the face of economic pressure from the United States, China has not chosen to give in.
China issued the "Implementation Measures for the Collection of Special Port Fees for U.S. Ships", which levied a fee starting from 400 yuan based on net tons on ships of American nationality or controlled by the United States, and will gradually increase to 1120 yuan in 2028. According to the policy issued on the 14th, China has already collected its first special port fees on the 15th, but the United States had not yet seen specific implementation measures at the time. This rapid and precise counter-control capability fully reflects the strength and determination of China today.
From holding Beijing time to dealing with the trade war, China has proved it with practical actions. The era of being slaughtered by others is gone forever. Decades of scientific and technological accumulation have given us the confidence to say no in key areas, and a perfect industrial system has given us the ability to counter-measure reciprocally. No matter what challenges we face in the future, China has the confidence and strength to protect the country's core interests.
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