China is pushing for the future through research in tech, but that doesn't mean that it comes without problems. Cybersecurity risks are a big problem in China; even with the Great Firewall up, attacks are still coming without warning and without any label as to who made the attack.

Data collected by China Daily shows that China suffered from 17.5 million cyber attacks from January up to October. Most of them, as tracked by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team and Coordination Center, came from outside of China. Most of them contained Trojan viruses as well as were initiated by pre-programmed bots.

Interestingly, a huge number of them came from the United States.

Most of the cyber attacks occurred during the period between 2015 and 2016. Li Jia, designated deputy director of the overseeing authority, said that the attacks never really stopped. He continued by saying that the attacks were a clear indication of the cybersecurity threats' strength, as well as that of the strength of protection offered by the Chinese.

A look at BMC's description of threats states that there are three threats to cybersecurity. There are times when an employee or someone in the organization forget to access the proper information. There are those which come from attacks originating outside, and then there are the intentional attacks coming from parties who want to see the web infrastructure go down.

An example of this is the WannaCry Ransomware Attack, which happened May of 2017. Such an attack, according to Li, would potentially cripple China's robust internet framework. He added that there would be catastrophic damage done not only to the web infrastructure but everything that it covers-government computers and others. He added that the damage would reach levels 'beyond imagination.'

The government has already made its moves to create a more secure environment. According to Li, information drives about the risks to security are made available to the public. Every time a report comes in that contains events that may eventually escalate all the way up to the national levels, Li said the official protocol is to report it to the superior agency, which is the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Li said the government has called for international help in making sure cybersecurity best practices stand. 26 out of 69 countries, according to him, have already signed an accord on cooperation.