Intelligence Bureau of the Joint Staff Department

Intelligence Bureau of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission
中央军委联合参谋部情报局
	PLA Joint Staff Department Patch
Agency overview
Formed	January 2016
Preceding	General Staff Department Intelligence Bureau;
Type	Constituent Department of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission
Jurisdiction	People's Liberation Army
Headquarters	Dongcheng, Beijing
Annual budget	Classified
Agency executive	Xu Youming;
Parent department	Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission

The Intelligence Bureau of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission (Chinese: 中央军委联合参谋部情报局; pinyin: Lián cān qíngbào jú) a bureau of the Joint Staff Department. It is one of the People's Republic of China's primary intelligence organizations and the principal military intelligence organ of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

The organization was formerly referred to as the Intelligence Department of the General Staff Department, the Second Department, or simply 2PLA. In 2016, CMC chairman Xi Jinping implemented substantial military reforms for the armed services, the theater commands, and the Central Military Commission (CMC) that have been compared to the United States' Goldwater–Nichols or Russian Serdyukov reforms. As part of the restructuring of the CMC, the former General Staff Department (GSD) was replaced by the Joint Staff Department (JSD) and subordinate units, to include the Intelligence Bureau, were transferred to the new Joint Staff Department.^[1]^[2] The Government of the People's Republic of China has not officially acknowledged the existence of Intelligence Bureau.

^ Mattis, Peter (29 December 2015). "China's Military Intelligence System is Changing". War on the Rocks. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
^ Saunders, Phillip C.; Wuthnow, Joel (1 July 2016). "China's Goldwater-Nichols? Assessing PLA Organizational Reforms" (PDF). Joint Force Quarterly (82). National Defense University Press: 69. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 January 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.

[:0-1] Mattis, Peter (29 December 2015). "China's Military Intelligence System is Changing". War on the Rocks. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.

[:1-2] Saunders, Phillip C.; Wuthnow, Joel (1 July 2016). "China's Goldwater-Nichols? Assessing PLA Organizational Reforms" (PDF). Joint Force Quarterly (82). National Defense University Press: 69. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 January 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.

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