Duration of confidentiality of confidential documents

According to the relevant laws, the confidentiality period of confidential documents generally does not exceed 20 years.

Legal basis:

Article 14 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Guarding State Secrets, organs and units shall determine the classification of state secrets according to the specific scope of state secrets and their classification, and at the same time determine the time limit for keeping state secrets, and limit them to the necessary time limit according to the nature and characteristics of the matter and the need to safeguard national security and interests; If the time limit cannot be determined, the decryption conditions shall be determined.

Unless otherwise specified, the confidentiality period of state secrets shall not exceed 30 years, 20 years and 10 years.

Organs and units shall, according to the needs of work, determine the specific confidentiality period, decryption time or decryption conditions.

Organs and units, according to the needs of their work, decide to disclose matters that need to be kept confidential in the process of deciding and handling related matters, and when they are officially announced, they will be regarded as declassified.