National cybersecurity awareness activities proceeded in parallel across several Chinese regions, centered on hands-on events for schools, neighborhoods and workplaces.

This year's themes are personal data protection, telecom fraud prevention and young people's online habits, addressed through exhibitions, simulations and lectures.

Telecom fraud often crosses borders, so individual vigilance alone cannot block it; the campaign stressed that carrier and bank detection systems must work together.

Text-message scams mixing Chinese and Korean are reported repeatedly in Korea's Chinese community. Checking sender numbers and payment links applies the same way anywhere.

The effect of security education is not measurable at once. But with methods changing yearly, repeated publicity of current patterns has value in itself.