October 7, 1993 (August 22) ����, "Ming Pao reporter Xi Yang was arrested for theft of state secrets.

1993, Hong Kong's Ming Pao Daily News "reporter Xi Yang engaged burglary married secret spying on the country's financial activities, evidence, approved by the Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate Branch of the Beijing State Security Bureau in accordance with the National Security Act for his arrest.
Earlier, the National Security Bureau in Beijing will XI Yang illegally providing state financial secrets of the main perpetrators of the staff of the People's Bank of China field legally arrested. Field by the instigation of XI Yang, the XI Yang spying and illegally providing financial secrets. Seats, Tian stolen financial secrets, including changes in interest rates of deposits and loans of the People's Bank of China program was yet to be announced, the People's Bank of China to participate in the decisions of the international gold trading secrets and other major financial secrets, has resulted in serious consequences. National security authorities have seized conclusive evidence related the, XI Yang and field confessed to the above behavior of endangering national security.
Beijing State Security Bureau official pointed out, the seats, Tian acts in breach of the criminal law of the People's Republic of China, and has nothing to do with the normal interview with reporters that the case is purely a criminal case.