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cyber, and biology etc. This means, information science needs to integrate knowledge in politics,
economy, culture, military, science and technology, etc., and based on the basic theories and
methods of cognition, sociology, communication, mathematics, computer science and other
disciplines, using cross-information retrieval, user behavior, information search, knowledge
discovery, data mining and other technologies to explore and explain the laws contained in
intelligence activities and information science from different disciplinary perspectives. In this way,
it would serve the overall national security intelligence work, truly play the role of “eyes and ears,
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vanguards, and advisers”, and highlight the strategic position of intelligence work . At present,
the research object of information science is the process of information work or information
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system . The core of information science is knowledge. Scholars study the theoretical system
of Chinese information science around the production, acquisition, organization, storage,
development, service and utilization of information. Thus, information science and information
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behavior are inseparable . That means, information science is closely related to human’s practical
activities such as information collection, cognition, acquisition and utilization. Therefore, the basic
task of information service is to make the information orderly, organized and intelligent, so as to
solve the problem of the development and utilization of information resources, and transform the
information from the data (information) at the ontological level to the epistemological level [44] .
The essence of information services is to help human beings understand and transform the
information world. If information service would not aim at information development, the problem
of information proliferation could not be solved, let alone truly provide security intelligence,
competitive intelligence, military intelligence and other fields of intelligence knowledge for
countries, society, and enterprises. Based on the above analysis, this paper puts forward the
following proposition of the research objects and basic concepts of Chinese intelligence:

Proposition No.13: The information science in China focuses on the development of information in
information organizations. It integrates knowledge in politics, economy, culture, military, science and
technology, etc. In research fields such as cross-information retrieval, user behavior, information search,
knowledge discovery, and data mining, it reveals intelligence phenomena and characteristics and laws to
help human beings understand and transform the information world. Meanwhile, it also serves as the role
of “eyes and ears, vanguards, and advisers”.

In the theoretical research of information science in China, it is very necessary to trace the
theoretical basis of information science. One of its important tasks is to answer the core questions,
explore the core values, solve the practical problems of the development of the discipline and
provide theoretical support. The theoretical basis of information science is the basic assumption
and knowledge cognition of information phenomena, activities and practical work. It is the
logical starting point for the establishment for discipline theory, also known as information meta-
theory, which runs through the whole process of the development of Chinese information science
theory. The introduction and research of Chinese information meta-theory is largely due to the