The unlawful disclosure of protected information article is a typical form of theft of state secrets regulated by article 23 of the Basic Law.There are some defects of the definition of the categories of information that require protection and to whom the different provisions of the ordinance should apply in the current Official Secrets Ordinance.The present law can't meet the need of safeguarding the security of the State and it fails to keep up with the pace of development of society and technology.So there is an urgent need for promoting the legislative process including expanding the range of protected article，adding the regulation of unauthorized disclosure of protected information and enacting rules of liability exception.