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Administrative Regulations on Internet-based News Information Services (2017)

互联网新闻信息服务管理规定

Type of laws Departmental rule

Issuing body Cyberspace Administration of China

Promulgating date May 02, 2017

Effective date Jun 01, 2017

Validity status Valid

Scope of application Nationwide

Topic(s) Cyber Law/Internet Law Press Regulation

Editor(s) Xinzhu Li 李欣烛 Yanru Chen 陈彦茹

Administrative Regulations on Internet-based News Information Services entered into force on 1 June 2017.

There are 29 articles in total. The Regulations aim to regulate the activities providing internet-based news information services within the territory of China. The news information refers to the reports and comments relating to social public affairs such as politics, economy, military affairs and foreign affairs, and social emergencies. Key points of the Regulations include:

  1. Any subject providing Internet-based news information services to the social public via the Internet shall obtain the Internet-based news information service license.
  2. The Internet-based news information services include Internet-based news information collecting, editing and publishing services, republishing service and transmission platform service.
  3. Only the legal persons incorporated within the territory of China shall apply for an Internet-based information service license. And Sino-foreign joint ventures, Sino-foreign cooperative ventures or wholly foreign-owned enterprises shall not be providers of Internet-based information service.
  4. The collecting and editing business and the operating business of the Internet-based news information shall be separately operated by different entities; and the operating entity conducting collecting and editing business shall have all its shares be held by State-owned investors.

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