Overview Of MIIT's New Rules Regarding Data Security

On December 8, 2022, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ("MIIT") promulgated the Measures for Data Security Management in Industry and Information Technology Sector (for Trial Implementation) ("Measures"), a landmark legislation for China in industry and information technology sectors. the Measures introduces and clarifies some very important concepts such as core data and important data in the sector.

This article would like to briefly introduce the Measures for enterprises practicing in the said sector.

I. Who must comply?

The Measures apply to the data processing activities in the industrial and information technology field in China. The industrial and information technology data concerned under the Measures refers to industrial data, telecom data and radio data.