Key Points Of China's Cybersecurity Law Amendments

On October 28, 2025, the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending the Cybersecurity Law was adopted at the 18th session of the 14th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and the amendments will come into effect on January 1, 2026. This is the first revision of the Cybersecurity Law, the foundational legislation in cybersecurity, which has been in effect since June 1, 2017. The amendments aim to address the new requirements and challenges at the cybersecurity frontier.

This article will briefly introduce the main revisions of the Cybersecurity Law.

1. Framework for the Healthy Development of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence, as a strategic technology, is leading a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. In particular, with the breakthrough innovations in recent years in the fields of language large models, multimodal large models, artificial intelligence agents,