The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
("MIIT") published the Emergency Response Plan for
Cybersecurity Incidents in Public Networks ("Plan") on 14
November 2017. This Plan further implements the general principles
set out in the PRC Cybersecurity Law and an emergency response plan
published by the Cyberspace Administration of China
("CAC") in June 2017.
According to the Plan, a Cybersecurity Emergency Response Office
("Office") under the leadership of CAC and MIIT will be
responsible for coordinating the relevant sectoral authorities and
local authorities to handle public cybersecurity incidents. The
Plan divided incidents into four categories, i.e. extremely
significant incidents (e.g. users are unable to get access to the
Internet nationwide, ". CN" DNS efficiency drops
significantly, more than 100 million users' information leaked,
or there is a large-scale network virus outbreak nationwide),
significant incidents (e.g. users in several provinces are
