China's regulatory regime for data export has finalized in 2023. Data processors subject to the Chinese data protection laws will consider three mechanisms in planning for their data cross-border transfer: the security assessment, the China Standard Contractual Clauses, and the security certification.

On April 8th, 2024, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued an announcement to allow wholly foreign-owned enterprises to engage in certain value-added telecommunications services.

Last April, the People's Bank of China and the State Administration of Market Regulation jointly released the Rules to Administrate Beneficial Owner Information requiring filing of the beneficial owner information by entities in China.

The Cyberspace Administration of China released on February 22, 2023 the finalized Rules on Standard Contract for Personal Information Outbound Transfer which will take effect on June 1, 2023.

On February 27, 2014, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China enacted the Amended Law on the Protection of State Secrets (the "Revised Law"). The Revised

On February 12, 2025, the CAC issued the Rules on Compliance Audit for Personal Information Protection to implement the compliance audit requirements under the Personal Information Protection Law and the Regulation on Network Data Security Administration.

On February 28, 2024, the State Council of China held a press conference to release and officially interpret the newly issued Guidelines on Further Regulating and Supervising the Formulation and Enforcement of Administrative Fines.

The amended and restated Anti-Espionage Law of the PRC takes effect on July 1, 2023 (the "New Law"). What are the changes in the New Law? What are the potential impacts...

On March 22, 2024, the Cyberspace Administration of China ("CAC"), China's data protection regulator, released the finalized Provisions on Regulating and Promoting Cross-Border Data Flows ("Provisions")

On December 29, 2023, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China adopted an amendment to the Company Law, which will come into effect on July 1, 2024.

On September 28th, 2023, the Cyberspace Administration of China ("CAC"), China's data protection regulator, released for public comment a draft Provisions...

It has been six months since the Cyberspace Administration of China (the CAC) released the Rules on Data Outbound Transfer Security Assessment (the Data Outbound Transfer Assessment Rules).

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My previous article, A Glimpse of the Regulatory Mechanism for the China SCCs, provided a high-level summary of the regulatory mechanism to rely on the CN SCCs to outbound transfer personal information from China.