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China — Cybersecurity Law, as amended 2025 (网络安全法)
China's foundational cybersecurity statute, first amended by the NPC Standing Committee decision of 28 October 2025 (in force 1 January 2026). The amendment renumbered the articles — cite the new numbering.
Statute text is Chinese (the authentic language); this README is curation.
Applicability to EdTech
- MLPS (网络安全等级保护制度) (第二十三条, formerly 第二十一条): every network operator in China — a hosted platform serving Chinese schools included — must implement the multi-level protection scheme's baseline duties (security policies, access controls, logging retained ≥ six months, encryption/backup of important data).
- CII data localisation (第三十九条, formerly 第三十七条): critical-information-infrastructure operators must store personal information and important data in-country, with CAC security assessment for necessary exports. Education can be designated CII — if a large education authority customer is a CIIO, their vendor stack inherits the constraint.
- The 2025 amendment also raised penalty ceilings and added AI-governance support provisions (README-level note; extract on demand).
Contents
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| DENGJI-BAOHU-YU-BENDIHUA.md | 第二十三条 (等级保护), 第三十九条 (关键信息基础设施数据本地化) — 2025 修正后编号 |
Enforcement
CAC, 公安部 (MPS runs MLPS), and sector regulators.
Licence
The corpus reproduces selected articles of the 网络安全法 in the consolidated amended text of 2025 published by the 中国人大网 and republished by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC).
Chinese copyright law does not apply to laws and regulations. 《中华人民共和国著作权法》第五条 (中国政府网 — 中华人民共和国著作权法, read 2026-10-01) provides: "本法不适用于： （一）法律、法规，国家机关的决议、决定、命令和其他具有立法、行政、司法性质的文件，及其官方正式译文；"
The CAC pages carry the site-wide footer "© 版权所有". That notice covers the website; it cannot create copyright in a text that 第五条 excludes, and the CAC publishes no terms that restrict reuse of the legislation it republishes.
Conditions: none attach to the statute text, because no copyright subsists in it. The corpus still identifies its source: each fact document names its source in its opening citation line and in its Meta section, and Sources here links the official text (the CAC). The changes (the selection of provisions, the Markdown layout and the added anchors) are described in Meta. The corpus does not claim that the publisher endorses it, and only the officially promulgated text is authentic.