Michael Gu / Grace Wu / Vivian Wang [1]Introduction The year 2020 is an unusual year. The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and continued international trade tensions posed challenges to Chinese antitrust law enforcement authority, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR). Particularly, the SAMR was tested on their ability to address the impacts coming along with the crisis and to rapidly respond to new circumstances in the Chinese market. Despite the challenges, the SAMR maintained prudent…

China’s Supreme Court made a final judgment applying HCCH 1965 Service Convention to serve a Japanese litigant by post in 2019, under the situation where the government of Japan opposed to postal service but the Japanese litigant agreed to accept it. I. Overview On 22 Nov. 2019, the Supreme People’s Court of China (“the SPC”) rendered a final judgment over guarantee liability matters, Tang Yimin v. China Development Bank[1], involving the issue of cross-border service…

REGULATIONS CAC seeks comments on revising Administrative Measures for Internet Information Services On January 8, 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) issued the Administrative Measures for Internet Information Services (Revised Draft for Comments) (the “Draft for Comment”) for public comments by February 7, 2021. The Draft for Comment applies to any organization or individual within the territory of the People’s Republic of China providing Internet information services to domestic users by using domestic and foreign network…

REGULATIONS CAC seeks comments on scope of necessary personal information required for 38 types of Apps On December 1, 2020, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) issued the Scope of Necessary Personal Information Required for Common Types of Mobile Internet Applications (Draft for Comment) (the “Draft for Comment”) for public comments by December 16, 2020. The Draft for Comment stipulates the scope of necessary personal information required for 38 common types of Apps such as map navigation…

REGULATIONS NISSTC issued the Guidelines for Data Security of Online Car-booking Services (Draft for Comment) On November 10, 2020, the Secretariat of the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee (“NISSTC”) issued the Information Security Technology – Guidelines for Data Security of Online Car-booking Services (Draft for Comment) (the “Draft”) for public comments by January 8, 2021. The Draft specifies the types, scope, methods and conditions of collection, storage, use, sharing, public disclosure and deletion of…

REGULATIONS MIIT launches 2020 program of checking cyber security in telecommunications and internet industries On October 9, 2020, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (“MIIT”) issued the Circular on Working Effectively on the 2020 Program of Checking the Cyber Security in the Telecommunications and Internet Industries (the “Circular”). The Circular provides that the checking object includes networks and systems constructed and operated by basic telecommunication enterprises, Internet enterprises, domain name registration management and service institutions that have…