The industrial and connected-vehicle sector sits under a dedicated layer of data rules administered chiefly by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). This domain collects the instruments that manufacturers, automotive OEMs, internet-data-center operators, and platform businesses must layer onto the general regime of the Data Security Law, the Cybersecurity Law, and PIPL: MIIT’s Industrial Data Security Management Measures and their companion risk-assessment and incident-emergency rules, the connected-vehicle (IoV) cybersecurity and data-security framework, the Several Provisions on Automotive Data Security and the 2026 automotive data-export guidelines, the internet-data-center customer-data protection guidance, and the supervision measures for live-streaming e-commerce.
The defining feature of this sector is its own three-tier data classification (ordinary / important / core industrial data) and a catalog-and-filing mechanism distinct from the general “important data” regime. For automotive players the rules add in-vehicle processing defaults, anonymization duties for outbound video and location data, and a tight cross-border choke point that overseas OEMs and their cloud and mapping vendors must clear before any vehicle data leaves China.