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title_en: "State Council Provisions on Ensuring Minors' Healthy and Safe Use of the Internet (Draft for Public Comment)"
title_zh: "国务院关于保障未成年人健康安全使用网络的规定（征求意见稿）"
abbreviation: "Minors' Internet Use Provisions (Draft)"
hierarchy: "draft"
issuing_body: "Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), drafting for the State Council"
status: "draft"
source_url: "https://www.cac.gov.cn/2026-09/18/c_1791482017777471.htm"
related_laws: ["minors-online-protection-regulations", "minors-platform-identification-measures", "minors-protection-law", "pipl", "csl", "ai-anthropomorphic-interaction-measures", "network-identity-authentication-measures", "children-pi-online-protection-provisions"]
domains: ["minors-protection", "personal-information", "app-compliance"]
url: https://datacompliancechina.com/laws/minors-healthy-safe-internet-use-provisions-draft/
summary: "A 25-article draft State Council regulation, released by the CAC for public comment on September 18, 2026 (comments closed October 17, 2026), that would sit alongside the 2024 Regulations on the Protection of Minors in Cyberspace and push their minors' mode from an option into the default for children under 16. It bans four services for all minors: online social networking with strangers (except for minors aged 16 or above who live mainly on their own labor income), virtual intimate relationship services such as virtual relatives and partners, addiction-inducing services, and live-stream broadcasting for under-16s (Art 4). Online audio and video, live-streaming viewing, games, social networking, and AI services that may affect minors' cognition must reach under-16s only through a minors' mode (Art 5), and a user identified as a minor must be switched into it (Art 9). Every network service provider must be able to identify minor users, using methods that include non-storage one-time facial verification and behavioral feature recognition (Art 6). The draft reaches beyond apps to smart terminal manufacturers, which must build in minors' mode linkage, one-click switching, and anti-circumvention, and to app distribution platforms, which must age-rate apps and restrict age-inappropriate downloads (Art 10). It creates a minors' mode filing system: providers that offer a minors' mode file with the provincial cyberspace administration, and platforms with a very large number of minor users and a significant impact on minors file with the national cyberspace administration through the provincial office and report on their minors' mode, with annual verification (Art 12). Minors' mode on smart mobile terminals would enter MIIT's network access license testing. Fines reach 10 times illegal gains or RMB 1 million (Art 18). The effective date is blank, but the year reads 2026."
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> **Source: Data Compliance China** — https://datacompliancechina.com/laws/minors-healthy-safe-internet-use-provisions-draft/ · English rendering and annotations by DCC; the Chinese original governs. Cite as: Data Compliance China, "State Council Provisions on Ensuring Minors' Healthy and Safe Use of the Internet (Draft for Public Comment)", https://datacompliancechina.com/laws/minors-healthy-safe-internet-use-provisions-draft/
**Drafted by:** Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), for issuance by the State Council.
**Document No.:** Not yet assigned (draft for public comment).
**Released for public comment September 18, 2026. Comments closed October 17, 2026. The effective date is left blank in the draft ("2026年 月 日").**

> *DCC note.* If adopted, these Provisions would be a State Council
> administrative regulation, the same rank as the 2024
> [Regulations on the Protection of Minors in Cyberspace](/laws/minors-online-protection-regulations/),
> and would sit alongside them rather than replace them (Article 12 keeps
> the Regulations' online-game regime in place). The second paragraph of
> Article 12 uses the wording of the
> [Minors Platform Identification Measures](/laws/minors-platform-identification-measures/):
> the "network platform service providers with a very large number of
> minor users and a significant impact on minors" are the platforms
> identified under those Measures. For what the draft adds and whom it
> binds, see DCC's brief
> [The draft State Council Provisions on minors' internet use](/posts/state-council-minors-internet-use-provisions-draft/).
>
> Rendering notes. 网络直播发布服务 is rendered "live-stream broadcasting
> services": going live as a streamer, as opposed to watching streams.
> 陌生人网络社交服务 is rendered "online social networking services with
> strangers"; the draft does not define it. 朋友圈 is rendered "friend
> feeds" (WeChat's Moments is the best-known example). The CAC's
> consultation notice and its Explanation of the draft are translated
> after the draft text. DCC translation; the Chinese text is
> authoritative.

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## Notice on Soliciting Public Comments

**Notice of the Cyberspace Administration of China on Soliciting Public
Comments on the *State Council Provisions on Ensuring Minors' Healthy and
Safe Use of the Internet (Draft for Public Comment)***

To strengthen the protection of minors online, foster an online
environment conducive to minors' physical and mental health, and
safeguard the lawful rights and interests of minors, the Cyberspace
Administration of China has, in accordance with the Law of the People's
Republic of China on the Protection of Minors, the Cybersecurity Law of
the People's Republic of China, the Personal Information Protection Law
of the People's Republic of China, and other laws, organized the drafting
of the *State Council Provisions on Ensuring Minors' Healthy and Safe Use
of the Internet (Draft for Public Comment)*, and hereby solicits public
comments on it. Members of the public may submit comments in the
following ways:

1. By email to weibao@cac.gov.cn.
2. By letter to the Bureau of Cyberspace Rule of Law (网络法治局),
   Cyberspace Administration of China, No. 11 Chegongzhuang Street,
   Xicheng District, Beijing, postcode 100044, with "Comments on minors'
   healthy and safe internet use" (未成年人健康安全使用网络征求意见)
   written on the envelope.

The deadline for comments is October 17, 2026.

Annexes: 1. State Council Provisions on Ensuring Minors' Healthy and Safe
Use of the Internet (Draft for Public Comment)

2. Explanation of the *State Council Provisions on Ensuring Minors'
Healthy and Safe Use of the Internet (Draft for Public Comment)*

Cyberspace Administration of China

September 18, 2026

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## State Council Provisions on Ensuring Minors' Healthy and Safe Use of the Internet (Draft for Public Comment)

**Article 1.** These Provisions are formulated in accordance with the Law
of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors, the
Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China, the Personal
Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China, and other
laws, in order to strengthen the protection of minors online, foster an
online environment conducive to minors' physical and mental health, and
safeguard the lawful rights and interests of minors.

**Article 2.** These Provisions and the relevant laws and administrative
regulations apply to the provision of network services to minors, the
research, development, and manufacture of smart terminal products, and
the provision of apps to smart terminal users through app distribution
platforms, within the territory of the People's Republic of China.

**Article 3.** Network service providers, smart terminal product
manufacturers, and app distribution platform service providers shall
adhere to the principle of the best interests of minors, take full
account of the characteristics of minors' physical and mental
development, assess the potential impact on minors on a sound basis, set
their target users and manner of service reasonably, and provide a
minors' mode in accordance with these Provisions and the relevant
national provisions and standards.

The industrial and supply chains for smart terminal products are
encouraged to strengthen cooperation and coordination; to research,
develop, and manufacture dedicated smart terminal products that serve
minors and suit the patterns and characteristics of minors' physical and
mental development; and to advance the industrialization of dedicated
smart terminal products for minors. The research, development, and
provision of network technologies and services conducive to minors'
healthy growth are supported, so as to meet minors' needs for internet
use and promote their scientific, civilized, safe, and reasonable use of
the internet.

**Article 4.** Network service providers shall not provide the following
network services to minors:

(1) online social networking services with strangers, except where
provided to minors aged 16 or above whose main source of livelihood is
their own labor income;

(2) virtual intimate relationship services, such as virtual relatives and
virtual partners;

(3) network services that induce minors to become addicted, or that
otherwise harm or may seriously affect minors' physical and mental
health;

(4) live-stream broadcasting services, where provided to minors under the
age of 16;

(5) other network services that laws, administrative regulations, or
relevant national provisions specify may not be provided to minors.

**Article 5.** Network service providers that provide the following
network services to minors under the age of 16 shall do so through a
minors' mode:

(1) online audio and video services; online live-streaming services other
than live-stream broadcasting services; and online game services;

(2) online social networking services, including but not limited to
microblogs, forums and online communities, groups, friend feeds, private
messages, and post comments;

(3) artificial intelligence services that may affect minors' cognition;

(4) other network services that may have a significant impact on minors.

**Article 6.** Network service providers shall have the capability to
identify minor users. They shall, in accordance with law, use a
combination of methods such as statutory identity documents, the national
network identity authentication public service, distributed digital
identity authentication public services, non-storage one-time facial
verification, and behavioral feature recognition to improve the accuracy
of minor-user identification, and shall take necessary measures to ensure
the security of minors' personal information.

Where a minor who has no or limited capacity for civil conduct obtains a
phone card, the minor's statutory agent shall obtain it on the minor's
behalf, and the telecommunications business operator shall register the
minor user's real identity information in accordance with law.

**Article 7.** The State encourages and supports the production,
reproduction, publication, and dissemination of online information
conducive to minors' healthy growth, so as to foster a clean and wholesome
cyberspace and a sound online ecosystem conducive to minors' healthy
growth.

Network service providers shall strengthen their management of
information published by users. Where they discover the production,
reproduction, publication, or dissemination of online information that
harms or may affect minors' physical and mental health, they shall take
corresponding measures to deal with it in accordance with law.

Network service providers shall not present, in minors' mode, online
information that harms or may affect minors' physical and mental health.
Where they discover that a minor user is in an extreme situation that
threatens the minor's life or health, such as self-harm or suicide, they
shall take necessary measures to intervene and shall promptly contact the
user's guardian or emergency contact.

**Article 8.** Network service providers shall perform their obligations
for the online protection of minors in accordance with law; establish and
improve systems for algorithm mechanism and principle review, science and
technology ethics review, information content management, and network
and data security management; be equipped with content management
technical measures and personnel appropriate to the type and scale of the
service and the characteristics of their minor users; and shall not set
up algorithmic models that induce emotional dependence, addiction,
excessive spending, or the like in minor users.

**Article 9.** Network service providers shall not provide the network
services specified in Article 4 of these Provisions to users who have been
verified through real-name verification, or identified, as minors. Where
they provide such users with the network services specified in Article 5
of these Provisions, they shall switch the relevant services to minors'
mode in accordance with the provisions.

Network service providers shall provide corresponding appeal channels,
promptly accept and verify user appeals, and, for users verified as
meeting the conditions required by these Provisions, promptly lift the
relevant measures.

**Article 10.** Smart terminal product manufacturers shall equip smart
terminal products with functions such as minors' mode linkage, one-click
switching, verification on exit, anti-circumvention, and management of
usage periods, duration, functions, and content. App distribution
platform service providers shall fulfil their security management
responsibilities for listing review, routine management, emergency
response, and the like; shall assess on a sound basis the age range for
which an app is suitable, taking into account factors such as the app's
minors' mode development and filing; shall strictly review apps that
apply to be listed or updated in minors' mode; and shall restrict the
downloading and installation of an app where the user does not meet the
age for which the app is suitable.

Smart terminal product manufacturers and app distribution platform
service providers shall comply with the provisions of Articles 4 and 5 of
these Provisions that apply to network service providers and shall, in
accordance with the preceding paragraph and the relevant national
provisions and standards, set up a minors' mode and perform the
corresponding obligations for the online protection of minors.

**Article 11.** A minors' mode shall conform to the relevant national
provisions and standards, and shall have functions for effectively
identifying online information that harms or may affect minors' physical
and mental health, protecting minors' rights and interests in personal
information, preventing minors' internet addiction, and making it easier
for guardians to perform their guardianship duties.

Innovation in minors' mode functions is encouraged, as is the building of
dedicated content pools to enrich high-quality content that is positive,
healthy, uplifting, and wholesome and that meets minors' intellectual and
cultural needs.

The national cyberspace administration, together with the relevant
departments of the State Council, shall establish and improve technical
standards and specifications for minors' modes in accordance with the
needs of the online protection of minors.

**Article 12.** The national cyberspace administration shall establish a
minors' mode filing mechanism.

Smart terminal product manufacturers and network service providers that
provide a minors' mode shall file the settings and functions of their
minors' mode with the provincial cyberspace administration. Network
platform service providers with a very large number of minor users and a
significant impact on minors shall file with the national cyberspace
administration through the provincial cyberspace administration, and
shall submit a report on the development of their minors' mode and the
use of their services. Cyberspace administrations shall verify filing
materials annually.

The telecommunications authority under the State Council shall include
the minors' mode of smart mobile terminals in telecommunications
equipment network access license testing, and shall, together with the
national cyberspace administration, formulate the network access license
test items for the minors' mode of smart mobile terminals.

The national press and publication authority shall take the lead in
organizing the prevention and control of minors' addiction to online
games. The provision of online game services to minors shall comply with
the Regulations on the Protection of Minors in Cyberspace and with the
relevant provisions of the national press and publication authority on
the administration of online games.

**Article 13.** Education departments shall guide and support schools in
developing minors' cybersecurity awareness, civility, behavioral habits,
and self-protection skills; shall regulate and manage, in accordance with
law, the smart terminal products that minor students bring into school;
and shall carry out publicity and education on the online protection of
minors, including the use of minors' mode, in a variety of forms.

**Article 14.** Public security organs shall stop criminal acts that
infringe upon minors, and shall crack down in accordance with law on
criminal activities involving minors, such as cyber violence, the
dissemination of obscene materials, and the infringement of citizens'
personal information.

**Article 15.** The Communist Youth League, women's federations, trade
unions, disabled persons' federations, committees for the care of the
next generation, youth federations, student federations, and the Young
Pioneers, together with other people's organizations, relevant social
organizations, and primary-level mass self-governing organizations, shall
work together on educating and guiding minors to use the internet
reasonably, promoting minors' mode, and safeguarding minors' lawful
rights and interests.

**Article 16.** Schools shall strengthen guidance and training for
teachers and improve teachers' ability to identify minor students'
internet addiction early and intervene; shall regulate and manage, in
accordance with law, the smart terminal products that minor students
bring into school, and guide students in using minors' mode. Where a
minor student shows a tendency toward internet addiction, the school
shall promptly inform the student's guardian and work with the guardian
to educate and guide the student in reasonable internet use.

**Article 17.** Guardians of minors shall strengthen the building of
their family life, family education, and family traditions; improve
their own internet literacy and regulate their own internet use;
strengthen the education, example-setting, guidance, and supervision of
minors' internet use; and help minors turn on minors' mode and guide them
in using it.

**Article 18.** For violations of Article 4, Article 5, the first
paragraph of Article 6, the third paragraph of Article 7, the first
paragraph of Article 9, or the first paragraph of Article 11 of these
Provisions, the cyberspace, press and publication, telecommunications,
public security, culture and tourism, market regulation, radio and
television, and other departments shall, according to their respective
duties, order corrections, give a warning, and confiscate illegal gains.
Where the illegal gains are RMB 1 million or more, a fine of not less
than one time and not more than ten times the illegal gains shall be
imposed concurrently; where there are no illegal gains or the illegal
gains are less than RMB 1 million, a fine of not less than RMB 100,000
and not more than RMB 1 million shall be imposed concurrently. The
directly responsible persons in charge and other directly liable persons
shall be fined not less than RMB 10,000 and not more than RMB 100,000.
Where corrections are refused or the circumstances are serious, the
departments may also order the suspension of the relevant business,
suspension of operations for rectification, or closure of the website or
app, or revoke the relevant business permit or the business license.

**Article 19.** For violations of the second paragraph of Article 9 of
these Provisions, the cyberspace, press and publication,
telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, market
regulation, radio and television, and other departments shall, according
to their respective duties, order corrections. Where corrections are
refused or the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than
RMB 50,000 and not more than RMB 500,000 shall be imposed, and the
directly responsible persons in charge and other directly liable persons
shall be fined not less than RMB 10,000 and not more than RMB 100,000.

**Article 20.** For violations of Article 10 or the second paragraph of
Article 12 of these Provisions, the cyberspace administration shall order
corrections and give a warning, and may impose a concurrent fine of not
less than RMB 100,000 and not more than RMB 1 million, and a fine of not
less than RMB 10,000 and not more than RMB 100,000 on the directly
responsible persons in charge and other directly liable persons. Where
corrections are refused or the circumstances are serious, it may also
order the suspension of the relevant business, suspension of operations
for rectification, or closure of the website or app, or revoke the
relevant business permit or the business license.

**Article 21.** Other violations of these Provisions shall be handled and
penalized by the competent departments in accordance with the Law of the
People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors, the Cybersecurity
Law of the People's Republic of China, the Personal Information
Protection Law of the People's Republic of China, the Regulations on the
Protection of Minors in Cyberspace, the Telecommunications Regulations of
the People's Republic of China, and other laws and administrative
regulations.

Where a violation of these Provisions infringes upon the lawful rights and
interests of minors and causes personal, property, or other damage, civil
liability shall be borne in accordance with law; where it constitutes a
violation of public security administration, a public security
administration penalty shall be imposed in accordance with law; where it
constitutes a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance
with law.

**Article 22.** Where a school violates these Provisions by failing to
perform its corresponding duties to protect minors, the education
department shall order corrections according to its duties; where
corrections are refused or the circumstances are serious, the directly
responsible persons in charge and other directly liable persons shall be
given sanctions in accordance with law.

**Article 23.** Where a minor's guardian fails to perform the guardianship
duties under these Provisions or infringes upon the minor's lawful rights
and interests, the residents' committee, villagers' committee, or
women's federation of the place where the minor resides, the guardian's
employer, and primary and secondary schools, kindergartens, and other
entities in close contact with minors shall, in accordance with law,
criticize and educate the guardian, admonish and stop the conduct, urge
the guardian to accept family education guidance, and the like.

**Article 24.** The national cyberspace administration may, together with
the relevant departments of the State Council, adjust the types of
network services listed in Articles 4 and 5 of these Provisions in a
timely manner as needed to ensure minors' healthy and safe use of the
internet.

The provision of network services to minors aged 16 or above through a
minors' mode is encouraged.

**Article 25.** These Provisions take effect on [day] [month], 2026.

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## Explanation of the Draft

**Explanation of the *State Council Provisions on Ensuring Minors'
Healthy and Safe Use of the Internet (Draft for Public Comment)***

The online protection of minors bears on the nation's future and the
hopes of the Chinese people, and on the happiness and peace of hundreds
of millions of families. To strengthen the online protection of minors,
foster an online environment conducive to minors' physical and mental
health, and safeguard minors' lawful rights and interests, the Cyberspace
Administration of China, after in-depth legislative research, careful
review of practical experience, and extensive consultation, organized the
drafting of the *State Council Provisions on Ensuring Minors' Healthy and
Safe Use of the Internet (Draft for Public Comment)* (the "Draft
Provisions") and is soliciting public comments on it. The relevant
matters are explained as follows.

**I. Why the Provisions are needed**

First, they are an important measure to implement the decisions and
arrangements of the Party Central Committee. Since the 18th National
Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee
with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has attached great importance to the
healthy growth of minors. General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed the
need to "create a clean and upright cyberspace for internet users,
especially young people". The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan calls
for "strengthening the online protection of minors and expanding online
spaces and platforms for educating people". Formulating the Provisions is
an important measure to give deeper effect, through regulations and
institutions, to the decisions of the Party Central Committee and to
further ensure minors' healthy and safe use of the internet.

Second, they meet a pressing need to strengthen the online protection of
minors. In recent years China has revised or adopted the Law of the
People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors, the Regulations
on the Protection of Minors in Cyberspace, the Provisions on the Online
Protection of Children's Personal Information, and other instruments,
basically forming a system for the online protection of minors. As the
internet merges faster with new technologies such as artificial
intelligence and big data and becomes ever more embedded in minors'
study and daily life, problems such as internet addiction and the spread
of illegal and harmful information still require continuing governance.
Formulating the Provisions is a pressing need to further strengthen the
administration of network services relating to minors, clarify the
institutional rules, and tighten the system of protection.

Third, they are an inevitable response to trends in global internet
governance. In recent years, and especially since last year, the
international community has paid broad attention to ensuring minors'
healthy and safe use of the internet and has enacted a series of related
laws, reflecting a common trend in global internet governance toward
strengthening the online protection of minors. Introducing "small, fast,
and nimble" (小快灵) legislation on the online protection of minors with
Chinese characteristics is an inevitable requirement for aligning with
current trends in global internet governance and contributing Chinese
wisdom and Chinese solutions.

**II. Drafting approach**

The Provisions follow this approach. First, upholding the leadership of
the Party: taking Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese
Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, implementing the guiding
principles of the 20th National Congress of the Party and of all the
plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, and thoroughly
implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on the
online protection of minors and the decisions and arrangements of the
Party Central Committee. Second, a problem-oriented approach: grounded in
China's practice in governing the online protection of minors, responding
to new situations and new problems arising in minors' use of the internet
with innovative institutional design, aligning with the relevant laws and
regulations, and making the system more systematic, targeted, and
effective. Third, coordinated co-governance: setting out coordinated
governance requirements for the relevant departments, network service
providers, smart terminal product manufacturers, app distribution
platform service providers, mass organizations, schools, guardians,
and other parties in ensuring minors' healthy and safe use of the
internet. Fourth, upholding fundamental principles while breaking new
ground: consolidating and deepening the mature institutions in the
existing laws and regulations on the online protection of minors, and
putting in place refined governance mechanisms for the prominent problems
minors currently face in using online products and services.

**III. Drafting process**

During drafting, the Cyberspace Administration of China, together with
the relevant departments, mainly carried out the following work.

First, research and evaluation. It studied platforms' practice in
protecting minors online, the implementation of China's laws and
regulations on the online protection of minors, and the development of
minors' modes on smart terminal products and on apps commonly used by
minors, and studied in depth legislative developments on the online
protection of minors in major countries and regions. It consulted fully
with the relevant bodies and worked out the framework of the regulation
and the priorities for institution-building.

Second, drafting. Grounded in China's circumstances and taking account of
global trends in the online protection of minors, it proposed an
institutional scheme for the online protection of minors that balances
development and security and applies differentiated measures by category;
set out the main institutions, such as the scope of network services that
may be provided to minors and the development of minors' modes; and
prepared the Provisions (First Draft).

Third, extensive consultation. It sought the views of the relevant
central and local bodies, platform enterprises, and experts and scholars,
revised and improved the text in light of those views, and, after
conducting the relevant legislative assessment in accordance with law,
produced the Draft Provisions.

**IV. Main contents**

The Draft Provisions have 25 articles and mainly provide for the
following.

(1) Purpose, basis, and basic principles. They state the legislative
purposes of strengthening the online protection of minors, fostering an
online environment conducive to minors' physical and mental health, and
safeguarding minors' lawful rights and interests. They make clear that
network service providers, smart terminal product manufacturers, and app
distribution platform service providers shall adhere to the principle of
the best interests of minors, take full account of the characteristics
of minors' physical and mental development, and provide a minors' mode in
accordance with these Provisions and the relevant national provisions and
standards.

(2) Regulating the provision of network services to minors. They make
clear that network service providers shall not provide minors with
online social networking services with strangers, virtual intimate
relationship services such as virtual relatives and virtual partners, and
the like, and set out the related exceptions. They provide that network
service providers that offer minors under 16 online audio and video
services, online live-streaming services other than live-stream
broadcasting services, online game services, online social networking
services, and the like shall do so through a minors' mode.

(3) Minor-user identification and rules on information content. They
require network service providers to have the capability to identify
minor users and to take necessary measures to ensure the security of
minors' personal information, and to take corresponding measures for
users who have been verified through real-name verification, or
identified, as minors. They make clear that the State encourages and
supports the production, reproduction, publication, and dissemination of
online information conducive to minors' healthy growth; require network
service providers to strengthen their management of information published
by users; and provide that network service providers shall not present,
in minors' mode, online information that harms or may affect minors'
physical and mental health. They make clear that network service
providers shall establish and improve systems for algorithm mechanism and
principle review, information content management, and the like, and shall
not set up algorithmic models that induce emotional dependence,
addiction, excessive spending, or the like in minor users.

(4) Requirements for developing minors' modes. They require smart
terminal product manufacturers to equip smart terminal products with
minors' mode linkage, one-click switching, verification on exit,
anti-circumvention, and other functions, and make clear that app
distribution platform service providers shall fulfil their security
management responsibilities. They provide that a minors' mode shall
conform to the relevant national provisions and standards and have
functions such as effectively identifying online information that harms
or may affect minors' physical and mental health and preventing minors'
internet addiction. They encourage innovation in minors' mode functions
and the building of dedicated content pools to enrich high-quality
content that is positive, healthy, uplifting, and wholesome. They make
clear that smart terminal product manufacturers and network service
providers that provide a minors' mode shall file its settings and
functions with the provincial cyberspace administration, among other
things.

(5) Coordinated co-governance and legal liability. They set out the
duties of the national cyberspace administration, the telecommunications
authority under the State Council, the national press and publication
authority, education departments, public security organs, and others, and
make clear that the Communist Youth League, women's federations, trade
unions, disabled persons' federations, committees for the care of the
next generation, youth federations, student federations, and the Young
Pioneers, together with other people's organizations, relevant social
organizations, and primary-level mass self-governing organizations, shall
work together on the online protection of minors. They set out the
obligations of schools and of minors' guardians, and provide for legal
liability, the effective date, and other matters.